Angarfather

Aye, Mates!
 
Many thanks for your kind words and all the likes.
 
The  last weeks was not so much time for modelling the Golden Hind. There had been many interesting job. Thats ok. Here are some pics from the last days.
To finsh the wales in the bow I first did mount the upper and the lower wale. After this I use spacer blocks to mount the bow part of the wale in the middle 

The last  wale piece

 
 

Next step was planking the space between the two lower wales and the stern.
 

 
 

 

 
Cheers!  Hartmut
 

Thanks, guys for your  kind compliments!
 
Next steps was to make the keel, the stemson and the bob stay piece of the head. I have made the pieces from mahogany, planed with the thickness planer.
 




Next I make and bring in the walls.
 

 

 

 

 
Cheers Hartmut
 
 

Aye, Mates,
 
many thanks for your kind interest in my new project.
 
I am building the hull in an unusual way. Instead of a first planking I glue in plywood between the bulkheads. Than I had to sand it into its shape. Here are some pics from this way.







This construction results in a very stable hull. Next. I'll plan the material for the wales, the keel and the deck beams. I still have a few pieces of mahagony that will work well for that. The planks I will make from pear.That can look pretty good together.
 
Cheers  Angarvater

I have started the next project, an elizabethanian galleon.
I use some plans I did find in two old german modeling books, Mondfeld, Historische Schiffsmodelle, a german classic from the early 70., and Stoeckel,Risse von Schiffen des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts. Both authors showed very similar plans of an elizabethanian galleon, named Golden Hind or ex Pelican. It may be a model of Drakes Golden Hind. How Golden Hind looked exactly is unclear. But I like the plans, and they also seems quite right for the type Galeone of the english sailors in the time of queen Elizabeth Tudor.
 
Fist step was to modify the slipway. For the aligning of the frames on the keel plate I use a cross line laser
 

The plans
 



 
The bulkheads
 

 
Mounting of the bulkheads on the keel plate
 

 

 

 
The shipyard guard (named Michel ) after work
 

cheers!  Hartmut

Aye,YankeeD!
 
it looks quite fine!   But what a beast is this ship!
 
Cheers Hartmut

I think this worked out OK added a dark wash to the thread, water 75/25 burnt umber acrylic. 

Next steps was to make the guns
At first I changed the brass into bronze by painting it with acrylic (old gold mixed with black)

 
And than the wooden parts.
Milling the side panels of the gun carriadges.

Side panels and other parts after cutting by band saw and sanding
 

First attempt

Making the  axis and the weels
 



The first finished gun

A board
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
At
At last for today I had to  modell 4 swivel guns for the stern. There were 4 guns from an older project. So it was easy to me to modify they into swivels.
 



 
Cheerio!
 
Hartmut

The Battle Station Kit Kit is pre laser cutting, and was missing a few pieces (bellaying pin, a few brass eyelets), but worst of all some of the eye blocks. They will be hard to make without a micro drill. Maybe a red hot needle??
 
Anyway, having had the luxury of laser cut parts for the two cannon it was a bit of a shock to have to hand cut the parts, and that took about a day.
Here are photos of the box, (as you can see very old stock), the parts list (with missing bits) and the check of all parts, plus the assembly of the main frame.
 
Worst was de-lamination of the ply, which took a bit of sorting out with glue and clamps.
 
The brass plating on the connons was coming off badly, so they wer esanded and painted matt black, which I think is a lot better than brass. I haven't seen a brass cannon, except in the Woolwich Rotunda, where there is a magnificent exhibition of old artillery.
 
Here are photos of the check list with missing bits, the parts layout, the ribs, (note the router didn't cut notches square, so you have to do those by hand too), and a few other details.
 
Hull planking today.
 
Finlo
 

Ist plank went on this morning, and then the second. I cut the planks slightly uneven lengths, since I liked the rough look on one of the other builds I had seen on this site by another modeller, where the ends of the planking didn't finish in a perfect line.
 
In addition, joints in the planks were added at the ribs by a partial cut through. Will double nail these joints too, to make it look like a join.
 
Nails will have to be added later, probably have to sharpen a nail to make and awl to get that done. Welcome to Ghana!
 
You may have noticed in the framework pictures that not all the strengthening corners have been added to the main deck ribs yet. That's because without the right tools, (micro drills) I can't fit the hammock hooks. They have to be sharpened on wet and dry, and then pressed in with pliers (a technique I had to use when making the Mantua cannons). If the mitres were in place there would be no room for the pliers. The plan is to finish the planking and deck today, give them a coat of polyurethane matt. I notice on one of the other builds, (either Cobra 1951 or Bryank I think) that the corner mitres in the newer kits are much higher quality. All mine are different thicknesses, and rough as a bears what's it. The new ones look about 5mm thick and even. I don't intend to remake. Most will be covered by decking anyway. 
 
I've shown a photo of the cannon sides being cut. Note the poor quality ply and the router not cutting square corners. Also the kitchen knife for trimming....another welcome to Ghana tool!  

As you can see its been a while since my last post. I was planning to wait until I had finished all of the ratlines, shrouds and stays but I decided to post so pictures of my latest effort. Life and work had delayed any progress for a while but I have decided to get back at it to make that final push to completion. Part of that was deciding that I needed to get the Agamemnon done and part was my interest in starting the Modelshipworld/NRG  Chuck Passaros Winchelsea project. In any case Im looking to get the standing rigging done and then look to rig it with running rigging with sails.  So far with the ratlines nearly done and getting some progress into stays and shrouds Im feeling that the end could be in sight soon (I can try to optimistic 🙂 
 
Enjoy
 
Mike Draper 

Hello Marcus.
 
Congrats to you. A very nice ship and an amazing job in modelling.
 
Best regards
 
Hartmut

Next steps was to make the guns
At first I changed the brass into bronze by painting it with acrylic (old gold mixed with black)

 
And than the wooden parts.
Milling the side panels of the gun carriadges.

Side panels and other parts after cutting by band saw and sanding
 

First attempt

Making the  axis and the weels
 



The first finished gun

A board
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
At
At last for today I had to  modell 4 swivel guns for the stern. There were 4 guns from an older project. So it was easy to me to modify they into swivels.
 



 
Cheerio!
 
Hartmut

Next steps was to make the guns
At first I changed the brass into bronze by painting it with acrylic (old gold mixed with black)

 
And than the wooden parts.
Milling the side panels of the gun carriadges.

Side panels and other parts after cutting by band saw and sanding
 

First attempt

Making the  axis and the weels
 



The first finished gun

A board
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
At
At last for today I had to  modell 4 swivel guns for the stern. There were 4 guns from an older project. So it was easy to me to modify they into swivels.
 



 
Cheerio!
 
Hartmut

Next steps was to make the guns
At first I changed the brass into bronze by painting it with acrylic (old gold mixed with black)

 
And than the wooden parts.
Milling the side panels of the gun carriadges.

Side panels and other parts after cutting by band saw and sanding
 

First attempt

Making the  axis and the weels
 



The first finished gun

A board
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
At
At last for today I had to  modell 4 swivel guns for the stern. There were 4 guns from an older project. So it was easy to me to modify they into swivels.
 



 
Cheerio!
 
Hartmut

Next steps was to make the guns
At first I changed the brass into bronze by painting it with acrylic (old gold mixed with black)

 
And than the wooden parts.
Milling the side panels of the gun carriadges.

Side panels and other parts after cutting by band saw and sanding
 

First attempt

Making the  axis and the weels
 



The first finished gun

A board
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
At
At last for today I had to  modell 4 swivel guns for the stern. There were 4 guns from an older project. So it was easy to me to modify they into swivels.
 



 
Cheerio!
 
Hartmut

Next steps was to make the guns
At first I changed the brass into bronze by painting it with acrylic (old gold mixed with black)

 
And than the wooden parts.
Milling the side panels of the gun carriadges.

Side panels and other parts after cutting by band saw and sanding
 

First attempt

Making the  axis and the weels
 



The first finished gun

A board
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
At
At last for today I had to  modell 4 swivel guns for the stern. There were 4 guns from an older project. So it was easy to me to modify they into swivels.
 



 
Cheerio!
 
Hartmut

Next job on the Golden Hind was to make the channels.
 

I have made it from 2,5 x 2,5 mm bras,
 

 

The gun port lids
For this parts I had to make a lot of parts
The parts of the hinges are from bras, burnished with Nerofor from Ballistol, a german Company
 




 



 
Cheers!
 
Hartmut
 

Hello freinds and fellow members,
 
today I would like to introduce my new project comprising a model of an traditional working- and fishing boat, as used in the German Baltic state Mecklenburg- Vorpommern in the region called "Darss" with extended national Parks, many decades and years ago. These beautiful wooden boats today are being much cherrished, restored by knowledgable boatbuilders with love and are mostly owned and sailed by enthusiasts for heritage wooden craft with red/brown gaff- und lugger sails. Some have been motorized. There are several regattas on the Bodden waters now an then, a most lovely sight..
 
Around easter time this year my wife and I decided to do something for our health and we experienced a 7 day "fast hiking week" in the Darss region at the seaside, together with a group of 26 persons and with a trainer.
During the hiking tours we also came across little fishing boat ports, and here is where found my inspiration for building a model of one of these lovely boats.
 
In actual they bear an FZ.......  registration number on their main sail and they are determined the category "Zeesboat". They are planked either karweel or clinker type and have a swivible centerboard. Mostly they are ketch rigged or single masted with sloop rig. The lengths differ between 9- 12 meter
 
Before beginning there will be a preparation phase, as I mostly do, for the model in scratch build, as I unfortunately to date have no experience wih clinker (lapstrake) building, and some of the idias spooking in my mind have to be tested first, in order to do a near to original lapstrake planking.  I intend to plank over a mold / plug and to reinforce the hull later on with separatly added frames, after the hull is taken from the plug. The scale will be somewhere between 1:20 and 1:32. Planking will probably be pear 2 x 15 mm, held together with blackened brass pins and mini clench-discs on the lapstrake inside (resembling the riveted plank boatnails along the horizontal seams)
 
I beleave that there is at this time no other Zeesboat model presented in the MSW forum yet. For doing this model I even decided to postpone the intended model of the seagoing "Hainan Junk" to a future project
 
Nils
 
Preparation Phase
 
it may take some time from now to kick off the begin...
pin diameter 0,6 mm, head 1,3 mm,     The washer hole 0,6 mm, OD 1,4 mm, 0,3 mm thickness

Typical open Zeesboot with open rudder stand and working cockpit and small deckhouse before the mainmast
 
 
 

... seen in the little port of Wiek
 

old boat, new restored, cabin added to the cockpit
 

 
 

Boat "Marie Luise"
 

using some srap planks 2 x 12 mm and camfering the upper edges of the forelast plank for the landing surface dummy....
 

connecting the planks with flat head brass pins (slight countersink)
 

interior side of lapstrake
 

resembling (in lack of suitable clench washers) the clenching with small pieces of plastic tube....
 

 
 

have just received a sample of mini brass washers, that will do perfectly for "clenching" to the pins...
 

clench washers size in relation to the pins
 

here the planks are chisilled for fit and smooth flush transition to the dummy bowpost. The brass pins are here chemically blackend....
 
 

 
 

 
 
 
 

this will be my basic building plan... (out of a publication I recently bought from an antiquariat)
 
Nils

Next job on the Golden Hind was to make the channels.
 

I have made it from 2,5 x 2,5 mm bras,
 

 

The gun port lids
For this parts I had to make a lot of parts
The parts of the hinges are from bras, burnished with Nerofor from Ballistol, a german Company
 




 



 
Cheers!
 
Hartmut
 

Hello again.
 
Here are some pics of Golden hind from today.
 

 

 

 



 
Cheers Hartmut
 

Next job on the Golden Hind was to make the channels.
 

I have made it from 2,5 x 2,5 mm bras,
 

 

The gun port lids
For this parts I had to make a lot of parts
The parts of the hinges are from bras, burnished with Nerofor from Ballistol, a german Company
 




 



 
Cheers!
 
Hartmut
 

Next job on the Golden Hind was to make the channels.
 

I have made it from 2,5 x 2,5 mm bras,
 

 

The gun port lids
For this parts I had to make a lot of parts
The parts of the hinges are from bras, burnished with Nerofor from Ballistol, a german Company
 




 



 
Cheers!
 
Hartmut
 

Next job on the Golden Hind was to make the channels.
 

I have made it from 2,5 x 2,5 mm bras,
 

 

The gun port lids
For this parts I had to make a lot of parts
The parts of the hinges are from bras, burnished with Nerofor from Ballistol, a german Company
 




 



 
Cheers!
 
Hartmut
 

Next job on the Golden Hind was to make the channels.
 

I have made it from 2,5 x 2,5 mm bras,
 

 

The gun port lids
For this parts I had to make a lot of parts
The parts of the hinges are from bras, burnished with Nerofor from Ballistol, a german Company
 




 



 
Cheers!
 
Hartmut
 

Hello Marcus.
 
Congrats to you. A very nice ship and an amazing job in modelling.
 
Best regards
 
Hartmut