Piet

And here they are finished:
 

And here are the roofs of QG that were relatively complicated to create:
 

I finished roofs on Quarter Galleries and added a bay window (oriel window) on the stern. I use high quality card finished with black foils. The columns and upper parts of the hull (under railing)are wooden.
 

Hello dear friends,
thank you very much for your kind words and comments. I do appreciate them a lot.
I'm finally healthy so I can do my full job at Royal Katherine and enjoy it.
 
To BETAQDAVE: What a lovely parrot you have. My feathered assistants are not very interested in the ship, though one of them loves destroying wooden clothes pegs and cockatiel usually has a rest under the huge ship hull till finally falls asleep.
 
To montañes: Thank you for your praise, Amalio. In actual fact nothing is so difficult as it seems to be. I usually search the the easiest way, how to make various things..... For example here is a video ( I promised some time ago to record a short video, where I am shaping card using steam to achieve better results and perfect final performance):

To popeye the sailor: I suppose there will be a lot of other modifications during the work. I love sailing ships and after finishing Sovereign of the Seas I have finally found another gorgeous ship - Royal Katherine, which I consider to be equally beautiful. I would like to achieve best result and maximally realistic model appearance, as possible and depends also on my abilities of course.  Last week I have started with sculpting and decoration, that is my favourite part of work. 
 

hope you have a speedy recovery Doris....your making great progress in spite of it all      your modifications look great!

such amazing progress.........one can see that you enjoy sculpting      very beautiful work......the stern is a work of art!   I'm sure there's more to be added.

Doris,
Masterful,and very impressive. I might have missed it what is your sculpting medium- wood, clay or something else. The details are fantastic at that scale.

It was not until your video that I realized the size of the model. It is far larger than I imagined.
 
(and like all the others: I am still amazed by what you can make out of sculpting material. my own ability in that field ends with marble sized, almost round balls  )
 
Jan
 

Hi Doris
 
I’m very late to the party, but, Oh...My...Lord...I’m speechless!!!!
 
You, Doris, are not only a modeller, but you’re an artist and a magician, all rolled into one.
 
Simply amazing.
 
Cheers. 
 
Patrick

What a joy it is to follow your work Doris. The video showing how you artfully created such a complex shape with the most simple tools. You clearly demonstrate A great skill that can only come with a tremendous amount of practice. You do make it look so easy and we all know it is not.
 
Michael

Doris,
 
I'm quite new to this forum and the art of ship building. I just found your build log and read through every ones posts up to now. I am very interested in following along with your build as what I see so far is amazing. Keep up the good work.
 
CK

Sorry, Druxey, I just read your comment more carefully, in which you basically answered my question.  Thanks for that.

Is it fair to say that canvas would only be used on the roof, or upper/lower finishing, while the sides would still be light board or paneling?

Your comment on canvas is interesting, HH. It was often painted, sometimes to resemble green patinated copper. Usually the canvas was laid down over wood boards. A real life example is seen on the roof of Prince Frederick's barge in the Royal Museums Greenwich.

Hello Doris,
 
First if all, thank you very much for taking the time to make that video.  This was incredibly instructive and interesting in that you only need the small steam from a cup of tea to do this shaping of the card.  I was envisioning a boiling kettle, or something like that.  And the results are so perfect!
 
I am reading, now, Richard Endsor’s excellent book “The Warship Anne”.
 

In the book, Mr. Endsor makes mention of canvas purchased for the covering of the quarter galleries, during the construction of the ship.  This detail of the text made me wonder whether it was this flexible medium (canvas), that could more easily be stretched over the light framework of the QGs, thus creating these complicated, faceted shapes - maybe, at least, for the top upper finishing.  The canvas could then be sealed with paint, or some form of “black stuff” for water proofing.  I had always assumed that the “skin” of the QGs was made entirely of wood.  Anyway, not sure what to make of that, but an interesting possibility.  Perhaps you understand this more completely.
 
The other detail that is of particular interest to me, Doris, is your round-up of the stern - from the counter timber, up through the tafferal.  Let me preface the following observation by saying that this is not a criticism, but merely my desire to more fully understand what I am seeing as it relates to known period practice.
 
My observation is that the arc of round-up, in the hotizontal plane, is most pronounced at the stern counter, just above the stern post.  As your eye travels up, toward the tafferal, this arc APPEARS to flatten out a bit, yet it is still there.  I can see the upper arc of the stern, as it is reflected in the aft deckline of the poop.
 
What I can’t figure out is whether this arc actually diminishes, as the stern rises, or whether this is just an optical illusion created by the rising tumblehome of the ship sides cutting the arc on a continuous taper towards the centerline of the ship; in other words, as the ship’s sides rise, the segment of arc at any given point gets smaller and smaller, thus, perhaps, appearing flatter when, in reality, they are all arcs of the same curve.  How’s that for a run-on-and-on sentence?!
 
With all of the ornaments in place, I think that this apparent difference is not noticeable at all, really, but the bare architecture makes it more visible.  What you are doing, Doris, looks right to me, but I’m just trying to understand why so that I can re-create it on my model.

superb rigging Nils........do you normally use jogs to create the pulley assemblies?    I think it's ingenious........I can never seen to estimate how long to make one that will fit  

many thanks to you Keith and Dave,
for your nice comments, much appreciated...
 
Nils

Beautiful!   Very nice job.

Nicely done Nils- very neat.

small update :
 
this is the the tackle for hoisting (fall) and lowering the main lateen yard, it will be mounted on the aft side of the main mast. The holding lines coming from the yard will go through the two pulleys at the mast top. Active are 5 sheaves, so its quite a long running end to be coiled afterwards....
 
Nils

 
 

 

 
 

Thank you very much Piet and Michael,
for your kind comments...., much appreciated..
 
Piet,
yes, this way of rigging the shrouds was new to me...
 
Michael,
many thanks for looking in again, its been quite some time since I last heard from you
 
Thanks also to all the "likes"..
 
Nils

Nils just catching up.... wow what a lot of work you have achieved in 6 months. A great looking model it is.
 
Michael

Thanks everyone.   Still working away at the guns.  I'm setting the last 5 into the hull and rigging the breeching ropes now.   I'm hoping to start mass producting and installing the traversing ropes and hardware maybe on Sunday.   
 
We are an emotional bunch aren't we.   This has had it's issues but not like the first one.  I think after I made the decision, I didn't cry long.  
I'm using the Birchwood-Casey Brass Black.  It's a bit of a pain in that it takes 2 dips and wiping down after each when dry.   I have a zillion (so it seems) eyebolts waiting for blackening which I'll use Jax Pewter Black for.   I kind of miss the old Blacken-it but I want to see how the Jax works.

Just caught up with your build log Mark.  Really nice job!  I love the colors.  Cannons are looking great too, what did you use to blacken them?