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Well, after something of a break, and with colder weather I have resurrected my building efforts.
Wanted to get my head back into it by working on something fairly small so I decided to scratch build the Brodie stove.  Somewhat pointless maybe because I will never really see it when it's installed!

Small update.
 
After procrastinating for a while on how to do the decking I decided to scribe it rather than add plastic or wood veneer planks.
 
Part of the reason was the fact that I thought Force9 build looked great with scribed deck and partly because I didn't see the value of buying the veneer or plastic strips for decking.  Will not be painting for a while but here is the nekkid scribed plastic.  Ignore the white lines - those are scribed lines with filler - some my mistakes, and some because of the method I used and the need to try and represent the interlocking planks that were on the gun deck.
 
The tools I used for the scribing are in the picture below.  The method I used was to very carefully mark one line from bow to stern uninterrupted by gratings etc.  I then scribed that line as a pilot line for the rest of the fore and aft lines.  I then used the small pin vise on the left of the picture into which I had placed the tips of two sewing needles.  The pilot line was used to one needle tip down, with the second creating a scribed line parallel to the first.  This process was continued until the deck was scribed all over.  After that I gently deepened each line using the scribing took and the back of a #11 blade where the tip had been broken off.  The bumps either side of each line were then carefully removed with the chisel blade.  I went for a repeating pattern every 5 lines of planks.  The interlocking planks I basically made up - no idea if that is what they actually would have looked like but they are interlocking!
 
Tools used:
 

 
Here's the end result:
 

 

 

 
This last picture shows the way I have attempted to represent the interlocked planks.
 

 
Thanks for looking!

As I am building the Constitution as depicted in Corné's painting I had to do something about the Revell kits window panes.  The model has simple 2 * 4 panes in each window frame, Corné clearly shows 3 *2. To remedy this I cut out the horizontal bars in the kit widows leaving only the vertical bar in the window. I then gently open up the height of each window frame at the top and bottom, while avoiding damaging the vertical bar. Two thin plastic strips were then glued across the back of each window frame, and to give more depth to the newly added bars 4 pieces of the same size of strip were cut and glued to the outside of the added bars. Pictures below of inside view (partial only to show haw the added bars are glued to the inside), and outside view.
 
 

 
 
 

In the process of trying to tidy up a couple of areas at the bow where the molds on each side of the hull were a little mismatched. The white areas are plastic tubing I had inserted where the original molding holes were.  Then drilled to get better alignment between the molding on both sides.

Thank you both

Thank you both

I have tried to find an answer online but to no avail.
 
my question is are the three masts on the Constitution parallel to each other. Follow up would be is there a rake to the angle of the masts.
 
Thank you for any insights.
 
Stuart

Is there any documentation of the Captain’s Quarters in its 1812 configuration. What I am curious about is paint colors, if there was any covering on the floor etc.
 
Thanks
 
Stuart
 
 
 

Is there any documentation of the Captain’s Quarters in its 1812 configuration. What I am curious about is paint colors, if there was any covering on the floor etc.
 
Thanks
 
Stuart
 
 
 

As I am building the Constitution as depicted in Corné's painting I had to do something about the Revell kits window panes.  The model has simple 2 * 4 panes in each window frame, Corné clearly shows 3 *2. To remedy this I cut out the horizontal bars in the kit widows leaving only the vertical bar in the window. I then gently open up the height of each window frame at the top and bottom, while avoiding damaging the vertical bar. Two thin plastic strips were then glued across the back of each window frame, and to give more depth to the newly added bars 4 pieces of the same size of strip were cut and glued to the outside of the added bars. Pictures below of inside view (partial only to show haw the added bars are glued to the inside), and outside view.
 
 

 
 
 

Well, after something of a break, and with colder weather I have resurrected my building efforts.
Wanted to get my head back into it by working on something fairly small so I decided to scratch build the Brodie stove.  Somewhat pointless maybe because I will never really see it when it's installed!

As I am building the Constitution as depicted in Corné's painting I had to do something about the Revell kits window panes.  The model has simple 2 * 4 panes in each window frame, Corné clearly shows 3 *2. To remedy this I cut out the horizontal bars in the kit widows leaving only the vertical bar in the window. I then gently open up the height of each window frame at the top and bottom, while avoiding damaging the vertical bar. Two thin plastic strips were then glued across the back of each window frame, and to give more depth to the newly added bars 4 pieces of the same size of strip were cut and glued to the outside of the added bars. Pictures below of inside view (partial only to show haw the added bars are glued to the inside), and outside view.
 
 

 
 
 

Well, after something of a break, and with colder weather I have resurrected my building efforts.
Wanted to get my head back into it by working on something fairly small so I decided to scratch build the Brodie stove.  Somewhat pointless maybe because I will never really see it when it's installed!

Well, after something of a break, and with colder weather I have resurrected my building efforts.
Wanted to get my head back into it by working on something fairly small so I decided to scratch build the Brodie stove.  Somewhat pointless maybe because I will never really see it when it's installed!

Well, after something of a break, and with colder weather I have resurrected my building efforts.
Wanted to get my head back into it by working on something fairly small so I decided to scratch build the Brodie stove.  Somewhat pointless maybe because I will never really see it when it's installed!

Well, after something of a break, and with colder weather I have resurrected my building efforts.
Wanted to get my head back into it by working on something fairly small so I decided to scratch build the Brodie stove.  Somewhat pointless maybe because I will never really see it when it's installed!

The quality of the moldings isn't great. But it is the most accurate starting point if you want to go nuts with photo etch and some scratch building. Grimes suggestion theTRMA website is an excellent one there is a wealth of information there.

The quality of the moldings isn't great. But it is the most accurate starting point if you want to go nuts with photo etch and some scratch building. Grimes suggestion theTRMA website is an excellent one there is a wealth of information there.

Finished the scratch built 34 foot launch.  Not exactly as I had wanted - the hull is deeper than I had intended - it I'm happy enough with it.
 

 
 
Also finished off the Commodore's barge - this was the one I had lengthened from the Revel supplied launch.
 

 

 
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That's the two cutters, the Commodore's barge, and the 34 ft launch completed now.
 

 
 
After spending this time on these I guess I had better get started to the hull of the Constitution itself!
 
Thanks for looking - all comments welcome.
 
Stuart

Good to see another Connie under way!

Amazing figures - and amazing build!
 
Are the figures scratch made.?
 
Stuart

Finally got the scribing of the spar deck completed.  As with the gun deck this one got of to a false start - hence the white lines - Tamiya filler....
 

 

 

 

 
Thought about adding joggling of the planks but decided against it.  Not sure how obvious it will be anyway.
 
Thanks for looking.
 
Stuart

Finished the scratch built 34 foot launch.  Not exactly as I had wanted - the hull is deeper than I had intended - it I'm happy enough with it.
 

 
 
Also finished off the Commodore's barge - this was the one I had lengthened from the Revel supplied launch.
 

 

 
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That's the two cutters, the Commodore's barge, and the 34 ft launch completed now.
 

 
 
After spending this time on these I guess I had better get started to the hull of the Constitution itself!
 
Thanks for looking - all comments welcome.
 
Stuart

Having been working on the commodore's barge I was thinking of trying to get another Revell 30 foot barge and using that as a basis and extending it for the 34 foot launch.  Not having any success I decided to start work on building it from scratch.  Here's the progress so far.  I started with cutting the shapes of the keel, gunwale, and transom out of sheet plastic and assembling them together as a frame to start attaching the planking and framing to.
 
Here's a work in progress so far:
 

 

 
Thanks for looking

Finally got the scribing of the spar deck completed.  As with the gun deck this one got of to a false start - hence the white lines - Tamiya filler....
 

 

 

 

 
Thought about adding joggling of the planks but decided against it.  Not sure how obvious it will be anyway.
 
Thanks for looking.
 
Stuart