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Hello, thank you Druxey, I would say the same but did't know it exactly. Paul, thank you for your kind words. You all may be right with the yellow book. But in those days, the books where not old. But I agree that the color is a little too yellow. Regards, Siggi -
Hello Druxey, thank you for your detailed answer. Even when the books had leather covers, these covers where also often colored. But they had also covers of paper and cloth. I think for the cheaper novels or notebooks. So with the mizzen mast I have nothing more to make and also with the partners. I make them level with the deck. But with the standards and cross beams I have a problem to understand it. If you look at models from before 1760 and after, there are no belaying pins. The model of the Bellona is from around 1780 and has also no pins. So should I build them or not? The standards and cross beam are in the plan of interior listed. Regards, Siggi
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Hello, so, the last pictures of the quarter deck without deck beams. I build some books, bottles and glasses. May be the captain is discussing with a guest something and spend a glas of Port or Madera during that. The next thing would be the poop deck. Here I have a question. When I get Brian Lavery right, then the ships before 1800 did't have iron hopes around the masts. Only woldings and only on made masts. Was the mizzen mast a made mast? I read there different things. Lavery drew woldings above the poop deck, but iron hopes also below that. Should I build woldings and when, where? Next question. Should I build also partners of the mast at the poop deck. At the contemporary models you see often nothing or just a turned ring, like this from the Bellona. Goodwin wrote that it was a more common practice, that the partners where higher then the deck beams, but also higher then the deck, what you could see at the Victory. At the quarter deck I build it so. So what is right? And when I see the last picture, a last question. Did't they have belaying pins in the cross beams? I know no model that have them. Or is that only a short cut? Regards, Siggi
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THE 74-GUN SHIP by Jeronimo
Siggi52 replied to Jeronimo's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1751 - 1800
Hi Karl, thats a lot. But the result shows us, you are on the right way. So I have to work a little faster. Tomorrow I will start with the poop deck. After 4 years of building you will one time only get ready and I hope it's soon. The end of the flagpole is in sight. So happy building, Siggi -
THE 74-GUN SHIP by Jeronimo
Siggi52 replied to Jeronimo's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1751 - 1800
Super! If you hold your pace, your are earlier ready then I Did you work around the clock? Regards, Siggi -
Mark, did't you have a cannon behind the couch? Ok, I have only two Brown Bess's, but for the start Monty, it's your idea, so why not try to build one. (1:48) The tobacco box please with the Minden scene, if I have a wish free. Regards, Siggi
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Hello, the furniture for the great cabin is now ready. First a desk and a sofa. And here is all finished and painted. The next days I will make some smaller things, like books, glasses and bottles. I would't make lanterns for these cabins, because I think that the servants of the captain will bring them in when it is necessary. Regards, Siggi
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Hello Sam, thank you for your questions. I think the captain would't clean anything, he had his servants for such things. To play music or anything els, he had his great cabin, with a balcony! The work at the shipyard delayed a litte, because I have bought a Black Forrest clock and have there some things to fix. So don't worry, I will be back soon. Regards, Siggi
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Hello Joe, food was prepared in the pantry, downstairs. But I would't show it here. May be in his cabin some wine glasses. Regards, Siggi
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THE 74-GUN SHIP by Jeronimo
Siggi52 replied to Jeronimo's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1751 - 1800
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Hello, a last update to the lobby. I spend the captain a slant lid desk for his own use. So he could sit here, write his letters or doing his homework and look out of the window if his men are busy. I think then would be this room ready. Or did I forget something? One last picture of a chair I took yesterday. Before starting with building them, I was't sure to get them so accurate. But when at work it was't so bad. Except that they are sooo small (but nano technology is the future) it was not very complicated. Only the battens between the legs where complicated, because I did't make holes in the legs and gluing the wires to the round surfaces was very frustrating. But at last it went all fine. So, please stop the men with the white jackets. Regards, Siggi
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Hello, today I turned over the first chairs for the lobby. The other chairs are for his privat cabin. When the Dragon was launched, March 4th 1760 the young Georg was the Prince of Wales and his grandpa Georg II King. This is the picture of his inauguration as the new British King Georg III, Oct. 25th 1760. I don't know if he lost his title Prince of Wales and the patron of this ship, because he was't married at this time and had no children. But the captain got a copy of this picture and hang it in the lobby. He was here the representative of the King. David, the rum can come. We loan drinking glasses from the ward room Regards, Siggi
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Hello, it is done These battens cost me years of my life, but I'm glad that you have forced me to do it. Then building the back supports was easy My black alder bends wonderful. The rest was routine When I saw this picture, I got the brush out again and painted the rest I did't. The color was still wet at that time. Regards, Siggi
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I will see what I can do in this case, now when the glue is fast. But first I need breakfast. Siggi
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I think yes, Michael. I would destroy more with that action then I would get from it and you would't hardly see them from above. Siggi
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Hello, thank you all for your kind words. Last week we had here beautiful sunny fall wether, so I'm mostly out in the garden and doing there this and that. But since yesterday we have again the normal November blues. I took the picture at 11:45 am today and we had only 3°C or 37°F! So I went in the underground again. But I had made the paperwork for the chairs already Mark. Today I started turning the legs. The bevel left and right from the beads I made with a file. and that is the output Next came the seats That was't so hard to do, but assembling the whole was not so easy. But I had help The glue was't really dry and the captain would have a look how they fit to the table. The seats are 9 mm high Tomorrow comes the hard part, making the back supports. I will see if I find wood that would bend easily, otherwise I make the whole out of copper wire. The battens between the legs, I think I skip. Regards, Siggi
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Hello, today I build the cup board. It was't so easy, but nothing against that what comes the next days, the chairs. Here you could see, that even for only six persons the room is not too large. I'm not really sure which kind of chairs I will build. Even the simplest chairs had a lot of turned parts in those times. Regards, Siggi P.s.: Sam, see it as a challenge to make it better then I
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Hello, so, the table for the lobby is ready and the captain tested how to place him in the cabin. Here he is already tortured to walnut. Rum, David if you spend a bottle, sure. Regards, Siggi
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Hello, with the chairs you must wait a little, Monty. Except you start building them, you have enough windsor chairs as samples This morning the captain told me that I forgot a mirror in his bed room So today I must build a mirror and now he is happy. At the second picture you could see the problems I had with the door to the masters day cabin. I had to move the cannon some distance away from the door and had great difficulties where to hang up the bed. Now, when the master is't too fat, he will get without problems into his cabin. For that reason I think they changed so often the design of this cabin. Regards, Siggi
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Hello, the captains sleeping cabin is now ready. Today I build the chest with drawer for his clothes and the washing table with the washbowl. Yesterday I finished the cod. This little pice was really tricky to build. Tomorrow I will start with the lobby. When I understand it right, was this room the dining room for the captain and his guests (normally one or two of his lieutenants) and also a conference room. I would build a table for six persons and chairs instead of benches. In one corner I would set a corner cupboard and that should be all. Did I anything forget, or should I build it in an other way? A large part of this cabin would't be build, because of the open space. Regards, Siggi
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Hello, Alan, I think we did't get any information about this is matter. And also when this anonymous captain in 1804 wrote about this and that, what he think should be standardize in the Navy, he did't wrote anything about this. I think, that should be in the responsibility of every captain himself. So I decided to do it as I wrote the post before. But that captain wrote about a chest with weapons that stands in front of the bulwark. That chest was filled with sea service muskets, pistols cutlasses and tomahawks. The sentry in front of the bulwark should wach also over that chest. It was used when a boot is going ashore in unsure country. Just to mention, in front of the ward room was also a sentry. So I think that the deck in front of the bulwark is ready, except the rail of the stairway I know me and build it better at last The next thing is the interior of the cabins And here some pictures of the rammers.... Have a nice weekend, Siggi
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Hello, now I have also the beams fastened and the last stanchion is set, and Mark, the binnacle is painted. But now comes the problem of this deck. Question for the experts and all who know something about this Where should I stow away the rammers, sponge and wad hook for the cannons? We have 7 cannons at every side of the quarter deck and 3 of them have no deck above them. So I could't store the side arms there. At the wall is not enough space between the cannons, see the picture. Later with the carronades, who where really shorter, they where stored there. I would do it this way. First I would make the rammer and the wad hook into one item and store them all between the deck beams in front of the bulwark. May be also with the side arms from the cannons of the cabins so that the captain has only the cannons in his cabins. The handspikes and smaller items are lying under the cannons and the buckets between them. The buckets from the cabins are stored in front of the bulwark. The match tubs I store at the upper gun deck also in front of the bulwark. (not visible) Because one gun crew operated the two cannons opposite each other, I think they need only one mach tub. I hope you could help me, many thanks in advance Siggi
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