Wanderer Whaler build

Marvelous work Gene!!

Michael D.

The rudders look pretty swell. In fact, the boats really add a lot to your model.

I do have a set of Imai directions for the Victory. They are in Japanese, but the drawings are so much clearer than Heller's that it's a real help. If you send me a PM with your email address, I'll send them to you.

Bill

Gene,  Good looking build. I have 2 of the the Wanderer's and am waiting till Feb. 9th. 2019 to start, that's my first day retirment after 37 years. I'm not a fan of the yards with the sails molded on, so I'm either going to cut/sand off the sails or build new yards from wooden stock.

If you want to see the ship in watch this movie on youtube - Down to the Sea in Ships. The Wanderer is the ship in the 1922 Movie. One of the things you'll notice right off if the actual size of whale oil barrels, that are WAY larger than the standard barrel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWs3zGueWDs

PS You want to make a few bucks doing my whaleboats.....

Jake

 Jim, I suspect it was me as I used the same link 4 times & got 2 deleted & replaced. I just left the 2. I love the whaleboats.

 Flint, you look just like a guy I saw in a pirate movie with a lot of lightly , or none ,clad girls . Did you play that part ? Man, I would loved to have done that. I got all excited with whalers with  In the Heart of the Sea. That was a great movie. Would love to see your work on the Morgan/ Pequoid.

  GM, I hope you noticed the rudders. They are as close as I could do in this scale. I am leaving the Mizzen til last. Nino said you have a paper on the big Victory that is clear. I have to go back & read his post again to ask you. Thanks to Bill, your namesake ,that will be my next start. Nino sends me pictures on everything & digs me out of trouble on postig pictures, or anything computer.

Sweet Barque! Now, you do need to add the mizzen gaffs.

gene1

I had to go back with Jim's (nino ) guidance & repost all my pictures. He took me to raise, I hope he feeds me & my wife & cat real good. Thank you Jim, I am only 87 & when I grow up I will know how to run a computer.

 

 Gene,  A strange thing,  of the last pictures you re-added to your last 2 posts Google Chrome does not show any. Internet Explorer shows 2 of them.  Of course you can see all 9.   Since you "sent me" some copies I will try adding them back in on this post.  Very strange. 

I suspect it was the Direct links I had suggested.  Funny that IE got some and Chrome did not.

 I will check again after this posts.

More Importantly:    GREAT JOB!

Anyone who has dealt with the terrible Sails and Yard combo, you found a most excellent solution.

  Thanks for the suggestion to cut the sails down in size, add tissue sails beneath, and make'em furled!

     Nino

Looks great Gene. There's 'something' about whale boats. After reading Moby D i ck I got my hands on a Charles W Morgan and turned it into the Pequod (as yet unfinished). They've got a real character to them. 

Edited to bypass profanity filter 

I had to go back with Jim's (nino ) guidance & repost all my pictures. He took me to raise, I hope he feeds me & my wife & cat real good. Thank you Jim, I am only 87 & when I grow up I will know how to run a computer.

Here are a few more.

  I cut the kit sail/spars down & reshaped the sai & added kleenex furled sail parts to the sail & full furls to the 2 top spars. I used the Airfix rigging tool to make my shroud/ratlines. The kit shrouds were terrible. I will add all the kit sails that don't have spars.

 I am adding new pictures of my Whaler with the masts up & the whaleboats on. I have a lot more to do.

 have more tomorrow & explain my sails.

Fox, You have the same problem I have been having with pictures. I used Picasa & then Google for years & then trouble started. Nino switched me to Postimage & it is very good.  Look into it, it is worth changing. Photoshop has always been a bad one to me. I hate all the pictures they add to your picture.

Looks great, Gene.  Welcome to postimage.  I love it, better than Photobucket ever was.

Cool, Photos show!

Thanks Gene, Thanks Steve.

Pictures Look great, Gene.   Keep it up.

Gene, as regards you previous statement: "I hope this worked as Nino spent half a day teaching me about my computer... Now I know a little more than my wife."

I think you are only close to Even with Mary on Knowing stuff, so not quite ahead yet. Remember, she has an Ipad that I bet you can't use,  but she knows how to use your computer.

     I bet Tanker has pictures from when he was a "Wailing" man. ask him to post some stuff from his experiences.  (Pun intended!)

    Nino.

very nice gene , can't wait for the rest of the build .

good on you nino 

steve5

Gene,

Pictures are coming through just fine! Lovely work as usual. Looking forward to the rest of your WIP on this thread.

BTW, Postimage works very similarly to Flickr so, should you for any reason need to find yet another free site, I'd bet you'd have it down in no time.

Nino just taught me how to change my pctures to Postimage & this is the first one. I will try a few more & let me know if they come thru ok. This should work.

I might have done a couple wrong, but I hope the rest are right. I want to take the bad one off & replace them with what is left. Thanks ,,, Gene

I am working on the masts,done, & spars & sails, to cut them down & do furled sails. You better have a Foredom drill to cut & drill these things. I will gointo more on that tomorrow.

I will ask Jim to help me get on that site GM, or a different one. I will be glad to pay $24. 

Gene, I am on a limited income too. But try Fotki. I pay $ 24 a year, and when the Commodore looks ove my shoulder she doesn't see Asian Babe wants Man, or all the other stuff "free" sites offer. Goo*le wants your soul and they will get it.

Looking good Gene!

Yeah, Kalmbach (and only Kalmbach) seems to have some sort of problem with Google Photos, een set to Public, in Shared folders.

Weirdly, if you 'publish' a google photo to your G+ account, you can link that image.  Mostly.

Your Mileage May Vary.

Professional driver on closed course.

Mike ,I have to do something because these Google pictures come in fine on private computers & they are on my computer too, so I don.t know if they are not on herenino has worked with me & wants me to leave Google. It has been fine for years & I am a dunce on computers, but I will change but will have to get nino to lead me. He is a super nice person. 

Gene,

No show.

Really, if you have a laptop or desktop, try Flickr. Once you get the hang of it it's second nature.

Steve & Steve, I have sent these same pictures to other personal computers & they came up fine. nino say that FSM is not set up to take google pictures & some come up & some don't. Some people on here got them. I will try another batch to see if they work. This is a neat model & good or bad I would like to get the pics on so you all can see them & maybe find & build one.

  I took all these non- pictures out & replaced them, I hope thanks to nino & his super computer knowledge....... 

heres hoping...

ditto gene

Gene,

I would love to see the pictures but no luck. Hopefully you'll be able to figure this out because I would love to see what you are doing!

Steve 

Gene, no that is not my build of the WANDERER. Copied it off the net. Any private pictures off my camera is posted on flickr, then off loated to the FSM Forum.

Happy modeling     Crackers  

These two haven't shown up either Gene. Strange. Just print them out and send them to us individually.