So its done for now. Have to do a stand later on… Ive tried to get some shots on a white background… The 1st 2 picture i want to point out - I missed these holes altogether and did not notice them until taking the pictures. I gasped! Going back over the directions I see them no where and have no idea what they are for??? There are on both port and starboard sides fore and aft. Anyone have a guess? Anyhow, the custom decals turned out good. The film was indeed a bit thinner that what ive come across before. Anyhow, it was fun and the cracked hull repir turned out good i think.
Nice! She looks great. That’s a nice kit and it’s been a long time since I’ve seen one not built up as Hawaiian Pilot.
Those holes are for stays for the rigging. If your instructions did not include them; here are the rigging diagrams.
https://www.scalemates.com/products/img/4/6/3/103463-64-instructions.pdf
Bill
tks bill. I thought they might be for rigging… But there weren’t any eye bolts or such and i really could tell by the detailed(HAHA) instructions what wold go there. I had no parts and none were called out. The rigging lines shown in the directions seem to fad into the deck. Attached is what i had and also where the holes are. I might make up some eye bolts to fill the holes??
Looks great! I like to see civil ships.
I like it,whats the scale
1/367
depends on if scale is derived from the hull length, hull width at deck level or hull width at bottom of hull as hull sides are tapered not parallel.
And, so often those three dimensions proportionally don’t usually match up one to the other.
She was a C3 vessell LOA 492 feet. However the model is 15" top of bow to top of stern deck.
Nice build! good work…
Ben
To the extent that it matters, I usually measure something like the distances between masts or something like that, compare to a scaled drawings and call it that.
Hot Diggety Dog !
It’s so nice to see work like this on a Civvy Ship!. Very Nice Job. The rigging was supposed to be done Before you mounted the deck actually. That’s where REVELL messed up! They weren’t clear about that. What you can do is run it to the holes and find the right Evergreen rod or stretched sprue to plug the hole and lock the rigging in place. That Kingpost rigging was necessary.
There were some of those in the Matson Fleet and I did do Chief Engineer on one, and then moved over to the liner Division. This was to wind down from Tanker duty with Shell. This way I could be home every month or so instead of six or ten months before home visits.
The only other thing I did to my “Pilot” was to find Model Rail Boxcar walkways that looked right. Cut them linearly and created rails for it. 1/350 ladders( Long Stairs ) look right on her too, and Flat ladders where indicated.
Turnbuckle. But TB is right vis. simplicity.
Bill
Tks all! Bill - very detailed diagram. Where did it come from? I may still do the rigging - i need to look around for what to use and how detailed i want to get. Im guessing there are probably rigging kits somewhere out on the net. This kit did not come with anything close to that - cable spindles or pulley’s or the like… And then, what to use as cable?? On and on - you all know the drill… We’lll see.
Here’s a link to another thread that has a lot of good info from Onyxman (Fred).
http://cs.finescale.com/fsm/modeling_subjects/f/7/t/162687.aspx?page=7
Here’s a somewhat simpler image.
They look like something from the American Merchant Seaman’s Manual.
Looks like one of the various illustrations out on the net (image search “cargo boom drawing” and you’ll see a tone of them).
There are similar drawings in several books, The Bluejacket’s Manual, and Knight’s Mondern Seamanship, just off the top of my head.
For a bit more detail, searching out the Boatswain’s Chief/1c Manual describes the actions at a bit more detail.
For a quick overview, cargo booms are typically worked as a athwartships pair.
A given boom has four things going on at its far end.
There’s the Lift which raises and lowers the boom vertically.
Then, there are two Vangs which orient the boom horizontally.
Lastly, there’s the Hoist which sways loads up and down from the boom end.
Booms are usually worked in pairs.
One boom is spotted over the general center of the hatch, the other over the side to the pier. The Hosts are then connected to each other at the running end.
To get something out of the hold, you drop the hatch Hoist while slacking the other hoist, the hook will drop down into the hold to where it’s needed. You bend on the cargo, and heave the hatch Hoist until the load is clear. You then take in the slack on the dockside Hoist until the load veers from under the Hatch boom to the dock boom. Lowering away puts the cargo on the dock.
Here’s a video that might help (silly landlubbers call vangs “guys” and hoists “lifts”)
Nice explanation Cap’n Mac…you neglected the schooner guy, though, which kept the boom heads from splaying outboard. I was a BM3 on an AKA and had quite a bit of experience with cargo handling. The yard-and-stay rig (sometimes called the “Burton” rig) was an incredibly handy set up. Easy to rig and got the job done. I always enjoy your input on this forum.
Hey Bill!
Where’d you get that?That is the same one in my rigging book. You know what Mine is called. Revised Edition - Bluejackets Manual 1945. Cargo Handling, Chapter one! S’Funny, that is! They gave one to every sailor no matter what you hoped to be doing. I do believe the Bos’ns division may be the biggest divisions on some ships!
Nice video - tks. Somewhat complicated rigging and this explains it nicely.
Nice, clean build of a not-often-seen subject.
And, yeah, you have to sometimes laugh at the “directions” in old kits, like you have to laugh/cry at the “directions” in some of the newer resin kits.