My daughter is a licensed plumber, I put her to the challenge…. Told her to go back to plumbing. But she wants to practice more on the finer stuff….. practice makes perfect she said.

Thanks cdnfurball, but I’m not that good; I cheated. The brass stanchions are factory made and I just soldered the brass wire to them.
There is a bit of a knack to it though. I put plumbers white flux on the rail before sliding the stanchion into the correct place and then a little bit more over the ball and onto the rail.
I use normal electrical solder with resin core but instead of getting the work to temperature and then bringing the solder to the joint I pick up a blob of solder on the 30W iron and just press it to the ball.
The solder from the iron almost instantly flows onto the work pieces and generally no blobs, unless I’ve put too much solder on the iron.
Easy, peasy, lemon squeezy 😉

That’s a great job of soldering on the railings. What soldering tool do you use ?

Here’s a little more progress on the Egrete. I’ve finished making the railings around the bulwarks, painted them and they are now fixed in place.
This allows me to clear my bench briefly to check over my new IOM Malteser ready for some sailing on Saturday.

When I saw this post I was inspired to resurrect the David Metcalf Build article in the May/June '88 issues of Model Boats along with the AutoCAD drawings I did 30 years ago.

My plan was to do this build in balsa and thin sheet ply because at that time I had to much of it in stock. It's progressing well for about three weeks work. I have started a build article to post of this balsa/ply version when I get further along with cabins and the elevating wheel house assemblies.

Nice job on the railings Egrete coming along well.
Rick

The last time I mentioned any progress was when I’d hit the bridge raising/lowering working to my satisfaction and added navigation lights I think.

As that was a few months ago I thought it was about time to post another progress report.
This time I’ve been adding deck features and working on railings.

Most of the deck ‘furniture’ had been fitted now and some progress had been made with railings. These have proved a bit tricky but are coming along.

I made the port and starboard railings by drawing them out on cartridge paper, cutting and laying out the parts over the drawing and soldering them over my plan.

I used resin cored solder but also little dabs of white plumbers resin at each joint. I cleaned up any blobby bits of solder and exposed rail ends with needle files and scrubbed them gently with soapy water before drying and spray painting.

The stern railings were a little tricky as they had to avoid bollards, etc. so I drilled the deck edge and assembled the railings in situ and then soldered them in place. I’m not happy that some of the stanchions are not quite vertical but I’m sure, by the time they are painted and fixed in position they’ll look OK.

A fellow sailor I know once told me that he builds to 5 metre scale. I was puzzled but he explained that if the finished item looked good from 5 metres then it was OK 😂

I hope the pictures are OK