piter56
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piter56 reacted to hdrinker in Pegasus by hdrinker - 1:48 - POF - Swan practicum
Remaining swivel guns, rails, safety ropes. Deadeyes and stern light next. Can someone tell me what the large beam mounted across the foredeck and protruding well off the starboard side was for?
Henry
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piter56 reacted to igorcap in Figureheads of sailing ships.
One of the most beautiful French ships from the fleet of the Sun King. Le Ambitieux (1692). So far only the stern decor
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piter56 reacted to Gregor in Chaloupe armée en guerre / 42ft Armed Longboat of 1834 by Gregor – FINISHED - scale 1:62
Here is the finished boat, with a few more details. I really can recommend Gérard Delacroix's plans, and I hope to motivate a few of you to buy them and build your own.
Cheers, Gregor.
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piter56 reacted to Gregor in Chaloupe armée en guerre / 42ft Armed Longboat of 1834 by Gregor – FINISHED - scale 1:62
The gun barrel, the reason for the strange scale (1:62) is exactly 50 mm long (a little less than 2''). Its carriage fits into the slides.
A (real) lead cover was hammered and formed over an (inexistent) flint lock for protection.; an idea I took from Johann's phantastic build of La créole (
For the side tackles I used Chucks 3 mm blocks.
To be continued and finished soon...
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piter56 reacted to Gregor in Chaloupe armée en guerre / 42ft Armed Longboat of 1834 by Gregor – FINISHED - scale 1:62
To be continued soon...
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piter56 reacted to Gregor in Chaloupe armée en guerre / 42ft Armed Longboat of 1834 by Gregor – FINISHED - scale 1:62
Small details:
At this pint, the boat weights 31 grams.
To be continued soon...
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piter56 reacted to Gregor in Chaloupe armée en guerre / 42ft Armed Longboat of 1834 by Gregor – FINISHED - scale 1:62
These gun boats were huge! They were 13 meters long (42 feet). A standard ship's cutter of 6 meters looks quite small in comparison.
I was very lucky this summer, when I visited the city of Karlskrona, in Sweden. There is an excellent Museum, with a collection of small boats in a dedicated shed (difficult to take pictures inside...). There I found a sloop, built in 1833, of roughly the same size as my chaloupe! This was really impressive.
To be continued soon...
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piter56 reacted to Gregor in Chaloupe armée en guerre / 42ft Armed Longboat of 1834 by Gregor – FINISHED - scale 1:62
The interior, part two:
To be continued soon...
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piter56 reacted to Gregor in Chaloupe armée en guerre / 42ft Armed Longboat of 1834 by Gregor – FINISHED - scale 1:62
The interior:
Floor boards were separated by paper strips while glue dries.
The interior was then varnished with Danish oil.
To be continued soon...
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piter56 reacted to Gregor in Chaloupe armée en guerre / 42ft Armed Longboat of 1834 by Gregor – FINISHED - scale 1:62
A litte more than a year ago I started a side-project. I bought the plans for this small boat on a whim, after visiting an excellent exhibition at Rochefort, France (thats where the famous frigate Hermione has its home port).
The model is about 22 cm or 8.66142 inches long.
Building this little gun-boat gave me great pleasure and quite a few headaches, mostly due to my choice of a small scale of 1:62 (I scaled the plans down to fit the gun barrel from rb-models in Poland).
The plans and explanations (ancre.fr) are excellent, available in several languages - even in my native German. Here I will keep my explanations short. I recommend the - as always - very instructive log by Tony
with further references.
My chaloupe is made from pear, painted in French style of the time (with the exception of the imperial green on the inside, which would made it more historically accurate).
So here are the first steps:
Keel parts assembled (2 mm pear)
The frames (1.2 mm pear) were watered, bent over a soldering iron and pinned on the form (with a shortcut at the stern, where no frames were needed for this model), covered with glossy synthetic-resin varnish.
Planking was done with 0.5 mm pear planks
To be continued soon...
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piter56 reacted to Gregor in La Belle 1684 by Gregor – Finished - 1:64 scale
Well, I'm happy to report that I can take off my prescription glasses when I work on small details - one of the benefits of aging 🙂
@JacquesCousteau: Each regular frame consists of two parts, each 2.5 mm thick (frame M has three parts).
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piter56 reacted to Gregor in La Belle 1684 by Gregor – Finished - 1:64 scale
I finally found the time to add a few details, a cat head and spill, bitts, belaying cleats and a pump.
Cheers,
Gregor
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piter56 reacted to Gregor in La Belle 1684 by Gregor – Finished - 1:64 scale
And this is the current state of the work from January to July 2024: 86 grams (I apologize for the picture quality - a summer evening on the roof)..
An update will follow, sometime...
Cheers,
Gregor
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piter56 reacted to Gregor in La Belle 1684 by Gregor – Finished - 1:64 scale
November 2022: A reserve anchor had to be provided before the deck beams could be installed. At the same time, I built up my stock for the coming winter and had more parts milled.
I failed miserably at sawing through a copper sheet, so the anchors were also milled ...
... and painted.
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piter56 reacted to Gregor in La Belle 1684 by Gregor – Finished - 1:64 scale
Summer 2022: La Belle now weighs 71 grams. I worked on the stern decoration (with simplifications) and the starboard side. Not everything is exactly according to Boudriot - I was also inspired by alternative reconstructions (Grieco, Delacroix) and the contemporary La Volage. Here are a few impressions:
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piter56 reacted to Gregor in La Belle 1684 by Gregor – Finished - 1:64 scale
Two months later, I can record an additional two grams: La Belle now weighs 66 of them (the kitchen scales are obviously not a precision instrument).
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piter56 reacted to Gregor in La Belle 1684 by Gregor – Finished - 1:64 scale
When the sun shines, I'll get back to work on the trim strips - not everything works in the home office. The scraper blades from Amati don't take anything smaller than 2x2 mm - then the rest is milled away. It only takes a few minutes (it's December in Switzerland).
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piter56 reacted to Gregor in La Belle 1684 by Gregor – Finished - 1:64 scale
December 2021: The beauty now weighs a proud 64 grams on the kitchen scales!
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piter56 reacted to Gregor in La Belle 1684 by Gregor – Finished - 1:64 scale
Templates are helping to avoid manual destruction (I guess this sounds strange, but I think you know what I mean):
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piter56 reacted to Gregor in La Belle 1684 by Gregor – Finished - 1:64 scale
At this stage the little one weighs just 51 grams.
Making the bow timbers was tricky.
This is the first time I have seen the hull complete:
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piter56 reacted to Gregor in La Belle 1684 by Gregor – Finished - 1:64 scale
Relief in the home office (but it was cool and windy on the roof)...
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