
Landrotten Highlander
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Landrotten Highlander reacted to stuglo in Swan-Class Sloop by Stuglo - FINISHED - 1:48
#L-fore square frame
Moving to the front of the ship, the FLOOR is now FORE and the aft has the chock.
This fore has a forward facing dog leg.
The gap between its companion is for a sill-thus 15.11mm.
Firstly, as for aft frames,plot 2nd futtock height on the sheer plan.#L=9.2mm.
This fore part also has the timberhead.
Lookin at my framing plan, it seems that the start of the dog leg is lower -as are the others not yet built.
The card pattern seemed OK but when I made the actual piece, there was a misalignment with the fore cants. Rechecking, these seemed to be 1 or 2 mm out.I think that when the spacers separated when fairing, I stuck them back as individuals to its neighbour without checking the whole run.
With a mdf profile, I unglued and re-stuck in the corrected position.
It is important to ensure that the angle of the cants remains at 90deg vertical while following the angle to the keel. Some of mine needed improvement -I altered the thickness of some of the spacers as required.
The inner aspect of the #L was now slightly too narrow, so I remade it with more spare than usual.
Allowance for angle of cant means that the seat of #L is less than the 15.1mm distance of the sill .Used a sizing block.
#K frame
Referred to as a frame bend- separated by a number of spacers- as #13-above and below the joint lines.
The fore of the pair has the timberhead.
The aft sits on a wider part of the keel and needs to be adapted as not shown on the plan.
The “legs” astride the keel are shorter so for extra stability I put a slightly thicker (0.8mm) bamboo trunnel at this stage.
The futtock head height is 8.9mm as I measured it.
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Landrotten Highlander reacted to MESSIS in Royal Caroline by Messis - FINISHED - Panart - 1/48
Errare humanum est. After checking Bellabarba drw again and more carefully, it showed I was wrong... the Royal Cabin has no acces to the staircaises (there are two, one on each side). I WAS VERY WRONG! Maybe because it was convinient for me to be so.
The doors are a must on both constructions (even if they are too low 1.4 m), it is the only way down to the lower deck. So I have correct my mistake and done it by Bellabarba's book, not the way the kit shows it (two stairs going on the RC roof and no doors to the staircase) and ofcourse not my way... no doors "because the RC had acces to the staicases"!!!
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Landrotten Highlander reacted to Alex M in HMS Sphynx 1775 by Alex M - Scale 1/48 - English 20-Gun Frigate
Good morning
the work from last weekend
Regards
Alex
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Landrotten Highlander reacted to Zero in DKM Graf Zeppelin by Zero – FINISHED - Trumpeter - 1/350 - PLASTIC - Mk.1 Design
Happy New Year to you all!
It's been a long time updating this post.
Buying on painting the whole ship and the figures.
Thanks to you all, the whole ship is almost complete.
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Landrotten Highlander got a reaction from FrankWouts in HMS Bellona 1760 by SJSoane - Scale 1:64 - English 74-gun - as designed
I think height adjustment is the vertical screw though the ebony piece. The horizontal screw holds it firmly in position.
I now see the the answer has already been provided. Should read all replies before acting - ah wel, learn from ones mistakes is part of life
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Landrotten Highlander reacted to Bedford in Royal Caroline by Bedford - Panart - 1/48
First layer of planking completed but the material provided for the second layer was so bad I threw it out and am waiting for better stock to arrive. Meanwhile I've painted the bulwalks red, and made the guns so I could make sure the gun ports were correctly placed
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Landrotten Highlander got a reaction from mtaylor in HMS Bellona 1760 by SJSoane - Scale 1:64 - English 74-gun - as designed
I think height adjustment is the vertical screw though the ebony piece. The horizontal screw holds it firmly in position.
I now see the the answer has already been provided. Should read all replies before acting - ah wel, learn from ones mistakes is part of life
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Landrotten Highlander reacted to Ondras71 in Roter Löwe 1597 by Ondras71
I work on the bent parts of the stern railing..
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Landrotten Highlander reacted to MESSIS in Royal Caroline by Messis - FINISHED - Panart - 1/48
Chain plates on both sides. Hard monotony@ But still enjoyable to see the whole standing in place waitting the rigging process to begin.
The ladder was also very challenging. The kit shows two ladders, right and left of the royal cabin, but I followed Bellabarba's book, to build only the left ladder. On the right side Bellabarba is showing a closed compartment, which actualy inside of it is the staircase to the lower deck. Both constructions have a side door to enter the staircase, which I havent done, because I believe there were of no use because the staircase is communicating directly with the R.Cabin. The crew that needed to go to the lower deck could do that through the hinter stairs, without passing through the RCabin.Also the dimensions of both construction appear to be very low (1.4 meters) and narrow for the existence of a door.
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Landrotten Highlander reacted to SJSoane in HMS Bellona 1760 by SJSoane - Scale 1:64 - English 74-gun - as designed
Thanks, druxey. Here is a closer look at the marking jig.
The ebony pointer slides up between the two side pieces of the shell, and has a screw on the bottom for fine adjustment. And then a screw at the right tightens it down in place. The top screw tightens the entire sliding mechanism against the bar.
The empty screw holes were drilled when I used this for the gun deck. They got in the way when I had to shorten the throw for the upper deck. Should have thought ahead way back then....
Mark
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Landrotten Highlander reacted to SJSoane in HMS Bellona 1760 by SJSoane - Scale 1:64 - English 74-gun - as designed
druxey, you are right, those parallel pliers are a god-send. Flattens things out without marring the soft copper.
And nice capsquares. The giveaway of built up construction is that the join between the flat and the curve comes to a sharp 90 degree corner. Even the best bending still leaves a small radius at this intersection.
I have been busy for the last week constructing all of the metal for the gun deck. Easy with jigs, but many, many pieces to make over and over.
I learned from YouTube videos how to make the rings, which are called jump rings in the jewelry world. Clamp a drill bit of the right internal diameter for the ring into a vise. Then tightly wrap copper wire of the correct diameter around the drill bit. Remove from drill bit. Use sharp angle cutters to cut a square end at the beginning of the coil, then reverse the cutter to cut another square end facing the first. A perfect ring drops off the coil. Cut a new square end, reverse the cutters and cut the opposite end square. Repeat.
I used two parallel jaw pliers opposing each other to open up the ring enough to drop in an eyebolt, then close up the ring. A trick I learned online was to twist the pliers back and forth a few times, listening for a clicking sound as the two ends of the ring pass by each other. This helps form a ring without a gap.
And then there were all of the other metal pieces for the gun carriages, the ends of the bolts, and the wedges for retaining the trucks to the axles.
And slowly but surely the metal parts accumulated:
I blackened in batches, to keep different types separate (left and right cap squares, rings for carriages vs. rings for deck vs. rings for quickwork).
Following Greg's good advise (above), I cleaned in pickle, then neutralized in baking soda and water, then I used 99% isopropyl alcohol). A final soak in diluted Jax blackening for copper.
The pieces were so tiny I used the orange filter to put into the pickle and baking soda. But then I had to dump them individually into the alcohol and JAX. It was pretty tedious picking them all up individually with tweezers at this point.
The resulting blackened pieces are really quite wonderful in color and luster:
While waiting for some of these processes, I started marking out the upper deck height, in anticipation of finally moving on to the next deck in a few weeks. I dug out an old jig I used to mark the height of the gun deck. It has a bar between opposite gun ports, and a device that slides up to the side at the correct distance down from the port. I then run a pencil over the ebony pointer, to get the mark on the side at the correct height. Without this jig, it would be very difficult to measure down accurately with so much tumblehome. This ensures that the final beam height will be exactly parallel to the gun ports.
The jig allows the black pointer to slide up and down and lock at the correct height within the larger shell of the device.
Best wishes,
Mark
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Landrotten Highlander reacted to marsalv in Le Gros Ventre by marsalv - FINISHED - 1:48 - POF
To PeteB: I used the black translucent paper for the caulking.
The last stem decorations are added. All carvings are made with CNC milling maschine with small manual corrections.
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Landrotten Highlander reacted to Siggi52 in HMS Tiger 1747 by Siggi52 - 1:48 - 60 gun ship from NMM plans
Thank you Keith and also all who give me there likes.
It is done, also the port side is ready. The next thing would be the anchor lining.
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Landrotten Highlander reacted to stuglo in Swan-Class Sloop by Stuglo - FINISHED - 1:48
Fairing:
Should be straight forward,using a cutout of the foremost frame as a guide.
Extra strength with the cross spells and a supporting hand did not prevent a complete break through a couple chocks.
Where possible, as a contrast, the chocks were cut cross grain. These were a point of weakness and a mistake. Of course I have been heavy handed with the 80 or 100 sandpaper.
I had to remove the squares and remake the chocks.
Also the spacers at the top of the futtocks kept separating- should have reinforced with trunnels.
When building from scratch, there is much to think about. Even with the wonderful TFFM, something , even basics, is forgotten.
I’m often learning something new, but forgetting something old-is this intellectual equilibrium or senility?
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Landrotten Highlander reacted to Siggi52 in HMS Tiger 1747 by Siggi52 - 1:48 - 60 gun ship from NMM plans
Hello,
today I finished the rigols at the starboard side and I destroyed only one!
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Landrotten Highlander reacted to woodrat in Yenikapi12 by woodrat - FINISHED - 1/16 scale - a small Byzantine merchant vessel of the 9th century
Louie da Fly will like this. I have come up with a possible explanation for the strange "hockey stick" structure at the top of masts of byzantine and venetian vessels. It is a pulley for the halyard but, after going through the pulley, the halyard is conducted forward to the tip of the hockey stick so as to pull the yard away from the mast. This makes it easier to raise and lower the yard.
This shows the mast in its step and lashed temporarily to the throughbeam and its stanchion.
Cheers
Dick
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Landrotten Highlander reacted to Ondras71 in Roter Löwe 1597 by Ondras71
Thanks for the like.
On a vertical drill, I drilled holes for the support bars of the railing posts. These guarantee the exact shape..
And he completed all the wales at the stern..
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Landrotten Highlander reacted to Siggi52 in HMS Tiger 1747 by Siggi52 - 1:48 - 60 gun ship from NMM plans
Hello,
today I could proudly present the first installed rigols 😓
First I draw them at the computer
Then followed a sawing marathon
And here they are. I carved them at the ship. There they are fast and could't move, so it is also healthier for the fingers. To the right is the jig for the high.
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Landrotten Highlander reacted to Alex M in HMS Sphynx 1775 by Alex M - Scale 1/48 - English 20-Gun Frigate
Hello al,
I have diligently worked last week, the open rails on the quarter deck are now completted.
overall views:
forecastle planksheer in work:
Regards
Alex
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Landrotten Highlander reacted to Jeronimo in 74 Gun Ship by Jeronimo - 1/36 - Modified to Cross-Sections
Danke für die freundlichen Kommentare.
Update
Background changed.
Karl
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Landrotten Highlander reacted to archjofo in La Créole 1827 by archjofo - Scale 1/48 - French corvette
First of all, many thanks to all of you for your interest in my construction report.
After a very busy week, I got back to model building a bit.
And again a few small things for the model on the way to the goal.
After the last work on the mast tops, the corvette's standing rigging is being built one floor higher.
Before the topmast shrouds can be put on, I first have to make and put on the burton pendants for the topmast burton takle.
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Landrotten Highlander reacted to Jeronimo in 74 Gun Ship by Jeronimo - 1/36 - Modified to Cross-Sections
Thanks to everyone for the kind comments and likes.
The section of the 74 gun ship is thus completed.
Karl
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Landrotten Highlander reacted to Siggi52 in HMS Tiger 1747 by Siggi52 - 1:48 - 60 gun ship from NMM plans
Thank you Matt, and also all others for your likes
Today I finished the rail at the star board side and some small things at the gun ports and there lids. Just to mention the dimensions of the rail, she is 4,5 mm broad and 1,2 mm high.
The next things are the rigols 😧
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Landrotten Highlander reacted to marsalv in Le Gros Ventre by marsalv - FINISHED - 1:48 - POF
To Hubac´s Historian - Thanks for compliment.
I still have some rest at the stern - decorations.
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Landrotten Highlander reacted to MESSIS in Royal Caroline by Messis - FINISHED - Panart - 1/48
Chainplates and Royal Cabin in place.