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  1. Louie da fly
    Beautiful work, Ekis. I especially like your wooden bretèches at the top of the wall. Steven
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    Nice work, Kris. It's a pleasure following this build. Steven
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    You've made a nice start, Tom. Steven
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    I know where you're coming from, David. It seems you always have to be thinking ten steps ahead if you want to avoid painting yourself into a corner. And we don't actually know the colour scheme of the real Batavia. What they have on the full-size reconstruction is based on educated guesswork. But what you're doing looks very good indeed. I assume the stern decoration you referred to was the coat of arms of Amsterdam? Steven
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    Good to see you back, Jo. I've been enjoying following your build. Steven
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    Got it, Druxey. Thanks. Though somehow I doubt I'll be able to get the planking as good as in the photo. Steven
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    That's what I'd thought. I looked it up in my trusty on-line Old to Modern English dictionary. It has an auxiliary (positive) meaning of "warrior" - but that's someone who does harm, after all. And it would be pronounced something like "shatha". Oh, and sorry for getting your name wrong. I must have been having a senior moment. Now, back to your regular programming. Steven
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    Oh, now I get it. Drop planks! I knew about them but just didn't make the connection. I thought Druxey meant to drop the thread by the thickness of a plank or two. Thanks, Mark. Steven
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    This will be an interesting build. Cogs dominated the shipping lanes in the 14th century, and northern european cogs had a dramatic effect on Mediterranean ship design and probably led to the evolution of the carrack. Several cog wrecks have been found, some in amazingly good condition, so the information on them is more reliable than for most mediaeval ships. Right up my alley. Steven
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    Beautiful work, Hellmuht. Soapstone (also known as steatite) is wonderful stuff. To my knowledge both the Vikings and the Byzantines used it for carving things. The Byzantine ikons are beautiful - the level of detail soapstone allows is amazing! This is an 11th century AD ikon of St George made of steatite, from Vatopedi Monastery, Mount Athos. The ikon itself (without the frame) is 15 x 9 cm (6" x 4"). You've done a beautiful job with your anchor. Did you manage that the first time without breaking anything? That's pretty delicate work, judging by that penny piece for comparison - unless of course you've got a gigantic penny! Steven PS: Your name above - is that Old English for a warrior?
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    Thanks, Druxey. I'll try that. If I drop a plank or two forrard, does that mean I should move all the threads down at the bow, and perhaps move the end of the lowest thread aft by another frame, or maybe just drop the top thread enough for (say) two strakes, and the middle one by one strake, to make it all fairly even? Steven
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    Thanks, Pat. I tried a thin sliver of bamboo as a batten and it seems to work quite well. Here's the new layout of the thread. I realised that to get a smooth line I had to add a "reverse curve" to the bottom of the aftermost few frames/bulkheads - which is what they do in the real world. When I first built the model I didn't think of these, and because I was doing my own dodgy planking, with multiple "strakes" carved into each (wide) plank, it wasn't an issue at the time. I kept that mindset when I was fixing the model up, and only now has it come back to bite me. I also checked the ebook Tudor Warship Mary Rose by Douglas McElvogue and of course it had the same "reverse curve" on many of the after frames, which confirmed that I had to do it. So, here they are under construction: And here they are trimmed to shape, with the threads in place on the port side (disregard the starboard threads - I haven't got to them yet). Looking at the photos, there are a couple of places that need a tiny bit of tweaking, but overall I'm fairly happy with it. Any comments, corrections, advice welcome. Steven
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    Magnificent work, Hellmuht. Very impressive - the glass buoys, the net and the grapnel all amazingly well done. And the vessel herself - what a beautiful build! Steven
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    Beautiful work, Sceatha. A lovely job. Steven
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    The arms will come later, Carl. They have to be individually made to fit the relationship between the level of the oarblade, the thole and the oarsman's hands. In the meantime, the oarsmen are (h)armless enough Steven
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    I've carved four of the new oarsmen pretty much to shape, ready for final smoothing off. Only twenty to go . . . And I've been working on the five I had to cut in half because the legs were wrong. To keep the two halves together, I had to drill a hole between them and glue in a wooden rod, which I then trimmed to length. Look away if you're at all sensitive . . . I took other photos, but you really don't want to see them . . . And here's one I prepared earlier.The two halves joined: A nice solid join between the two halves, and I was able to carve the lower half without worrying about them coming apart. Not too bad. Once all the finishing is done, you won't be able to tell them apart from the ones I carved from a single piece of wood. Steven
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    Thanks, Druxey. I had my doubts about those strakes at the bow. Your solution solves a problem for me - I hadn't thought of ending the lowest thread at bulkhead 2. I'm glad I got the forward end of the garboard right, but I may have a problem with spreading those strakes at the stern down onto the deadwood, because of issues with the thickness at the keel. I understand what you mean about the strakes coming to a point at the stern, and I certainly want to avoid that, but unless I make the strakes paper thin over the deadwood it'll be hard to pull off. I'll have to have a think about that and check other examples in build logs and tutorials, and see what can be done. I'll re-do the threads and re-post with those and a new outline for the garboard, if you'd be so kind as to review them once posted. Steven
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    I've bitten the bullet and set up the lines defining the below-waterline hull with black thread, following the David Antscherl tutorial. I'd appreciate feedback on whether the lines of the threads are correct. I've also done a mark-up showing where I think the garboard strake should begin and end. Any advice would be gratefully received. Steven
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    Beautiful work, Sceatha! I love watching speculative builds, the older the better! And you're doing a magnificent job of it. Steven
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    I just had a thought. Do a Google image search for the Atlantic Charter - it was signed by Rooseveldt and Churchill on board the Prince of Wales - lots of publicity photos from the time taken on board ship. You might get some nice detail photos from that. Oh, and there's video footage at and Steven
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    A worthwhile subject to build. I'm not sure whether you can get good pics of her for your detail work, but I just checked Google image search and Pinterest, and there are a reasonable number of photos. Might be worth checking out. Steven
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    Yes, it's not the bronze that would be likely to corrode, but the iron. Steven
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    You can say that again. Fortunately I was able to give her the broken one as a model, with an approximation of the required length to fit in the saw. No worries, as we say in Oz. Actually, not so. We've been working flat out together fixing up the garden - we've been building garden walls and paths. I only get to work on the model in the evening or when it's raining. Yesterday I wheelbarrowed a big pile of sand from the front driveway up the hill to its new storage area up the back. Today it's been raining heavily, so we get a break. You can see the results of our efforts in the "What Have You Done Today?" thread in "Shore Leave". Steven
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    Wouldn't there be electrochemical issues with the bronze tending to accelerate the rusting process in the iron? Steven
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    Oh frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!* (as Lewis Carroll wrote in the poem Jabberwocky) My lovely wife went to the hardware shop and bought me a packet of coping saw blades (to replace the one I'd broken, leaving me unable to saw anything.) So the production line is again in full swing. I've cut out the 24 oarsmen yet to be carved. At my rate of carving them - about one a day - it'll probably take at least a month to do them, but at last we're moving again. Steven * It took me years to find out that this was an in-joke. It is two of the declensions of the Greek adjective kalos = good, (καλού and καλη) which is among the first things you learn when you study Ancient Greek.

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