Lindberg HMS Bounty - WIP

Thanks Will, I appreciate it.  You are right, a little tweaking goes a long way on this kit.

I'm making my own eyes out of small copper wire and twisting them on my needle nose tweezers.  I'm also using the double twisted ones like I have mounted on the bow as 'rigging' blocks for the running rigging that I'll be doing.

Just a few pics tonight to keep things rolling a bit.  I haven't worked on her since Saturday.

First up is the figurehead painted.  Lindberg didn't give much or anything in the color scheme so I just winged it as I've done with a few other things & colors.

I added styrene deadeye supports

Opposite side on the deadeyes supports.  The deadeyes are the smallest and next smallest from the Jolly Roger kit.  According to the rigging layout on my Revell kit, these deadeyes seem to be nearly exactly the right size.

I drilled out the deadeye supports for the deadeyes.  The Revell Kit calls for a 5 deadeye setup on the fore & main mast but all I had available was the 4's from the JR.

Last shot tonight is the spars I have completed so far.  Clean up, sanded painted and foot-ropes  added.

Thanks for looking.  More tomorrow or so.

Adrian

That is really neat work- and greatly enhances this simple kit. Are you using proprietary etched eyes, or winding them yourself?

Will

I installed the lifeboat & lashed it down.  Installed the pinrails and ran the anchor cables.  I drilled a hole through the forward bulkhead of the ship for a hawse hole and mounted an eye on each side of the bow.

I lashed black thread around the bowsprit and through the lower eye of the copper eyes to help hold the tension of the forestays. 

Deck shot showing the cannons mounted and rigged.  I also have the bowsprit mounted.

Scratch built bilge pump.  Not great but its passable.

Bilge Pump painted and mounted.

Thanks for looking.  More tomorrow.

Adrian

I used eyes to add ropes to the cannons.  I tied one line for each cannon before I closed up the hull. I figured correctly it was going to be tricky tying off those lines once the cannons were installed.

I used Mr. Surfacer 1000 to close up the gap on the join.

Test fit of the oversized pinrail.  Most of the pinrail will be hidden by the ropes tied off to it. Plus the large size will give me a better shot at being able to tie off to them anyway.

I mounted a few of my copper eyes on the bow (Stem & catheads)for the bowsprit rigging and added a lrger piece for a gammoning (?) hole.  I decided early on not to fix the bows mishappen shape.  I know it's not right but it didn't really offend me so I left it like it was.

I also used copper eyes on the bowsprit to use to run the forestay.

I finished up the lifeboat with some cut down oars from my Jolly Roger & a little thread.

I'm curious to what scale this Bounty actually is.  I've read that it was around a 1/200 but I really don't know.

I did a little scratch work on the wheel, not great but this scale is a little more challenging than what I'm used to.

Trimmed it up and added some steerage ropes for the tiller.  I drilled the deck and glued in some small copper wire eyebolts

Worked on the wench (?) and added some anchor rope through the deck.  Also added a couple ropes on copper eyes to lash the lifeboat down with.

I also decided early on not to have the 'molded billowing sails' on my ship.  I cut off the sails and trimmed down the spars.

I also did some work on modifying the nonexisting pin rails.  I used the smallest styrene stock I had.  Its a little overscale but I can live with it.  I thought about using wire but I decided against it.

I did some work and rigged up the lifeboat also.