Onni

Mizzen mast in place complete with spanker sail. Ship's double wheel is under the spanker but a little difficult to make out. Lifeboat hoist in front of the mizzen mast. I decided to make a weather beaten canvas awning,with the date and name of the ship incorporated into the stand. I think some of the fun of building ship in bottles, is coming up with your own unique stand designs.

It's nice when all the pieces come together as they should ... inside the bottle!

The first two quarters of the starboard side of the hull are in. I did not glued them together because they are already a good tight fit without glue.When the port side is glued together with the starboard side they will support each other (hopefully) For lifting the hull pieces together in place in the bottle, I use a piece of twisted iron ( as used in reinforced concrete) with some blu tac on the bent end to position them and then tap them together. The iron rod is heavy enough to act like a mini hammer. Steamed the deck veneer and got it through the bottle neck in one piece so that the deck does not show any cuts or joins. I just glue these all with ordinary white wood glue. The completed hull will be glued down with clear resin so that it will be a solid platform to erect the masts etc..

Ready to go in!

No,not Finnish but British. I have lived in Finland for the past 30 years so I'm just getting used to it 😀

Answered your questions already,should be seen under Terror build.

Drill a small hole in the bowsprit the thickness of a needle,cut the pointed end off of a sewing needle and then glue the needle into the hole that you made earlier in the bowsprit. Thread your line through the eye of the needle and that's your dolphin striker made.

Hi Bruce, As I stated earlier on in this build, I use 0,3 mm for the hull and 0,5 mm for areas which need more strength. Living in Finland I buy my styrene from a hobby shop in Helsinki but it can be purchased online in different sheet sizes and thickness from various sources. For glue I am using instant glue (super glue) which bonds styrene very well with wood and also with other styrene. Don't find any adverse reactions using this glue with styrene but keep the glue off your fingers! Styrene is also great to spray paint or paint by hand using enamel paints or an air brush (which I don't have!) Hope this answers some of your questions.

More of the rigging completed,sails cut and glued in place.Constructed lifeboat hangers and fashioned a small lifeboat. (The crew dismantled the other lifeboats to provide shelter 😉 ) Made a rookie mistake on measuring the inside height of the bottle ( a 750 ml whisky bottle) and found that the masts would be touching the top of the inside of the bottle and as I did not want to cut down the masts or sand down the bottom of the hull; I switched to a larger 1,5 L bottle. Now the problem was to fill the extra space, so made a tent,shed and other store supplies to give it a bit of a diorama feel and fill up the bottle a bit.

Welcome cog.

Thanks James.

Added all the spars which I had made earlier and started the rigging and sail plan. Note also the chimney of the locomotive engine which propelled this early screw ship coming up through the deck.

Had to check how she looks stuck in the ice!

Added a bit more hull embellishments to smarten up the stern and added the white boards around the hull upon which the main rigging ratlines are attached.

A bit crude stern windows..

Painted the masts and bowsprit and added some ratline rigging to the masts. Fashioned a couple of catheads out of some thicker styrene and also used styrene for the lifeboat supports at the stern.Of course I could use wood but as these pieces are going to be white; then it is much easier too fashion them out of plastic.

Cut the hull up into four sections on a small hobby bandsaw that will allow it to be assembled together inside the bottle later on. I make sure that the pieces of the hull can fit together easily and without too much effort and that everything lines up and that the join lines are not that noticeable. Use cut cocktail sticks as pegs for joining, making sure that everything aligns.

For the bulwarks I use 0,3 mm thickness. It's very thin and pliable but can split if you're not careful. It's also opaque so needs a good paint cover. For the bowsprit support I use 0,5 mm styrene.

I like to use matt black spray paint as it dries in just a few minutes so you don't have to wait around for it to dry for an age.Marked out the deck and drilled holes where I want the masts and bowsprit to go.The veneer deck will go in as one solid piece. Will carry on with the construction of the masts and slicing the hull into four sections so that all the pieces will be able to go through the bottle neck without any struggle.Masts and bowsprit constructed with a little help from styrene.They will be sprayed matt white.

HMS Terror; together with HMS Erebus were modified Royal Navy ships that attempted to find the North West passage through the ice packs of King William Islands in the Canadian Arctic in 1845.Terror was the first Royal navy ship to be fitted with screw power from a locomotive engine. The expedition failed and unfortunately all the crews of both ships perished. The wreck of Terror was discovered in 2016. Shaped the hull from some Alder wood and cut and fixed the bulwarks with styrene, overlapping at the bow end with super glue.The prow of Terror was reinforced with metal plates and I have tried to imitate these with strips of styrene.Added bowsprit and she's ready for painting.

Nice model. That's difficult to do when the bottle neck is long and the bottle is at an angle. Your ship really fills the whole bottle space . Onni.

Cutty Sark looks great. Is it scratch built or a kit model?

Welcome aboard Niallmhor. Onni

That is really beautiful work John.

Welcome Hafid.