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  1. I have installed the midway planks. Just behind the main mast, the lines of the haleyard of the main yard run through the planks. To place the holes in the midway planks correctly, I mounted a preliminary main mast and attached the lines of the haleyard to it. I also installed most of the lines later needed for handling the yards (tackles etc.). I thought it would be difficult to attach them when masts and shrouds are added. The lines were pulled through bee wax (to get a slight stiffness) and carefully flamed (to remove the “hairs”). Next step will be preparing the masts.DSC07353.thumb.JPG.a6e736cd48c4c086b6ff9b835989fb5c.JPGDSC07354.thumb.JPG.b4b1c40804875b2cd9181e6b205e4e93.JPG

     

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  2. 8 hours ago, fmodajr said:

    Hello,

    Small update.

    Slow, but steady progress!

     

    There are 11 swivel guns to be installed. Six on the starboard side and five on the port side.

    The mounts (posts) for the swivel guns are made.

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    One of the swivel gun posts installed.

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    5 of the posts shown here. On the port side, where the cooking station will be, a swivel gun is omitted, thus 5 on the port side.

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    In between all the railing posts and gun posts, there are 1mm x 2mm filler trim pieces installed.

     

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    Work has begun on the davits for the launch boat.

    I will be modifying the davits to look a little bit more like those shown on the wonderful "La Fleur de Lis" plan by Gerard Delacroix.

    Photos to follow soon.

     

    Thanks for checking in!

    Frank

     


     

    Frank,

    glad you are prooceeding. I am not sure if you are running into the same problem as I did. Are you aware that there should be enough space between the swivel guns and the lower railing?

    Clark

  3. After mounting the swivel guns, I adapted the spars later necessary to support the stern drape (I still hesitate whether to put on the drape or not, it will cover a lot). The cross bar was made out of a tapered 3mm spar. I used my old   “lathe” made out of a drill machine on one side and a ball bearing on the other side. Opening of the ball bearing was minimized by a small spar.  It is not very sophisticated but I have used it very often before to taper masts and yards. It worked.  Tapered bar was glued on a carved support put on the arch construction.

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  4. 21 minutes ago, Bob Cleek said:

     

    With the caveat that I've never done this, I'll suggest that the Cricut (pronounced "cricket") home vinyl cutting machine is designed to solve the problem of small scale lettering transfers for modeling purposes. My daughter has one and loves it. It seems to be "a girl thing" as their marketing is directed to crafty "soccer moms," and I haven't seen the Cricut system mentioned in this forum at all as yet. I does seem to be becoming quite popular and the results it produces are excellent. While there is a plethora of "clip art" images for use with the machine, one can also generate their own with any computer graphics program or word processing font. I'd be interested to know if any modelers are using it and how they like it.

     

     

     

     

     

    Just browsed through the offers. There are some remarks that the cuts are not very precise. I would also be interested in any answers. Is it possible to design and print ornaments on thin (~0.5mm) wooden planks?

  5. On 1/25/2021 at 10:54 PM, chris watton said:

    Thank you very much! Jim has done a superb job in putting them together. And to think, a year ago he hadn't touched any wooden kit for years!

    They do, they are my US distributors.

    Pinnace kit arrived yesterday (ordered 10 d ago). Looks perfect. Recommendation to all not only to those who like details.

    Clark

  6. 2 hours ago, fmodajr said:

    Hello Ogun,

    I hope all is well.

    Yes, I have the instructions and parts list. 

    Give me a day or so to clean it up. (I penciled thru all the parts that I have installed in the parts list and crossed out all the directions I have completed). I will erase my pencil markings and get the instructions to you.

    The instructions come in English, French, and what I believe is German. You want the English instructions correct?

     

    Thanks,

    Frank

     

    Hi Frank,

    I have sent the manual to Ogun already.

    Clark

  7. 11 hours ago, OGUN KUNT said:

    Gimo,

    Excellent Job.

    I need your help. I bought this model's plans. But i could not find Instruction Manual and Part List. If you have Instruction Manual and Part List can you share me? I do not want Model Plans. I need only Instruction Manual and Part List.

    Thanks

    Ogun

    May be I can help. Both is with me. Please send me a short note. However, manual description does not help a lot. Better to follow the blogs.

    Clark

  8. 10 hours ago, glbarlow said:

    I agree, but isn’t that what this thread was becoming. Either way, I’m good. 

    I did not want to start a discussion about Brexit. I only wanted to express my hope thant we can rely on you, Chris, in the near and distant future. Pinnace was ordered yesterday. I am eager to start.

    Clark

  9. Cooking box is now ready. I added some ash and wood remnants from our fireplace. Since I was also wondering how the soup may be distributed, I put a bucket rack aside. Furthermore, I could not imagine how soup and fire could be handled. Therfore,   I glued a walking plank on one side of the cooking box. A further question still bothers me: Are two pots with a diameter of ~60 cm really enough for ~500 hungry man working hard.

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    While the glued ash of the cooking box was drying, I started to think about the swivel guns and I have noticed that the supports I have already mounted were much to high for an adequate handling. Thus I started to dismount them and to shorten them. Fortunately, wood is very patient. Picture shows a supportDSC07266.thumb.JPG.1f44d1f91df393055c2e9ff3616e9391.JPG already shortened.

     

  10. 4 hours ago, maaaslo said:

    you might be still shipping to the continent Chris, but customs charges that your customers are going to be hit with are no scaremongering. they are a harsh reality. or as us remainers liked to call it: Project Reality. i hope you can still continue posting to the EU. some retailers have already said they wont be doing so. 

    it would be a loss to the modelling world if you went out of business due to the customers sending goods back. some retailers are already feeling the effects very bad.

    Thats what was also reported to me but I hope that this will not affect the interrelationsuip between the modellers like Pablo, Paul or Pov.

    Clark

  11. 38 minutes ago, chris watton said:

    I bought the plans from NMM and scaled the lines to the correct size to get profiles. I certainly wasn't going to change them.

     

    Full size, the 28 foot equates to 8534.4mm Divide this by 64 and you get 133.35mm. This is more or less the keel length of my 64th scale 28 foot cutter. Not sure where you're getting the 140mm from.

     

    I am still shipping to EU countries, seems to be a lot of scare mongering right now.

    Hi Chris,

    Thanks for the rapid anser. I took a wrong conversion factor foot into m.

    Again Thanks,

    Clark

  12. 23 hours ago, chris watton said:

    Two more almost ready...

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    Hi Chris,

     I noticed you are very busy. Thus, only a short question. Maybe a silly question, but is my calculation correct?: 28 feet = 9, 2 m /scale 1:64= 14 cm? I am asking because I would like to order one and hesitating about the correct size for my ship 1:64 scale. Moreover, there are a lot of reports in the German radio and TV declare that British products are very difficult or even impossible to deliver to the continent  not because of Corona but because of Brexit. I hope you are not affected.

    Clark

  13. 4 hours ago, glennard2523 said:

    Hi Rusty. I had noted the gun ports were painted red. I am planning to do the same. With regards to the rigging of the cannons, I think, due to the cannon assembly, it will probably limited to the breach rope and maybe the rear tackle train.

     

    Hi Glenn,

    Do you want to rig the cannons as beeing in figth or as beeing on trip? Picture below explains what I mean. Regarding the Duchess, cannons in fight might probably look better (onyl my opinion).

    Clark 

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  14. 7 minutes ago, fmodajr said:

    Nice touch with the use of different woods.

    You’re moving quickly!!

     

    Frank

     

    Thanks Frank,

    you are right. I spent a lot of time working on the ship during the last weeks. It relaxes me really. I am happy that  my 5 year old granddaughter stayed in your house  for some days and  even "helped" me in sanding, cutting and gluing. Im not so good in playing with dolls.

    Hope to find some news from your ship soon.

    Clark

  15. Hi Frank,

    glad you are back. It is a good idea to add rudder pendents. However I thought they were not in use such early. Below a photo from

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    How many of the ornaments are left? There a still some needed for decoration at the stern.

    Clark

     

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  16. 2 hours ago, fmodajr said:

    Hi Clark,

    Nice job on the Thole Pins.

    A couple of questions if you don't mind:

     

    1. What height did you set the thole pins to?

     

    2. As you know, the horizontal beam that the thole pin drills into has a long curve to it from the stern to the center. Did you place the thole Pins perpendicular to this beam or perpendicular to the water line?

    Thanks for the assistance,

    Frank

     

    Hi Frank,

    height of the pins was adjusted to 5mm. Oars including protective boards at the that point are 5mm x 3 mm (width x height).  Oar supports were cut to 7 mm. This there is 2 mm space left in both direktions. Hope it works when oars will be fixed.

    I placed the pins perpendicular to the waterline. To adjust the ship at the waterline, I took the distances from the corel plan showing that the stern yoke is 14 mm higher that the bow yoke. 14 mm is the number I reminder. I am not quite sure. To adjust the  pins perpendicularly I used the holder shown above (#77).

    Since we will probably not be allowed to visit our children, living a bit far away, during Xmas due to Lockdown, I will probably spend more time with Reale.

    Clark

     

     

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