mrjimmy
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mrjimmy reacted to ppddry in HMS Pandora 1779 in 3D
2012-01-11: upper deck planking
2012-01-14: internal planking above the upper deck
2012-01-15: forecastle beams, quarterdeck beams, and knees
2012-01-17: the whole assembly
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mrjimmy reacted to ppddry in HMS Pandora 1779 in 3D
2011-12-19: upper deck ledges, riding bitts, gratings, capstan partner
2011-12-24: main jeer bitts, main topsail sheet bitts, lower deck pillars, pump well
2011-12-24&25: the whole assembly
2012-01-05: lower deck cabins
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mrjimmy reacted to ppddry in HMS Pandora 1779 in 3D
2011-12-09: internal planking of the Lower Deck, elm tree pumps, chain pumps, upper deck beams, carlings, partners, and upper deck hook
2011-12-09: coamings of the upper deck hatches
2011-12-09: assembling all parts
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mrjimmy reacted to ppddry in HMS Pandora 1779 in 3D
2011-12-04: First rendering attempt. The material was too reflective.
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mrjimmy reacted to ppddry in HMS Pandora 1779 in 3D
2011-09-18: By this date, the lower deck was completed.
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mrjimmy reacted to ppddry in HMS Pandora 1779 in 3D
2011-06-15: main wale
2011-06-15: shape of the external planking
The frames can be seen by setting the external planking transparent!
2011-06-16: Cutting the bottom planking into individual planks.
2011-06-17: Finished cutting the bottom planking.
2011-06-18: The main wale was also cut into individual pieces.
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mrjimmy reacted to ppddry in HMS Pandora 1779 in 3D
2011-02-26: details of the chains and deadeyes
2011-02-28: HALF-BREADTH PLAN added - keel assembly, main half breadth, toptimber half breadth, top side half breadth, half breadth of the rising line, projections of the diagonals
2011-03-02: BODY PLAN added. A set of lines for the inner surface of the frames are also drawn but not shown in this figure.
2011-03-04: water lines, cant frames, fashion piece, hawse pieces, transoms, inner post, apron, keelson, first thick limber strake next the limbers
2011-03-05: deadwood knee, disposition of the frames
2011-03-08: disposition of the square frames
The 3D build began from this point!
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mrjimmy reacted to ppddry in HMS Pandora 1779 in 3D
Let's get started!
2011-02-09: keel, false keel, perpendiculars, cutting down line, lower deck, upper deck, stem post, stern post, stern counters, stern timbers
2011-02-10: toptimber line, top side lines, water lines, forecastle, quarter deck
2011-02-12: lower breadth line, upper breadth line, main wale, sheer rail, waste rail, drift rail, fife rail
2011-02-15: gun ports
2011-02-17: channels, deadeyes
2011-02-18: planking above the load water line, platforms, knee of the head, ladder, fenders, chestree
2011-02-19: lower cheek, upper cheek
2011-02-20: head rails, head timbers, cathead
2011-02-21: taffrail, quarter gallery
2011-02-22: rudder
2011-02-24: gun port lids, sweep ports, scuppers, hammock cranes, swivel guns. The taffrail and the quarter gallery were modified.
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mrjimmy got a reaction from flying_dutchman2 in Carving tools, books and carving woods discussion
Very well presented website, Marcus........ thank you for that.
Jim
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mrjimmy got a reaction from aviaamator in Carving tools, books and carving woods discussion
Very well presented website, Marcus........ thank you for that.
Jim
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mrjimmy got a reaction from mtaylor in Carving tools, books and carving woods discussion
Very well presented website, Marcus........ thank you for that.
Jim
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mrjimmy got a reaction from Canute in Carving tools, books and carving woods discussion
Very well presented website, Marcus........ thank you for that.
Jim
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mrjimmy reacted to Shotlocker in Spoon from the Ocean Queen
Greetings,
For years I was employed as the mine surveyor at a gold/silver mine in the mountains of west central Nevada, near
the site of a ghost town named Aurora, where, I was told, Marc Twain had worked briefly as a mill hand. One of my duties
was to locate claim posts in the area and it was on one of these little journeys that I found, lying on the surface of
the bone-dry earth, in an old camp site, this spoon. The mine had been started in the late 1850's so I figured that the spoon had to have been purloined by some fellow who may have had a berth on that particular clipper which, tragically, was lost at sea in the North Atlantic along with another clipper, the Driver, in February, 1856. I feel very fortunate to have found the relic and just wanted to share the story with everyone.
Fair winds,
Gary
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mrjimmy reacted to S.Coleman in Spoon from the Ocean Queen
What a find! Maybe because it was lying out on the surface was because someone picked it up and thought nothing of it. Just an old teaspoon they thought. Good worrk
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mrjimmy reacted to flying_dutchman2 in Carving tools, books and carving woods discussion
The German Nautical Journal, 'Das Logbuch' has a very detailed article on carving a ship's stern. Even if you don't read German, the detailed pictures are worth a look. Several pictures show what tools are used for the type of carving.
If you mouse over the pictures you can click on them to enlarge them.
http://www.arbeitskreis-historischer-schiffbau.de/mitglieder/themen/schnitzkurs-1/
Marcus
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mrjimmy got a reaction from Borden in Carving tools, books and carving woods discussion
For those who have interest, there is a free book in PDF form written by a retired fighter jet pilot about Netsuke, which is miniature carving fairly close to our scales. Click on the link below:
http://sterlingsculptures.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Carving_Netsuke.pdf
Jim
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mrjimmy reacted to Don Quixote in Rattlesnake 1781 by Don Quixote - Mamoli - Scale 1:64 - 20 gun Privateer
Here's the extent of the plans. The directions read like stereo.
"Take from the view of the fore deck the position of the rail posts supporting the hand rail and make 14 holes (as many as the rail posts) on the plank sheer.
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mrjimmy reacted to Modeler12 in Modeler12 carving attempt - Me too; I am willing to try almost anything.
Thank you Aviaamator, and since you asked, let me show the last part of this experiment. Carving letters.
This basswood plague will be a Christmas present for my wife. Hopefully I can complete it in the next week or so.
Her picture will be inside the recessed opening.
Carving letters was a whole new experience for me. I selected an engravers font, printed it and transferred it to the wood. Then I used a V-gouge and knife to cut out the letters. They don't show too clearly, but on another piece I did the same thing and stained it quickly. That brought out the letters much clearer.
I have a long way to go with the carving, but this probably will be the last post of this series.
After all, this is a model ship forum.
PS Aviaamator, being northeast of St. Petersburg you must have some cold weather and lots of snow. Nice for Christmas
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mrjimmy reacted to Don Quixote in Rattlesnake 1781 by Don Quixote - Mamoli - Scale 1:64 - 20 gun Privateer
My local Ace Hardware store turned me onto a water based polyurethane satin finish. I like it, it's very subtle, and I glued 2 pcs of basswood together with no problem. It's called Verithane. No odor, either.
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mrjimmy reacted to ChadB in Triton Cross Section by ChadB (Chach_86) - FINISHED
Back before the "Great Crash" of MSW I had built the Triton cross section. I had a pretty robust build log to go along with it where I detailed just about every little step of my build. As it turns out, a friend of mine had actually saved about 95% of it and it has been sitting on my hard drive for quite some time. I haven't been on here much at all the last couple years but I saw my wood list made it's way on here and has hopefully helped a few people. It got me thinking that I would be good to get the build log out there to help others, also. I am going to try to start parsing it out in posts over time starting from the beginning going step by step, but I also have no problem giving out the .xps file to anyone currently building who doesn't want to wait (just be warned it is 180 pages long and includes a lot of fluff you would have to wade through!).
-Chad
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mrjimmy reacted to Modeler12 in Modeler12 carving attempt - Me too; I am willing to try almost anything.
The tulip is done as far as carving is concerned. It was my first attempt other than the scroll that was done with an Exacto blade (#11).
I learned a lot about how to use carving tools, things I had taken for granted in the past.
Keeping the edge sharp is obvious, but it did not take me long to learn that 'slicing' the wood is so much better than forcing the gouge or knife straight into the wood. I try to show that in my next project.
The small gouge was used to remove some of the background material. I guided the blade with my right hand and pushed the gouge to the right with my left hand. This produced a 'slice' rather than a 'chip'.
After the slice was removed, I used a knife to trim up the edges.
At this point I will repeat the steps to cut the background deeper.
Slicing versus dicing is something I know about in the kitchen. I now have a tendency to move the knife back and forth as I 'slice' green onions or anything else.
I am curious if that could be applied to razor blades.
How about slanting the cartridge at a small angle Mr. Gillett?
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mrjimmy got a reaction from Jorge Diaz O in Carving tools, books and carving woods discussion
For those who have interest, there is a free book in PDF form written by a retired fighter jet pilot about Netsuke, which is miniature carving fairly close to our scales. Click on the link below:
http://sterlingsculptures.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Carving_Netsuke.pdf
Jim
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mrjimmy got a reaction from CaptainSteve in Rattlesnake 1781 by Don Quixote - Mamoli - Scale 1:64 - 20 gun Privateer
Please direct all questions about hide glue to Julie Mo...........she started all this. If you watched the youtube video, you know exactly as much as I do. I have never used the stuff, but let me know how it works out.
Jim
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