Not a lot done over Xmas.
Here we are up to date, most of the pictures speak for themselves.
The railings around the bridge were "interesting". If you look at part Nos 27 and 28, these represent a varnished wooden rail around the top of the steel rails. As you can imagine, the bending has to be pretty close to look right. Each bend needs to be the correct radius and in the right place, happily, it seems to have worked out OK. The Haddock patented radius bending device helped a great deal. the pictures should speak for themselves.
Masts were fun too. Because all the joints were close together, I had to resort to using different ways of joining each bit together. So the lower and upper masts are silver soldered, on the foremast, the yards are soft soldered and the gaff is super-glued into a pre drilled hole. The mainmast gaff is soft soldered. The different sizes of tube, where telescoped together are fixed with a Loctite type nut-lock. Sounds complicated but not really so, just takes some thought.
As silver solder melts around 600*C and soft solder around 200*C, you can happily solder away without adjacent joints melting and the whole lot falling apart provided you do the hottest first.
Haddock.