Siggi52
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Hello, it is done, the windows are ready and build in. The lacquer at the acrylic glas may dry a little more and then I hope they look a little more even.
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Hello and many thanks for your comments and likes Håkan, splicing is't wich work. I did it in real life many times before and here it is only a little smaller 😉 Today I tried one rope at the model, they are too short and too thin ☹️ So I have the chance for two other splices. The two window are out now and the new ones more or les ready. They have to dry properly, and then I will give them a thin coat of clear lacquer. So that the glas would't look too plain. I worked this time a little more accurate and it looked much better. I made the windows for the Dragon from mica. So I know, it is not easy to work with it. But it is clear and plain. And I know also glas from the 18th century. It's not so plain like the glas today, but it is not blind. From looking trough it, you could get sea sick. I think, the mica at the contemporary models are also coated with glue ore lacquer and over the last 200 years it is getting blind and wavy. This is the 60 gunner 1:60 I saw in Chatham. And that at that scale! So tomorrow more about windows, I hope.
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Hello and thank you for your likes, during the paint at the billboard dried, I made the ropes for the gun port lids. And because I had the ropewalk set up, I made also the ropes for the gammoning. Here I tried also same splices en miniature. The right one was the first, but the second is, I think ok. And here the first windows. The smaller ones I have to rebuild, because they separated when I tried to cut them to the right size. The larger one, for the captains gun port, did it well. The only thing is, that the glue made the acrylic glas blind. I don't really know what to do with them. I glued the wood to the acrylic glas with the glue for acrylic, but that solved also the paint from the frames ☹️
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Hello, the billboards are now also ready. It was't easy because they are twisted a little. The pictures with them ready where not sharp, so I delated them. The next things at my to do list are the windows at the quarter deck. 🤭 That means tiny carving, but one time I have to do it.
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Good morning, I must say, most of the billboards where parallel sided, but not all. The Yarmouth 1745 and the Royal Oak 1741 for example The whole lining is following a curve and I think I should do it also with the Tiger so. Because the channel is set back a little and I found no ship of this time with only at one side of the bolster a free space. The Tiger 1747 For a sailer to loot water depth is't there much space. It would be the most dangerous working place at the ship. The ruler is to scale in feet.
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I did't find pictures where there is room enough, that there could someone stand. At later ships, like the Bellona, yes. There is the bolster extrem long forward. But even at her sister ship, the Superb, it would't work. There is't enough headroom I would say. Here a picture from the Centurion. That part is there missing, but the notches in the channel indicate its place. And here the other 60 gunner from that period. I don't think that there anyone could stand. But at least, they are both parallel sided! The not so parallel sided one are from ships, where the channels are lower and yes some had also this bolster. When I build that part like version #3, then is there a space 4mm deep and 6 mm long. Means 192 X 28,8mm. That is't really convenient to stand. I sleep it over and will see tomorrow what I do.
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Thank you Druxey, that makes sense. I will look in my books again. For now I found within my pictures only ships with the channels low, and they did't have this bolster
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Hello and thank you for all your likes Today I finished the chain plates at the star board side. I see it every time at the pictures, but the underwater ship is't so dirty. That is mostly noise in the picture. The next thing would be, finishing the anchor lining. There I have 3 opportunities After Goodwin the upper part should be parallel lined, but I found also models where it is't so. I would let the lining end under the channel, not in front of it, and prefer the curve #2. At these older ships the channels where mostly set at the waist rail, later below it, and I would't brake that line. At the models you see it sometimes so, or so.
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Good morning Håkan, the cannons, also those for the gun deck, are ready. The beams for the upper gun deck are til now not all permanently installed. With the lightning and taking pictures I have no problems. I have LED lightning already in my shop. The only disadvantage with LED's is, that they did't have UV-A radiation. So the paint did't harden really good.
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Hello, it is done, the port side is ready! And I got a new toy, an LED ring lamp. She is good for working , and taking pictures through it. But that I think only at a short distance. You could dim in 10 stages and change the white temperature from cold, white to warm. And she is amazingly light.
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Hello and many thanks for your nice comments and likes. I'm overwhelmed 😮 I finished the fore mast port side and started with the main mast. And that are the bolts who hold the chain plates in place. But today wasn't my day. So I stoped working. There where a 0,8mm bold should fit, I tried a 1mm bold and for the 1mm bold I drilled 0,8mm holes! And all ready with CA saturated 😬
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Thank you Keith and also Jaager, the chain-Painter chain holds the anchors like in this picture. According to the 1719 list of establishment the chain should be 15 feet long. But I think, because the channels moved up, it could be at least shorter. But that I will see later.
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Hello, all the deadeyes and the first chainplates are installed. It takes so long, because the paint doesn't dry really good now. Here are all parts together And there some of them now I did install also the chain-painter chain. What a funny name! I hope it will fit later with the anchor And the whole ship. So for the next weeks I think, I'm busy to install the rest of them.
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Hello Marc, I use always „ZAP-A-GAB, Medium CA+“ and have good results with it. It fills open spaces and did't bond immediately.
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Hello, a short update When I'm building the first deadeyes, I had only the pictures from the Centurion in my head 😐 They build the straps filled with tin! Over night I was thinking about this and thought that this is't right. So the next morning I changed it. The „new“ deadeyes, above, look now much more correct. The one to the left are those for the fore mast, I build yesterday. Today I changed my strategy from soldering them, to glueing them. Here the first one for the mizzen mast. That is at least much easier 🙂
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Hello, today I finished the first deadeyes, or put them straps on. After clearing how to do it and wich dimensions and which material, it worked really fine. I forged the strap around the deadeyes flat, because the had a broad groove. These are 9 mm deadeyes, I got from Poland. Others I have from the US, and Canada. So they are really international. The copper wire is 1 mm in diameter. And here the first test sitting So, if you did't hear the next time anything from me, I'm busy with the rest of them 🙂
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Hello and thank you all for your nice comments and likes, they are very appreciated today I installed the first parts to the fore and main channels. Don't ask me how there name is 😟 They are in the second row. Next, in the first row, the deadeyes are to be done.
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Hello, now this chapter is also finished. All channels are ready and installed. The next time the smith has to build in the deadeyes.
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Hello, today the carpenters finished the mizzen channels. The painter started to paint the ocker outlining and tomorrow he will do the rest, so that the carpenters could install the channels.
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Good morning, i'm overwhelmed about the nice comments, and thank you also for all the likes. The next things to do are the channels for the mizzen and the stools for the main mast stay's.
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Hello, now also the main channels are ready. Ok, the artist has some small repairs to paint 😉, but now he is ready
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