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Ray got a reaction from Mirabell61 in HMS Diana 1794 by Ray - FINISHED - Caldercraft - A 38 gun Heavy Frigate
The Diana figure head has now been painted and in place but not permently fixed, and the fore deck guns have had the rigging started.
The bow pin rail has also been added although this was remade as the one with the kit could not have the holes opened out to allow the pins to fit.
Bow pin rail
Diana
Both bow chaser options
ready to be rigged
rigging started
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Ray got a reaction from fake johnbull in HMS Diana 1794 by Ray - FINISHED - Caldercraft - A 38 gun Heavy Frigate
Hi Guys thanks for the many ticks.
Timmo I have been working on the black plank edge and it is now ok-ish the deck cross beam will need a light sanding, although it looks much better in natural light than in the photo.
The timber-heads have now been added to the fore deck rails, they have been positioned to allow the last two carriage guns to be used as bow chasers, in two positions, I will rig them in the most forward firing position, the last to caronades will be set in a standard position.
Deck edge
Timber-heads
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Ray got a reaction from maggsl_01 in HMS Diana 1794 by Ray - FINISHED - Caldercraft - A 38 gun Heavy Frigate
Again mainly a photo update.
The Quater deck is now completed just a paint touch up on some of the eye bolts and rigging hooks, next the fore deck.
The barricade
Rear view
Finished Quarter deck
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Ray got a reaction from maggsl_01 in HMS Diana 1794 by Ray - FINISHED - Caldercraft - A 38 gun Heavy Frigate
Mainly a photo update of the quarter deck. The skylight, mizzen timber bitt, ships wheel, main grating with the capstan platform and hatch and ladder have now all been made up and added.
Skylight and mizzen bitt
Grating
Capstan
Ships Wheel
Quarter deck so far
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Ray reacted to Beef Wellington in HMS Diana 1794 by Ray - FINISHED - Caldercraft - A 38 gun Heavy Frigate
Nice shots Ray. Isn't it also fair to say that there is no rule that cannon can't be fired unless at 90 degrees to the bulwark? I would have thought that there would have been plenty of movement possible with these to be able to cover a very wide arc in many chase situations.
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Ray got a reaction from Blue Ensign in HMS Diana 1794 by Ray - FINISHED - Caldercraft - A 38 gun Heavy Frigate
The last of the ships guns have now been added and fully rigged with the carriage guns set in the most forward bow chaser position, as can be seen the new captain has arrived and is overseeing the fitting out.
I did order walnut dowel to replace the birch dowel in the kit except the 10mm dowel which will be painted and is not warped, it came today and it is of much better quality plus some .25mm black thread for the ratlines all from Cornwall model boats who are also very quick to send out any orders.
Bow chasers rigged
Carronade rigging
Captain in charge
All ships guns now fully rigged
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Ray got a reaction from Beef Wellington in HMS Diana 1794 by Ray - FINISHED - Caldercraft - A 38 gun Heavy Frigate
Hi thanks for the ticks guys
Floyd I would think that the ship would be on a slight tack to either port or starboard (as they would be used as warning shots or when chasing another ship down)so only one gun would be able to track and fire on a target at any tlme, so I both guns would never need to fire together, and if the ship went into action broadside on, 9the gun position would be changed.
I do paint watercolours so have some good quality small brushes and a few acrylic artist paints which I used, a few more crew members may soon be onboard.
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Ray got a reaction from mtaylor in HMS Diana 1794 by Ray - FINISHED - Caldercraft - A 38 gun Heavy Frigate
Hi thanks for the ticks guys
Floyd I would think that the ship would be on a slight tack to either port or starboard (as they would be used as warning shots or when chasing another ship down)so only one gun would be able to track and fire on a target at any tlme, so I both guns would never need to fire together, and if the ship went into action broadside on, 9the gun position would be changed.
I do paint watercolours so have some good quality small brushes and a few acrylic artist paints which I used, a few more crew members may soon be onboard.
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Ray got a reaction from fnkershner in HMS Diana 1794 by Ray - FINISHED - Caldercraft - A 38 gun Heavy Frigate
Hi thanks for the ticks guys
Floyd I would think that the ship would be on a slight tack to either port or starboard (as they would be used as warning shots or when chasing another ship down)so only one gun would be able to track and fire on a target at any tlme, so I both guns would never need to fire together, and if the ship went into action broadside on, 9the gun position would be changed.
I do paint watercolours so have some good quality small brushes and a few acrylic artist paints which I used, a few more crew members may soon be onboard.
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Ray got a reaction from Mirabell61 in HMS Diana 1794 by Ray - FINISHED - Caldercraft - A 38 gun Heavy Frigate
The last of the ships guns have now been added and fully rigged with the carriage guns set in the most forward bow chaser position, as can be seen the new captain has arrived and is overseeing the fitting out.
I did order walnut dowel to replace the birch dowel in the kit except the 10mm dowel which will be painted and is not warped, it came today and it is of much better quality plus some .25mm black thread for the ratlines all from Cornwall model boats who are also very quick to send out any orders.
Bow chasers rigged
Carronade rigging
Captain in charge
All ships guns now fully rigged
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Ray got a reaction from mobbsie in HMS Diana 1794 by Ray - FINISHED - Caldercraft - A 38 gun Heavy Frigate
The last of the ships guns have now been added and fully rigged with the carriage guns set in the most forward bow chaser position, as can be seen the new captain has arrived and is overseeing the fitting out.
I did order walnut dowel to replace the birch dowel in the kit except the 10mm dowel which will be painted and is not warped, it came today and it is of much better quality plus some .25mm black thread for the ratlines all from Cornwall model boats who are also very quick to send out any orders.
Bow chasers rigged
Carronade rigging
Captain in charge
All ships guns now fully rigged
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Ray got a reaction from MarisStella.hr in HMS Diana 1794 by Ray - FINISHED - Caldercraft - A 38 gun Heavy Frigate
The last of the ships guns have now been added and fully rigged with the carriage guns set in the most forward bow chaser position, as can be seen the new captain has arrived and is overseeing the fitting out.
I did order walnut dowel to replace the birch dowel in the kit except the 10mm dowel which will be painted and is not warped, it came today and it is of much better quality plus some .25mm black thread for the ratlines all from Cornwall model boats who are also very quick to send out any orders.
Bow chasers rigged
Carronade rigging
Captain in charge
All ships guns now fully rigged
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Ray got a reaction from fake johnbull in HMS Diana 1794 by Ray - FINISHED - Caldercraft - A 38 gun Heavy Frigate
The last of the ships guns have now been added and fully rigged with the carriage guns set in the most forward bow chaser position, as can be seen the new captain has arrived and is overseeing the fitting out.
I did order walnut dowel to replace the birch dowel in the kit except the 10mm dowel which will be painted and is not warped, it came today and it is of much better quality plus some .25mm black thread for the ratlines all from Cornwall model boats who are also very quick to send out any orders.
Bow chasers rigged
Carronade rigging
Captain in charge
All ships guns now fully rigged
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Ray got a reaction from Brian Oates in HMS Diana 1794 by Ray - FINISHED - Caldercraft - A 38 gun Heavy Frigate
The last of the ships guns have now been added and fully rigged with the carriage guns set in the most forward bow chaser position, as can be seen the new captain has arrived and is overseeing the fitting out.
I did order walnut dowel to replace the birch dowel in the kit except the 10mm dowel which will be painted and is not warped, it came today and it is of much better quality plus some .25mm black thread for the ratlines all from Cornwall model boats who are also very quick to send out any orders.
Bow chasers rigged
Carronade rigging
Captain in charge
All ships guns now fully rigged
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Ray got a reaction from Bettina in HMS Diana 1794 by Ray - FINISHED - Caldercraft - A 38 gun Heavy Frigate
The last of the ships guns have now been added and fully rigged with the carriage guns set in the most forward bow chaser position, as can be seen the new captain has arrived and is overseeing the fitting out.
I did order walnut dowel to replace the birch dowel in the kit except the 10mm dowel which will be painted and is not warped, it came today and it is of much better quality plus some .25mm black thread for the ratlines all from Cornwall model boats who are also very quick to send out any orders.
Bow chasers rigged
Carronade rigging
Captain in charge
All ships guns now fully rigged
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Ray got a reaction from Beef Wellington in HMS Diana 1794 by Ray - FINISHED - Caldercraft - A 38 gun Heavy Frigate
The last of the ships guns have now been added and fully rigged with the carriage guns set in the most forward bow chaser position, as can be seen the new captain has arrived and is overseeing the fitting out.
I did order walnut dowel to replace the birch dowel in the kit except the 10mm dowel which will be painted and is not warped, it came today and it is of much better quality plus some .25mm black thread for the ratlines all from Cornwall model boats who are also very quick to send out any orders.
Bow chasers rigged
Carronade rigging
Captain in charge
All ships guns now fully rigged
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Ray got a reaction from WackoWolf in HMS Diana 1794 by Ray - FINISHED - Caldercraft - A 38 gun Heavy Frigate
The last of the ships guns have now been added and fully rigged with the carriage guns set in the most forward bow chaser position, as can be seen the new captain has arrived and is overseeing the fitting out.
I did order walnut dowel to replace the birch dowel in the kit except the 10mm dowel which will be painted and is not warped, it came today and it is of much better quality plus some .25mm black thread for the ratlines all from Cornwall model boats who are also very quick to send out any orders.
Bow chasers rigged
Carronade rigging
Captain in charge
All ships guns now fully rigged
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Ray reacted to Beef Wellington in HMS Snake by Beef Wellington - FINISHED - Caldercraft - Scale 1: 64 - First wooden ship build
Revisited the slings. Decided to go with approach illustrated in Petersson. Small piece of spare walnut wash shaped and a groove cut to accept the top of the sling. I found that initially cutting a small slot with an exacto blade, and then scraping with a piece of 1mm wire with rough edges to the end was the easiest way to get this done. The sling now sits much more naturally and doesn't go round any hard edges which makes more practical sense. Following BEs comment, also decided to place the sling through the forward opening which seems to be the reason for it being there.
In the course of this exercise, I realise that I have omitted the sling on the mizzen which already has the topmast shrouds installed. I'll need to attach that in situ.
Unpainted 'thingy' on formast...it must have a name
Diminutive bosun inspecting the result and shouting his approval to move on...
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Ray reacted to Beef Wellington in HMS Snake by Beef Wellington - FINISHED - Caldercraft - Scale 1: 64 - First wooden ship build
Thanks for kind words and likes guys. The garden/yard and kids sports seem to be taking up most non-working hours, but little progress. I have all the top and topgallant masts shaped and finished, but before rigging the various shrouds it seems to make sense to get the slings in place as these would be challenging with shrouds fixed.
Followed Lever pretty closely on this, and again used a bullseye from BlueJacket. The other advantage doing this now is that the sling can be made off of the ship a slipped over the topmast cross trees once finished. I followed the plan and used 0.75mm line, but was initially thinking it would not look bulky enough. Once served it looks better and I think in keeping with something capable of supporting a main yard (?)
One question I noodling over - I've definitely seen in pictures of other (larger) vessels where there is a shaped, grooved saddle that helps the lie of the sling over the hard cap edges. Lever however simply shows the slings resting on the mast cap, as I have here. Is one any more correct than the other, or is it possibly a big ship/small 'ship' thing?
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Ray got a reaction from mobbsie in HMS Diana 1794 by Ray - FINISHED - Caldercraft - A 38 gun Heavy Frigate
The Diana figure head has now been painted and in place but not permently fixed, and the fore deck guns have had the rigging started.
The bow pin rail has also been added although this was remade as the one with the kit could not have the holes opened out to allow the pins to fit.
Bow pin rail
Diana
Both bow chaser options
ready to be rigged
rigging started
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Ray got a reaction from fake johnbull in HMS Diana 1794 by Ray - FINISHED - Caldercraft - A 38 gun Heavy Frigate
The Diana figure head has now been painted and in place but not permently fixed, and the fore deck guns have had the rigging started.
The bow pin rail has also been added although this was remade as the one with the kit could not have the holes opened out to allow the pins to fit.
Bow pin rail
Diana
Both bow chaser options
ready to be rigged
rigging started
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Ray got a reaction from Bettina in HMS Diana 1794 by Ray - FINISHED - Caldercraft - A 38 gun Heavy Frigate
The Diana figure head has now been painted and in place but not permently fixed, and the fore deck guns have had the rigging started.
The bow pin rail has also been added although this was remade as the one with the kit could not have the holes opened out to allow the pins to fit.
Bow pin rail
Diana
Both bow chaser options
ready to be rigged
rigging started
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Ray reacted to WackoWolf in HMS Diana 1794 by Ray - FINISHED - Caldercraft - A 38 gun Heavy Frigate
The Figure Head look excellent, nice job on the painting of her. Keep the pictures coming and Thank you for sharing.
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Ray got a reaction from Timmo in HMS Diana 1794 by Ray - FINISHED - Caldercraft - A 38 gun Heavy Frigate
The Diana figure head has now been painted and in place but not permently fixed, and the fore deck guns have had the rigging started.
The bow pin rail has also been added although this was remade as the one with the kit could not have the holes opened out to allow the pins to fit.
Bow pin rail
Diana
Both bow chaser options
ready to be rigged
rigging started
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Ray got a reaction from jaerschen in HMS Diana 1794 by Ray - FINISHED - Caldercraft - A 38 gun Heavy Frigate
The Diana figure head has now been painted and in place but not permently fixed, and the fore deck guns have had the rigging started.
The bow pin rail has also been added although this was remade as the one with the kit could not have the holes opened out to allow the pins to fit.
Bow pin rail
Diana
Both bow chaser options
ready to be rigged
rigging started
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