1/350 NRP SAGRES sail training ship (quite the challenge)

[Sszabi]

I'm always amazed at how creatively you can use leftover PE and other parts, and I'm also amazed that how much leftovers are in your stash

[EJFoeth]

Same here and it can be repurposed so well to exact size!

[Rui Matos]

Nice progress, Jim!

Get back to you soon
Cheers
Rui

[Rui Matos]

Jim

The small low "box" near the capstan is a....
Ventilator

(another one)
Cheers,
Rui

[Pieter]

Nice to see you are using old-tech PEsets. I have been buying first generation Gold Medal Models sets a conventions for a few years now as they can be really useful for structural parts and the thick stainless steel tends to avoid the carpet monster.

[JIM BAUMANN]

Thank you all for your kind words!
this is a challenge indeed....
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Now then... if there are masts --there is string !

and the ' string'--halyards, lifts, braces, sheets, hauls in and out etc etc--all these need and have a ' tail ...

ergo ==> rope coils at the end of every belaying point

I did this in 1/700 on Bretagne... and it gives a fair impression.



but in double the scale it needs a bit more detail

I added the simulation of the bar that holds the turning blocks
for the halyards to go to the belaying pins

In real life....
these bars are separately mounted slightly inboard
-- but 350 times smaller--and with the space requirements for handling in model format
--and the fact that my pin-rail legs are a little over-scale...
and that the real life the bar is approx only ca 120 mm or so distant from the leg
( in 1/350 = 0.34 mm )-- so its a permissible compromise in my view ....

making the 100 plus rope coils is a tedious business--

-wrapping copper wire around 2 x drill shanks taped together, compressing them, shaping etc etc

the success / wastage rate is around 50/50

once attached to the pin rail...it looked somewhat better!-
(-the rope coils are the devil to hold secure to paint )

so nothing much new to come for the foreseeable time--

as there is nothing but rope coils in my life.......

[Joelle]

It's amazing what you're doing with all that rope.
Your attention to detail is truly admirable.

[wefalck]

Simply

[Frank Spahr]

Arrgghh.

That is more than "incontheivable"!

Amazing and outstanding work and dedication, Jim!

[Rui Matos]

Brilliant job, Jim!



Cheers,
Rui

[ModelMonkey]

Another masterpiece in the making.

[JIM BAUMANN]

hello all--I am back at the Bench

1 weeks holiday in Madeira and then 14 days plus suffering with food poisoning and its consequence( airport food?)
as well as general malaise have conspired to slow progress--

but not completely!!!
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Sailing ships( and steamers !) in rough weather and big seas could ship lots wateriin main deck-
( note the lifelines spanning that deck--crew can clip on whilst transiting fore and aft...(!!)

-this tonnage of water must be gotten rid of quickly -- or stability can be impaired --hence ships are fitted with scupper drain lids
This top hinged lids allow the water to escape from both sides--important in a rolling sea

I had carved off the moulded lids off my hull along with everything else right at the start
( they were too small-- and at the wrong angles! )

Replacement was harder--I searched through my entire stash of PE for something suitable ==> x 14 !

( plus spares for mis-cuts and, dropped etc)

Nothing and more of Nothing !!

except ........

a 20 + year old PE fret- 1/350 -L'Arseneal Liberty ship--- the somewhat overscale treads of
the boarding companionway were perfect --and plenty of them

These will be affixed shortly!

the gargantuan " Big Vent" above the engine room flummoxed me

Not owning a lathe I was unable to create the right shape and be sharp and edgey( its only ca 5.5 mm high) ****


I had these designed and 3-D printed for me by a kind French friend....

seen here under-coated.

**** They were printed in steps of 5% and 10 % so as to give latitude in exact size!

I subsequently drilled out the centres on my mini-pillar drill

The figure head also again flummoxed me!

carving or adapting a ' proper ' figure ( as on 1/700 Bretagne ) was easier than
trying to make a stylised and semi-abstract figure--which has in its right-hand a rolled scroll !!

I had this figure-head designed and 3-D printed for me-again- by a kind French friend....

it is seen here attached with test fitting of the bowsprit
It till needs a bit more work to fair it in

T 2 x he anchors were large 1/700 PE items--fattened with sprue and white glue. T

The hawse-pipe opening surrounds were made of wire and slightly ' ovalled'

I stared work on the 2 x 27 ft whalers. these are broadly RN pattern
The best I could buy wee from Micromaster of New Zealand.

But these very fine 3-D prints have a different fit to those aboard rge Sagres ;

so needed work to adapt successfully !

More soon..... ( PE and decals et al! )

[Frank Spahr]

Too bad to hear about your health, I hope you are back to normal now!

Again, this is outstanding and extremely dedicated work up each and every single subassembly!

Best regards

Frank