Bernard Kelly

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

It is sad news to me too. Although I haven't started a SIB in a while (because I am building a Syren kit) I do check in every day. I have learned a lot from others here. Being a smaller group it is less formal and more friendly than places like MSW can be at times. If I wasn't disabled and lost my career I would help pay to keep things running. I will miss it if we close down.
Jesse

The only nasty comments I have experienced have been from me directed at me - for example, I mentioned in another thread my practise SIB,  is now on its 6th or 7th set of masts. Well, it is now on its 7th or 8th set because I dropped it this morning, and just like buttered toast, it landed wrong side down. The air was blue!
welcome on board
Alan

Hi, WinchesterM97!
Welcome aboard!
I do not think you should worry about the rude and unnecessary comments. Each of us had once made his first model and continues to learn and try.
As I see it, you can draw the complete plan of your ship and assess the degree of filling of the internal volume of the bottle.
In addition, the hull of the model you can make from more parts.
I do not have the experience of the wood's carving, but it seems to me, it is quite difficult art, in which is difficult to correct mistakes. I ordered a set of incisors and I hope to get it soon. Then I'll try.
Have you any photo yuor works?
Best Regards!
Igor.
 

Well done!  She really is a great ship in bottle.  Well deserving of a gold medal.  Great work! 

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Many thanks bluenoser!
The work is slow, but, nevertheless, it is going
A few days ago I was compelled to make building berth. This time the rigging turns out to be more complicated than I did before.

After that, I tried to set and the other two front sails




 

Then I completed the wiring of the running rigging of the first of the front sails

Then I made the strip with stops and installed a couple more blocks at the stern.

 

 

 

 
 
 

Next, I made the hawse-holes for the anchor rope from the pieces of the medical needle and fixed them in place.

Then I missed the mainstay through the racks of the lower front sail and tested it on.




 

Then I made a couple of belaying pin planks for the stern of the boat and installed them in their places. Then I tried to stretch a loop from the thread between the plank and the board. In the future, I plan to use such loops to guide rigging in hard-to-reach places inside the bottle.




 

Then I wound a few skeins of rope with a simple device and hung them around the nagels

Then I decided to make the fife rail, on which the running ends of the gaff will be fixed. In the original, this is a kind of metal band with nests for nagels, but I decided to make this part easier, because All the same it will not be visible under to the skeins of the ropes.

One of my favorite subjects, Shackleton's S/Y Endurance in 1/1250 scale, built inside of a pocket watch case. The hull is made from wood, masts are brass, railings are photoetched brass.

Well this happened.

 
Now I'm starting on a rebuild.

Hi Igor,
 
You deserve so much more praise for this magnificent build. A beautiful job well done.

Then I made a small detail for fixing the bowsprit



 

Then I installed the blocks for the rigging of the gaffel. The scheme is, of course, simplified in comparison with the original



 

Next, I installed another sail



 

Many thanks, Jeff!
Yesterday I tried another technology for making blocks. This block has a pulley and its length is 2.5 mm. Perhaps for someone this information will be useful.
Now I want to try to make a smaller block using this technology. Also I need to make double and triple blocks.











 
 

Then I tried to install a couple of these blocks in their places.


Unfortunately now I see my mistake in the design of the mast
 

Hi to everyone!
Next small update. I worked on blocks at last weekend's. I made a couple dozen the single blocks.

Then I have made other sails.