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Siggi52

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  1. Thank you Amalio and hello to all, also thank you all for your likes. Today only a small update. I started planking. Around the riding bits it was really a challenge, but at least I got it. If you see there some irregularities in front or behind the hatches, that is sawdust. So don't worry.
  2. Thank you Doris, the same I can say of your work.
  3. Thank you Druxey, then I could make it even with the deck. At the plan for the 1745 establishment they have two scuttles, one larger so as you describe and one as for the ladys hole to the left.
  4. Hello, for the internal works, I managed to get the old team from the Dragon again to work. And I think they did a good job. With the hatchway to the bread room I have a problem. How was it made? All other hatchways have a rim, so that water would't run in, but not this one. See also the original plan. Was it closed with solid lid, or a grating? At least the whole ship with its masts. In the foreground are laying the planks for the gun deck.
  5. Hello, thank you Nils for your kind words and all others for there likes, they are very appreciated. Today only a small update, I build the gratings for the hatches. After such a long time I build them the last time, I had to think a lot how to do it. But at least I got it.
  6. Hello, because we have here the best weather since years, I haven't been much in the basement at work, but more in the garden or at the house. I did a lot of painting and dirt finishing the last weeks. So the ship has now a vintage look. Yesterday I started to remove the old false gun deck and build a new one from 0,8 mm plywood. That looks now much better. I thought that I would first build the gun deck mostly ready, before I start to build the outer surface of the ship. So that I would't damage so much there when diving into the ship. Interesting in this case is, that the ships plan and the plan of the gun deck are not fit in all parts together. So I stay with the ships plan.
  7. Hello Karl, this is really a peace of art, wonderful. Nils, yes you are right.
  8. Hello, thank you all for your kind words and likes. During the paint on my ship is drying, I went to Hamburg and visiting the „Maritimes Museum Hamburg“. There I saw something all of you with the problem, where to store all these models, would be interested. Next we build all smaller models. These are may be 3-5 cm long! Or if there is space enough, a diorama. This one is from Helgoland in the 19. century. The ships are not really larger then the one before.
  9. Hello Karl, today I had been after a longer time again at the „Maritimes Museum Hamburg“ and there I found something you might be interested in. May be when you are ready with your Chebece and want to build the whole ship. This one is build from ivory! So, if your way cross that of an elephant, ask him for a teeth or two
  10. Hello Hubac's Historian, it is't so bad, but you see different shades in the color. But even when you diluted the color, in the corners the color build up piles. So you have to stop it someone. I will let the ship now dry for a week and see then what to do next. I think, when I'm ready with the antic finish ore aging it a little, you would't see it no more. At least, I think that the original ships where not so clean painted then our models today.
  11. Hello Steve, you could ask questions and I should answer them with my poor english Ok, it was a 1,5 cm broad mink hair brush. Hopefully that this is the right term for it. But I made several layers, I think 4, of diluted paint. But even then you could see different shades. Especially in the yellow areas. That would be a real challenge above the wales with all the gun ports and riggols.
  12. Hello Hubac'sHistorian, yes it's acrylic paint and hand brushed. But I don't think it's phenomenal.
  13. Hello, after I had to do some other things then shipbuilding, here now an update. I painted the under water ship. Before I go on and build the upper part of the outside ship ready, I must build in the gun deck and made the inner walls smooth. But then the slots for the over head stand will get lost. So I painted it now. In the first picture I made the water line horizontal.
  14. Hello and many thanks Guy, John and Hubac'sHistorian for your nice comments. Guy, it's Balsa wood between the bulkheads glued in with wood glue.
  15. Thank you Nils, if you like to have a look at the real model, I think you did't live so far away from my place, you are welcome.
  16. Hello Doris, Carl and Amalio and many thanks for your comments and all others for there likes. That encourages my efforts to build this model even better.
  17. Hello, today I finished the lower counter. The only thing left here, is to cut the mortise for the gun port lid into the rail.
  18. Hello Aviaamator, at the rudder the pins where soldered just into the 90° bent of the arms and for the brace I bent a short piece of brass to an U and soldered it to the arms. Then I bored a hole, slightly larger then the pin, in it and ready. I hope that this was a help for you, even with my not so good english
  19. Hello Johann, thank you for the complement and all others for there likes. Yes the holes are drilled in on the model and then I glued the copper bolts in with CA glue and filed them flush.
  20. Hello, thank you Nils and Karl for your friendly words and all others for your likes. Now the rudder is mostly ready. Next task is to plank the lower counter
  21. Hello Karl, super workmanship, bravo. What material did you take for the ropes?
  22. Hello, today I finished the rudder and the next days I will build the braces to connect it to the ship.
  23. Good morning, thank you Dave and Druxey for your efforts and all other for your likes. I also have no picture from an admiralty model with these plates and Goodwin did't say anything about the time they where build. So I'm not wrong for building these plates not.
  24. One question I forget, did anyone know when the fish and horseshoe plates where introduced? Did I have to build them (1747) ? I did't find anything about the time it was introduced.
  25. Hello again, and thank you for your likes and comments. Hubac, now and then you see it in this forum. Also my Dragon has these staples. After sanding the whole forenoon, I think the lower hull is ready now. I should have started with the first drop plank at the 1. diminishing strake. But later you are always smarter The next thing to do is, I think the ruder. Then I know how large the opening in the lower counter must really be. But because here the spring came from one day to the other, I think my garden needs my attention first. The week before Easter we had two snowstorms with each 10 cm snow here. More north they had over 50 cm! One of my oaks lost a big branch then, and the experts will come Friday to cut it out. But also for me is enow left.
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