Awesome Daniel! I hope you enjoy your special day celebrating with family and friends!
VASA 490 Build Log - Billing Boats, 1:75 [Completed Build]
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And a very happy birthday from me too Daniel.
Good afternoon, everyone.
I wish to thank all of you, my shipmates, for your kind thoughts and wishes on my birthday today. I feel truly blessed.
I wish to thank all of you, my shipmates, for your kind thoughts and wishes on my birthday today. I feel truly blessed.
Dear Daniel,
Very happy birthday !
All the Best!
Very happy birthday !
All the Best!
Good afternoon, everyone.
I wanted to share a quick aside from the sails and running rigging. Since I will be setting up the anchor draw works before I get serious with the foremast sails the following is my effort at modifying the anchors themselves. Billings assembly is completely plastic, and I thought I could improve on at least the stock part, so (after discovering that trying to paint the plastic stock like wood looked awful), I laminated some walnut planks, traced the plastic stock onto it and used my trusty scroll saw to cut the piece out. I flattened out some 0.8mm brass wire and fashioned some collars for the stock. Keeping the plastic anchor shank, I just painted it flat black then dry brushed with some antique gold paint.
Check out my effort at the cable-laid rope (2.1mm) I will be using with the anchor. I would probably prefer something along 1.75 to 1.9mm but this came out pretty well I think.
Once again, thanks for checking in.
I wanted to share a quick aside from the sails and running rigging. Since I will be setting up the anchor draw works before I get serious with the foremast sails the following is my effort at modifying the anchors themselves. Billings assembly is completely plastic, and I thought I could improve on at least the stock part, so (after discovering that trying to paint the plastic stock like wood looked awful), I laminated some walnut planks, traced the plastic stock onto it and used my trusty scroll saw to cut the piece out. I flattened out some 0.8mm brass wire and fashioned some collars for the stock. Keeping the plastic anchor shank, I just painted it flat black then dry brushed with some antique gold paint.
Check out my effort at the cable-laid rope (2.1mm) I will be using with the anchor. I would probably prefer something along 1.75 to 1.9mm but this came out pretty well I think.
Once again, thanks for checking in.
Cable looks great Daniel!
That’s great work Daniel. I like your anchor cable.
I did a similar thing to you with the anchors and replaced the plastic stock with wood. I used some mahogany and lighter coloured tree nails which worked well. Yours looks excellent with the flattened brass wire.
One extra thing I did which I think was historically correct, was to serve the large haul ring at the top. I did it with black rope which took a while, but it gives a nice effect against the lighter colour of the anchor rope.
Regards,
PeterG
I did a similar thing to you with the anchors and replaced the plastic stock with wood. I used some mahogany and lighter coloured tree nails which worked well. Yours looks excellent with the flattened brass wire.
One extra thing I did which I think was historically correct, was to serve the large haul ring at the top. I did it with black rope which took a while, but it gives a nice effect against the lighter colour of the anchor rope.
Regards,
PeterG
Hi Peter, yes serving the ring will be the next thing I do.
Finally finished with the anchors, just a simple view port and starboard, it was a nice diversion from the sails. I was concerned the anchor cable diameter was too big but after discussions with @Frank48, the 2.1mm dia. I have is actually a little too small, 2.5mm to 2.8mm would be closer to the correct scaled size. Relatively speaking it is the largest cable on my ship, so I think I will just stay with it.
Now it's back to the sails which are currently kicking my butt.
Happy modeling to everyone.
Now it's back to the sails which are currently kicking my butt.
Happy modeling to everyone.
Really nice Daniel!
Your anchor with the brass-work and the cable looks very nice and realistic, Daniel.
Regards, Peter
Thank you very much Peter.
Good morning Daniel- Awesome. The anchor cables seem large on these models when you convert correctly. After a while tho it just fits perfectly. The correct size cables I got from Paul seemed so huge when I opened the packet- like “no way”. However when I look at the real ship it is correct- they are massive. Cheers Grant
Very good work on the anchor with anchor cable
Only one knot is looking a little bit strange - I guess you have too long rope after the ring, so the loop(s) are too long - maybe you consider to redo it
Only one knot is looking a little bit strange - I guess you have too long rope after the ring, so the loop(s) are too long - maybe you consider to redo it
Your right Uwe, I will have to try and tighten it up or just redo it.