Gaetan Bordeleau

I tried a new way to take photos inside a ship with an endoscope from Amazon for $55 cdn. Wifi HD 5MP 3-8 cm. It is good for focal distance very close 3 to 8 cm only. There will be no good results for a complete deck. for this you will need a camera with auto focus capability like the Go Pro.
The camera can take photos and videos. 





 

Scale is the first factor to consider. Which part with what level of details is the second one and finally what wood to use?
 
Roughly, we can divide the carvings in 2 parts: human with fine details like the hands and face, decorations like flowers.
 
There are still many experiments to be made with different woods than boxwood. Pernambuco, ivory wood could be good examples of dense wood with fine grains which could be good. The safe way to use a wood that can take small details is to use boxwood.
Boxwood takes details of a figurehead as good as  at 1 /192 and 1/24 scale. But all the carvings do not need extreme fine details. Cherry is perfectly suitable for general carvings
 
One last point, Color, for this build, up to now, is made 100% from cherry wood. Ideally, I would like to use cherry for all the carvings, but unfortunately this wood will not take the fine details. The same thing is true for apple wood, I tried it for another figure head.
Ideally, I would prefer the figurehead  would be, also from the same wood, as the ret of the build: cherry wood, so that int this specific build, every part could be the same color.
 
There are many choices that a model ship builder has to deal with and the main rule should always be: it has to look harmonious. Tree nailing is a good example. It should be visible from close but not from far. If the contrat is too big, the eye will only see the nails, not the ship.
 
 
 
What is the last photo? Lighting in the working area is done by 8 LED lights mainly. Lat week, Our electricity company installed new thermostats, switches and electrical outlets. Every device is controllable via an app. I used the 4 electrical outlets to control the lighting with an Ipad, near the desk

I tried a new way to take photos inside a ship with an endoscope from Amazon for $55 cdn. Wifi HD 5MP 3-8 cm. It is good for focal distance very close 3 to 8 cm only. There will be no good results for a complete deck. for this you will need a camera with auto focus capability like the Go Pro.
The camera can take photos and videos. 





 

Scale is the first factor to consider. Which part with what level of details is the second one and finally what wood to use?
 
Roughly, we can divide the carvings in 2 parts: human with fine details like the hands and face, decorations like flowers.
 
There are still many experiments to be made with different woods than boxwood. Pernambuco, ivory wood could be good examples of dense wood with fine grains which could be good. The safe way to use a wood that can take small details is to use boxwood.
Boxwood takes details of a figurehead as good as  at 1 /192 and 1/24 scale. But all the carvings do not need extreme fine details. Cherry is perfectly suitable for general carvings
 
One last point, Color, for this build, up to now, is made 100% from cherry wood. Ideally, I would like to use cherry for all the carvings, but unfortunately this wood will not take the fine details. The same thing is true for apple wood, I tried it for another figure head.
Ideally, I would prefer the figurehead  would be, also from the same wood, as the ret of the build: cherry wood, so that int this specific build, every part could be the same color.
 
There are many choices that a model ship builder has to deal with and the main rule should always be: it has to look harmonious. Tree nailing is a good example. It should be visible from close but not from far. If the contrat is too big, the eye will only see the nails, not the ship.
 
 
 
What is the last photo? Lighting in the working area is done by 8 LED lights mainly. Lat week, Our electricity company installed new thermostats, switches and electrical outlets. Every device is controllable via an app. I used the 4 electrical outlets to control the lighting with an Ipad, near the desk

Scale is the first factor to consider. Which part with what level of details is the second one and finally what wood to use?
 
Roughly, we can divide the carvings in 2 parts: human with fine details like the hands and face, decorations like flowers.
 
There are still many experiments to be made with different woods than boxwood. Pernambuco, ivory wood could be good examples of dense wood with fine grains which could be good. The safe way to use a wood that can take small details is to use boxwood.
Boxwood takes details of a figurehead as good as  at 1 /192 and 1/24 scale. But all the carvings do not need extreme fine details. Cherry is perfectly suitable for general carvings
 
One last point, Color, for this build, up to now, is made 100% from cherry wood. Ideally, I would like to use cherry for all the carvings, but unfortunately this wood will not take the fine details. The same thing is true for apple wood, I tried it for another figure head.
Ideally, I would prefer the figurehead  would be, also from the same wood, as the ret of the build: cherry wood, so that int this specific build, every part could be the same color.
 
There are many choices that a model ship builder has to deal with and the main rule should always be: it has to look harmonious. Tree nailing is a good example. It should be visible from close but not from far. If the contrat is too big, the eye will only see the nails, not the ship.
 
 
 
What is the last photo? Lighting in the working area is done by 8 LED lights mainly. Lat week, Our electricity company installed new thermostats, switches and electrical outlets. Every device is controllable via an app. I used the 4 electrical outlets to control the lighting with an Ipad, near the desk

next step will be some carving

I just finished a major upgrade of speakers and settings. The last step is to choose a music provider Spotify or Tidal.
 
Few other sets of notches are done on the deck beams, it is much easier while the deck beams are not glued yet.
 
My helper was very happy to  be photographed.

Thank you and some photos:

Inside decks, below the first deck, was the job for 2019.
Next year, the job will begin with the deck beams for the first deck and I just finished most of the notches of the deck beams.

First series of 3 series of  notches is done and the marking of the second series is completed.
Jigs and repetitiveness go together. They are very useful  for markings and it is faster to use. Here are few examples:

This week, Began  working on the knees (2 X 35),  heads are still to be done.

Hi Rick,
 
As a matter of fact, René Nicolas Levasseur  built 74 guns ship on the ST_Laurence in Quebec city in 1750. 
Unfortunately, no plans survived from this time. The best documents there is,  are the lines of the frigate l'Abénakise when the English captured her.

The false deck construction  continues. After the aft part and the front part, comes now the front middle part. The last part will be int he next post, the middle part.

front false deck,  just below the first deck



 





 

photos 1 and 2 are from photoshop 2019
photo 3 photoshop 2015; much better. I am not sure I could still do this way, it in 2019
before last photo: a space was left near the inside wall to facilitate wall inspection
 

thank you
and a few more

Thank you Moab.
 
Kurt bought a YI-4K camera and he will try a macro lens especially made by Pixaero to fit on it, and they say that there are no distortion. As an example, to compare the quality, here are some photos taken from inside the model ship.
2 things are clearly visible: less distortion and increased sharpness. It could be interesting to see the results with this macro lens later, sometimes it can be very surprising but we must also that there are no miracles and that a good a lens has a price. We must be carefull when comparing lens. It is the same idea when it comes to compare magnifying glasses. If I buy a $2 pair and try it, I could say that this is a good pair. But to see how good it really is, it is preferable to compare with another pair of different quality.
 
These photos would have come later this week, but there is an occasion to show it now, especially the third one. As for the last photo, I showed the setup, each flash has in front of it, a kind of translucide satin fabric. The effect is to soften details globally, some way to balance the lighting.

Nobody would be crazy enough to build 4 times the same model ship but 1 advantage of building it, at least twice, is that you can see the end, even before beginning. As an example, here is what the false deck could look like in a few months:

Beginning the next step, the false deck. A scratch built model may look like a long project but it is also can be seen as a series of smaller steps going all in the same direction . In this small step, there will be a lot of walls, meaning a  lot of planks. So the first step is to remake the inventory. I used 6  2'' by 6'' by 6 feet: cut each one in 2 feet sections and  then cut each section in 3 inches wide; giving 18 (2'' X3'' X 2 feet). then passing every thing under planers to get everything square. 50% was selected for the nicest grain. Then slices to the desired thickness and to finish with the small saw bench to the desired width. Estimation is that 60% of the wood is lost during the procedure, the smaller we cut, the larger we lose wood.
 
Each wall will be the same way, with a preset of white cardboard to set dimensions, it is faster this way and also, it can save a lot of wood.

Boudriot  vol 2 p 172; except 10 cannonballs  in each triangular park, the others are stored in the cannonball well, in 3 separate compartments 1 for each size. The bottom of the well are filled with old ropes, cannonballs are dropped on these  and are carried in nets.
 

Sailor It is a good question. But let me ask you another one: how would they get out the cannon balls in a 20 feet deep narrow hole, knowing that the only entrance is on the top?
I guess it is a strange place to store cannon balls, but I think that this way it dod not interfere with ballasts, the weight being concentrated in the middle.
 
Richard, photography is a fascinating world with often results not expected; sometimes you are lucky, sometimes it is ordinary and sometimes the photo is good for the garbage and I still put photos in this spot and sometimes some are enough interesting to share.

Final step for the lowest level of this model ship: adding the aging look with tung oil