1/96 scale USS Constitution build.

[Tim A.]

The upper ratlines are finished. I've also added the studding booms to their stowed positions

on the channels.

 

[Tim A.]

 

[Heavens Eagle]

Looking really good Tim! I like how the ratlines have turned out on this.

Also looks like you have jumped off to a start on the HMS Victory in the background as well.

 

[moon puppy]

 

[Tim A.]

Looking really good Tim! I like how the ratlines have turned out on this.

Also looks like you have jumped off to a start on the HMS Victory in the background as well.

Thanks Eagle. The Victory is next. Not enough room in my shop or in my Brain to work on both at the same time.

 

[Rhino]

Your USS Constitution continues to amaze and astound me! I try not to slobber too much. I mostly fail.

 

[Tim A.]

Your USS Constitution continues to amaze and astound me! I try not to slobber too much. I mostly fail.

Thanks Rhino. It ain't no stealthy Coast Guard submarine but I'm trying

 

[Duke Maddog]

WOW!!!! I'm feeling so overwhelmingly inadequate right now! This is unbelievably outstanding work!

 

[Tim A.]

WOW!!!! I'm feeling so overwhelmingly inadequate right now! This is unbelievably outstanding work!

Thanks for the encouragement Duke!

 

[Sharkmouth]

Simply wow...

I recall having classmates chip in (we were in groups) to get Pyro's Christopher Columbus ships for a school project. I got to build them and was so proud but now I know they were...
Not my photo but I remember the boxes.

 

[jknaus]

She's beautiful. What are those long p[oles lashed to the side for? At first I thought a gaff hook but it is too big. Where those for the flying sails?
James

PS I know nothing about ships so you're probably scratching your head and saying What is this guy smoking?)

 

[jeaton01]

You better have a hermetically sealed display case ready for this, Tim.

 

[Tim A.]

Simply wow...

I recall having classmates chip in (we were in groups) to get Pyro's Christopher Columbus ships for a school project. I got to build them and was so proud but now I know they were...
Not my photo but I remember the boxes.

Those were the days! Things were so much simpler. Note; the description on the instructions, 'Antique Ship'

 

[Tim A.]

She's beautiful. What are those long p[oles lashed to the side for? At first I thought a gaff hook but it is too big. Where those for the flying sails?
James

PS I know nothing about ships so you're probably scratching your head and saying What is this guy smoking?)

Yep James, that's exactly what those are. The booms for the main & fore yard studding sails.

 

[Tim A.]

You better have a hermetically sealed display case ready for this, Tim.

It'll be displayed in a glass case as a waterline scene, depicting Constitution at anchor. I chose not to cut the hull. Instead I'll cut the hole in the base and drop it in.

 

[mustang1989]

Such tidy work on this with all the rigging. Superbly done.

 

[Tim A.]

Such tidy work on this with all the rigging. Superbly done.

Thanks mustang.

 

[Tim A.]

I was holding of on doing the lower Mast ratlines. But apparently others that had the same idea regretted doing so because with the yards in place it made the job even more tedious, than it already is. So here we go with the lowers. Working my up on the mizzen...

 

[moon puppy]

 

[Heavens Eagle]