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Naval History from this Day, Any Nation I don't know if i will be able to post to this daily,but if any one else has any info or contributions please post them Click on relevant month January http://modelshipworl...-nation/page-34 February http://modelshipworl...-nation/page-38 March http://modelshipworl...-nation/page-43 April http://modelshipworl...-nation/page-45 May http://modelshipworl...-nation/page-49 June http://modelshipworl...y-nation/page-7 July http://modelshipworl...-nation/page-12 August http://modelshipworl...-nation/page-16 September http://modelshipworl...-nation/page-20 October http://modelshipworl...-nation/page-24 November http://modelshipworl...-nation/page-28 December http://modelshipworl...-nation/page-31 May 01 1689 Battle of Bantry Bay. Inclonclusive engagement between an English fleet of 19 ships, under Arthur Herbert, and a French fleet of 24 ships, under François Louis de Rousselet, Marquis de Château-Renault. 1776 William Bligh passed as Lieutenant. 1795 HMS Boyne (98), bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral Peyton, Cptn. George Grey, caught fire at Spithead burned and exploded. 1811 HMS Pomone (38), Cptn. Robert Barrie, HMS Unite (40), Cptn. Chamberlayne, and HMS Scout (18), Cptn. Alex. Renton Sharpe, destroyed Giraffe (26) and Nourrise (14) and an armed merchantman in the Bay of Sagone, Corsica. The two French warships blew up and their burning timbers destroyed a Martello tower and caused a shore battery to blow up. HMS Guerriere (38), Cptn. Samuel John Pechell, stopped the brig USS Spitfire off Sandy Hook in New Jersey and impressed Maine citizen John Diggio. 1815 HMS Penelope (36), Cdr. James Galloway, wrecked on rocks in the St. Lawrence.
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Hi, There where many times since I started building my Kingfisher that I thought I should start a build log. And today is the day. I've started the kit last november and spend a lot of time since. Not that I have made much progress, but it is not a race and its tremendous fun building. I ran in to trouble when I was making the hawse timbers, I did not like how the shape came out. It was time to have a little diversion from frame building and find the courage to make new parts from scratch for the hawse timbers. So I left the path of the instruction and started building the stove, some gratings and the gun trucks. That was a lot of fun. The gun trucks are almost finished and wait for the arrival of replacement cannons from The Lumberyard. ==================================== So that's what was left from my old build log in Google cache. Unfortunately the rest was shot into cyberspace and is now a pleasant memory of 2 years and 7 months of logging the progress of my Kingfisher. And probably the longest story I ever wrote in my whole life as I don't like writing at all. So instead of trying to get everything back I'll put a selection of the pictures I did keep on my laptop up in this post and will go on from there. Maybe I'll add text along the way but don't want to be kept from modeling to much. Most of the pictures say more than words anyhow. Update: So Dave (Midnight) saved my log previous to MSW’s move from 1.0 to 2.0. He was ever so kind to share these files with me to rebuild my buildlog. Unfortunately I’m not able to convert the PDF’s back to text to get them back into my buidlog. So instead of typing the lot over again I decided to put the PDF’s on a public share where every body who’s interested can download them from. To make live a little easier I compiled a small index so you now what to expect in each PDF. All the PDF's can be found here. I know it's a bit of a disappointment not to be able to put the information back into this log but the good news is nothing is lost. Any comments of how its working are welcome. Remco
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HMS Kingsfisher 1770 This is a build of HMS Kingsfisher 16, of 1770, a Swan Class Sloop of War. I will be using the book series, The Fully Framed Model by David Antscherl and Greg Herbert. Of the workshops that David and Greg have hosted, I have attended seven so far, and will be at the up-coming one in February. Plans on hand Plans from the National Maritime Museum are the following: Kingfisher (1770) ZAZ4654 (J7973) Lines & Profile (Design) Kingfisher (1770) ZAZ4651 (J4866) Lines & Profile with décor Kingfisher (1770) ZAZ4652 (J4865) Midship Frames Kingfisher (1770) ZAZ4653 (J4867) Decks Cygnet (1776) ZAZ4691 (J7503) Frame (1773) David Antscherl's Mylar TFFM plans with the Masting plan. Harold M Hahn plans for Kingfisher (1987) in 3/16" = 1' 0". These were enlarged to 1:48 scale on Mylar by my local blueprint shop. The reason being that they are very close to ZAZ4653, and much easier to read. I also have Robert Hunt's kit #003 and plans of Kingfisher. This was the first kit sold to the public. This kit may be up for sale soon to finance some new tool purchases. Naming Convention Let me explain the spelling of HMS Kingsfisher. I have downloaded all of the current volumes of Naval Documents of the American Revolution. They can be found at the following Web Address: http://www.history.navy.mil/research/publications/documentary-histories/naval-documents-of-the-american-revolution.html If one has any interest in naval history of the American Revolution check out these documents. Just about every Person, Ship, or Event are listed by date. There are well over 500 pages that have entries relating to HMS Kingsfisher. Most are from British documents, such as Ship logs, Witness Reports, and Vice Admiral Samuel Graves official reports to the Admiralty. In all of the entries the ship is referred to as HMS Kingsfisher, ( some entries she is named as HMS King'sfisher). The only entries that have 'Kingfisher' spelling are from Rebel Americans reporting her movements or actions. more to follow Bob W -
Some years ago, when the kit first came out, I bought one from Bob Hunt (Lauckstreet). Unfortunately, that was well before I had ever heard of MSW and also well before I was aware of the TFFM books by David Antscherl. The kit appeared to provide an opportunity for someone like me without any power tools to build a fully framed model, without spending the rest of my life trying to cut all the framing by hand. While the kit had some shortcomings and problems (e.g. the provided building jig was more trouble than help), it did, in fact, allow me to build a boxwood fully framed model of a Swan class ship in 1:48 scale. From the beginning, I decided on two major changes from the kit. First, I wanted to do a rigged model, rather than the hull only model provided for in the kit. Second, and in part as a result of the first decision, I chose to plank both sides of the upper hull and bulwarks, rather than only one side as provided in the kit. This led me to my first of a number of happy experiences with Jeff Hayes at Hobbymill, to get the additional wood needed. By the time that I joined the original MSW, I had completed the hull framing and had planked the wales and upper outer hull. Sadly, I have no photos of any of that work. At about that time, I also obtained the first two volumes of TFFM, which then became an invaluable aid to the project. Reference to the books allowed me to make various changes and additions to the kit as I proceeded from that point. In hindsight, I regret that I didn't have the opportunity to see the kinds of spectacular work that has been done by Remco, Danny and Toni on their Swans and that I lacked the imagination or confidence to try to do that kind of interior detailing. After completing the hull work, I took a pause of about a year to await the publication of TFFM Vol. 4, before doing the masting and rigging. I built the MS Syren during that pause. This log will be a repost of those photos that I still have, together with some brief summary text. The pictures attached to this post are a couple of the completed model photos. Subsequent posts will begin with the work after framing and hull planking. Bob
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Hi What to say about this high end kit..... They do not come any better or then again, more expencive. Building this kit makes one wonder why scratch has not been an option. Then again without building this kit, scratch would not have been an option for me........just saying Rather than trying to rebuild my buildlog trying to recooperate any disscussions on the way I will repost as many pictures as I can and hopfully questions will follow bringing this log along with others of the same kit to life. Here we go.
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