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False keel was attached to the stand, first picture shows the before first modification:
 

 
Second picture shows the after, as I cut the tail off. As I intend on building an engraved cover, that part had to get out of the way.
 

 
I waxed the false keel, then and started placing the bulkheads. They were glued and fixed to the block I made for 90° aligning. I took pictures only after they were already glued and I could verify they were rightly fixed.
 

 

 

 

 
As the ship seems too fragile at this point, I decided to place beams between the bulkeads to assure they wouldn´t bend while planking.
 

 
And that´s it for now. Hope to be posting more pictures soon. :D

So, I took some pictures from my latest efforts. Masts are rigged and waiting for sails. Main mast is a little bit too tensioned, as you can see. I don´t know if with sail on it will bring it to it´s rightful position or if I should release some tension before installing the sail - my fear is to let it go and have loose ropes on my model. Would be great to have some opinions in that.
 

 

 

 

 
There are some few additions beyond sails, as the eyes on front rails and the painting on stern (I´ll make it as the kit´s decal don´t fit in my ship).

Hi All
 
Ok this is a sad day for me as my girlfriend of 2 years + has just left me for a mahogany cabinet.
I don't know what I did to upset her, may be I pulled her ropes too tight or sanded her bottom to hard.
 
But the day did get better a new girl is in town.
 
ALL FINISHED.
 
Denis.

I don't know where else this should go but this seems to be the closest. I'm sure it will get moved if another forum is more appropriate.
 
I mostly build small scale and miniature ship models at sea in bottles. They seemed naked without sailors at work on deck and aloft. So I set out to find an easy way to make them until I came across Lloyd McCaffery's technique in his book "Ships in Miniature". I used his materials and technique to make these five figures at 1/96 scale.
 

 
They attracted some interest so I'm posting the information for others to use. Here's an article I put together from my build log for submission to the Database here and at ship bottling sites.
 
Modeling Scale Figures for Ships in Bottles.pdf
 
A little more information on the figures can be found in my Ogallala build log.

Good afternoon.  These two ports are used to pursue, just rearrange the gun from the nearest port.  Sincerely Cthutq

Hola amigos:
 
Well, now I'm in the process of making the sails. First I had to learn how to use sewing machine from my wife, as well as learning to sew by hand to place the bolt rope that go around the sails.  
 
The BB kit has all the sails printed in one sheet of fabric, so the first step was to cut the different pieces, then to sew the hem around the borders and sew several lines along the sails to simulate the the different pieces that form it.  At last I sew the bolt ropes that go around the sails.
 
I must to point out that to make the bolt lines it was necessary to search for a suitable thread in fabric stores: size (1.2 - 1.5 mm diameter), material (cotton or polyester) and color (beige or light brown), not an easy task.   Finally I only find a white nylon thread with the correct size.  After doing several tries I accomplished an acceptable finish using a mix of white glue, water and the same acrylic paint I used to paint the plastic figures in the ship. In the pictures you can see some sails with the bolt ropes already sewn and some without them.
 

 
Saludos, Karl
 
PD: Thanks for all the likes
 
 

Hola Frank:
 
As I promised you here are the pictures and dimensions of the sails.  Take in account that the measures do NOT considered the hem, so you need to add around 0.5 cm by each side.
 

 
Saludos, Karl

Now the Royal Caroline is safe in the showroom among my other ships:
 

 
Best regards
Doris
 

Hello, dear friends!
Thank you very much for your kind words and support. I appreciate all your comments a lot. I have to apologize you, I am writing so late, but I have a lot of problems mainly at work and also many duties, so I did not visit internet almost at all and unfortunately have no time for building models.
I am searching for a new and better job, so it is quite difficult time now for me, cause there are a lot of unemployed people in our country.
I believe, things will go better next months and it will be possible to continue with modelling in winter. I am going to share my work with you and looking forward to continuing.
 
Have a great time and take care
Doris
 
Here are some of last pics from the process, I have made in august.
 

The pins are hand made.
 
 

Thanks, Yves and Nils for your comments, I have greatly appreciated your feedback. I also have to show a second model of this brick/brig class, coming soon . .
 
As promised, some overall views of the hull . .
 
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And last but not least the prow completed with the filler blocks, although not yet sanded.
Next step i'll attack the poop. Hoping in a good result.
Greetings, Jack.
 
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amazing, the stern looks amazing, actually the whole boat does. Can`t wait to know what the new project will be.

Well, here we are. After too much work and almost no time for ship modeling, I´m back for masting and rigging, at least to begin rigging. Still haven´t fixed the hole over the cabin as my soldering iron is missing and every single time I think to buy a new one, I forget to do it as my head is always in my work - hope I can forget the work justs a little bit on the next 2 or 3 days .
 
I´ve made some daylight model shooting with her today, here are the pictures:
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The arrow is to show a little breaking on my windlass as I was rigging the first blocks. As the bars are wood, not the metal cast which the kit supplied, they are a lot more fragile. I´ll fix it after rigging the foremast completely.
 

 

 

 
That´s it for now. I´ll be working on her next 2 days and begin a new project, soon to be brought to you. :D

Thanks for the info Tom. Now I can sleep peacefully ^^

Hello my friends
 
just a little update from the past few days. I just build up the deck furniture (?) like the different bits, chimney, gratings, stairs etc...
 
Now as I learned a method to "carve" the bollards I am quite satisfied with the result. I use a triangle file and not longer a knife. I am sure you guys just laugh about my "discovery" - but I found out this by myself... almost a little bit proud *blush* :D
 
The last three pics are somehow experimental as I love to play with photos/photography. Perhaps they look a bit strange... hope you dont mind
 
I am on tour with my Caroline for almost five months now (approx 250 hrs minimum)
 
Cheerio, cu - and as always: Comments are welcome as I want to get better...
 
Max
 
 
 

Thanks for the info Tom. Now I can sleep peacefully ^^

At last… some “quality time” to spend on the ST.
 
The next stage will be the ships boats.
After going through the instructions and the parts included, I realized that my ambitions for this build are now at a much higher level than the manufacturer "OcCre".
 
So I decided to use some of the parts, but only for creating a template.
The very first thing I “modified” was the keel and the stern.
I cut out 25 pcs of 2mm gaps for the bulk heads.
 

 
And assembled (according to the instructions) the false keel & bulkheads on the provided “stand”.
I filled up the gaps in between the bulkheads with “balsa wood” and sanded the whole thing into shape and covered it with clear tape to prevent any glue sticking to the template.
 

 
As for the bulkheads..
My intentions where to use 2x2mm mahogany strips and "bend" these completly around the template using water/steam.
But I really had problems during this shaping process, they just snapped no matter what and how carefully I tried..
 
I had to give up this idea and ended up in trying out all the different sorts of wood I had available.
I found out that “oak” seems to be the perfect "bending wood", this wood (2x1,3mm) I could bend in almost every shape I needed without snapping.  
 

 
I started out with using clamps (and wood strips) to keep everything in place during the drying process of the bulkheads.
I found it a very frustrating and clumsy experience..
 

 

 
 
First during the planking phase I realized that I could have used “needles” to fix everything in place by pushing them completely into the soft balsawood.
.. lesson learned..
 

 
I’m still busy with planking the ships boat with (1x2,3mm) mahogany strips, and hopefully I can show the end result soon..
 

 

Greetings All, Thank you every one for dropping by, Leaving a comment advice or a like.
 
With Ref to V2.0 of my copper plating, I have done a lot better job and achieved the look looking for, even in V1.0 well to a point. Except for to curve on the bow I rather wanted the Nailed look to continue round but was unable to due to the curvature, But I have slept on it came back to it and like it so im not going to even try to attempt to change it.
 
 I started my center line on the center of the door catch, ( thought i made sense ) very thing else just fell into place,
 
So far on V2.0 I'm on 21.5 hours, (not that i timing it)
 
Well I have the rest of today to lay one or to copper plates.  Oh Btw, I have noticed that a few plates are thicker than others until i found there are two or three stuck together.

Hi all...
 
Just a view pics from today. I did the boat holder resp gang-board. On the plans it Looks quite confused, but it really works and the result is great - as I think.
 
Thats all for the Moment
 
Cheerio
 
Max

@schnu
 
Thx a lot... the metal bar is a left-over piece from the big box on every modelers desk Dont know what it was actually...
 
m.

That sure is a lot of knots, can`t wait to see her with sails

The door under the stairs looks great, what is the metal bar on picture 5 for, was is to steer the rudder?

Hello all
 
time for another little update. The pics show some Details, as I went on the way to more constructions on the deck and the rudder. Long time ago I planked the ruddeer as I dont want to Keep it in the delivered way. Just some varnish is not enough as I wanted to see some structure or texture of the Wood. So I used the strips of Wood for the second planking. Now I know what a thinkness of 1 mm can do ... as I used a strip on every side of the rudder it made 2mm - and that made the hinges NOT fit. Ok, I carved the planks and mounted the hinges. I think it looks quite ok... The gratings and the skylight (translator ??) were done without problems.
 
I hope you like the pics and - as always - dont hesitate to tell me your opinion and to give me hints when you see errrors.
 
CU
 
Cheerio
 
Max
 

 
 

Hey friends:
 
I had several days without showing progress in my Vasa, which does not mean I was not very busy working on the rigging.  
 
So, at last I finished the more than 1,000 knots that were needed to fixed the ratlines to the shrouds !!
 
Probably this ratlines could be a little thinner and darker but I used the material that came with the kit.
 

 
Now I will begin with another challenge: doing and sewing the sails in order to fix them to the corresponding yards.
 
Saludos, Karl
 
 
 

Hello to you all...
 
It's tiume for a Little update and some more pics to show the progress.  The work goes on... time after time a new part gets on its place and give an Impression how the entire ship could look some far away day. I go most strictly along the plan, just chancing the order of the steps a Little bit. But this is not important as Long as the order gives any sense to the work.
 
After all the brass decorations -I colored the brass with a semi-gloss gold-enamel, after that I used some black dust to accent the molding - I started to build all the constructions on the deck. First are the two staircases. Well I needed three attempts until I can say - it is ok now. The chain plates (???? not sure for the Translation) that will fix the deadeyes do NOT fit anyway. I decided to buy some other ones, eps some that match to the ones Mr Mondfeld recommends. I ordered them and wait for them almost every day.
 
Thats it for the Moment, as always pls dont hesitate to tell if you see something wrong. All comments are welcome as I want to learn more and more. Still it is just my second ship...
 
Best wishes to all
 
Cheerio
 
Max
 

 
 
 
 

Hola, Raymond!
 
   Thank u for your words. I love the stairs, too. Took some pictures from the ship and the hold.
 
Next four pics show the hold with and without the ship.

 

 

 

 
Next 3 pictures shows the ships ladder attached to the port davit amidships closely and a bird´s view from top mast.