windlass

Model as at 4 Feb

Dave and Tony Brooks are soldiering on with ‘our’ model of Westmoreland and Dave has sent me a couple of pics. I was so impressed by some of the fine detailing I have actually cropped a couple more pics out of one of these so that you can see the clever work which has gone in around the windlass and main mast case and, again, around the crab winches and steering gear.

Dave says in his email, “All the deck furniture is now finished. The two crab winches and the brail winch are now soldered together and stuck in place. All metal work for pinning the lee-boards is complete with the boards themselves temporarily hung. The paint scheme is roughly that of Eastwoods working colours but will need fine tuning if we can find some good colour pictures. We are now ready to start going upwards. We messed around with a bit of wire to form the stayfall, but we are still undecided as to how we will do this”.

: Model as at 4 Feb

It’s looking good, Dave.

In the latest update from Dave Brooks on the Westmoreland model, Dave writes,

The Brooks’s model of Westmoreland gets its masts; photo by Dave Brooks.

“9^th November. No progress in the week due to work commitments so the winches have no further action for the time being. Today we turned our attention to cleaning up rails and final shaping and also to the windlass. We sought out our pre-selected watch cogs for our windlass and while Dad cleaned and shaped rails I carefully filed down some dowel to look like a windlass drum. Dad then cut the frame for the windlass and mounted the cogs to the drum and then the drum to the frame. We laid the windlass lying roughly in position though some alteration to the frame will need to be done. I then decided not to waste any time watching the master at work and set about sourcing some spars. Mainmast, topmast and sprit. I found some reasonable sized dowel and cut them to length. We finished the evening by varnishing the balsa rails to give them strength for final shaping, and sanding the mainmast to the right diameter on the plan. And just for fun we stood the mast up for the first time since the original model”.

Thanks for that, Dave. Good progress.

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