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I made 33 of these this morning - too 36 minutes in total.
Bob
 

I made 33 of these this morning - too 36 minutes in total.
Bob
 

Thanks Alan, same to you!
The deadeyes are small round paper punchings from telex tape.   In years gone by, when I was sending telex messages on a regular basis, I felt that a bottle full of punchings would come in useful at some later date for model making.       I saved a couple of hundred thousand of them!   I blackened them by dumping them in black spirit dye. I wound the wire on a frame in groups of three, and stuck the punchings on with spots of white wood glue.    After they were dry, I cut the outside wires off with a scalpel.     I hope to be able to solder the top deadeye wires to the bottom of the wire shrouds.     After they are fitted to the shrouds, I will lightly spray the whole lot black, so they should look better!

Thanks Alan, same to you!
The deadeyes are small round paper punchings from telex tape.   In years gone by, when I was sending telex messages on a regular basis, I felt that a bottle full of punchings would come in useful at some later date for model making.       I saved a couple of hundred thousand of them!   I blackened them by dumping them in black spirit dye. I wound the wire on a frame in groups of three, and stuck the punchings on with spots of white wood glue.    After they were dry, I cut the outside wires off with a scalpel.     I hope to be able to solder the top deadeye wires to the bottom of the wire shrouds.     After they are fitted to the shrouds, I will lightly spray the whole lot black, so they should look better!

I made 33 of these this morning - too 36 minutes in total.
Bob
 

I made 33 of these this morning - too 36 minutes in total.
Bob
 

Thanks Alan, same to you!
The deadeyes are small round paper punchings from telex tape.   In years gone by, when I was sending telex messages on a regular basis, I felt that a bottle full of punchings would come in useful at some later date for model making.       I saved a couple of hundred thousand of them!   I blackened them by dumping them in black spirit dye. I wound the wire on a frame in groups of three, and stuck the punchings on with spots of white wood glue.    After they were dry, I cut the outside wires off with a scalpel.     I hope to be able to solder the top deadeye wires to the bottom of the wire shrouds.     After they are fitted to the shrouds, I will lightly spray the whole lot black, so they should look better!

I made 33 of these this morning - too 36 minutes in total.
Bob
 

I made 33 of these this morning - too 36 minutes in total.
Bob
 

I made 33 of these this morning - too 36 minutes in total.
Bob
 

Thanks, it was rather too far back in time for me.   I prefer the big iron and steel sailing ships of the late 19th century, such as this one, the big rust-streaked  four-masted steel barque Somali, running before the wind in  gale.   This one is at 25 feet to 1 inch (1:300)
Bob

 

British topsail schooner Ann, 1852.     Bob

Thanks, it was rather too far back in time for me.   I prefer the big iron and steel sailing ships of the late 19th century, such as this one, the big rust-streaked  four-masted steel barque Somali, running before the wind in  gale.   This one is at 25 feet to 1 inch (1:300)
Bob

 

Thanks, it was rather too far back in time for me.   I prefer the big iron and steel sailing ships of the late 19th century, such as this one, the big rust-streaked  four-masted steel barque Somali, running before the wind in  gale.   This one is at 25 feet to 1 inch (1:300)
Bob

 

Thanks, it was rather too far back in time for me.   I prefer the big iron and steel sailing ships of the late 19th century, such as this one, the big rust-streaked  four-masted steel barque Somali, running before the wind in  gale.   This one is at 25 feet to 1 inch (1:300)
Bob

 

Thanks, it was rather too far back in time for me.   I prefer the big iron and steel sailing ships of the late 19th century, such as this one, the big rust-streaked  four-masted steel barque Somali, running before the wind in  gale.   This one is at 25 feet to 1 inch (1:300)
Bob

 

Thanks, it was rather too far back in time for me.   I prefer the big iron and steel sailing ships of the late 19th century, such as this one, the big rust-streaked  four-masted steel barque Somali, running before the wind in  gale.   This one is at 25 feet to 1 inch (1:300)
Bob

 

Thanks, Yes, it does resemble Scottish Maid, I never thought of that before.     The painted ports are the main difference.
Bob

British topsail schooner Ann, 1852.     Bob

Here is a Utube video of the Lady Elizabeth, I think it must have been taken from a drone!      It must be quite recent, because half the bowsprit has rusted away.   It was complete when I was there in 1982 - Bob  
 

This is a photograph of  the remains of Fleetwing that I took in 1982.    The deck had gone, and they were using the hull as a dump for empty 40 gallon oil drums.   I did get aboard though.
Bob
 
 

This is the inside of the Fleetwing.    They had cut the stern down to the waterline, and removed or broken off the clipper bow.    There were a few spars lying about as well.    I boarded all the wrecks I could, including iron barque Lady Elizabeth, barque Jhelum, Yankee clipper Snowsquall, American barque Jennie S Barker at Grytviken, South Georgia, Canadian barque Egeria.     Got close to American packet ship Charles Cooper, but couldn't board her, also saw barques Capricorn, William Shand, Margaret  and Actaeon.      We didn't go to Goose Green, so I missed out on the Vicar of Bray.      Neither did we go to Leith, South Georgia, where the British full-rigged ship Sierra Pedrosa was beached.  Our Welsh ship's surgeon, John Jones, gave me the book Porthmadog Ships by Emrys Hughes and Aled Eames, and I later purchased Immortal Sails by Henry Hughes.    John managed to get appointed to my ship at Ascension Island for one relieving voyage, just to get down to Port Stanly and see the Fleetwing.   But the day after he joined, we got demobbed, and sent home to the UK, so he missed out.    I drew up the plan using dimesnions etc from the Lloyds Register and the two known paintings of the ship.   
Bob
 

After they were condemned at Stanley, usually after getting damaged off Cape Horn, most of them still had many years service ahead of them as storage hulks.     As they actually had owners, no-one was free to take anything off them!    In 1982, the hulk of the Egeria was still in use, although only the after part remained!       The Fleetwing was the only one that arrive undamaged.   She was purchased for inter-island use, and therefore arrived intact, and was used for a number of years.    There were plenty more hulks around, but the above-mentioned ones were the only ones I managed to see.    Actually, my first thought when I volunteered to go down there was that I would see the wrecks, something that I had always wanted to do ever since I was at school.      As we sailed into Stanley on a freezing cold morning, I think that the eyes of everyone aboard, except me. was glued on the Task Force ships, and general activity in the harbour, but I was looking in the other direction, at the hulk of the iron barqe Lady Elizabeth (Completed 1879) at the other end of the harbour.      Didn't take me long to get aboard, meaure things up, and take some photographs.   Even got down ito the tween deck, but couldn't go any lower, because the lower hold was flooded as the ship was aground.
Bob

This is the inside of the Fleetwing.    They had cut the stern down to the waterline, and removed or broken off the clipper bow.    There were a few spars lying about as well.    I boarded all the wrecks I could, including iron barque Lady Elizabeth, barque Jhelum, Yankee clipper Snowsquall, American barque Jennie S Barker at Grytviken, South Georgia, Canadian barque Egeria.     Got close to American packet ship Charles Cooper, but couldn't board her, also saw barques Capricorn, William Shand, Margaret  and Actaeon.      We didn't go to Goose Green, so I missed out on the Vicar of Bray.      Neither did we go to Leith, South Georgia, where the British full-rigged ship Sierra Pedrosa was beached.  Our Welsh ship's surgeon, John Jones, gave me the book Porthmadog Ships by Emrys Hughes and Aled Eames, and I later purchased Immortal Sails by Henry Hughes.    John managed to get appointed to my ship at Ascension Island for one relieving voyage, just to get down to Port Stanly and see the Fleetwing.   But the day after he joined, we got demobbed, and sent home to the UK, so he missed out.    I drew up the plan using dimesnions etc from the Lloyds Register and the two known paintings of the ship.   
Bob
 

Small steel barquentine.   20 feet to 1 inch.   White-hulled ships are not very photogenic.
Bob