dafi

Is that beast dead or merely sleeping?   Oh... it's flynot a parrot.  Nevermind. 
 
Good to read that you've solved the preventer rope mystery. 
 
At first I thought the "hot guns jumping and recoiling" was a bit of literary license on part of some authors.  But then, I remembered seeing some videos of American Civil War (aka, The Recent Unpleasantness) where the gunners were firing for effect (load as fast as they could).  I believe it was a competition to get 10 rounds off, points for speed and accuracy.  Last several shots made those cannon jump also. 

Thank you Sirs :-)
 
Kevin who?
- Dr dafi® still around, alive and kicking !!!
- Dr. Tentacle is still there to all eternity - he can´t move any more ...
- Captain Hook? Who the hell is Captain Hook?
 
Popeye: As mentioned earlier, the only source I find so far for the preventer breeching is Goodwin. But as in the rigging all important systems are with a redundancy system to get fail safe, I see it quite logical to have one on the breeching ropes too in case of breaking while firing the gun or due to battle damage. Showing it in the build is of course some kind of risky, but  I would like to put this feature up to discussion by doing so. Perhaps this helps to enlighten the affair. Does anybody has any clue or where Goodwin has his sources from?
 
Jan: The special treatment just will be just for those 6 guns that will be run out, as they still will be in the photographic focus for some future documentation. The installed lashed up ones will stay the way they are :-)
But as there is always a growth in ability and know-how, there will be always new solutions and perhaps I will still find out new tricks for the guns on display on the upper deck - who knows, I am already beyond everything that I ever imagined in my wildest dreams when I started this build :-)
 
 
Cheers, Daniel

Thank you Maurice :-)
 
And what does one do if one is bored? One starts pimping around ...
 
... with the gunport lids I alreadyshowed, that it is possible, to attach the needed ring onto the eyebolts, so why not doing this on a larger scale, say perhaps the breeching ropes?!?
 
So ripped the single guidance ring for the breeching rope out of the carriage, build in the new double one and already prepared the rest. So it looks like there still was place for improvment in the old carriage ;-)
 

 
And of course attached the breeching ropes - again showing the infamous goodwin´s preventer breeching rope - and here we are, gun 2.0, aka Dr. Tentacle :-)
 

 
And here he comes, Dr. Tentacle´s arch enemy, the incredible Dr. dafi ® - terror of all multi-armed creatures, in his insatiable wish to bind Dr. Tentacle and confine him down onto a secure place!
 
Cleverly Dr. dafi ® puts up a trap:
 
 
 
... a needle on a shish kebab skewer ...
 

 
... makes the aiming markings on the inner hull :-)
 
Afterwards - no not the same picture again ...
 

 
... no this time ...
 

 
... there is a fine drill attached :-)
 
Then Dr. Tentacle was lured into the trap ...
 

 
... and detained :-)
 

 
...hihihihihihihihi...
 
... see him fidgeting around in despair but no more escape will be his :-)
 

 
Once again Dr. dafi ® wins and shows the limits to one more abominable creature of maritime navyisms!
And please tune in again next week, when we will show: Who the hell is Captain Hook?!?
 
Greetings from the tentacle-tamer, Dr. dafi ®

THAT is far too near, as the gun would run over. It should be just where the opening starts.
 
Also the breeching line is far too short :-)
 
Gruß, Daniel

In addition to building period models I am also a fan of fiction from the Napoleonic period, Hornblower etc. All of these novels do mention the increased risk of injury from "jumping" guns once the barrel gets hot. I don't know the details or why, but I suspect there is something here we still have not uncovered. Everything I have read seems to indicate that the recoil is more violent once the barrel is hot.

Here some more entries from my Vic-Build:
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Thank you all, Daniel

Hello Parick.
 
Thanks for your note.  I didn't mean to imply that I rigged all 30 cannons on the gun deck.  I, too, only rigged the ten that show through the skid beams.  Even then, when you  put the ship's boats on the skid beams, very little of those 10 cannons will be seen.  I also didn't rig the cannons on the aft qurterdeck since they are covered by the poop deck
 
Then:
 
Now: 
 
Thanks again for your uch apreciated response and take care,
Jerr

A small update with some rigging details.

Hey all!
 
Working more slowly, but I have done a little progress on the towers. I have also redone the angles of the pinacles of the top towers.
 
 
/Matti

Phew, finally got the tower sculptures in place. I didnt really enjoy the process, but looking at the result feels nice. I repainted the ones on the starboard side, as I needed to mute them more. The soldering iron worked great and after a few I learned how the plastic behaves.Sanding the sculptures thinner was also important as it got them more in scale and made it easyer to shape them.
 
 
 
/Matti

Hey all!
Did some progress on the gallery sculptures. I try to get a slightly uneven look of them like the placement on the original ship, that I think looks very full of life and almost organic. I sanded and reshaped the figures quite alot to get a better fit and look more in scale with the model. (Still need to repaint some details after gluing them on the ship.)
 
 
/Matti
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

HI, Im Matti from Sweden. Ive been inlove with the Vasa ship since young age. For a long time I wanted to make a replica, and now decided it was time.
 
I decided to go with the BB kit. It will be out of box, but some changes like open gun ports and some details changed.
 
Having not built wood boats before I know its a hard model to start with. But I need the passion for the subject to keep a big project going. I have done some scratching before so hopefully I can use thet knowledge when building this. 
 
Ok, so here are some pics from start to where Im at in the build.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
I went to the Vasa museum a few weeks back and took a lot of reference. Right now Im trying to figure out how to plank this area:
 

 
Cheers
 
 
/Matti

Matti,
 
For your bow detail, try this. I cut some small pieces, glued them at an angle, and then drilled very small holes to have the appearance of nails. Close up in this pic it looks "weak" but just looking at it through normal vision the poor quality effort sort of goes away.
 
PS: I almost totally missed this small detail on the ship. After looking at so many photos I realized that the Vasa had these planks to allow the water sto slip under the bow. Your photo is spectacular the best I have seen. Please post more pics of your visit, I'm sure that they would be great to see.
 
Michael

Always sad if such a nice building report is set aside and I hope that the sweet lady will not lay for thirteen years in ordinary like the original as yours became a real piece of art under your skilled hands!
 
But also I am very keen in seeing your treatment on the other beast :-)
 
Please show and tell and here!
 
XXXDAniel

Wonderful!
 
DAniel

Hello
here are two videos on the exhibition of ship models Viareggio 13-15 September 2013
 

 

 
rekon54

Photo of the Fleuron 1729 1:24
 
 

Photo of the Fleuron 1729 1:24

Photo of the Fleuron 1729 1:24

Photo of the Fleuron 1729 1:24

Photo of the Fleuron 1729 1:24

Photo of the Fleuron 1729 1:24
 

Photo of the Fleuron

hi to everybody
 
I have understood that the my old topic has gone lost. 
I will try to put again all the photos of my job. 
and I will make the index around first page if I succeed there. 
 

Le Fleuron French vessel from 1729 64 guns.

drawings of Gerard Delacroix publishing by ANCRE








model in scale 1:24 wood of pear
 
 

 

 
 
with friendship Giorgo Flenghi
 
alias rekon54 

Thank you all for your input! Very appreciated :-)
 
Next cleared up the breeching ropes on both sides ...
 

 
... especially the loop ...
 

 
... and also looked at both sides that the ropes won´t be stuck underneath the wheels.
 

 
Then checked the length ...
 

 
... and Jan was right, here comes Captain Hook ...
 

 
... and have him installed in all his glory.
 

 

 

 
XXXDAn