Silent Mary by Mellpapa

[mellpapa]

■ Hook Crafting ■

Pliers, nippers, and annealed 0.3 mm brass wire are used to make hooks.


Photo 1: Make a loop with the end of brass wire...
Photo 2: Bend just behind the loop in an L-shape...
Photo 3; Again, make a loop and cut it with a red wire
Photo 4: The hook is ready.



The problem with this method is that the shapes don't line up properly...
I made 10 pieces for now.
It is a time consuming process.


The size is compared to a one yen coin.
It looks like this.
It's a little big, but I can't make it any smaller...it can't be helped. If we introduced etching, we could probably make a smaller hook. I'm not going to introduce etching.
I'm not going to introduce etching... I'm going to make 78 more hooks!


After making 40 pieces, I take a break.
My eyes are dizzy.

 

[mellpapa]

I made about 100 hooks. That took two days.
I got carried away and made 100 hooks.
By the way, the number of hooks needed for the gun-tacle is 88.


I dyed it black.
I don't mind that some parts are not dyed.
I can re-dye it later.

 

[mellpapa]

■■ Making gun-tacle ■■

Thread the rope of the gun-tacle through the loop of the hook.


Tie it up with a thin thread.


Attach the first pulley and tie it with a thin thread.


Attach the hook to the second pulley.


The rope from the first pulley is passed through the second pulley.


The rope through the second pulley is passed through the first pulley.


The rope that has passed through the first pulley is passed through the second pulley again.
The gun-tacle is now complete.


This gun-tacle attaches to the carriage like this. It attaches to the right side the same way.
For now, it is not attached to the right side because we only made one.
I have 43 more to make and it will take a few days.

 

[mellpapa]

It took a surprisingly long time. I had to make 8 more second pulleys with hooks and 36 more first pulleys with hooks.
As soon as I finished the first pulley with hook, I combined it with the second pulley with hook to make a gun barrel, but now I am making the second pulley with hook first. Now I'm making the second pulley with hook first, because it's so small that my eyes get tired easily.




When you are working on attaching the hooks to the first pulley, you get bored and want to do something different.
So I set up four cannonballs. The ropes are soaked in a watered-down wood glue. After setting up the cannons, I wet the ropes with water using a brush. When the wood bond has melted and softened, I fiddle with tweezers to make it look natural, and then just wait for the water to dry...the wood bond will harden with a natural look. In addition, they glue the ropes to the deck. The cannon carriage is not glued to the deck. It's just held in place by the breaching rope and the gun-tacle. They can glue the carriage to the deck, though.

The gunnacle and breaching rope have a ring pin on the bullwork wall, and you hook or tie a hook to it, and usually the gunnacle is on top and the breaching rope is on the bottom. But on the sailboat in Pirates of the Caribbean, the gantry is on the bottom and the breaching rope is on the top. I'm building the sailboat from the movie, so I'll leave it that way.

Now I'll resume the process of attaching the hook to the first pulley again.

 

[mellpapa]

I finally finished attaching the hook to the remaining first pulley.


A gun-tacle is made with a first-eye pulley with hook and a second-eye pulley with hook.


Attach the finished gun-tacle to the carriage.
It can now be installed on the deck.


◆Cannon installation
Installation of cannon is done from the end. Both ends are very difficult to install because of the walls, so they are installed first.


How is the cannon installed?
First, hook the hook of the red-arrow gun-tacle to the ring pin attached to the bullwork.
At this time, the hook must be tightened so that it will not come off the ring pin.
Next, insert the ring pin attached to the end of the breaching rope (blue arrow) into the hole drilled in the bullwork and glue it in place.
The bleaching rope and the gun-tacle rope are soaked in a watered-down woodworking bond to harden them, so the ropes look stiff.



Apply a generous amount of water on a brush to the breaching rope and the gun-tacle.
After a while, each rope becomes soft.


Use tweezers to make the bleaching rope with the blue arrow look natural. Since it is softened by water, you can make it into any shape you like. Once the shape of the rope is determined, soak it in wood bond diluted with water. When it dries, it will stay in place and harden.
The red-arrowed gun-tacle rope is just threaded through the pulley hole, so adjust the gun-tacle rope with tweezers and bring it to the cannon firing position. Keep the rope wet with water and straighten it on the deck.


While the straightened gantry rope is still wet, roll it up from the end with tweezers.
It is easier to work when the rope and deck are soaking wet.


Position the rounded gantry rope and soak it in watered-down wood bond.
When dry, it hardens as you see and is glued to the deck.


This is a cannon installed on the stern side.


I was able to install the cannon to the deck.
It took me a long time to do all the little things over again.


I think it looks cool from the bow...
I can't see it when the gangway is attached.


I put a hypothetical gangway.
You can't see it anymore. I can see the butt of the cannon. If you look into it, you can see the gun barrels and the breaching ropes. It is right to make it without omitting anything. I don't make a place where you can't see it at all, though.
Now, where should I make next?

 

[ZHLmodel]

牛逼
that is great

 

[mellpapa]

牛逼
that is great

Hello ZHLmodel!
It's the ship from the movie Pirates of the Caribbean.
I'm not sure of the details, so I'm just trying to make it as good as I can if it looks like it.
I don't know when it will be finished...

 

[ZHLmodel]

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[mellpapa]

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Hello, ZHLmodel.
Are you a manufacturer, ZHLmodel?
I saw the Black Pearl by ZHLmodel.
Very nice work.
By the way, did you sell the Flying Dutchman kit?
I think there was a limit to the number.
It's great that you are producing kits for the Black Pearl and the Flying Dutchman.
Are you going to release a kit of the Silent Mary?
I think there are people who would buy it.
It's even a LEGO kit.
Keep up the good work.

 

[mellpapa]

■ Gangway Crafting ■


A 1mm-thick gangway board that had been temporarily placed was laminated, and the usual graining was done.


Painted with a dingy look.


I didn't put in the wood grain because you can't see the back side. I affixed the arms and painted German gray.


View of the port gangway from the starboard side. You can see a glimpse of the arm and the butt of the cannon. You can see the breaching rope/gantrycle.
If you omit the breaching rope/gun-tacle, it's scanty.
It is correct to make them. This place is very self-satisfying. I feel like a winner.


This is a view of the starboard gangway from the port side. Same as the image above with a glimpse of the arm and the cannon, breaching ropes, and gun-tacle.
This one is also self-satisfying.


Note the red circle.
These are handrail posts that will be attached to the gangway. How shall we make this?
The image is a scene from a movie, where the powder magazine caught fire and exploded.

 

[mellpapa]

For the handrail posts attached to the gangway, we decided to use 0.5mm brass wire dyed black.
For the handrail board, I used 1mm thick x 2mm high cypress wood. It was a bit difficult to drill 0.5mm holes in the 1mm thick part.


The handrail boards were painted German gray.


If you zoom in on the image, it looks like this.


Try to build it into the hull.


It looks pretty good. I debated whether to use 0.5mm or 0.8mm brass wire for the support, but I settled on 0.5mm, imagining that the thinner 0.5mm wire would look more delicate.


There are some funny parts, but I don't mind, I'm self-satisfied.

 

[Nietslim]

It really looks great.

 

[ZHLmodel]

Hello, ZHLmodel.
Are you a manufacturer, ZHLmodel?
I saw the Black Pearl by ZHLmodel.
Very nice work.
By the way, did you sell the Flying Dutchman kit?
I think there was a limit to the number.
It's great that you are producing kits for the Black Pearl and the Flying Dutchman.
Are you going to release a kit of the Silent Mary?
I think there are people who would buy it.
It's even a LEGO kit.
Keep up the good work.

I did not have any study about Silent Mary, so I could make no comments on it. My next plan is to deal with the Dutchman.

 

[mellpapa]

It really looks great.

Hello Nietslim.
Thank you very much for your compliments.

 

[mellpapa]

I did not have any study about Silent Mary, so I could make no comments on it. My next plan is to deal with the Dutchman.

Hello ZHLmodel.
Good luck in dealing with Dutchman.

 

[mellpapa]

Note the red circle!
I want to do something about these shells. I think I can make something like the tray that holds the shells with the white arrows out of cypress wood.
The problem is the shell. So, please visit ......


I bought this ball chain from Daiso 100 yen store, I also used it as a shell for the 1/72 Black Pearl. The diameter is about 1.3-1.5mm.
It looks a little deformed, but I don't think you'll mind.


Cut with nippers and break the ball apart.


I dyed the ball black. I can use it for cannonballs.


I made a tray of shells using 0.5mmm thick x 5mm wide cypress wood.


I stripped off the ball chain and put a black-dyed cannonball on it, and it looks pretty good.


I stained the tray with Tamiya's Sumi-in Paint (brown), set the shells in place, and glued them together with woodworking bond diluted with water.
The thinned woodwork bond is not yet dry.


Here is a photo of the spare cannon, shell, one yen coin, and ruler.
I think the size of the cannon and the shell are well balanced.
Both cannon and shell look deformed, though.
It's done well enough for me, and I'm self-satisfied.
Now I will mass-produce about 19 of these trays.

I can make a cannonball out of something I have around me without any discomfort.
It would be best to use bearing balls, but that would be a little too artistic for my taste, so I used ball chains.
It is better to be flexible.
Everything is an experience.
I came up with the idea of using a ball chain for the shell when I was working on the 1/72 Black Pearl.
Please refer to the following

BP1-72-17

 

[mellpapa]

You said you mass-produced about 19 trays, but I mass-produced about 22.
I made one first in the sample, so that makes 23 in total.


I dyed the trays with Tamiya's smear paint (brown) and after it dried, I smeared them with smear paint (dark gray).


The paint has dried, the shell is placed on top, and a watered-down wood bond is being applied and drying.

 

[mellpapa]

Make a ring with 0.5mm brass wire and screw it with 0.3mm brass wire.
This is the ring that holds the travel takel in place.
Incidentally, I could not confirm whether the Silent Mary in the movie had this ring for the train-take-crew on deck. I did put it on the deck to give you more information on the deck.
I do not put the train teakle on the deck to keep the deck in fighting condition.


Dyed black.


Rings and shells for the train-take-carriers were installed on the deck.


The red arrow is the ring for the installation of the train-take-cell.
Blue arrows are shells.


The gangway and the stairs from the bow deck are attached, so the shells are placed to avoid them.


This is the bow deck.


This is a drawing for creating a staircase. As usual, it is a drawing that only I can understand. See below for how to make the parts of the staircase.

FD1-72-38

A circular saw was used to dig a trench for the trestle.


This is what you see when you remove the drawing.


The rest is gluing the treads.


This is how it's done.
There are a lot more stairs to be built, so I'll be working on them steadily.

 

[mellpapa]

There is a question about the cannon.

This illustration doesn't really do it justice.
So...


This drawing shows no cannon installed in the blue arrow area.


But look at this set for the photo shoot...the blue arrow part.
The cannon gate is firmly in place.


This set for filming also has a cannon gate in the red-arrow area, but there is no cannon.


Why? No cannon installed?
Notice the stairs in the red arrow area.
The cannon cannot be installed because of the stairs.


Note the blue arrows and red frame!
Since I installed cannon on the model, I managed to make a part of the deck stick out and install stairs.
This is the area circled by the red line.
By doing this, the stairs can be installed without colliding with the previously installed cannon.
I have not yet painted the newly created protruding part and the stairs.


The red circle on the bow side is the staircase that was built this time.


This is the staircase that has been built in the red circle on the aft side.
There are more stairs to be built.
We also need to do something about the handrail to match the staircase.
There are some stairs that don't need a handrail.
After the rest of the stairs are built and the handrail is finished, we will paint them and glue them in place.
Right now, they are just temporarily installed.
The gangway is not glued in place yet.
They are just temporarily placed.

 

[Uwek]

Often such stairs were removable and were removed with the order "Ready for action" -
the same reason like the removing of all internal walls above the waterline - to prevent injuries by splintering when a ball hits wood