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  1. dafi
    Finally after a long time remounted my rope walk again. For space reasons simply hung in the basement hallway under the ceiling :-) Then I started rigging to try out the blocks. In the contemporary plans, the blocks are about half the width of the forward wheel. These blocks are minimally larger, which makes handling much easier. To do this, nailed a mounting hook into a piece of wood for holding the hooks. And for that the small blocks do not go off, I always put them immediately on the leash 🙂 And here the rigged hook and block from close up. For comparison in size ... ... and in place. Since I had pulled down one of the knees with my thick sausage fingers, I immediately took the chance to be able to photograph undisturbed 🙂 Greetings, Daniel
  2. dafi
    I continued a bit over the weekend. First fixed the bolts and rings in the hull ... Then prepared the breech: 0.6 mm, the middle marked by means of black thread. The barrels had no brech ring on the pommelion, so the breech needs an eye splice to prevent it from slipping off. The small parallel piece is glued on first. So that the attachment is not too obvious, it is cut off at an pointed angle ... ... and glued on. Then came a test fit to determine the length. Stabilized the cut with super glue ... ... glued on ... ... and fits http://www.shipmodels.info/mws_forum/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif A good model building solution in itself, ... ... but in the original, this splice was additionally dressed to protect against the large stress when guns were fired. Then made a template for the length of the breechline. The eyes are bound in the manner of the dead eyes. And everything is ready for installation ... ... and in place. Here in the loading position at the very back, the brooktau tensioned. And run out here. So slowly it's moving in the right direction. XXXDAn
  3. dafi
    Oh my favourite topic 🙂 I am having a good collection of the topic at https://www.segelschiffsmodellbau.com/t866f104-The-Heads.html One can activate the automatic translater if you scroll down the page and on the bottom you will find a button with "Sprache auswählen". Change this to english or the language that you prefer 🙂 Especially I like the contempoary grafics and paintings, even two lads doing business in the middle of a raging battle ... :-0 XXXDAn
  4. dafi
    At least at today´s Constitution 😉 XXXDAn
  5. dafi
    Just realised, that todays Constitution has cablets as breeching lines. Surprising, as they are meant to be more stiff than normal right handed lay, therfor more danger of breaking under the violent bent at the breech. Par opposite the Victory has (or at least had for a long time) lefthanded breeching lines, probabely as they are more flexible, means less breakable and also better absorbing the shocks. Any Idea of that? XXXDAn
  6. dafi
    Just realised on a picture I posted in the Gibraltar thread, that there too were double blocks hooked in the back of the carriage. Here clearly the standing part comes from the other hook. More intriguing in your picture is the use of a cablet as breeching line.
  7. dafi
    I got mail today, fresh off the press, from Kerry Jang in Canada: Victory, 100-gun First Rtae 1765, Seaforth Publishing. The book is part of a series ShipCraft and is number 29. The book deals with Victory model kits and is aimed specifically at modelers. Besides history, it presents the available kits from 1:1200 to 1:64 in the full range of materials, gives an overview of the current aftermarket and presents 3 built models. A larger article goes over the various appearances of the ship and ends in new overview drawings, done especially for this book by McKay. I have yet to analyze the historical and appearance part at times, but know that Kerry Jang has talked to a great many protagonists of the Victory scene. Personal notes: - McKay´s AOTS was my first stop on the way to Victory. The color on the book´s pages were watched pale ever since. - I stood in front of the first of the 3 models presented in the book at the convention in Rochefort with my mouth open, jaw to the floor: the 1:300 version by Etsuro Tsuboi. Breathtaking! - The second model of the Victory is 1:48 by Kazunobu Shirai and it was the first model of this ship that I fell in love with over 15 years ago when I started doing internet research on this ship. - And the third model shown is actually the little fatty one with bumble bee stripes by a certain dafi :-0 Never, really never would I have dared to dream of ending up with 3 of my heroes in the same book! Thank you Kerry for that opportunity! Dear greetings, DAniel
  8. dafi
    Dear Bill, it is a great honor and splendid pleasure to be quoted by you in such a wonderful display with this wonderful rendition of this iconic ship! It had become an icon in its own sense. Wonderful model making, and congratulations, far too many good model makers never brought it that far in that perfection! All the best, DAniel
  9. dafi
    And I was finally able to do some more woodwork. Got the lathe out and turned some supports. Then built the 4 knees. And suddenly the part flew towards the aspiration tube. THAT'S WHY I have the perforated metal grating there on the smoke http://www.shipmodels.info/mws_forum/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif Fitting ... ... and ready. Here you can see the two diagonal knees above the gun. And so that I don't mess up when rigging the gun tackles, I made the upper deck removable. Now it's going to be small itsbits, looking forward to it, XXXDAn
  10. dafi
    The interesting thing is, that the carriage is exactely identical with the drawing from Mr. Rivers sketchbook and showing Victory´s carriage. XXXDAn
  11. dafi
    Possibly something alike like this russian position at the Crimian War. Shelter against sharp shooters and shrapnels. XXXDAn
  12. dafi
    There are several contemporary models showing this feature in the NMM archives. Many of them still have a large compass rose in the middle. If I remember well, there is already a thread here in MSW showing those. https://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/549999.html SLR0506.3; 'Superb' (1760) Date made circa 1760 Also a nice detail about Nelson, reported by his secretairy: As he did not want help to dress and undress as for his missing arm, he always wore loafers even at heavy weather. So he was able to dress and undress them by himself and if his feet got wet he used to walk in socks over the carpets in his cabin, until the feet got dry 🙂 This means, it was not unusual to put something over the chequers still. XXXDAn
  13. dafi
    As this topic came up newly, I can add some better pictures of Thorsminde, taken this summer :-) Fascinating to see the 1812 mounts. A total of 3 are on display in 2 rooms. I had to climb a little behind the display, but fortunately no one complained 🙂 You can see the mounting holes of the cheeks in the front and on the side. In the last picture you can see a label on the axle. I also never noticed the doubling up under the axle, possibly to serve as a slide if a wheel is damaged in action. In another room is another carriage. What is fascinating here is that two layers of paint seem to have survived: Ochre over red. You can see the play of colours here. Red and ochre paint? More difficult to see, the inscription of the rear end, to be read from the left: St. George
  14. dafi
    The Tee-Plates also can be seen on todays Vic. The eyebolts were for emergency as already said, but also to put pulleys for the deadeye lanyards, to straighten the shrouds to ease the lanyards and of course for any other purpose possible :-) XXXDAn
  15. dafi
    And on it went in the text, or rather with the man glitter. First attempt at the substructure of the upper deck. I still changed it afterwards. Then the planks were caulked: Glued vertically on a duct tape and brushed with thicker paint, gives exactly the right width for the scale. Freshly glued, it looks like newly tarred ... ... and after holystoning already a bit more "shipshape" http://www.shipmodels.info/mws_forum/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif Adjusting the height of the Carronade ... ... and fitting test. Fits, so close and put the gunwale on http://www.shipmodels.info/mws_forum/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif Enjoy http://www.shipmodels.info/mws_forum/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif And to show the size ... ... in this sense, all the best, DAniel
  16. dafi
    *looking surprised* "Shelf? What shelf?". *looking surprised* XXXDAn
  17. dafi
    Never even I know where my brains will go, there were small voices that told me: "take that wood and build ..." My wife is missing that old shelf she inherited from her anceseters, hope she does not get too souspicious ... XXXDAn
  18. dafi
    When the little wood hunger strikes ... ... then there it comes, the man´s glitter ... ... or dafi goes stray 😉 First of all I made a small deck, the size of a matchbox ... Then I put a round sander into the stand drill and worked out the frame shape. After I had to look for my workpiece 3 (!) times in the hoover bag, a perforated plate was placed in front of the hoover´s tube! Then I glued 4 blanks with double sided tape on top of each other and sanded them as one piece into the frame´s shape. A quick check - yup, it fits. Made a jig out of polysterol strips so that everything can be glued at right angles ... ... and after curing the next fitting test. Meanwhile, the gun visits its new home. The barrel is in the center - yup it fits too So I glued on the planks on the inside, from bottom to top according to Marquardt: Waterway, then Spirketting, Ceiling, Thick Stuff below Clamp and Clamp. And then also closed the planking on the outside And yes, here they come, the inevitable: the 1 cent piece and the TicTac 😉 Best regards, Daniel
  19. dafi
    Wonderfully done! XXXDAn
  20. dafi
    Man´s glitter! Well, after more than half a year I finally came back to my man cave and was able to do something. Man did I miss that! In the meantime I was able to hatch some great ideas, so I dug out a matchbox ... ... and used it as the basis for a small pre-model. As usual, it's about being able to try out a few small things. Esepcially again and again about the use positions of the carronades. The guns are also slowly coming into the home stretch. It's always good to be able to keep an eye as a model builder on the programmer. The printing supports have been optimised so that the parts can be removed with as little reworking as possible, and the model construction itself also leads to details being improved in order to make them easier to paint. Here is the 24-pounder. Beautiful details like the coin´s handle and the retaining cord of the stool bed are just great to look at, as are the fittings on the underside - just too bad they are mostly hidden. Meanwhile, for the carronade, I decided to leave the barrel in one piece with the upper carriage. Because of the height adjustment screw, changing the elevation was difficult to adjust anyway or would have been too fragile. The swivel radius of the skeat around the pivot pin, the sliding way and rotation of the upper carriage were kept. And here's a little family picture. And then came the man´s glitter. XXXDAn
  21. dafi
    Great work! XXXDAn
  22. dafi
    Wonderful build and great discussions, I love it, congratulations! The main sheet tackle spreader was not introduced until quite a while after Trafalgar. That is why I omitted it in the etch set. I am not sure but I think it was also taken of the ship a while ago. Just have the eyebbolt on the hull, a length of tackle and that is it 🙂 All the best, DAniel
  23. dafi
    If one looks at 12 pounder carriage of St. George at Thorsminde of 1811, one could imagine seeing a red paint overpinted with yellw ochre 🙂 This would represent my understanding that slowly the color was changed around 1800 from red to yellow. Look for yourselves. XXXDAn
  24. dafi
    Small sign of life from Danmark Frigate Jylland! Stay up, all the best, Daniel
  25. dafi
    Hello Bill, thank you for the question. Have to think. I vaguely remember that there was an issue with the diameter of the provided spars, that made me give different diameters of the rings to find the right size. Stupidly I did not document this in the instructions ... As far as I know, all stun´sails were up at Trafalgar But there were no stun´sail at the main yard as these were not issued any more after an admirality order from 1801 (Lees). This also means, that the spars on the main channels are most possibly for the fore yard stun´sails. But still have to see if my memory does not play me tricks for the different sizes of rings. All the best, DAniel

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