Today’s mission was to replicate the Greener Harpoon gun. Furniture and stock made from carved, stained and varnished Obechi. Harpoon, barrel, receiver, trigger and rope winder made from various bits of plasticard, rod, brass wire.

Here is a little more progress and that’s it until Saturday as I’m back on shift running the Guardroom tomorrow, yep the camp is shut but still needs guarding! Harpoons are simply dowel, brass wire and plasticard bard, stained, painted and varnished.

Quints Fighting chair was a bigger challenge! Finding reference was a challenge as the plans show a simplified version were the real thing was quite complexed. Anyway, the plan was useful for scale, then google provided a good reference picture. The resulting chair was made from aluminium rod, brass rod, plasticard, brass tube with all wooden furniture stained bass wood.

Managed to get the chair primed, painted, weathered and furniture varnished. That really is it now until the weekend. In the meantime, please stay home, keep well During this miserable time.

Been busy boy over the weekend doing some work around the house and especially the garden whilst the weather was playing ball!

But, in between household duties, managed to make another 4 barrels and get them primed, painted and ready to weather, should finish them tomorrow?

Today I made the winch that is used for the shark cage on the mast, made from the usual scrap pieces of plasticard and brass wire. I also started to weather the roof and rear wall of the cabin. Not sure if the crimson red on the window and door frame is movie accurate as cannot find any reference, but it looks in keeping with the scheme so it stays 😂😂

Another day of progress before going back to work tomorrow for my last week in Army uniform after 36 years service!

Completed weathering the barrels and the rope work. Started to make the shark jaw out of “green stuff” which will mount on the front of the flying bridge. Once hardened after a few days, I shall finish it with the dremel, add lots of teeth made from tiny triangles of plasticard, prime, paint and weather.

This afternoon I started painting and weathering the deck piece that the barrels fit on. After that’s done, it will be back to more paint work on the hull and main decks which will get some major weathering once done as it still all looks so factory fresh!

I am going to discard the fishing rod I made? It’s too thick, slightly too short and the wrong colour! All the rods you see glimpses of in the film are a varnished brown, my rod looks too modern so it’s gotta go! The ladder will be modified too, the rungs should be metal rod not wooden steps.

A little more work on detailing over the last few days limited to a few minutes here and there because of night shift. All will progress a little faster when I finish nights tonight and have 6 weeks off before starting my new job at at United States Air Force base somewhere in Suffolk!

The wooden crate that goes near the pulpit is just a balsa box and the simulated tarpaulin is modelling tissue soaked in diluted pva, a trick used on military and train modelling! Once dry, paint and weather easy peasy!
All the detailing for the transom I.e cleats, vents ect are done, simply off cuts of plasticard, rod and brass wire.

Rear cabin windows made from thin acetate and dirtied up with spray Matt varnish and Vallejo dust. This way Light gets into the cabin, but you won’t be able to see the internal cabin clearly which is desired as not detailing inside.

Finally, I’ve dremelled the flying bridge shark jaw made from green stuff to a pleasing shape and have started adding the teeth from slithers of triangle cut plasticard. Should finish that tomorrow ready to paint and weather.

Here is a set of pictures showing the sequence of making the flying bridge White Shark jaws. Started life as “green stuff” roughed to the desire shape followed by some grinding with the dremel once set. Teeth were cut from 0.5mm plastic card. Primed, painted, washed, dry brushed and teeth picked out on Tamiya white for a pleasing result.

Other jobs today have included finishing the crate near the pulpit.

Painted and weathered the pulpit rails.

But the biggest job of the day was stripping the wooden steps on the rear ladder and replacing with metal (aluminium rod) rungs more in keeping with the original. Lots of drilling, filing and pining before glueing, primer, paint and washes. Last job of the day was to mount the cage ballast and scuba bottles on the rear wall.

I pretty much followed this to the letter in the early stages of the build, the only big thing extra was glass clothing and resin finishing the hull for extra belt and braces! https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=563796

The last couple of days has only seen a few little odds n sods done as "the long haired Sgt Maj" has had me do some jobs around the house! Plus with 6 weeks before I start my new job, I am trying to pace the finish off on "Orca"!

Ive made the mast top weather vane from soldered brass wire and the shark fins from plasticard. The pennant bob is again brass wire and the pennant from ripstop nylon with edges sealed with cyno. Ive spent far too long trying to find a picture of what the detail on the pennant may have been and came up with nothing, therfeore I hand painted an Orca instead. If anyone knows what the image may have been, I will be more than happy to change it!

I cut the ORCA letters from 1/32 ply, sanded and stained. just need a couple of coats of varnish.

Last thing was to make the rod holder that fits on the rear cabin and start making new rods as mentioned previously, my first rod was wrong in size and colour.