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    To give a bit more of a feeling for where this is, here's a larger scale map. And why the name? "The town is built on the site of the second landing in Australia by James Cook and the crew of the bark HMS Endeavour in May 1770 (and their first landing in what is now the state of Queensland)." (Wikipedia) "The community of Seventeen Seventy hold the re-enactment of this historic landing each year as part of the 1770 Festival held in May." And the climate: Steven
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    Latest bits and pieces. More seats - there are 4 configurations - 5 if you count mirror-imaged seats on port and starboard sides, but only 3 configurations for the uprights. Most have 2 uprights and are 1.03 metres wide. Here they are all completed. One has 2 uprights and is 1.5 metres wide, and two have 3 uprights each. So I had to make 2 more jigs for the different ones. I have yet to add the 'feet'. Then the structures have to be painted red. Painting the black section of the hull. No 'bleeding' this time, fortunately. The bottom is left as-is - it will be screwed and glued to a flat rectangular stand. And the planked decking of the 'verandah' sanded smooth, ready to attach to the hull. Steven
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    Looking very good, Peter! You've done the right thing in making your own ratlines and I'm sure they'll look a lot better than the ones provided in the kit. Nice jig, by the way. Steven
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    Yep, just a bit of scrap plywood and a narrow length of balsa which conveniently had right-angled sides. Glued together with PVA (white) glue. Doesn't have to look good - just has to do the job. Steven
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    Continuing the paintwork on the hull. Taking the masking off - there were a few spots where the red bled through into the blue, but they were easy to repair. Next is to paint the rest of the hull black. And I made a jig for the seats to keep the parts square and properly located. Here is the main seat structure within the jig. And here is the seat structure removed from the jig. It should save a lot of fiddle and swearing. I'll still need to add "feet" to the uprights - maybe I'll need another jig - then that will complete the parts of the seat to be painted red. Steven
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    Then that would be described as paly (in heraldry a vertical band is called a pale - same word as paling, palisade, and even pilaster). Steven
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    So beautiful! Steven
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    Like this - or this? - You're quite right - these shield devices are quite early - dating back to very early in the development of what we now call heraldry, where the shield device told you who was carrying the shield - and 1190 sounds about right. The first is called bendy [i.e. has diagonal lines - bends - with the top on the left] or [gold/yellow] and gules [red]; the second is the same, but as the top is on the right it's called bendy sinister. The reason for the apparent mirror image in the description is that the the device is read not from the viewpoint of the viewer but that of the person carrying the shield. So the right hand side for the viewer is his left (sinister). Very interesting. What's the family name? Steven
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    I have a few reservations about the configuration of the ship as reconstructed - a little too low for its length compared with the (often extremely well-observed) contemprary representations of ships of this period, but that aside, it's a very nice video. Enjoy. Steven PS: A couple of other (fairly minor) criticisms - if they stored the barrels that way without tying them down they'd roll her over in the first bit of bad weather. And the 'pilot boat' that met her at Bristol would have been square-rigged, not lateen. Told you I was picky.
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    Beautiful work! Steven
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    A bit of progress. Hulls, decks and awnings for the 1:50 models. And on the 1:25 model I've finished planking the 'verandah' area (now it needs to be sanded) and I've masked and painted the blue and red stripes on the lower hull. The first coat of red was very thin, so I had to do a second coat. I still have to do the black for the bottom. Paddle wheel covers done and painted. Steven
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    Well, it's taken a while, and I only have two photos to show for it, but I've finally put on all the robands so all three lateens are now attached to their yards and have been given a bit of 'belly' to show the effect of the wind. Steven
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    Hi Peter. Looking forward to seeing your progress. Steven
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    Um . . . where I come from we call those things scones. A biscuit is something like this - but I believe our American cousins call these cookies . . . Steven PS: Add my vote to see a build log for your Norden. I haven't visited North Yorkshire, but I did get to York. Amazing place. Loved it.
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    You're doing a beautiful job already. I've a long history as a mediaeval (Viking period) re-enactor, and if you want to pick my brain about details of things like the rig of ships, size and thickness of shields and their decoration, cargo, and anything else that I might be able to help with, feel free to ask. Steven
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    Superb work, Patrick! Steven
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    Oh, and regarding the overlap in the yard - I agonised over that for quite a while. Though there are certainly some examples with greater overlap, I based it on the majority of contemporary illustrations and several modern photos. Steven
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    Thanks everyone for the likes. Ian; again I think you'd have to look at contemporary pics to work out whether to make your yard in two pieces. The first consideration would be - how long was the yard? Lateen yards, because they are on a diagonal, are longer than square yards. Could your galley's yard be made from a single tree? Were trees available tall and thin enough? The second consideration - did contemporary artists accurately depict the yard, or just portray it as a single piece because they were (a) lazy or (b) ignorant? Here are some contemporary pics of Roman ships under sail. I'm afraid you'll have to draw your own conclusions. Villa of the Augustinian era. Palazzo Massimo Museo Nazionale Romano Mosaic in Qasr, Libya c. 540 C.E. Yard indeterminate Single yard Roman mosaic of Odysseus, 2nd century CE, displayed at the Bardo Museum in Tunisia. - single yard. Fragment of the mosaic showing the Roman galley, 2nd century CE. Single yard. And note the nice awning. Two Ancient Roman mosaics from the Villa del Casale, Sicily. Single yard. Third question - lot of the time they are shown under oars with the mast lowered- do you even need to show her under sail? Steven
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    Deck fixtures and fittings for the big one. I'm putting more work into the detail for this one because it'll be on permanent public display. And here are the full sized ones . . . Steven
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    Working on the bolt ropes and robands. (Took me 4 tries before I could cancel spell-correct. Roland's, ribands, you name it . . .) Mizzen complete and sail curved to indicate the wind. Seems to have worked. And now to do the same for the middle and fore mast sails. Steven
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    Wonderful work, as usual, Pat. Steven
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    Glad you liked the Pompeii pics. Naturally, go with the awning you want to have. You don't have to make it hard on yourself. I'm interested in seeing how you solve the problem of making it, but I'm sure you'll succeed. Italy is an amazing place, chockablock with history. I've only been to Torino (Turin) and Rome, but even with just those two I was blown away. But make sure you include Venice in your itinerary, and spend time in San Marco (Saint Mark's) basilica. Apart from anything else, the mosaics are out of this world! (My wife's been there - I am so jealous!) Steven PS: I'd love a good picture of this mosaic, but unfortunately they don't allow photography.
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    I've just been looking for contemporary representations of these awnings - they're a bit few and far between - most are modern interpretations. But Trajan's column has this: and these And these frescoes are from Pompeii: Not quadriremes admittedly, but certainly war galleys. And though other forms of awning are perhaps not unknown, these arched ones seem very common. I agree that if you want to use the awning as a "handle" you need something fairly robust. I suppose it depends how robust you want it. I've had success with the technique I showed above, but it probably isn't strong enough for your purposes. Perhaps turn a hollow cylinder on a lathe and then cut it lengthwise to act as the arched part. Or use a hollow metal or plastic cylinder the same way. Adding the vertical sides so the top doesn't pull away from them as you lift might be a problem. But certainly, something solid with a fake fabric top looks to be the way to go. And perhaps a bentwood fake framework (as shown on the pictures above) as well. Again, I've had success bending wood in quite tight arcs - see post #217 at Hope this helps, Steven
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    Do you have a picture of how you want it to look? You might like to have a look at how I did the one on my dromon - and the following page, as well as She's looking very good. Steven
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    Yes, anchors of the time had to be made in pieces by hand and hand-forged together by a blacksmith. They weren't terribly big at this time (as evidenced by anchors found in archaeology from the period) and a ship would have had to carry quite a large number (such as the 11th century Serce Limani wreck, which had 8 of them). The picture in post #414 above shows two anchors each side - one at the bow and one at the quarter, and I'd be very surprised if they didn't have more than that. Regarding the sliding stock, I'll have to think about that a bit. My interpretation of the mosaic picture is that as the stock is shown (unlike in the pictures in post #414) it was more likely to be a permanent stock at right angles to the arms. Steven

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