Gaetan Bordeleau

The reason, little ''Go Pro'' style, picture and video camera: YI 4K.
I had previously tried in previous builds other mini cameras but they were only HD.
This one with 4K and a wide angle lens does a much better job and sharpness is much better.
As a comparison, here is 1 taken with in HD, same place for the last completed 74.

Continuation of the construction of the floating warehouse.
Next level will begin. The larger open place, in the middle, will be the amphitheater, a place to care for the sick and wounded..
One of the goals, in this small project... is to limit  at the minimum the decks planking to maximize the interior view.

HI  Empathry,
 
Mainly, I use 2 cameras; 1 for inside details and 1 for outside.
 
https://www.yitechnology.com/yi-4k-action-camera
 
a very small camera,  4k  inside the model, automatic camera with few adjustments.
 
For outside, Canon 5D mark IV  with various lens and sometime with different flash.
 
 It depends, there are other considerations like ISO. There is not only 1 possibility, but hundreds.
Most importantly, if I want  a daylight exposition, to get the good colors,  I need  to add more light, especially for dark spaces.
 
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/buy/LED-Light-Sources/ci/12248
 
because these little camera do not have a flash. LED light, with continuous lighting is the kind of lighting used for video.

For this step, an alignment rod is use to make sure all the pillars are all on the same line of alignment.
This is the easier way.
Trying to align by eye is  very difficult mainly because the eye does not have direct access.

Thank you Sea Hoss,
 
How can we get cannonballs out of  have 3 very  deep cabinets?
First, we need to enter the cabinet by some kind of entrance.
Secondly, we need to go down to the bottom of this deep hole with the help of some kind of ladder.
 
Son 3 openings have been done and ladder rungs have been added in each of the 3 holes.

In this post, I asked myself: How do we access shot lockers?
 
In the drawings, we see the shape, we can figure how they fill it, but how dis they empty it?
 
The answer will be  in the next post.
We can find the beginning of the answer  in the drawings of  l' Artésien. 

Thank you Jorge,
Thank you Moab, taking pictures is also a part of the construction, but looking at the next picture, I asked myself which side is up?

Thank you,   and the play continue
 
 

Comparison 1/24 to 1/192

I just finish replacing a part of the deck...at home , not on the 74.
To synchronize 3 Profoto and 3 Canon flashs together, I got a module called Youngnuo YN622C. 
Here is a  picture  to verify that everthing works together and trying to light every part of the model at the same level.
 
Even if it is artificial light, color are very close to what we see. 
We can clearly see 2 tone of cherry wood; natural and  1 coat of tung oil.

Thank you Mark, it was educational for me as well. I watched a lot of video up to Seki knife festival in Japan. I also watched many video on sharpening and everyone had his way, but it was always about the same thing: making a Burr and Polishing.

Today's photos.
 
Yesterday, I got a Sashimi knife. I did regrind it in a V shape. This way, this knife, can be use with both hands; left or right. To give an idea how it performs, I easily got few millimeters thick slices in a very mature tomato.
 
I did try the last knives I got, and it is clear that scalpels are out of the game. As the doctor said scalpels are made to cut skin. I said many times that scalpels works fine, and it is not false, but a knife with a stronger blade can be as sharp as a scalpel blade and greater strength can be use, a better control with a heavier knife is also possible.
 
I tried the knife from Vossiewulf and it works better than a scalpel also. You just need to add a handle.
 
Just like there are many shapes for carving knives, there are also many shapes for a hobby knife depending of what we are cutting.
 
May be, another avenue, to buy a ready to use knife, I also got, yesterday a knife from Flexcut carving tools. I already have one from this company which is OK. The new one is Wittlin jack with 2 blades. I will try it to compare...
 

Fitting the walls means adjust, adjust and adjust. The next step will be to add the doors.
How to fit on a 3/32 shaft or another diameter, a 3 jaw chuck.
To check horizontal surface, I taped a bubble level on a try square, easy to read.

There is a lot of construction below the first deck.
Here is the start with the first well.

LED Lighting  https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/buy/LED-Light-Sources/ci/12248
 
Actually, LED lights are the best type we have on the market. By example BH photo sells all kinds.
With this lighting, you take photo as if you were outside in the sun. If you take a photo, you will get the real color and you will not need to ''white balance'' the photo and the white will be white not yellow.
 
Now the bonus side, these LED lamps can also be use for regular lighting in your work. LED lights are very powerful, in fact you must not look directly.
By comparison, if you compare an ordinary lighting with it, you will realize it is like day and night. As we can see at the photography store, there are many prices. If you buy one, buy  the best you can and you will not regret it. 
 
This morning, I took one of my Matthews stand which is usually fitted on a base and I inverted the post and screwed it in the ceiling, so I can add a LED lighting.
Before the Led lights, with other types of lights, surgical light were much more effective than home lighting.
This type of lighting used in photography, especially for video,  is less expensive than  a surgical light of today and it is as much effective.

Thank you Amalio, I am sure you will enjoy it. It is a perfect size to sharpen knife. One of the nice aspect of these stones size is the flatness, very effective to straighten a blade profile.
 
photo 1,2: Just finished t to shape  another 100 parts:  deck beams for the first deck 32beams made of 3 parts each and 3 beams, already made of 1 piece.
 
photo 3, 4: I found a perfect application for my new knives, the fourth one shows how effective it is. Third picture show how the beam rest on a block. It is easier to make the notch if I do not have to hold the part so I can concentrate on holding the knife with 2 hands.
 
photo6,7: gages to measure the width of the deck beams. photo 6 the gage was also use to locate the notches on the frames.

There is no Musée de la Marine in Québec, but we have an old french Arsenal in Montréal. Around 30 years ago, I was authorized to manipulate with gloves a copy of Duhamel de Monceau, Traité de construction... If I remember well, this book had many owners and the clergy has been one of them.
 
 I like your idea  to try other wood than boxwood for carving. I  liked to try a lot of exotic hardwood, one of the first reason for color, but I stopped, too much expensive. Last week, I got a piece of cocobolo about 1 by 5 inches by 4 feet; $175, expensive, for all the colors of this plank. Now, I use almost 100% cherry wood. I also tried it for carving, was not so bad but these were not extremely detailed.

HI Empathry,
 
There is no obligation to use boxwood. I did some marquetry wit tagua nuts not sclupture. May be it could be good but tagua nuts are small.
There are other woods suited for sclupture in miniature. The idea is to get some hard wood or fruit wood or exotic wood. By opposition, if you wood use balsa, it would be useless; because you cannot add fine details. Boxwood can take fine details like fingers.
 
Sometimes I use boxwood. We have boxwood in Quebec, a  typical tree is 2 feet high.
 
What is your future project?
Why would you not use boxwood?

Thank you Dan,
 
Why  should I want to use a sharp blade? If I have to answer fast, I see 2 interrelated factors to get to a common goal:
 
first, a sharper blade is easier to control, this means  yo can do precise cuts
 
second: the sharper the blade, the easier to cut, so less strength is needed to do the job.  Not have to concentrate so much on the strength to use,
but more on producing  a precise cut.
 

Vossiewulf, I agree 100% with what you say.
 
 
This look like to be very easy to understand, but it is not. Exacto is the prefered knife of every beginner. As a beginner, how someone could conceive ''how much sharper  a good knife is'' if he has never tried one. It is worth mentioning that the usual way to check if a knife is sharpened  with a sheet of paper, it is not very conclusive because they all pass the test.  In the second test, if you compare the result of the notches in  the wood between the first and the last knife, you see a big difference; and the same strength was use with each one.

The main tool to shape the blade is  the belt grinder.  The PM-V11 steel is not like any other steel, it does make very few sparks. I choose briar wood (wood use tom make pipes) and ebony to make the handle. During that quest for a detail knife, I did concentrate exclusively on the blade, I never thought what would be the shape of a good handle, and I still do not know but I wanted to do that knife so I tried one simple shape with 2 recess, 1  for the  index  and 1 for the 3 other fingers. I still have to do some final grinding but that shape of blade is very effective and this blade will not have the quality of my last one; fragility of the blade  at the thinnest part. Also this V blade is very easy to sharpen on water stones because the entire side sits on the water stone and this way you do not have to give any angle to form a secondary bevel.

Thank you all for your likes
 
This log  have observations about 2 things, 2 things that I like 
 
-construction of a model ship boat
-experimentation in photography
 
When you see a guy crazy enough to build a  74 guns by Boudriot for the fourth time, you probably ask what's wrong with me.
 
Learning is important for everyone because without it, life would not be as motivating. Probably, if I could build 100 times the same ship, there would be differences in each and every one.
Here is an example, on the last 74,  the deck beams for the first deck were made of 1,2 and 3 parts. For this build, there will be no 2 parts. In the previous build, I added 2 parts beams when there was opening in the deck because I did not want to have nicks int the beams  around openings.
 
For this build, at first thought, all the deck beams would be installed the same direction, but it will not be the case. Some will be turn 180 degrees so that the thickest face is expose facing the opening.
 
There are 2 advantages by going this way. First, when there will be notches in the deck beam, it will not be on the side of the thinnest wall of the deck beam which could seriously injure the integrity and strongly weaken the resistance of the wood; and this is not desirable, The other advantage is that walls of the openings are in straight line with no nicks.
 
Boudriot did not show this kind of details, he just says that there was 3 parts deck beams on the first deck. Ideally, the plan would show the partition of the deck beams, but this is not the case. Ideally, if I build or install a part, there always would be documentation to support it. I have no access to the books hidden in the museum in France and for this build, research in other books is not my priority.
 
What is encouraging in what I do, is the fact that the engineer who draw the plans for ships, perfectly knew that the builder, the site manager would bring some of his preferences and some derived conventions governing each construction site.
 
This build for instance, contrary to the standard model ship builder has 0 research in books (except the 4 ones of Boudriot) Also, this is not because  a plan is drawn a way that I will necessary build it the exact same way. In some situations, instead of looking in books, I sit in front of the problem, and I try to find a practical solution. For the perfect model ship builder who respects scrupulously History, I am commiting a  serious sacrilege. Is it a fault to go the way I chose for this build? For the purist, of course!  
 
Construction is my favorite part in this project, research is at the opposite. For the aspect  of the respect of the conformity of plans, I will get 0. But from the other point of view, I have a very  good time trying to play to the ship builder.
 
If I take pleasure from model ship building, so one of the main goal is reached.
 
If I would have to choose between 3 months of research and 3 months of construction, I would probably choose the second one. But it does not mean I hate research. One  fact I find interesting about research is about rigging of a gun. Here is another comparison between french and english. Boudriot  as an architect loved ships but he also loved hand guns. He described with great details how to install ropes not only for the mast, but also on the guns of each deck. In comparison, this does not look like to be the same thing with english practices. The best example, is Mark's log with Bellona. Documentation for the subject has not yet become fully accessible. But the good side of that bad side is that people like Mark helps to enhance the knowledge about model ship building and also it is very interesting to see how so many peoples wants to try to this knowledge.
 

I just wanted to show an extreme, in fact the remedy is easy just back up to take the photo.
 
Major update for Vossiewulf:
 
just came back from LeeValley and got a flushing chisel blade, PM-V11 steel, a new product which is almost the perfect  blank for the next knife. As for the others, the blade will be regrind in a V shape and I will add a handle.
 
I thought I would use a hand plane  blade and  cut it in 2 parts, but this solution will be faster. Hand plane blade are too thick. I did take some hand plane in my hands and I was surprise to see how heavy they were.