Louie da fly
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Louie da fly got a reaction from End Of The Line in Henry Grace a Dieu (Great Harry) by Louie da fly - FINISHED - Scale 1:200 - Repaired after over 50 yrs of neglect
I've stained the hull below the waterline, using a mix of black and dark tan boot polish. Worked quite well.
This is how it was before - just too light in colour:
and finished the breechings on the cannons - a bit of a problem with glue spread everywhere - I'll have to remove the surplus.
And working on the knight and the capstan for the main halyard. The capstan needs the rest of the cleats put on it before it's complete. It's based on the one from the Lomellina wreck of 1516 - nearest we have to the right time and place. I have an e-book which purports to show the Mary Rose capstan, but as far as I'm aware it was never recovered, so the e-book one must be based on speculation, so it's no more reliable than my own.
And here's the knight dry fitted. I won't glue it in place until after I've threaded the lanyards through it. Otherwise I'm just making my life difficult.
Steven
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Louie da fly got a reaction from firdajan in Henry Grace a Dieu (Great Harry) by Louie da fly - FINISHED - Scale 1:200 - Repaired after over 50 yrs of neglect
I've stained the hull below the waterline, using a mix of black and dark tan boot polish. Worked quite well.
This is how it was before - just too light in colour:
and finished the breechings on the cannons - a bit of a problem with glue spread everywhere - I'll have to remove the surplus.
And working on the knight and the capstan for the main halyard. The capstan needs the rest of the cleats put on it before it's complete. It's based on the one from the Lomellina wreck of 1516 - nearest we have to the right time and place. I have an e-book which purports to show the Mary Rose capstan, but as far as I'm aware it was never recovered, so the e-book one must be based on speculation, so it's no more reliable than my own.
And here's the knight dry fitted. I won't glue it in place until after I've threaded the lanyards through it. Otherwise I'm just making my life difficult.
Steven
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Louie da fly got a reaction from mtaylor in Die Kogge Von Bremen by kentyler
Now for the fun part . . .
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Louie da fly got a reaction from J11 in Medieval longship by bolin - FINISHED - 1:30 - based on reconstruction Helga Holm
That's beautiful work, Bolin. Your patient work is really paying off!
Steven
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Louie da fly reacted to kentyler in Die Kogge Von Bremen by kentyler
here we are, ready to go
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Louie da fly got a reaction from Canute in Wütender Hund by Chuck Seiler - Shipyard - 1/72 - Hanseatic Cog 1390 - CARD
Me too, I'm afraid.
Steven
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Louie da fly reacted to Chuck Seiler in Wütender Hund by Chuck Seiler - Shipyard - 1/72 - Hanseatic Cog 1390 - CARD
Progress continues, but it is slow. I keep popping the glue joints. I am at a very delicate phase of the model. The first strake above the main deck overlaps the one below by only 1MM along most of the hull and edge glued at bow and stern. Supporting false frames and uprights are not added until later. My sausage-fingered handling of the model often cause a seam to pop.
Huzzah!!!! Equilibrium! The plan says to install the false bulkheads first, then the support structure fore and aft. The false frames are spaced a quarter inch apart along the length of the hull and stick up until the top strake is added. Sixty six vulnerable pieces waiting to be snapped off.
I decided to do the fore and aft support structures first. Added strength with only 2 breakables.
"Safety caps" added.
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Louie da fly got a reaction from GrandpaPhil in Wütender Hund by Chuck Seiler - Shipyard - 1/72 - Hanseatic Cog 1390 - CARD
Nice save on the bulkheads being in the way of the deck beams. The build is going well. And looking good.
I still can't get over the difference in the hull shape of reconstructions before and after the discovery of the Bremen cog. This is how they thought a cog would look - much narrower (at least at the top) than it turned out to be.
Steven
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Louie da fly got a reaction from Canute in Wütender Hund by Chuck Seiler - Shipyard - 1/72 - Hanseatic Cog 1390 - CARD
And it seemed so simple. What could possibly go wrong?
Steven
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Louie da fly got a reaction from druxey in Medieval longship by bolin - FINISHED - 1:30 - based on reconstruction Helga Holm
That's beautiful work, Bolin. Your patient work is really paying off!
Steven
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Louie da fly got a reaction from bolin in Medieval longship by bolin - FINISHED - 1:30 - based on reconstruction Helga Holm
That's beautiful work, Bolin. Your patient work is really paying off!
Steven
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Louie da fly reacted to bolin in Medieval longship by bolin - FINISHED - 1:30 - based on reconstruction Helga Holm
I might add that the this ship only has oarlocks in the middle of the ship, where the sides are somewhat parallel and the distance to the water is relatively even. The difference in angle to the water for the oars on the different position is in practice not that big. On another ship the situation might be different. I'm not sure that my experience can be generalized, but Cap'n Atli's experience seem to support it.
In the build I have completed the majority of the riveting. Only a few hard to reach ones in the narrow parts of the fore and aft remains. I have cut the pins close to the washers with scissors. This leaves a small peg sticking up. To flatten it (and to mimic a real rivet) I melted the peg with a soldering iron and flattened it using flat steel rod (I think it's called a mandrel in English).
With all the rivets done I have started with installing the frames. First I glue them, then I will drill holes and add tree nails. After some thought I think that it is easiest to wait with the stain on the frames until after the tree nails are installed (so that they can get the correct color as well).
To the left some of the last rivets in the fore have just been installed and the washers have just been glued in place.
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Louie da fly got a reaction from End Of The Line in Henry Grace a Dieu (Great Harry) by Louie da fly - FINISHED - Scale 1:200 - Repaired after over 50 yrs of neglect
Here are the cannons for the main (lower) deck, which is open to the sky so the carriages can be seen. They're based on those found on the Mary Rose, though I haven't been able to reproduce the shape of these rather unusual barrels with the equipment to hand (hell, at this scale, I haven't even given them trunnions!).
I made the barrels the same way as I have previously, with a piece of brass tube from a hobby shop in my "poor man's lathe" (electric drill), and shaped with a small hacksaw and files. And here's the cascabel, made from yet another "sequin pin" with the head filed down:
I glued it in place with CA.
And here's the construction of a gun carriage (note the giant matchstick):
The wheels were cut from a piece of pear wood I'd carved into a cylinder and drilled the holes for the axles with another sequin pin. And more sequin pins for the axles.
And all complete.
Some of them are a little too high to fit through the gunports, but I'll just sand the wheels down a bit and they should be fine.
Steven
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Louie da fly got a reaction from Cathead in Medieval longship by bolin - FINISHED - 1:30 - based on reconstruction Helga Holm
That was pretty much Cap'n Atli's conclusion, as well. That shows the difference between mere theorising (where it seems logical that oar length would be an important factor) and practical experience, which shows that it really doesn't make much difference.
Steven
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Louie da fly reacted to MESSIS in Royal Caroline by Messis - FINISHED - Panart - 1/48
Tiller and ruder inplace
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Louie da fly got a reaction from popeye the sailor in Half Moon by usedtosail - FINISHED - Billings Boats - 1:40 Scale
That dinghy turned out very well. On to the next project . . .
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Louie da fly got a reaction from mtaylor in Medieval longship by bolin - FINISHED - 1:30 - based on reconstruction Helga Holm
That was pretty much Cap'n Atli's conclusion, as well. That shows the difference between mere theorising (where it seems logical that oar length would be an important factor) and practical experience, which shows that it really doesn't make much difference.
Steven
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Louie da fly got a reaction from Flypast in New from Oz.
Nice part of the world - just up from Margaret River (wine and foodie heaven), a stone's throw from Yallingup for the surfing . . . a short drive to the mighty jarrah and karri forests. Very nice.
Mind you, Ballarat's pretty good, too .
Steven
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Louie da fly reacted to kentyler in Die Kogge Von Bremen by kentyler
all layers cut now... i will have to use three of the attempts that did not work to raise the ship high enough above the building board to have space for the bow
next I need to make the building board...with enough space to use it to position the section templates as I shape the hull
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Louie da fly got a reaction from usedtosail in Half Moon by usedtosail - FINISHED - Billings Boats - 1:40 Scale
That dinghy turned out very well. On to the next project . . .
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Louie da fly got a reaction from Bill Morrison in HMS Kent 1942 by RGL - FINISHED - Trumpeter - 1/350 - PLASTIC - heavy cruiser
Brilliant work. I dunno how you do it, mate.
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Louie da fly got a reaction from CDR_Ret in Dealing with compounding errors
I agree with Kurt - the fan sheet is the way to go for the job you're doing - but Jim is also correct when cutting.
I used to be a building designer - when measuring up a building I was taught to do a "continuous measure". Measure everything in relation to a specified "zero" point. So if measuring a wall with windows, doors etc, rather than measure from the corner to the first window, then the width of the window etc etc, I'd hook the tape measure to the corner of the wall and treat that corner as zero, and then all measurements were taken in relation to that point - i.e the distance from the corner to the window, then from the corner to the other side of the window, then from the corner to the next window etc etc.
Steven
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Louie da fly got a reaction from druxey in Dealing with compounding errors
I agree with Kurt - the fan sheet is the way to go for the job you're doing - but Jim is also correct when cutting.
I used to be a building designer - when measuring up a building I was taught to do a "continuous measure". Measure everything in relation to a specified "zero" point. So if measuring a wall with windows, doors etc, rather than measure from the corner to the first window, then the width of the window etc etc, I'd hook the tape measure to the corner of the wall and treat that corner as zero, and then all measurements were taken in relation to that point - i.e the distance from the corner to the window, then from the corner to the other side of the window, then from the corner to the next window etc etc.
Steven
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Louie da fly reacted to mtaylor in Die Kogge Von Bremen by kentyler
I think Steven hit the problem. I've run into that also. More of a matter of just relaxing and taking it slow.
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Louie da fly got a reaction from mtaylor in Die Kogge Von Bremen by kentyler
You've probably been pushing the work through the saw too hard. It's something I'm guilty of, and it makes the blade bend sideways.
Steven
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