Siggi52

Hello,

the wheels. They kept me busy this week, and other things like my garden. But now they are in the raw ready. I think I must not explain the pictures

 and then that  So, go back to start, and try again

This time I made the beads before I cut the rim loose. The shipwright is pleased.

In the foreground you see some of the spokes. They are from mammoth ivory. So, if you hear nothing from me the next weeks, I'm busy or I had thrown it all away. I hope not.

Hello Marc,

what I use to cut brass wires is a cutter for finger or toe nails. I grind one side thin, so that I could cut also small diameters. For soldering I use almost a soldering fluid. Then you needs only a small amount of tin on your soldering iron and it would flow evenly. If brass is to stubborn to bend, I would use copper wire. 

I never saw there a gangway. The only one left is the gangway from the QD to the entrance and then further to the FC. So it seems to be a mysterious!

Hello Chris,

no, I think not. It's the plan for the 1745 establishment and there the poop deck. At the QD are the cabins for the officers, and at the sheer plan is there nothing drawn. For the Tiger did't exist a plan for the poop deck. So at least I must not build there anything. 

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Today the carpenters build the grating over the lobby. All the beams are now fast, except the two in front of the bulwark.

One question, did anybody know what these encircled parts should be? But before I start with planking, I think I build the wheels.

Hello,

the last bulwark(?) between captains bed place and the lobby is installed. 

Before I install the deck beams I have to make a decision, where to place the cannons? All sources say, there where 8 6 pdrs at the QD and 2 6 pdrs at the FC. But I never saw a model with a cannons at the FC! At least there is not so much space for cannons.

That cannon to the left has the problem with the shrouds, and the cannon to the right with the hight of the fife rail.

At least I could place all cannons at the QD, without one in the captain cabin. That would make the captain happy. And that is what you see at most of the models. If no one has a veto, I think I build it so.

Hello,

my finger is so far useable again and so I finished today the bulwark.

Hello,

today only a short sign of life. The carpenters finished the bulwark and the painter painted it. But the windows have to wait a while, because of my damaged index finger. It't not soo serious, but without a complete fingernail I could't grab these small parts. 

Thank you Ian. Yes, there will be two cut outs. 

Thank you Keith

Thank you Chuck

Hello,

the carpenters finished the great cabin for the captain. It took some time, because the oil has to dry, some days of because of eastern and the good weather we had. But now it is raining again, so we are busy at the yard.

Here the carpenters have the first bulwark allready finished in the raw.

Hello, and many thanks for all the likes

because the vegetation here is 4 weeks in advance of normal years, my garden now needed much of my time. But today it rained and so I'm back at the shipyard.

The carpenters set in the deck beams and started with the paneling of the walls.

Hello Keith,

thank you, and that are brass pins. That where the smallest and most uniform I could get from Amazon

Hello,

today the carpenters finished the screen bulkhead  

Hello Flamborough,

thank you and to your question: no, this time not. 

Hello, and thank you for your comments and likes

today the carpenters repaired there mistakes from yesterday and finished the back side of the bulwark. Then they also build the doors. The shipwright is this time pleased and spend a beer. 😊

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we where busy here with the aft bulwark. That is the plan

and here the (third!) raw bulwark

Today we finished the outside of the bulwark

When I saw this picture, I think there is some work left for tommorow. Some of the plinths have to go.

Moin Matthias,

that looks all pretty good. I know pictures of this model, but did't realised that it is such a short part of the ship. I will follow your build with great interest. 

Hello,

during the week the carpenters have cut the beams and today they installed the clamps for the pop deck.

You may see, that there is not much headroom even in the great cabin. From the floor to the upper side of the beams it is 6ft 8in! At the beginning of the deck, 6ft 6in. And the beams are 5in high.

Hello,

because the weather changed here dramatically, it has not rained now for 4 days and the sun is shining , I'm not so busy at the shipyard. Since November it is raining here with only some dry days between and may be 2 or 3 days with sunshine. Since Christmas it stormed every week, sometimes also twice a week and now for 14 days we had no storm. They said, this winter we had 22% more rain and it was 5°C warmer then the years before! 

But at the shipyard the carpenters where busy and finished the quick-work. 

Hello,

that was a week of drawing. But at least I will build the cabins after the standard drawing. If it was really so, I don't know

May be I make the bed place a little narrower. But here I can store the cannon in the cabin.

This is the version they used at the Medway. The difference is, at the Medway the cabins are going until right behind the mast. So they are a little broader, but there is at least no space left for the cannon. 

They had this cabins for the master and someone else, but I think that the master must look in this case for a place in the lobby for his maps and octant. When the 1.Lt. and the master had this deck, there are these extra cabins. Below the drawing for the 1745 establishment.

The carpenters where also busy and build the spirketting for this deck.

Hello JJ,

it is always amazing to see, what one can construct on a computer.

Hello, and many thanks for your likes and comments

Ian, I would be lucky if there where no sanding or glue marks  But at least, now the last are gone

Marc, with the symmetry it's such a thing. Because I had no real experience with this way to build a model, I chose a too thin plywood. So the starboard side is some millimetres broader then the port side of the ship. But you would't notice it without a ruler.  

Here a picture with all 12 pounders in place, but now not permanently. Notice also my efforts to make the walls of the QD symmetrical. 

As long as the oil has to dry, I'm looking how to set up the cabins. At the sheer plan the first bulwark begins 1m behind the wheels. At the floor plan directly behind them. That may also be a mistake in the sheer plan, or there where some cabins like at the model of the Centurion? The wheels here are behind the mizzen mast. And is there a cabin for at least the master? I looked at the pictures of models and plans from that period. They are all different. Even from plan to model  I prefer the way they did it at the Medway. That correspondent with the way they did it at the 60 gunner model I saw at Chatham. And I think that it will work, when the bed place for the captain is at least 2 m broad. 

Hello,

it is done. The QD is ready planked and has got its first oiling.