amateur

Last night I was able to construct the main mast.  The mast is very different than we find on most sailing ships.  It is a very elongated triangle with cross pieces to support the rigging.  I fashioned the mast over the plans.  The cross pieces require some care drilling of holes (I used a dremel drill stand that worked quite well).  It seems the main masts on these ships were retractable to a "saddle" which will be constructed near the stern.  Because the mast is retractable, the rope wrapping in the interior of the hull was a bit complicated.

Amateur:  Had play around with the math since I think in inches and feet.  The model is about 1 foot in length.  At a scale of 1:50 I estimate the full scale ship would have been about 50 feet in length; which I believe is close to 15 meters.

Those are wonderful photos!  Thanks for posting.

This is al deck and interior related pics I have.....
Pics were taken march 5th, 2010 when the ship was in Utrecht for a winter-overhaul.
Therefore most deckfittings (decklights) were covered in tarpaulin......
 



 
I hope they are of some use to you, as the requested structures are not in the pics
 
Jan
 
 

This is al deck and interior related pics I have.....
Pics were taken march 5th, 2010 when the ship was in Utrecht for a winter-overhaul.
Therefore most deckfittings (decklights) were covered in tarpaulin......
 



 
I hope they are of some use to you, as the requested structures are not in the pics
 
Jan
 
 

This is al deck and interior related pics I have.....
Pics were taken march 5th, 2010 when the ship was in Utrecht for a winter-overhaul.
Therefore most deckfittings (decklights) were covered in tarpaulin......
 



 
I hope they are of some use to you, as the requested structures are not in the pics
 
Jan
 
 

This is al deck and interior related pics I have.....
Pics were taken march 5th, 2010 when the ship was in Utrecht for a winter-overhaul.
Therefore most deckfittings (decklights) were covered in tarpaulin......
 



 
I hope they are of some use to you, as the requested structures are not in the pics
 
Jan
 
 

Did you consider correcting the 'waviness' of the sides before adding the 'inner planking'? Adding this additional layer might stiffen up the sides, making the straightening-up more of a challenge.
 
Jan

If there were such a thing as a standing ovation on the internet, we'd all be jumping up and down on our seats. Thanks so much for sharing your work with us. Your progress was a pleasure, and an education, to watch. Keep safe and know that all of us in the West are rooting, and praying, for you and for Ukraine. 

The similarity to the original is stunning. What a master you are!
 
Hope you will be able to continue your work and share it with us in the comming year(s)
 
Jan

HMCS Sackville passing 'Ocean Pilgrim' North Atlantic WW2
16" X 11"

The next step proved to be a bit difficult.  Egyptian ships did not have keels.  They stablized the hull by stretching a large rope in a arch between the bow and stern.  At the bow and stern they crafted "hard points" to attach this rope truss.  The hard points had to be quite strong so they used heavily wrapped rope as a strap to hold the hard point to the hull.  They would wrap the strap around the hard point structure and then loop under the hull.  My final photo will give you an idea of what I am trying to describe.  The plans called for making the strap by cutting out a copper strip from thin copper sheet and then wrapping this with rope.  I cut out the pattern from the plans and quickly discovered it was not long enought to wrap around the hull.  I lengthened the pattern but traced the new pattern on the copper sheet.  However, I just managed to destroy the sheet trying to cut out the copper strap.  I really have to improve my metal fashioning skills.
 
I instead tried to duplicate the straps I saw in photos, when I researched Egyptian ships on the internet, using rope.  I took two lengths of 1.3 mm rope and wrapped them with .7 mm rope to form a thicker straight rope for the strap.  I then wrapped these straight ropes around the dowl that would become the hard point and then around the hull.  Finally I attached the two straps together in the center to form the final single strap.  I hope my photos do a better job of showing what I fashioned than my descriptions.  During the wrapping process I would coat the wrapped portion of the straps with thinned wood glue and then dry it in a fruit dehydrator.  This worked great.  The wrappings stayed put but the strap remained flexible so I could work with it.  Anyhow, I think I was able to achieve an acceptable result.  The last two photos show first the bow and then the stern hard points for the truss rope; which will be installed later.

The similarity to the original is stunning. What a master you are!
 
Hope you will be able to continue your work and share it with us in the comming year(s)
 
Jan

If I’m not mistaken, many of us are approaching that milestone on this particular iteration of the forum. I believe  the ten year anniversary of the “Great Crash” is coming up in February. I was a member here for a couple of years before that historic event. I wonder if @James H will be throwing a party to celebrate? 😁
 
Andy
 
 

great find, it was my first "proper" wooden ship build. the flexible strip will be used for railings around the mast tops and the head.
it was a pleasure to build this kit, if I did it again, I would only replace the beech strips used for the inner bulwark frames, which were pretty brittle and difficult to cut clean. 
the part list is organized by the order of building, which I found a great feature.

good luck for your build!

Looks as if nothing changed over the last 20 years
 
those warped planks: are those perhaps the steamed beech strips? (Recognisable as very flexible strips). Those were a bit wavy in my kit.

For those going to build the model: there is s book on the model in the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum (yes: Corel made a model of a model), written by Herman Ketting. In dutch, but interesting anyway
 
And the kit makes a nice model: 

(I left out the guns, as they were too many and I didn’t like the looks of them)
 
Jan

Looks as if nothing changed over the last 20 years
 
those warped planks: are those perhaps the steamed beech strips? (Recognisable as very flexible strips). Those were a bit wavy in my kit.

For those going to build the model: there is s book on the model in the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum (yes: Corel made a model of a model), written by Herman Ketting. In dutch, but interesting anyway
 
And the kit makes a nice model: 

(I left out the guns, as they were too many and I didn’t like the looks of them)
 
Jan

Looks as if nothing changed over the last 20 years
 
those warped planks: are those perhaps the steamed beech strips? (Recognisable as very flexible strips). Those were a bit wavy in my kit.

For those going to build the model: there is s book on the model in the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum (yes: Corel made a model of a model), written by Herman Ketting. In dutch, but interesting anyway
 
And the kit makes a nice model: 

(I left out the guns, as they were too many and I didn’t like the looks of them)
 
Jan

Or turn to card-modelling. There are some good card-models around of ships from thus era (orel/oriel for indtsnce has a couple 1:200 scale, see http://Www.papermodeling.net )
Not for the fainthearted though: quite a number of very small bits and pieces to cut and glue.
 
Jan

Or turn to card-modelling. There are some good card-models around of ships from thus era (orel/oriel for indtsnce has a couple 1:200 scale, see http://Www.papermodeling.net )
Not for the fainthearted though: quite a number of very small bits and pieces to cut and glue.
 
Jan

The Admiral keeps asking, "Do you really use all these books?" pointing to my nautical/modeling library. 
Today, I showed her.    

I am putting a Vyco cover (5-layer vinyl covering usually used on drafting tables) on my old computer desk.  It will be my modeling work station when I finish.  (The cover is 37X60 inches and will be cut to fit my 24X57 desk with a leftover piece cut to fit my 22X10 keyboard tray.)
 
The instructions say to unroll the material and let it lay flat at room temperature for 24 hours. Vyco recommends using books to help the material relax lay flat after being rolled up for shipping. (Hmmm, sounds a lot like what I like to do - relax with a book, usually laying on my chest as I lay flat.)
 
So, yes, dear, I really do need all those books.
  

The similarity to the original is stunning. What a master you are!
 
Hope you will be able to continue your work and share it with us in the comming year(s)
 
Jan

The similarity to the original is stunning. What a master you are!
 
Hope you will be able to continue your work and share it with us in the comming year(s)
 
Jan

The similarity to the original is stunning. What a master you are!
 
Hope you will be able to continue your work and share it with us in the comming year(s)
 
Jan

The similarity to the original is stunning. What a master you are!
 
Hope you will be able to continue your work and share it with us in the comming year(s)
 
Jan