jack.aubrey

De Agostini is the publishing company that sells the partwork; Artesania Latina has made the project of the model, and the "hard work" is made in China . .

Continuation from the previous message. . Here are some images of the bulkheads: they are made up of three elements that must be assembled together. 01 02 03 04 05 Cheers, Jack. High Resolution Images: 01 http://i81.servimg.com/u/f81/12/86/14/83/p1090324.jpg 02 http://i81.servimg.com/u/f81/12/86/14/83/p1090325.jpg 03 http://i81.servimg.com/u/f81/12/86/14/83/p1090326.jpg 04 http://i81.servimg.com/u/f81/12/86/14/83/p1090327.jpg 05 http://i81.servimg.com/u/f81/12/86/14/83/p1090328.jpg

Monday May 20th, 2013 - The shipyard is opened . . I started some days ago to work on this new project. After having collected and controlled the first 16 issues of this new partwork I finally started . . 01 02 03 04 See you next time, cheers. Saluti, Jack. High Resolution Images: 01 http://i81.servimg.com/u/f81/12/86/14/83/p1090310.jpg 02 http://i81.servimg.com/u/f81/12/86/14/83/p1090313.jpg 03 http://i81.servimg.com/u/f81/12/86/14/83/p1090329.jpg 04 http://i81.servimg.com/u/f81/12/86/14/83/p1090334.jpg

The Twelve Apostles, Russian Imperial Ship of the line, 1841 In the first half of XIX century in the building slips of the Nikolaev imperial shipyards three 120-gun ships of the line were built: the sister ships of the line " Twelve Apostles ", "Paris" and " Great Prince Konstantin". The first two were built by the outstanding Russian master shipbuilder, captain S.I. Chernyavskiy, while the third by I.S. Dmitriev. The main commander of the Black Sea fleet, the admiral M.P.Lasarev, had an important role in defining the specs and also in designing of the ship which headed this class. The "Twelve Apostles" was launched on July 15, 1841 (Old style Dating). The length of the vessel was 208 ft 9 in, 59 ft 2 in and 25 ft 3 in. On its lower deck there were 28 powerful 68-pounds shell guns with range of shooting of flat Trajectory of 14 cable's length (about 2600 m), designed by the Russian artillerist-inventor Lekhner. On the other two gun decks there were 36-pdrs and 24-pdrs guns. In total there were 130 guns. The crew of this ship consisted of about 1000 men, among them there were 12 officers and 65 corporals. The classification as "120-gun ships" did not specify the real number of guns, and was meaning that the ship ranked as first rate. A strong ordnance, very good sea qualities, high maneuvrability, high speed (in a fair wind the ship was able to reach 12 knots); all these features qualifies the ships of this class between the limited group of the best ships of the line of the final sailing period. In spite of her great firepower, she was never given the opportunity to challeng the numerically superior Anglo-French forces during the Crimean war. Her guns were instead landed and employed against the allies during the siege of Sevastopol. The disarmed liner was first converted into a hospital ship and then scuttled to block the harbour entrance in 1855. Dvenadtsat' Apostolov (Twelve Apostles) class: 3 ships Dvenadtsat' Apostolov (Twelve Apostles), 120/130 guns, Nikolaev Imperial Shipyard Contructor: Chernyavskiy Laid down: 4.10.1838 Launched: 15.7.1841 Dimensions: 208 ft 9 in x 59 ft 2 in x 25 ft 3 in. 3190 tons bm, 4790 tons displacement Initial Armament: Lower deck: 28 x 68pdrs shell guns, 4 x 36 pdrs long guns Middle deck: 34 x 36pdrs short guns Upper deck: 34 x 36pdrs gunnades Forecastle + Quarterdeck: 24 x 24pdrs gunnades, 1 x 24pdrs carronade, 2 x 12pdrs carronades, 2 x 8pdrs carronades. 1853 Armament: Lower deck 28 x 68pdrs shell guns, 4 x 36pdrs long guns Middle deck: 34 x 36pdrs short guns Upper deck, 34 x 36pdrs gunnades Forecastle + Quarterdeck: 24 x 24pdrs gunnades Twelve Apostles sailes from Nikolaev to Sevastopol in 1842. Cruised in the Black Sea in 1842, Assisted in the transportation of 13th Division from Sevastopol to Odessa and back in 1843. Cruised in the Black Sea in 1843-7 and 1849-50. Repaired in 1851-52. Transorted 1466 tropps from Sevastopol to Sukhum-Kale in 10.1853. Returned to Sevastopol road in 4.1854. All guns had been landed by 12.1854 and only 80 sailors were still aboard. Converted into a temporary hospital 18.12.1854. Scuttled on 13.2.1855. Parizh, 120/130 guns, Nikolaev Imperial Shipyard Contructor: Chernyavskiy Laid down: 18.6.1847 Launched: 23.10.1849 Dimensions: 209 ft x 57 ft 10 in x 25 ft 3 in. 3190 tons bm, 4790 tons displacement Initial Armament: Lower deck: 28 x 68pdrs shell guns, 4 x 36 pdrs long guns Middle deck: 34 x 36pdrs short guns Upper deck: 34 x 36pdrs short guns Forecastle + Quarterdeck: 24 x 24pdrs gunnades, 2 x 24pdrs carronade, 2 x 12pdrs carronades, 2 x 12pdrs carronades, 2 x 8pdrs carronades. 1853 Armament: Lower deck 28 x 68pdrs shell guns, 4 x 36pdrs long guns Middle deck: 34 x 36pdrs short guns Upper deck, 34 x 36pdrs gunnades Forecastle + Quarterdeck: 24 x 24pdrs gunnades Name commemorates the entry of russian troops into Paris in 1815. Sailed from Nikolaev to Sevastopol in 1850. Cruised in the Black Sea in 1851-53. Transported 1483 troops from Sevastopol to Sukhum-kale in 10.1853. Joined Vice Admiral Nakhimov's squadron as the flagship of rear admiral Novosilskiy on 16.11.1853. Fought to Sinop on 18.11.1853 where she fired 3952 rounds, took 16 hits and suffered casualties of 1 killed and 16 wounded. Stationed at Sevastopol Roads in 4.1.1854. Reduced to 82 guns and 214 sailors by 1855. Scuttled at Sevastopol on 28.8.1855. Wreckage blown up in 1857-9 and metal salvaged. Velikii Kniaz' Konstantin (Great Prince Konstantin), 120/130 guns, Nikolaev Imperial Shipyard Contructor: Dmitrov Laid down: 7.5.1850 Launched: 29.9.1852 Dimensions: 209 ft x 59 ft 6 in x 25 ft 3 in. 3190 tons bm, 4790 tons displacement Initial Armament: Lower deck: 32 x 68pdrs shell guns Middle deck: 34 x 36pdrs short guns Upper deck: 34 x 36pdrs gunnades Forecastle + Quarterdeck: 24 x 24pdrs gunnades, 2 x 24pdrs carronades, 2 x 12pdrs carronades, 2 x 8pdrs carronades. 1853 Armament: Lower deck 28 x 68pdrs shell guns, 4 x 36pdrs long guns Middle deck: 34 x 36pdrs short guns Upper deck, 34 x 36pdrs gunnades Forecastle + Quarterdeck: 24 x 24pdrs gunnades Named after the elder brother of Nicholas I who abdicated in favour of Nicholas on the death of Alexander I. Sailed from Nikolaev to Sevastopol 7.1853. Transported 1437 troops from Sevastopol to Sukhum-kale in 10.1853. On 16.11.1853, she joined Vice Admiral Nakchimov squadron. Fought at Sinop on 18.11.1853 where she fired 2466 rounds, received 30 hits and had casualties of 8 killed and 26 wounded. Stationed in the Sevastopol Roads 12.1853. By 1855, she had been reduced to 90 guns and 337 sailors. Scuttled at Sevastopol on 28.8.1855. The book listed below this message is the main source of these tecnical and historical data about the Twelve Apostols ship of the line class. The Twelve Apostles model: Scale: 1:100 Length: 111.2cm, Height: 75cm, Width: 45cm Artesania Latina manufacture/design, parts are made in China, edited by De Agostini. In Italy there is a new partwork started this year by De Agostini. It is the "Twelve Apostols", a Russian ship of the line. It is a weekly publication started in January 2013 and the whole collection will consist of 120 issues. This partwork was also launched in the same period of time in Russia. The Twelve Apostles model is unique and currently no other kit of this ship on the market. It features laser-cut framework, plank-on-frame construction, stitched sail set, metal ornamentation, wooden masts & spars, assorted rigging threads and an assortment of armament. Unfortunately the plans for this ship no longer exist, therefore its design is based on a model in the Sevastopol Museum, made by a famous russian shipmodeler. In addition interpretation of contemporary sources, such as paintings and drawings. And finally here is an interesting book on Russian ships in the age of sail: Russian warships in the age of sail 1696 - 1860: Design, Construction and Fates - John Tredrea & Eduard Sozaev. Peter the Great created a navy from nothing, but it challenged and soon surpassed Sweden as the Baltic naval power, while in the Black Sea it became an essential tool in driving back the Ottoman Turks from the heartland of Europe. In battle it was surprisingly successful, and at times in the eighteenth century was the third largest navy in the world - yet its history, and especially its ships, are virtually unrecorded in the West. This major reference book handsomely fills this gap, with a complete and comprehensive list of the fleet, with technical detail and career highlights for every ship, down to small craft. However, because the subject is so little recorded in English, the book also provides substantial background material on the organisation and administration of the navy, its weapons, personnel and shipbuilding facilities, as well as an outline of Russia's naval campaigns down to the clash with Britain and France known as the Crimean War. The book is Illustrated with plans, paintings and prints rarely seen outside Russia, it is authoritative, reliable and comprehensive.

Feast of the Assumption - August 15th, 2011 The "True Shipmodelers" work also in the mid-august holiday, so I decided to work . . first as caretaker for my mother-in-law to substitute the true caretaker that is now in holiday (for 1 month and 1/2 . . .) but, since my workshop is in the same house, I can continue with the cross section. I worked to mount the shrouds above the main top, The deadeyes are here smaller than at hull level (3mm instead of 5mm) and this made the work a little bit more difficult. 01 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1070745.jpg 02 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1070748.jpg 03 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1070749.jpg 04 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1070750.jpg 05 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1070751.jpg

Thuesday May 3rd, 2012 Here are the new elements I prepared in these last days: the oars for the first boat and a kind of boarding ladder that is positioned in number of two in the front side of the forecastle. Regarding this last element the instructions where for me unsatisfactory so I decided to use a different method. Boarding ladders: here below are shown the instructions suppplied. As i said this method, given the small size of these elements, makes things very difficult to achieve the goal to have all of them equal and correcly positioned. I used an alternate way that I show here. --- Full Size: http://i46.servimg.com/u/f46/12/86/14/83/090-re10.jpg First of all I made a special strip of wood made by the union of two different strips (4 x 1 and 2 x 2) glued together. Later I prepared a small table of veneer (mahogany), then I cut 10 steps (obtained previously) and I fixed them on the veneer all at the same distance. The day after, by using the table saw I cut a couple of ladders of the right width (8mm) and the boarding ladders were ready to be fixed in the proper place . . another way to use the table saw and another experience: I surely will use the same method when I will have to build the "true" boarding ladders on the two sides of the ship. 01 P1080171.jpg Oars: the raw materials are toothpicks, some strips of beechywood (0,5mm depth) properly shaped and paper. The oars are painted with the same colours of its boat. The total number of these oars should be 10 but I didn't build all of them: I made only four . . too much work . . 02 P1080174.jpg 03 P1080175.jpg Cheers, Jack.Aubrey.

Monday April 30th, 2012 Hare some really "visible" news about one of the ship boat . . these news required some time to be achieved mainly due to the long time intervals waiting for the paint to dry. I added the rudder, the tiller and also some false pintles and gudgeons. I have then mounted the oarlocks and now I'm trying to build the oars . . I'm using for them some components taken directly from the kitchen . . Cheers, Jack. 01 P1080155R.jpg 02 P1080159R.jpg 03 P1080161R.jpg

Saturday August 13th, 2011 - these are better . . Yesterday, in the afternoon I resumed the work on the cross section, in particular I definitely rigged the deadeyes. This time the result is surely better, they all have the same length. Power of experience . . but a highly important contribute to this overall result comes surely from the new ropes I used: they are light years far from the same ropes supplied with the kit. See you next time, Jack.Aubrey 01 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1070739.jpg 02 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1070740.jpg 03 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1070741.jpg 04 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1070744.jpg

Thursday August 11th, 2011 - Rigging: a new start After the big set of mistakes I made in the first attempt I restarted from the beginning with the shrouds and the deadeyes. This time I've done better. First of all now they have the same length . . The deadeyes are now painted in black before to mount them and refined after, where necessary (the images are after this refinement). I have used some spacers made up with steel wire to keep all at the same distance. It seems the trick was ok. I spent a afternoon to achieve this goal, it is not a big result in term of productivity but it is satisfactory for me, after the first failure. 01 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1070735.jpg 02 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1070736R.jpg 03 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1070738R.jpg Kind regards, Jack.Aubrey

Thursday April 26th, 2012 I continue to post images of the work done for the ship boats . . here I introduce you the large boat with more details applied that some time ago. I don't think it is worth to comment the images. There are still many details to finish. such as the rudder, oars, etc. and after some painting in selected areas. Then some reels of rope, a couple of buckets or casks and the boat should be considered complete. 01 P1080151.jpg 02 P1080152.jpg 03 P1080153.jpg 04 P1080154.jpg

Saturday April 21st, 2012 I spent these days emptying the inside of the boat, more in detail only the visible area, not the complete shell. This tasks may seem complex but in the reality it was quite simple, thanks also to the soft wood used for the boat skeleton. To remove the wood I used the Proxxon minidrill with the tool shown here below : RulloAbrasivo.jpg and the following for the final cleanup : Mole.jpg Then I fixed the false frames, obtained from strips of mahogany veneer, and the bottom, from chestnut veneer. The result can be seen in the next images. Cheers, Jack.Aubrey 01 P1080144R.jpg 02 P1080145R.jpg 03 P1080147R.jpg

The museum of the shipmodeler's mistakes continues . . Here follow three images of the main top area, more in detail the shrouds immediately below it. Looking at these three photos, where only the right side is completed, it may seem OK . . but this was the status as I left it the last evening, ready to be completed also on the left side the day after. 01 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1070731.jpg 02 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1070726.jpg 03 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1070725.jpg And what happened the day after ? The result can be seen in the remaining two images. In practice the two sides are not symmetrical and the reason of this is a long ... long story. This happened because I forgot my spectacles at home. Instead of driving to home to take them I decided to proceed without them . . . but . . . I forgot the fact that my left eye was operated some years ago for a detached retina and that operation left me a quite strong astigmatism. This astigmatism makes a strange visual effect: if I look at a A4 sheet of paper I don't see a rectangle but a rhombus. Obviously the probles is corrected by the spectacles. To conclude shortly, the result of this visual error can be seen here below, and this mistake was the classical straw that broke the camel's back and I easily decided to redo everything . . 04 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1070733.jpg 05 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1070732.jpg A last info: I finished the wood working on the display case, levigated and painted as I wrote in my last message. Cheers, Jack.

Tuesday August 9th, 2011 - the horrors fair . . While the work around the display case is progressing, and now I have reached a good point of completion in terms of woodworking, I resumed the model and I started to work on the rigging. Let's come back to the display case, just to complete this topic. Tomorrow I will refine the wood with sandpaper and then I will apply some painting, first of all with wood filler and later with transparent, matt paint. In particular for the background wall I have found a self adhesive paper thar reproduces a rough wall, I think it is nice to see and probably I will try it. It is white coloured and shuld put in evidence the rigging very well. And now let's speak about the bad news . . As i wrote I started to work on the rigging and in the following images you can see how I realized the deadeyes and the shrouds. In a further message I will show the rigging near the main top. The result is very bad. I have to highlight that I had not any kind of (recent) experience in this type of tasks because the last time I made this kind of work dated back to 40 years . . I used the famous book from mr. Petersson "Rigging Period Ship Models" as reference, reproducing the same knots: a huge work and a powerful nervous breakdown vehicle . . . but with very poor results. I think that the images here following are self explicating. The first thing that emerges is that they are completely unequal, in spite of my efforts; then the rope used is of bad quality, too much hairy; the brown rope is better; and finally the attempt to remove the hairs by passing over the ropes a coat of diluted vinyl glue failed totally. To conclude: a true disaster. In the next messages I will show the area of the main top and there the situation is even worst . . So, after a short rethinking, I decided to restart from the beginning in a more methodic way. Tomorrow I wil visit a model shop to look for new deadeyes and, more important, to buy new ropes to use in place of the same distributed with the kit. See you next message with another horror show . . Jack. 01 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1070724.jpg 02 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1070727.jpg 03 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1070730.jpg 04 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1070729.jpg

My last message was added in this forum/topic on April 30th, 2013. It is more/less a week I don't post anything and the reason is that I returned at home (I usually live near Milan) after five months spent away, in Tuscany. April 13th, 2012 I take this opportunity to show some new images of the hull, after the treatment with oil for wood. Note that a kind of disappointment comes from the fact that the colour of the beechwood (Wales) and the chestnut (2nd planking), after the coats of oil, is very similar, and this was not what I expected !! I'm seriously thinking to paint the wales in black (or another dark colour) . . also if I foresee some difficult problems with this unplanned painting. 01 P1080124.jpg 02 P1080125.jpg 03 P1080126.jpg 04 P1080127.jpg 05 P1080128.jpg Thursday April 19th, 2012 During these days I have mounted the rudder to the sternpost. It may seem a simple task but it is not exactly true. To finish this work I spent a complete afternoon . . Another work done was the planking of the ship boats. Each boat has now three layers of planks. I have also fixed the boat's keel. The next step is to detach the boats from their building base to allow working inside the hull. Friday April 20th, 2012 I selected first the long boat to work on the internal side of the hull. First of all I refined the external planking with sandpaper and then I detached the boat from the building basement. Here below two images of the external sides with the planking completed. 01 P1080136R.jpg 02 P1080137R.jpg Here, on the other hand, you can see the internal side of the boat. Now I have to start the task to empty the inside to obtain a clear shell made up by the three layers of veneer. 03 P1080138R.jpg 04 P1080139R.jpg

Monday August 8th, 2011 As soon as the glue was dry I did not resist: I have placed the case vertically and tryed to see the cross section inside: a matter of minutes and here are a couple of images to see a first preview of the whole . . 01 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1070722.jpg 02 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1070723.jpg Now I have to decide how to finish the background panel; three options: oil for wood but the whole becomes too dark . . a lighter colour, such as white, ivory, light blue . . fabric or a nautical maps . . A few ideas to think about before sleeping. Cheers, Jack.

April 12th, 2012 The long boat is now ready for the third planking while the smaller is ready for the second planking 01 P1080132.jpg I made a little error with the second planking of the long boat that I will correct with the third planking. But this will not happen for the smaller . . power of experience . . 02 P1080135.jpg In the next image I show the pintles and gudgeons applied to the rudder. 03 P1080131.jpg I have also taken some photos to the overall hull, where I applied some coats of oil. May be in the images it is difficult to understand the difference, but in the real world the difference is great . . specially over the mahogany. Image 04 shows the hull after the oil, while the 05 shows how it was just after sanding and before applying the oil. 04 P1080123.jpg 05 P1080031R.jpg Kind regards. Jack.

Sunday August 7th, 2011 - Always about display case The work for the display case is progressing. Now the base and the roof are fixed to the background panel. Later I applied the two 15x30mm pieces with the main function to strengthen the structure and to provide support for the plexiglass. The next images show the whole case still under pressure 01 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1070718.jpg 02 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1070719.jpg In this third image it is possible to see the base with the supports for the hull installed: the central groove where the keel will stay and the two lateral supports to keep the model in vertical position. 03 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1070720.jpg 04 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1070721.jpg When the glue will be totally dry I will apply also some screws to provide additional strength . . See you next time, Jack.Aubrey

Saturday August 6th, 2011 - again, the display case . . The finishing of the base and the roof of the display case is now terminated. I have applied a coat of oil for wood and now I leave it to dry. And I believe it is possible to see that the color of the wood has now its final appearance. Here follow some new images of the base and the roof. At this stage of the build they are still equal, later the base will change a little to install the elements that will keep inside the hull. 01 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1070710.jpg 02 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1070713.jpg 03 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1070714.jpg 04 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1070716.jpg See you next time, cheers, Jack.

Wednesday April 11th, 2012 Again , also in these last ten days I was not much productive, or better, I made some important activities, but not too much visible and I can't show only few things. In detail I: Smoothed definitely the hull, after the application of the second planking, with sandpaper of decreasing grain. With this task I obtained two goals: smoothing the hull and reveal everywhere the same color for a given wood. In fact the color of the wood, in particular for the chestnut, was greatly influenced by the daylight and in this way I made the wood color homogeneous on the whole hull. Applied a coat of oil for wood on the whole hull, having in this way the possibility to admire the final colour of this ship after months of work . . and keep it stable. Installed the pintles and gudgeons to the rudder; next step is to fix definitely the rudder to the stern. Applied the second planking for the ship boats; I achieved a good result on the large boat, while I have to start the smaller. Here a couple of photos of the long boat, still on the working basement. Cheers, Jack.Aubrey 01 P1080122.jpg 02 P1080121.jpg

Friday August 5th, 2011 - The vertical display case . . While the activities on the mast are progressing slowly, so slowly that there is no need to speak about them, I started to build the display case, based on a prototype from another modeler that inspired me some time ago. Honestly it is not the same, from an architectural point of view, but the idea is totally inherited from that prototype . . The raw materials are the following elements, cut from my plans in a wood wholesaler: ply wood with the external sides in mahogany, 15mm thickness, 2 pieces 450 x 130 mm; same as above but 8mm thickness, 2 pieces 460 x 135 mm; same 8mm. thinkness, 1 piece 960 x 460 mm; 2 strips of ramin 15 x 30mm, 1000mm length. First two items of the list will become the bottom and the roof of the case. They will be glued together in order to leave on three sides a ladder of 0,5mm. Next two images show these pieces assembled. 01 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1070704.jpg 02 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1070706.jpg Later I covered the thickness of the ply with some veneer . . 03 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1070703.jpg 04 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1070705.jpg In the next image one of the two elements completed . . 05 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1070708.jpg See you next time, kind regards, Jack.Aubrey

Friday March 30th, 2012 The last week was a little unproductive . . The spring is coming and the fact I do not receive new materials from De Agostini has "iced" me, so, all what I made is to start planking the two boats, and nothing else of interest. An interesting matter is that the two boats are exactly the same, one is only a little smaller. Infact the same defect I found on the larger is present also on the smaller and this probably means that the plans are the same, just a matter of a greater reduction of the scale. Again, after having assembled the structure, I proceeded following my own way: instead of using the supplied planks (3x1mm), I used my veneer. For the large boat I used planks of 2,5x0,5mm while for the smaller I used 2x0,5mm. My intention is to plank the hull three times and then remove the internal boat structure . . As probably I wrote some message ago, the veneer I'm using has a very thin sheet of fabric on one side, so the first planking was applied capsized, with the fabric outside. I think the reason of this is obvious: the visible side will be the one oriented inside . . Yesterday, in addition to the work done for the boats, I finished to prepare all the single elements for the installation of the guns . . at this point I can proceed with different options: continue with the ship boats or resume the ship guns . . Cheers, Jack. 01 P1080110.jpg 02 P1080111.jpg

First of all thanks to Gimo and Tom for their appreciations. I hope this log will continue to be of their interest and usefulness . . Friday March 23th, 2013 . . continuation . . I continue today the message I started two days ago . . I began the building of the ship's boats. I built a cuople of years ago two boats for another ship and I had the plan to reuse them, but I had to accept the fact that they were not of the proper size, one boat being too big and the other to small for this model. So I had to plan the building of two new boats: a not short and simple task ! I took into consideration a couple of methods, in fact there are several ways to build these boats, but at the end I took the decision to work around the material supplied by De Agostini. But this doesn't mean I will build these boats as described in the instructions, there are too many details made in a way that I cannot accept; some of them totally out of scale. But I can use the material provided for the initial structure of the boat, that is planned and made quite well. Anyway, before starting to use this material I made with a scanner a copy of the pre-cut keel and bulkheads to have, in case of failure of my project, the possibility to rebuild these pieces and restart . . a kind of backup . . I know this task can be quite long, and honestly I started it with the objective to mix this new activity with the others around the guns and the superstructures, this in order to differentiate the work and make it less boring. I'm also waiting for new materials from De Agostini, materials that arrived to me, by the mail service, in a very poor state that I requested a re-shipment to De Agostini. 01 P1080093.jpg 02 P1080094.jpg On the fronline of the superstructures I started and finished the construction of the two privy (I hope the term is correct). They will be installed at the prow in the future. 03 P1080100.jpg 04 P1080101.jpg Kind regards, Jack.Aubrey.

To integrate the previous message I attach here below some detailed images of the yards. These images were taken the same day of that message. The footropes of the yards will be correctly shaped soon. 01 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1070695.jpg 02 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1070696.jpg 03 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1070697.jpg 04 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1070698.jpg 05 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1070695.jpg Below: links to high resolution images . . (the last image shown above sistematically failed to upload so it is missing . . .) http://i46.servimg.com/u/f46/12/86/14/83/p1070610.jpg http://i46.servimg.com/u/f46/12/86/14/83/p1070611.jpg http://i46.servimg.com/u/f46/12/86/14/83/p1070612.jpg

Wednesday March 21st, 2012 - last updates . . Here follow some updates on the new superstructures of this week. Not too much but the wheels are still in movement . . Two images of the anchors, 98% finished. To complete I have to cover the ring with a drawstring, in accordance with the books describing these details. To fix the stock to the shank I used a bi-component epoxy glue, which assures a much stronger adherence that the cyan-acrilate. 01 P1080096.jpg 02 P1080097.jpg Two images of some superstructures red coloured and the two catheads. 03 P1080098.jpg 04 P1080099.jpg Kind regards, Jack.Aubrey

Thursday July 28th, 2011 - Yards It is nearly past two weeks from my previous message. I wrote very little things but I worked a lot for the masts and the yards. These tasks take a lot of time and patience and often you don't see big progresses. The two large yards, just layed above the main top: 01 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1070699.jpg The remaiing smaller yards layed above the hull, not 100% complete: 02 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1070700.jpg A couple of overall views where it's possible to see the topgallant mast, till now ever shown: 03 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1070701.jpg 04 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1070702.jpg A last thing: yesterday I have prepared the plans for the display case and in the next days I will buy the materials needed and probably I will start to build it. By doing this case, I believe I will enjoy a lot . . Kind regards, Jack.Aubrey http://i46.servimg.com/u/f46/12/86/14/83/p1070614.jpg http://i46.servimg.com/u/f46/12/86/14/83/p1070710.jpg http://i46.servimg.com/u/f46/12/86/14/83/p1070711.jpg http://i46.servimg.com/u/f46/12/86/14/83/p1070712.jpg