With the Telford deadline looming-...- and the weather being cooler
==> normal service seems to be resuming
A few more bits of progress;
Davits... on the real shio these could rotate--as well as be deployed angled outwards
to facilitate this lateral movement she has triangulate brackets ,
which act as guides to allow the davit swing outboard
These also had a hole within them
I used the smallest triangular brackets with perforations I could find
( Lion Roar generics)
and then cut them down further
These were attached to the hull in pairs
Once these were painted white--the hole seemed to disappear to the naked eye
so I then ran the tip of a circularly sharpened propelling pencil lead around the hole to give some contrast
seems to have worked as a visual trick!
8x large davits--all with the same progressive smooth curve to be bent in brass wire.
==> surprisingly hard to get repeatability!
made the drawing and tweaked to get them right
For light relief added the boat booms and their supporting brackets
a while back after adding the boats -I was very unhappy with the 14 ft dinghy and removed it.
I took another dinghy and pared away at the hull sides with blades until a believable thickness as reached
I cut a disc of brass PE sheet to make the aft mast platform.
alas as I kept fiking away at iot it became a bit oval and undersized....( oops! )
No worries
-- I made the railing to the desired correct size, tacked it on with CA glue
and backfilled the gaps with thinned white glue
The masts had the yard arms added, these were tied on with Caenis thread and backfilled with CA glue
after quite some degree of fraught work
at last I had the breakthrough moment I was awaiting...
Masts ...... UP!
