Landrotten Highlander

I was about to suggest the same.
Alternatively, you can do as I did - custom make your own bench.  As I too have a disability (walking with crutches for short distances, wheelchair for longer distances + the risk of falling over without warning) I had to think long and hard about how to improve my modelling experience.  I decided that having a bar stool set to such a height that I can easily slide on/off it will help me as I then do not need any support to get on/off the chair.  I then calculated the ideal working height for my table top based on me sitting in that chair and having all relative supports needed to keep my arms relaxed when working on tiny details - my worktop height is 95.7 mm from the floor, making sure I can sit nice and upright when workig.  It may look crude (I used CLS 90mm x 35mm / 3.5" x 1.5") but I am now much more comfortable when modelling.

This is the HMS Apollo built in 1794 and sunk in 1799 of the Artois class.
Found by the Dutch Northseadivers. They have done a lot of research on this wreck.

What goes well for yesterday photos set up, strangely it is easier to take deep inside photo without flash, only with LED lights.
Today's photos, again the key factor is  the LIGHTING more than the camera. For interior photos of today, a smaller camera was used.
 
Which of these camera will gives the better result:  a phone, or one action camera? Action camera is the good answer. I have been experimenting for years "small cameras". The first one was a Microsoft 1080p, up to the last one in 2020, a 4K Yi camera. Today the small camera used was a Go Pro. As with every camera, there is a learning curve, and I am still learning this one, but the results look like promising.

Up date, put in a Short S17 'Kent' Flying boat.

All the rivets are now ready for installation!
 
In between the sessions with preparing them I have started on some other parts, to be installed later. That is rudder, tiller, mast and yard. The mast has a "bulge" around the hole for the halyard will be a stop for the shrouds.
 

Yesterday I also received a package with some dark stains that might look like tar.
 
I have experimented with some mixes and found that three parts light oak stain mixed with one part ebony stain and eight parts water starts to look OK. That is the lowest right piece in the picture below. The other pieces are to black to look realistic. Tar, when mixed with linseed oil, is not ink black, but rather very dark brown.
 

 
 
 
 

So much to correct it. Nr4 is the way its now, 3 and 4 are the new experiments,  of which I believe nr 2 has the more  correct  staining, thats less orange as 3 and ofcourse 4 and it still has a dash of honey as pine wood. 
 
This is important because this shall be the staining of the ship masts later on.
 

Hello modeling friends.
I wish everyone a successful 2021.
Most of all, stay healthy.
Karl
 
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Was just reading in a Belgian newspaper about a Dutch team of archeologists excavating canons and othe equipment from the HMS Apollo, which sank on 06JAN1779.
The ship ran aground on the shallow island of 'Razende Bol' off Texel.  In an effort to save the ship the captain decided to dumb the conons overboard - but it was to no avail and the ship sank below the surface.  Now erosion has revealed the remains of the ship.
The team is in negotiation with the British Navy to allow to exhibit the findings in the Texel museum 'Kaap Skil', Oudeschild, The Netherlands this summer - provided the COVID situation is under control.

Thank you all for your condolences and kind words, dear friends. Life has brought me terrible suffering, and the pain in my heart is unbearable. I know, it is necessary to go on, I try to finish everything I started, and hope that one day it will be better again.
I finished the flags, inspired by Sailmaker's painting of the Royal Katherine:
 

 
 

Sorry to hear about your husband.  You have made a wonderful model, and I am sure he will appreciate the thought of having the entire ship to you and him.

Was just reading in a Belgian newspaper about a Dutch team of archeologists excavating canons and othe equipment from the HMS Apollo, which sank on 06JAN1779.
The ship ran aground on the shallow island of 'Razende Bol' off Texel.  In an effort to save the ship the captain decided to dumb the conons overboard - but it was to no avail and the ship sank below the surface.  Now erosion has revealed the remains of the ship.
The team is in negotiation with the British Navy to allow to exhibit the findings in the Texel museum 'Kaap Skil', Oudeschild, The Netherlands this summer - provided the COVID situation is under control.

Hello,
here is the continuation for the futtock shrouds of the foremast.

 

 
The futtock shrouds are temporarily attached so that corrections can still be made.

 

Sorry to hear about your husband.  You have made a wonderful model, and I am sure he will appreciate the thought of having the entire ship to you and him.

Was just reading in a Belgian newspaper about a Dutch team of archeologists excavating canons and othe equipment from the HMS Apollo, which sank on 06JAN1779.
The ship ran aground on the shallow island of 'Razende Bol' off Texel.  In an effort to save the ship the captain decided to dumb the conons overboard - but it was to no avail and the ship sank below the surface.  Now erosion has revealed the remains of the ship.
The team is in negotiation with the British Navy to allow to exhibit the findings in the Texel museum 'Kaap Skil', Oudeschild, The Netherlands this summer - provided the COVID situation is under control.

Was just reading in a Belgian newspaper about a Dutch team of archeologists excavating canons and othe equipment from the HMS Apollo, which sank on 06JAN1779.
The ship ran aground on the shallow island of 'Razende Bol' off Texel.  In an effort to save the ship the captain decided to dumb the conons overboard - but it was to no avail and the ship sank below the surface.  Now erosion has revealed the remains of the ship.
The team is in negotiation with the British Navy to allow to exhibit the findings in the Texel museum 'Kaap Skil', Oudeschild, The Netherlands this summer - provided the COVID situation is under control.

Was just reading in a Belgian newspaper about a Dutch team of archeologists excavating canons and othe equipment from the HMS Apollo, which sank on 06JAN1779.
The ship ran aground on the shallow island of 'Razende Bol' off Texel.  In an effort to save the ship the captain decided to dumb the conons overboard - but it was to no avail and the ship sank below the surface.  Now erosion has revealed the remains of the ship.
The team is in negotiation with the British Navy to allow to exhibit the findings in the Texel museum 'Kaap Skil', Oudeschild, The Netherlands this summer - provided the COVID situation is under control.

Was just reading in a Belgian newspaper about a Dutch team of archeologists excavating canons and othe equipment from the HMS Apollo, which sank on 06JAN1779.
The ship ran aground on the shallow island of 'Razende Bol' off Texel.  In an effort to save the ship the captain decided to dumb the conons overboard - but it was to no avail and the ship sank below the surface.  Now erosion has revealed the remains of the ship.
The team is in negotiation with the British Navy to allow to exhibit the findings in the Texel museum 'Kaap Skil', Oudeschild, The Netherlands this summer - provided the COVID situation is under control.

With all the frames fitted and trimmed down to size I have started with preparing the rivets. It's boring. 
 
Take a bristle. Hold it close to a flame (but not in it or it will burn) until it melts to a bead in the end. Then press the bead to a flat surface to get a flat head on the rivet. Repeat some 1500 times...
 

Hi i'm temporarily putting the stern  cant frame.

 
 

Knee of the Head 
(my dyslexic son referred to the ”elbow in his leg“ instead of knee)
The good news is that we finished chapter 2 (TFFM)!!!
This is a set of seemingly simple pieces that make up the foremost part of the ship
The gripe was easy- I had already made it when I made the stem  -not yet fitted but fortunately found in a “safe”box of bits.The blank is 5.3mm
Need  to remove from the building slip to fit these parts, which is worrying as the keel is very vulnerable. I supported it with a large piece of sponge.
This, and other parts abutting the stem, have “felt”-black paper- filling the joint.
The next pieces, chock, cutwater,lacing piece and bobstay piece are cut  out from 5.3mm blanks.Here I cut on the pattern line, and the pieces fit well.
Note the TFFM comment on the line of upper curve of lacing piece-a faint line under upper cheek,where it joins the extension piece.
The pieces at various angles to the grain and joined by “black” glue (PVA+charcoal) - the contrast looks better this way. 
Dry fit to the curve of the stem, with adjustments as necessary- a few light touches with the spindle sander was effective.
Bobstay holes and gammoning slot as shown, with milling piece #56
The combined piece needs tapering -from 5.3 to 2.12 mm at top of bobstay piece- the top of lacing pieces only to 3.18mm.That is from below, above and aft, forward  .
As before, I did this by cutting a pattern of this taper and sticking this to the fore curve.
Tapering by alternate sanding on stati sanding board.
A small imperfection in the wood was noted on the bobstay piece but I expected that this would be removed with the taper. Instead it grew like some cancerous iceberg.No camouflaging this.
(Of course the piece with the extra work-holes and slot)
Remove and, of course, the cutwater was damaged, and this also had to be remade.
Another lesson I must remember- don’t waste time on suspect material.
When satisfied with taper, glue felt for joint to stem.
More mistakes- didn’t allow for thickness of felt and didn’t notice thoat snug fit caused the the gripe to lift away.
Reset and the felt removed , some sanding to allow for felt in joint.And reattached.
Glue reinforced with wooden trunnels from aft aspect of stem. These are limited because the thin drill bits are short. 
Augmented adhesion with rubber band and S@@$%T- all slipped off, taking gripe with it.
Again clean all up (paper and glue is messy) and try again- this time with copper wire trunnels from front and back- and finger pressure. Ensure alignment with string midline from top of building slip supports for and aft.
? How to improve bond when using the intervening paper- wood is not being glued directly to wood.
While setting, made the last 2 upper pieces- standard and extension pieces.
These are thinner , 3.71 tapering to 3.18 (matching top of lacingpiece). Added the hole (larger, use #52) and the aft gammoning slit.
Fitted them separately, but perhaps would have been easier to glue together before final shaping.
Used coloured glue for joint-not sure if this was ok join to stem, but sick of using the black paper.
Difficult to clean up-was frightened of breaking it off.

 

Sorry to hear about your husband.  You have made a wonderful model, and I am sure he will appreciate the thought of having the entire ship to you and him.

Continuation. 
 



 
Pawel

Sorry to hear about your husband.  You have made a wonderful model, and I am sure he will appreciate the thought of having the entire ship to you and him.

Great subject! 
I had the opportunity to help a bit to prepare it for the winter (just a few times, it's on the opposite side of town for me..)
It was a nice way to spend a weekend, the smell of tar and the joy of helping  Great for kids as well!