Siggi52

Hello,

the first planks are fastened! It was not so easy, but I got it.

Hello,

thank you all for your likes and comments. 

Druxey, I'm too looking forward and I hope that that what I will do, works. I never before build such a small boat and then in this technic    But with the help of you all, I think I will be successful. 

Till now I made some measurements for the planks and have waxed the block. Tomorrow I have to brew some stout for the men at the shipyard, but then I will really start working. 

Hello,

first I would start this project the next fall, but things come often in an other way as you expect.

During the building of the Dragon I often had a look at the model of the Victory from 1765. This model has such a beautiful barge on board, that I decided to build one when I'm ready with my Dragon. A plan was easily found and now I'm building.

This is a barge with 10 oars and I think it will by right for a captain of a 74 gunner. I will build this barge in the same way Druxey has build his Greenwich barge. I will not explain so much, because of my english and hope that the pictures explain enough.

Here I have painted the block white, so that I could see later better the pencil lines for the planking. The wood is Castello box wood. For the planks I have cut 0,5 and 0,8 mm strips.

Hello Mike,

for me it looks like the aft magazine. But what was really build? The description of the floor plans at the NMM says:

So I think, that the dotted lines are those after the reconstruction of the ship in England at your plan.

When I'm right then are the full lines the construction in the hold and the dotted lines these of the orlop deck at this plan.

So what would you build, the american or english version? An other question is, because you would build a beautiful model and not a realistic model you should leaf it out. Most admiralty models started the interior with the gun deck, so that you could see through the frames.

You have build a really beautiful model, congratulation

I hope I could help,

Siggi

Hello Dafi,

did you mean this drum? This is the plan of the Bellona/ Dragon. 

Royal George

Bellona

Bellona framed

Thunderer or as I would say Dragon

That are all pictures I have. I hope I could help.

Regards,

Siggi

Mike,

may be you have seen it already, I upload an album with my pictures of the Royal George in the gallery of contemporary models.

Regards,

Siggi

It seems so. That book is from 1804. I don't know if the flogging captain is not only a propaganda from the enemies.

If you reads „The Wooden World" from N.A.M. Rodger then you would believe that. He writes over the Navi during the seven years war. That must have been a time, when a captain took care of his men. Only a well treated seamen will fight well for his country. That is a very interesting book to read. He must have lived for several years in the archives of the navy!

regards,

Siggi

May be you are right, but I think they emptied the glasses and stored them when a storm comes up. I would do that 

But the really interesting thing is the stove in the background. This unknown captain, I earlier mentioned, wrote in his booklet:

Even in wintertime, when the doc says it is necessary, they lighten the stoves, so that the men did't get a cold. In better weather they set every morning windsails to ventilate the lower decks.

Regards,

Siggi

Hello again,

a friend send me this picture of the now new restored Victory. Maybe they have seen my blog? 

This is my lobby 

Regards,

Siggi

Hello Hendrik,

I found your blog today and must say, wonderful! 

Regards,

Siggi

There is another barge at the NMM where you could see this board that supported the footwaling.

Regards,

Siggi

Hello again,

I googled a little and found these pictures of prince Frederick's barge

https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2015/01/7527.jpg

https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2015/01/7531.jpg

Regards,

Siggi

Hello Druxey,

why did't you build the footwaling to the sides of the barge and make notches for the frames? 

Regards,

Siggi

It looks great Druxey. When I think that I would build something similar next winter, I start shivering. 

Regards,

Siggi

Thank you for your nice words.

David, such a model I would't build again. That was tooo much and unfortunately I do not like the earlier ships. It's a question of taste. But I have seen the Vasa, I think it was in 68 or 69. At that stage the conservators where busy with her, but I think I must visit her again in the next future.

Regards,

Siggi

Thank you Robin. I don't know who is responsible for withdrawing a blog? If it's me, you could look through it till eternity 

I have send you a letter to the Black Dog Studio, so have a look next week for it.

Regards,

Siggi

Hello,

many thanks for your nice words and comments about my work.

Now day two after the ship is ready, I did't know really what to do. I sorted a little my shop, stored the machines, cleaned here and there the workbenches, but I missed the work! I have nothing to do   

That where four years of searching, working and so on. Sleepless nights, when my brain started the day at two a clock with thinking over this or that, now I miss it. But I hope, after some times it will go away and life went on normal. May be next winter I start with the captains bark.

Regards,

Siggi

Thank you Robin.

Here now some pictures with the ship at his final place and with lights on 

In reality the light is not so bright, that comes at the pictures because I had the shutter of the camera open from 1-4 sec. But it's bright enough that you could see most parts inside (also the rest of the dust )

Regards,

Siggi

Hello,

now it is done, the ship is in his case.

The only thing that is left, is to connect the LED's in front of the ship with the switch and the battery. 

Regards,

Siggi

Carl, don't wait to long starting such a project, or you would't see it finished 

Regards,

Siggi

Thank you all for your complements and nice words.

At the moment I'm still busy with the display and then I have a lot of vacation from the shipyard. All the Saturday's and Sunday's I have  worked during the last years 

Thanks for that link Carl, that is still another way to build these small boats. But what he builds is really terrifying. 

Mark, your Bellona is super and all what you have to learn is, to build things without machines by hand. All other things I think you know already. I made so manny mistakes, things I did't know and so on. The list is long, but I learned also during the build. Some things from the start I would do now in a different way, but it's ok. So please don't give up.

Regards,

Siggi

So here they are. I'm very interested how that goes on, it's new to me to build a ship this way.

Regards,
Siggi

Looks great Druxey, are you interested in some picture of Prince Frederic's barge? 

Regards,

Siggi

Hello,

thank you so much for your complements. At the moment I'm working at the show case and that could take a little time.

Yesterday was the great clean up. I had the great advantage that the ship is open to the front, but how did you doe that with a complete ship? There was a lot of dust at all decks 

I don't really know what comes next at the shipyard. I thought that I would build the captains barge next winter, but before I start I have to spy at druxey's blog how to do it 

Regards,

Siggi

Thank you, thank you, thank you 

now also the cranes are ready and with them the ship   I have the ship ready, I can't believe it. After four years of building! 

To say something more about the cranes. The only information about them I found in Goodwin's: Construction and fitting...at page 211. Here he says, that the cranes where introduced for all in 1746 and where covered with a tarred canvas screen. After 1770 where the nettings introduced. So no in my time.

Building models with a water surface I did before. The first was the Cutty Sark from Revell, I build in 1984.

and a second, the Alert after a plan from Lisci I build in 1989. That was my last ( but not first scratch build) model I build.

Regards,

Siggi