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Karl! No words... Keep powder dry! 

Thank you all for your kind comments! Yesterday came to visit me my friend, brought to display their boats, which are made in scale 1:20. Valery has kindly allowed to take photos and show them on this Forum.

Two beauties!

Thank you all for your kind comments! Yesterday came to visit me my friend, brought to display their boats, which are made in scale 1:20. Valery has kindly allowed to take photos and show them on this Forum.

Thank you, Mark! Be sure to give him Your words!

Two beauties!

Thank you all for your kind comments! Yesterday came to visit me my friend, brought to display their boats, which are made in scale 1:20. Valery has kindly allowed to take photos and show them on this Forum.

Druxey,
 
If I cover the entire gun deck then it is not worth to build the inside because nothing would be visible.
 
I did modify some parts;
 
Cathead anchor are not glued, if   glued it it is almost sure that I will break at leasrt one later.
 
I changed the chimney side to see the copper plate on the top of the stove.
 
About the gun carriages; which also are not glued  on the deck as for the same previous reason. I observed in previous builds that ropes assembly are sufficent to hold the gun  and if the assembly is  too much static, it is almost for sure that I will in the next years  when turning around the hull hit some guns, and if the assembly has some play to move  it will not break.

Beautiful work on those boats.   Please thank your friend for letting us see them.

Thank you all for your kind comments! Yesterday came to visit me my friend, brought to display their boats, which are made in scale 1:20. Valery has kindly allowed to take photos and show them on this Forum.

Two beauties!

Thank you all for your kind comments! Yesterday came to visit me my friend, brought to display their boats, which are made in scale 1:20. Valery has kindly allowed to take photos and show them on this Forum.

Thank you all for your kind comments! Yesterday came to visit me my friend, brought to display their boats, which are made in scale 1:20. Valery has kindly allowed to take photos and show them on this Forum.

The best kind of rest is change of activity.

Captain Al! The answer to Your question: first I wanted to make the frames from thin strips glued to the block. To do this, made templates of the frames of two halves which are fastened with pins. Using a router made a groove in each half of the pattern. This groove laid thin planks greased with glue, secured with screws. After drying, the glue will get here are half frames. But after much reflection, I abandoned this technology, and used the old tried and tested method of building models which I've used previously. Where shaded black color - must be removed, it turned out symmetrical groove.

It's a rainy weekend, and I'm still working on the railing caps. As you can see, the two sisters are slowly growing apart.
 

 

 

 

 
Enjoy,
Gregor

A piece each of stem and stern are cut out and replacement pieces, made from leftover 5mm walnut wood, fit into place.
Fixation with a few nails is provisionally only to permit removal for sanding.
 

 
 
Now the keel, bulkheads and deck as well as the filler pieces have been glued. I'm presently scratching away with sanding paper while trying to find out how that stern should look. There are different variations in the internet and  the kits plans treat that problem with a certain Latin liberality. I should find a somehow sturdy and elegant form...

Build log schooner America
While working on HM Schooner Pickle I started to look out for a next project. As I really did like the simple elegance of the schooner and a friend of mine had long reserved some space in his office for a dust catcher in form of a model ship the decision to build another schooner was taken. This friend has family connections to the US and I always liked the elegant, innovative design of America and so this vessel was chosen. Also the Mamoli kit comes in scale 1/66 which is close enough to 1/64 to make all fittings in this scale available for a bit of kit enhancement. A decade ago I had built Mamolis La Gloire and found the kit of good quality (...for that time - I had never seen a JoTiKa kit yet).
Mamoli seems presently to be out of service but I was lucky to find a kit in a Swiss model shop.
 
The Kit
The first impression was quite good. A tidy box with cleanly separated parts in various compartments. The quality of the wood is only average but the cast parts look good. The plans seem to cover the whole build although the written instructions are meagre and sometimes a bit difficult to understand. The original is Italian, which I don't speak, but by combining English and German translations (by Google?) and some educated guess I should be able to get the meaning of it.
 
The coppering
Mamoli uses an ingenious simple way to imitate the coppering of the lower hull with small wooden tiles. The same method was used in Keith Juliers earlier books and looked to be an clever approximation.
However as the excellent copper plates of Victory Models are available I will use them. This asks for some re-planning as 0,5mm strips will be replaced by thin copper. Therefore lower hull and rudder will have to be different.
 
The skeleton
Keel and frames are of quite soft 3,5mm plywood and need some reworking to fit. The two deck parts equally need a rework but altogether a skeleton is quite easily formed. The slender elegant lines are now visible and I'm definitely hooked - a beautiful design.
Visible is also the that stem and sternpost need to be made as separate new parts with a strength of 5mm. Also the rudder will need a similar replacement.
Some additional wood strips are necessary to cover the lower hull and at the same time I can adjust the deck planking.
 

dry fit of the skeleton
 
 

Pickle's bosun standing on Americas deck is a bit overwhelmed by the sheer size of this modern schooner

Thank you all for your kind comments! Yesterday came to visit me my friend, brought to display their boats, which are made in scale 1:20. Valery has kindly allowed to take photos and show them on this Forum.

The best kind of rest is change of activity.

Thank you all for your kind comments! Yesterday came to visit me my friend, brought to display their boats, which are made in scale 1:20. Valery has kindly allowed to take photos and show them on this Forum.

Thank you all for your kind comments! Yesterday came to visit me my friend, brought to display their boats, which are made in scale 1:20. Valery has kindly allowed to take photos and show them on this Forum.

Captain Al! The answer to Your question: first I wanted to make the frames from thin strips glued to the block. To do this, made templates of the frames of two halves which are fastened with pins. Using a router made a groove in each half of the pattern. This groove laid thin planks greased with glue, secured with screws. After drying, the glue will get here are half frames. But after much reflection, I abandoned this technology, and used the old tried and tested method of building models which I've used previously. Where shaded black color - must be removed, it turned out symmetrical groove.

My fingertips on fire! There is still the same.

Sometimes the work was brought to a halt, and to do other important things, but the schooner is the number One! Especially now...