davyboy

Thanks to all for the kind comments.
 
Board stove installed.
 
Part 34

I made the mast, finished the decoration of the stern. And a few working points...

Keep talking! Light wood is a pear, very dense and perfectly cut. Masts in production...

Ciao a tutti,
Alcune foto della ruota e freccia. 
 
Hi everyone, Some photos of the wheel and arrow







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Ciao a tutti, 
Ho realizzato lo scaletto e sinceramente è stato abbastanza difficile essenzialmente per due motivi.
Il primo motivo: l'utilizzo della linea del ponte per realizzare la dima di pontuale per i riferimenti delle coste e la seconda dima per il cassero sovrapposta alla precedente.
Il secondo motivo: il disegno in pianta del ponte, questa misura non tiene conto del cavallino del ponte, quindi se avessi utilizzato questo disegno senza le dovute modifiche delle quote in lunghezza avrei ottenuto sulla dima di pontuale con una sagoma più corta di circa 5mm.
Alcune foto dello scaletto.
Se notate da una parte ho messo il disegno con la chiglia a pari e nell'altra foto si vede quanto il disegno è stato allungato.
 
Hi everyone, I realized the ladder and honestly it was quite difficult essentially for two reasons. The first reason: the use of the bridge line to create the pontic template for the rib references and the second template for the formwork overlapping the previous one. The second reason: the plan drawing of the bridge, this measure does not take into account the pony of the bridge, so if I had used this design without the due changes in the dimensions in length I would have obtained on the pontual template with a shorter shape of about 5mm. Some photos of the ladder. If you notice on one side I put the design with the keel on the same level and in the other photo you can see how long the design has been stretched



Dima di pontuale finita

Scaletto



Qui ho posizionato la dima del cassero



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Hi Michael
 
When the model goes back to the museum the before photo should be next to it along with a large brass plaque thanking you for your restoration efforts! Oh and there should also be an unveiling ceremony. Nothing less than you deserve! Bravo.
 
Nick

Before finish the rider was a little leaned forward to look like an original in Vale´s painting.
Here is the final result:
 

Have a nice day  and enjoy the pics.
Best regards,
Doris

Hi all,
 
Thanks again for all the likes.
 
I finished the rudder, added the straps and spectacle plate (yes, they should be brass, but I find the brass / copper colour combination jarring, so someone painted mine) - and hung it. The straps on the hull are still to add. The straps are made out of card as the photo-etch ones are oversized.
 

 
I've continued working on the fittings for the gun deck. I made a little production line, and put together the main parts of all of the 18lb gun carriages. I'm not done with that, but I was going cross-eyed whittling all the trunnions, so I decided to deal with the guns, too.
 

I did an experiment, sanding the char back, but not trying to remove it completely... the carriages will be painted, so I'm happy with this.
 
I also purchased some casey brass black (this comes with a serious health warning!) and I've begun blackening the guns themselves. This was more involved than I expected. The method I used is as follows:
 
1. Use a brass brush in my proxxon mini drill to gently buff the cannon (this removed any surface coating)
2. Wearing gloves, wash thoroughly in fairy liquid (I started with white vinegar, but the fairy liquid seemed to work just as well, and it stinks considerably less!)
3. Transfer to clean water.
4. Remove and air dry - this was done with the gun muzzle sat on top of a brass rod so that no part of the outside of the gun was touching anything.
5. Dip into neat Casey Brass Black and keep a close watch until it looks fairly black... lift out with needle nose pliers and drop into clean water.
6. Once clean, take out, dry off and buff with kitchen towel. Any areas that had not blackened nicely were buffed with the brass brush again, and the process repeated.
 
Sometimes I didn't get a completely even finish the first time, but by the second time, the guns had turned a nice even grey. The finish is far more even than my painting efforts, and it buffs to a nice shine - the kind of finish you can imagine a gun crew being really proud of... (In the photo of the gun on it's carriage, there are a number of steps left unfinished on the carriage.) I'm thrilled with this. I need to finish blacking the guns, (I've noticed that caldercraft sell brass carronades now, so I'll look at getting some of them for the quarterdeck)... and then I need to work out a way of blacking the copper eyelets in reasonable bulk without them turning into a black clump! perhaps sticking them into a balsa block?
 
Here are my results.
 

 
Looking through the previous build logs for the Caldercraft's Diana, I was concerned that the guns provided with the ship may be a slightly odd shape with cascabels that were over-sized and a somewhat heavy muzzle... My fears were unfounded when I opened the fittings. They're things of beauty. Looking at the ones supplied before, it seems that Caldercraft have very much upped their game! Kudos!
 
Here's a pic of one of the ones I received (they're all identical) - it seems to match up very closely with the AOTS diagram.

 
And just 'cos I can, a picture of the gundeck with all it's unfinished carriages. Very pleased so far.
 

 
Happy building
 
Rob
 

Haven't been painting for a while, but did this yesterday and today 'Dispatches' no particular ships.
Jim
watercolour 14" X 10"

Small update,

The carriages are provided with blocks and rope (this work took longer than initially planned).
This picture served as example

 
The carriages are fastened with a screw. This looks overkill but the screw is later invisible and the carriges are firmly secured.

 
The blocks are surpluses of the Vasa of Billing Boats. Split pins (Dutch : splitpen) were used to secure the blocks.


 
Al this can be done better. But for below deck, this detailing is sufficient.
 
Thanks for following and likes.

Hello dear friends, 
thank you all for your kind words and support and also your help, I do appreciate it a lot. That is a great pleasure for me. Thank you also for your "likes".
You are right and thank you for advice. I have already looked at various pics of real ships, that often helps me with better decision. 
I used the pics of Sheldon model mainly for an inspiration, how to create the bow - timbers, rails etc. The shape of bow on RK model is made according the Vale´s painting.
 
That's great, Patrick,  thank you very much for sharing, this help me a lot. Super!
 
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I have started making the most demanding statue at the bow. First I create the horse - it is made in stages and each part is then heated in the oven. The rider, harness and a pair of smaller statues behind the horse will be created separately.
 
Here is the beginning:
 

 
Best regards,
Doris

The hoggie or hog-boat of Brighton was a fishing boat of about 9 m. of length that had a breadth of about 5 m., a tiny transom and very full shapes with a nearly flat bottom, which allowed it to cross the breaking water and float in the beach like a duck. It was equipped with a deck, had an leeboard to counteract the excess drift produced by its peculiar forms and armed two masts with spritsail rigging. The true hoggies disappeared around 1880, although other Brighton boats, which are actually luggers made in Hastings or in Rye, continue to be known as hoggies.

We are having the same kind of loss nowadays print, wood construction, actually to much to mention

Dick,
 
If I understand your plan correctly, the word “cunning” does not do it justice.  You are in fact replicating in miniature a process that could have been used 700 or so years ago to build the real thing.  Although the original builders would not have had a jig like you show assembling frames from segments calculated from your half lune is a plasuable scenario.
 
Too few people today realize that even after the invention of the practice of lofting from a formal lines drawing c 1600’s most ships were built using some sort of rule of thumb system much of which has been lost to history.
 
Roger

Their dreams may be more ephemeral and non-tangible ... they may talk one day with the same kind of sentiment about their first encounter with the first model of iPad or a piece of game-software ...

When I was 7 years old my mother took me to see a collection of ship models on display at O’Neils Department Store in nearby Akron, Ohio.  It was a life changing event and from that moment I was fascinated by ships in general and ship models in particular.
 
68 years later I still remember some of those models and have visited them several times at the Mariners Museum in Newport News, VA.  The models that I saw were the magnificent ones built by August Crabtree.  It’s too bad that this inspiration is not available to more kids today.
 
Roger

Mmhhm ... 40 years ago it as all airplanes in Regent St. and the area around ... and the Science Museum models are all boxed up ... nothing anymore to make little boys dream - or they dream of other things.

Mix of PVA+sawdust is very stabil and hard.
 


 
 
 

I have also tried to make a grating (it is made from longitudinal wooden laths - they were also used on English ships from that period), but I do not have any accurate plans or images that could help me with a realistic appearance. Now I'm thinking about design of seats of ease, I have several options but I am not sure, which of them is suitable for Royal Katherine from 1670... If you have historically more accurate information, I will be very grateful for your help.
 

 
Best regards,
Doris

Done:

 

Ciao a tutti, comincio a mettere alcune foto della carpenteria assiale.
Dritto di poppa con la continuazione della chiglia in un pezzo unico, ho ricavato questo particolare vicino ad un nodo per rispettare il più possibile in senso della venatura.
 
Hi everyone, I begin to put some photos of the axial carpentry. Straight aft with the continuation of the keel in a single piece, I obtained this detail near a knot to respect as much as possible in the direction of grain.
 
Thanks Dirk





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Thanks Ben, yes your comment about the windows is interesting. The models of various ships like these was to promote to the public to use their shipping line to travel, and were more often than not displayed in the storefront windows of the different shipping lines. I remember as a young boy looking into the windows of many different offices along regent street and others looking at these models and dreaming about one day being able to build one of my own. What a difference 60 years makes. Oh and yes hours in the upper floors of the Science Museum in South Kensington with my nose up to the glass studying the model ships that used to be on display there as well.
 
Michael

Another small update:
I have progressed the wheel and standard a little further having painted the brass wheel.  The paint to the eye looks smooth but it is very uneven when photographer so close up (noting the rim is only 1mm wide, and the wheel 14mm tip to tip).  The paint is burnt sienna acrylic with a glaze made from varnish and wood stain.  It looks pretty close to the wod used in the standard.
 
One of the photos also shows all the parts ready to be assembled; including some decals I made.  The decals were a dismal failure though as against the brown they just don't show up.  I think I will have to paint the brass plates onto the rim of the wheel after all   With my shaky hands they won't look too flash!  Work in progress so to speak.  I am not sure yet whether to try and further smooth the paint on the wheel; as i said - to the eye it looks OK. 
 
  
 
In the meantime the main companion has been completed; including the ironwork supporting the crutch for the main boom. I have included a close up extract from the quarterdeck photo as a comparison for what we have made.  The legs supporting the crutch look a little oversize but these are less than 1mm diameter so near impossible for my fat hands to get smaller unfortunately - again the close-up photography makes it look rougher than it looks to the eye (the ironwork).
 
  

 
 
cheers
 
Pat

Hello and thank you all for your comments and likes,
 
I was not very busy the last week, but I made the hawse hols with the linings and bolsters.
 

 
 
The next things are the trail boards between the cheeks. I have a trail board, all in ocker but only the little dragon in green, in my mind. I saw it somewhere, but I did't find that picture again. If anyone has that picture, or know where I could find it, tell it. 

Two words
MAN DROLICS as everything was done back then MAN DROLICS  to raise and lower the sails MAN DROLICS where used to tack and jibe the ship MAN DROLICS to steer and MAN DROLICS to launch the ships boats 
Maybe not the answer you where looking for but in reality the real answer with a little help from a few block and tackles 
Andy