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Figure 321 if that helps :-)

 

You have a link for the online edition of the text books?

 

Cheers, Daniel

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Well Dafi, thanks for the link, a good book.

 

My German is nonexistent, but I got the impression that it would be a sort of clamp to be put over the

gun axle and nailed to the deck to secure the guns,  I'm I right???

 

On a non related matter: why would a german book have so many portuguese fishing and river boats???

 

 

Cheers

Zeh

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No, it is a temporary replacement of a wheel. (To be nailed over the gun ale, in case the wheel iis damaged through enemy fire)

 

Your. 1:100 version has no way to nail it as shown in the book :) the only thing I wonder: assume a wheel is shot away during battle, how on earth do you nail such a thing under a gun truck, while a heated 3tons heavy gun is on that truck, and enemy fire is all around?

 

And the bok is very nice (its a pity that google does not scan the fold-out pages properly...) reading those books you can not but conclude that re-using pictures of other people was very common in earlier days. Quite a lit of pictures from this book are very familiar fromother books....

 

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Hello Jan perfectly right. This is is a replacement "slide" in case the original axis is damaged and no spare wheel could be fixed. I think with the adrenalin up the crew would manage to somehow lift the gun by the means of jacks or levers to replace the missing wheel. The half wheel has the square hole to fit the original axxis and the missing "wings" are no problem if the nails go in at an angle of 45°, anyway much easier to hammer ;-)

 

Röding was a tea merchant that published his work in between 1793 and 1798, so being contemporary to Steel. His work even went straight into the first german Deutsches Wörterbuch (English: The German Dictionary) from Brothers Grimm in 1838 (also known for their fairy tales collection).

 

XXXDAn

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Coming events are casting their chests before ...

 

victory_chests_1519.jpg

 

XXXDAn

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And now, wittness a moment of historical grandeur: It is finally invented, the WIMMELMODEL!

 

Victory-150731_1665.jpg

 

Look for the 3 minions ...

 

... papagena ...

 

... banana ...

 

... bunda ...

 

...hihihihihihi...

 

XXXDAn

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"... whon knows were this will end ..."

 

This will end straight in the heart of the year 2525 ...

 

... or sooner ...

 

... or later ...

 

XXXDAn

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Too much "Hello Kitty"

 

That was Nelsons biggest trick: The paint:

 

The french lying on the decks of laughter and could not fight any more properly ´cos of the tears in their eyes ;-)

 

XXXDAn

 

See also: http://modelshipworld.com/index.php/topic/11229-hms-victory-re-paint/#entry341339

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quite the mass production Daniel.........did you manage to maintain some sanity?     very nicely done  ;)

I yam wot I yam!

finished builds:
Billings Nordkap 476 / Billings Cux 87 / Billings Mary Ann / Billings AmericA - reissue
Billings Regina - bashed into the Susan A / Andrea Gail 1:20 - semi scratch w/ Billing instructions
M&M Fun Ship - semi scratch build / Gundalow - scratch build / Jeanne D'Arc - Heller
Phylly C & Denny-Zen - the Lobsie twins - bashed & semi scratch dual build

Billing T78 Norden

 

in dry dock:
Billing's Gothenborg 1:100 / Billing's Boulogne Etaples 1:20
Billing's Half Moon 1:40 - some scratch required
Revell U.S.S. United States 1:96 - plastic/ wood modified / Academy Titanic 1:400
Trawler Syborn - semi scratch / Holiday Harbor dual build - semi scratch

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Mass Production? No problem. Here you can see my minion Kevin producing the barrels and buckets.

 

Victory-150731_1658.jpg

 

Next he had to pack the chests. On this Vic, they were not for the personal belongings of the sailors but belonged for the gear of the mess: spare parts for the guns, cleaning and mending, coocking and dining, short everything that could be needed on short notice without having to go to the stores in the orlop.

 

Victory-150801_1669.jpg

 

Then my yellow ones distributed the barrels and buckets. The barrels were for the already distributed rations of the mess, one had a convenient size to sit on. The buckets were for catching food from the galley, for cleaning and for the shitting in bad weather - please guys make sure not to mix them up!

 

Victory-mess_2405.jpg

 

Victory-mess_2399.jpg

 

Here able seaman George is checking if the chest with the spare equipment of the guns is properly packed - the surplus tackles and the slide trucks in case the axxis of the carriage is shot of - everything looks fine :-)

 

Victory-mess_2409.jpg

 

Victory-mess_2417.jpg

 

Victory-mess_2449.jpg

 

And what is in the kits? There were the personal belongings of the sailors, look, here someone is searching for something inside ...

 

Victory-mess_2419.jpg

 

Victory-mess_2426.jpg

 

Cheers, Daniel

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Dafi....not only to you do awesome work....you're comments are entertaining also :D :D

 

frank

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in progress: Red Dragon  (Chinese junk)

                      

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  • 5 weeks later...

Pftttt...

 

...

 

... all that dust ...

 

*blow*

 

... oh damn, where are you, can´t see you any more!

 

...

 

... does Anybody recognise my smells?

XXXDAn

 

*waitingforthedusttogodown*

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Oh ...

 

...something appears ...

 

Victory-hammock_2382.jpg

 

...

 

XXXDAn

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OK Jan, canvas I will fix just for you to call me artist ;-)

 

XXXDAn

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... and who´s up for some dirty laundry with me? ...

 

Victory-hammock_2384.jpg

 

... 

 

XXXDAn

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Dirty laundry or dirty bulkheads for the cabins... either way.. they need scrubbing. :D

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So then I took out the canvas for some artistry, just to please Jan ;-)

 

Victory-cods_3802.jpg

 

Those officer´s cods kept me busy for almost 2 months ...

 

... first busy at work and then lot of wrong trials. First tried to pimp the cardboard pieces I used to determine the size of the cabins. Looked crap ...

 

Then thinner cardboard - looked crap too ...

 

Then i forgot how I did the canvas for the bulkheads - lot of crappy trials with crappy results ...

 

Then the canvas alone - too sloppy ...

 

Then inserted the bottom frame but the sides - too sloppy ... 

 

Only when I introduced the top lathes like in the original, then it works - result, keep as close to the original as possible :-)

 

 

 

And then the same game with the hangers. First tricked myself by trying to trick ...

 

Then the next try with the rope looped through with the wrong result of the rope coming out just one side.

 

Victory-cods_3806.jpg

 

Looked again at the original and knotted the 6 ropes each of them single.

 

Victory-cods_3810.jpg

 

Looked already better but the top knot looked too messy still. So used a comb to organise the ropes ...

 

Victory-cods_3815.jpg

 

... and it already looked better :-)

 

Victory-cods_3819.jpg

 

Fitted together ...

 

Victory-cods_3832.jpg

 

... put the laundry ...

 

Victory-cods_3835.jpg

 

... and dry fitted.

 

Victory-cods_3844.jpg

 

Cheers, Daniel

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That's some awesome!!! modelling Dafi....... well done!!

 

frank

completed build: Delta River Co. Riverboat     HMAT SUPPLY

                        

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in progress: Red Dragon  (Chinese junk)

                      

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I've only started to look through your log from the beginning, Daniel. Amazing work at that scale indeed. And the amount of detail you are putting in is extraordinary. Probably the most un-kit-like kit model in existence!

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amazing work Daniel  :)

I yam wot I yam!

finished builds:
Billings Nordkap 476 / Billings Cux 87 / Billings Mary Ann / Billings AmericA - reissue
Billings Regina - bashed into the Susan A / Andrea Gail 1:20 - semi scratch w/ Billing instructions
M&M Fun Ship - semi scratch build / Gundalow - scratch build / Jeanne D'Arc - Heller
Phylly C & Denny-Zen - the Lobsie twins - bashed & semi scratch dual build

Billing T78 Norden

 

in dry dock:
Billing's Gothenborg 1:100 / Billing's Boulogne Etaples 1:20
Billing's Half Moon 1:40 - some scratch required
Revell U.S.S. United States 1:96 - plastic/ wood modified / Academy Titanic 1:400
Trawler Syborn - semi scratch / Holiday Harbor dual build - semi scratch

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At this moment in time Dan, all I can say is WOW.

 

Steve

Current Build: Merit 1/48 Early Eco 80' PT Boat and Imai 1/50 Catalan Ship

Finished:

Revell 1/196 USS Constitution (My oldest son's school project)
Revell 1/72 Hanse Kogge
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Revell 1/72 U-Boat
Zvezda 1/72 English Medieval Ship Thomas

Revell 1/90 The Nina

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Thank you Orca, Frank, Drux, Popeye, Steve and Jp!

And all the others of course for all the clicks and likes - always eager to please :-)

 

@Orca - be my guest you are more than welcome, but do not think you get more than a pint of rum for those extra accolades, and careful, the catty´o´9´tails is waiting if you are overdoing!

 

@druxey - Yes it was an interesting journey and I too do enjoy to look back to the start. Never thought it would end (?) like this when I bought the kit. Just came out naturally :-)

 

Cheers to you all, Daniel

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And the next adventuere started here on MSW with some pictures of the official start of exchanging the copper on the Constitution.

 

ConnyKupfer.jpg

 

Great picture I thought, and interesting the damages on the left top of the picture. But then I saw the same thing on other photos and realised them being too even.

 

ConnyLocher-st.jpg

 

And on top of it symmetrical to the other side ...

 

ConnyLocher-b.jpg

 

... time to have a closer look.

 

ConnyLocher-close.jpg

 

So then developed a treasure hunt over several forums, many helping and each revealing some new hints. 

 

The more qualified opinions went soon direction of a rudder lift, in case the rudder has to be put back into it´s hinges. Chapman gave the hint, that those holes was also mentioned in the 1930´s plans, with 2" diameter and inside lead. So must must have served a purpose.

 

By that time I found holes like these on plenty of rudders. Then appeared drawings from Nares and MSW that showed emergency rudders with the use of those hole. In my german forum I got a link to a picture of the rudder of St. George in Thorsminde showing the same holes and I was done: Time to drill two small holes :-)

 

Victory-rudder_lift2_3848.jpg

 

And here the tackles that were used according to Nares and MSW: The aft ones served to lift the rudder and the fore ones to juggle the pins into the hinges. Once done, the rope was easily to be retrieved.

 

Victory-Ruderlichter_3852.jpg

 

So the mystery about the holes is getting clearer, I will take the tackles down soon as they were only used to reship the rudder :-)

 

Cheers, Daniel

 

 

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