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somewhere I was reading a topic about bought model boats being rubbish and not worth the money, I'm afraid I cant agree especially when brought back from holiday by your 2 year old grand-daughter.
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copper bolts from the Syrius wreck, courtesy of Yann von Arnim
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Thanks Gary and everyone for the likes I took a few pictures earlier in the build, just for myself at the time, unfortunately I'm not that good at photography and need to work out how everyone gets such excellent looking photos lower deck nearing completion with the copper deck nail from the real syrius, hanging magazine in the fore ground and the spirit and fish hatches can be seen under the ladder.
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Proxxon TG125 Bench Disk Sander
paulsutcliffe replied to pompey2's topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
Nick, Axminster tools are proxxon stockist and sell online I believe, competitive prices as well from what I could see, depots all over -
Dafi , i don't know if this helps regarding the anchors but this is a picture from the Syrius wreck with the anchors stored around the main mast and well, in the hold I presume Picture courtesy of Yann von Arnim
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Spectacle plate again made of copper with chain and appears to have four fixings, two bolts all the way through and two square head screws
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Some more artefacts from HMS Syrius archaeology, photos courtesy of Yann von Arnim Rudder nails and bolts solid copper
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Thanks Tom, I've just finished reading Alex M's build log and yes his stove his beautiful so his hendrik's (paladio) and certainly gives you something to aim for!!
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Hendrik beautiful job on the Brodie stove, now I know why you mentioned HMS Surprise on my log, lovely work and great looking build
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Thanks Hendrik unfortunately my HMS surprise is under water and a bit more difficult to access, thankfully Mr Arnim and his team have been very helpful
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thanks everyone, my first thought was hammock crane as well but very big? see below photo courtesy of yann von Arnim and I have also asked him if he could let me have an estimate of size
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another close up of the open end of one of the arms
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thanks for all the likes and welcome ken here is another picture from the wreck in Mauritius, it is labelled as a stanchion but I thought it might br a hammock crane but it is very large? any ideas anybody what it might be?? photo courtesy of yann von arnim
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Draught Marks while reading through all the build logs and topics I have seen a couple of discussions about draught marks below is the picture of syrius marks made out of copper photo courtesy of yann von arnim Copper draught marks in the shape of roman numerals I,III, X, XI, XII and XVII have been found near the stern of the ship
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Thanks Siegfried Druxey Thanks and yes Cookham is lovely, except when full of tourists in the summer, I've never actually been to the Spencer gallery but people say it is very interesting.
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small update for this week building planking on the side finished, now have to build the rear transom, so I can finish all the outer planking and move back to the gun deck. thanks
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I am a new member to model ship world joining last year after finding the site while doing research for the build. I've spent the last six months reading just about every topic on the website, and I would like to say what a fantastic source of knowledge, modelling skills and inspiration this site is and a big thankyou to all involved. I was researching the figurehead and Brodie stove at the time I found the site, there I was building frames thinking I was doing a great job and then I saw some of the builds being done by edT, remco, dan V, etc etc and thought I was obviously on a different playing field and needed to up my game considerably. I am also in the fortunate or unfortunate position depending how you look at it, in that the syrius wreck has been found and I was lucky enough to contact the head of archaeology for the site when I was searching for the figurehead, Mr Yann von Arnim has been very helpful in my quest with information and photographs of the site and he has recently given me permission to reproduce some of these on this site as I think it would be of interest to us modeller. I will post some at a future date, courtesy of Mr Arnim, who has actually sent me a deck planking nail from the actual ship, solid copper square head which I will show in my pictures as a Thankyou to him.
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I Started this build 15 years ago thinking it would be easy to make a fully framed model like you see in museums, how wrong was I, unfortunately then life, moving house etc, took over and the centre part of the hull sat in the garage for 14 years get more broken up and generally ruined, in march last year I thought it was time to resurrect the build and it took me two months to work out the puzzle of broken pieces, straighten them out and get to a place where I could start building again, now nearly a year later this is the current state of the HMS Syrius.
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The Admiralty ordered her construction on the 30th April 1795, the keel was laid down at Dudmans yard at Deptford wharf in the September, she was launched on 12th April 1797. the syrius class of 1795 was established following the taking of the San Fiorenzo from the Spanish in 1794, upon who's lines the frigate was based, only the syrius was actually built
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HMS Syrius was a 36 gun fifth rate frigate of the Royal Navy. she was lost in 1810 when her crew scuttled her after she ran aground during the Battle of Grand Port.
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Druxey I believe the roman numerals were made of copper at a later date when the hulls were coppered, the numerals on the HMS Sirius wreck in Mauritius have been found by the archaeologist's on the site I have pictures of them for my model of the Sirius but I am not allowed to reproduce them at the moment, although I have asked for permission to show some of them on this site as I think they would be extremely useful to us model builders
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Hi Siggi I would have to agree with Druxey about the yellow book, if you look in any library at the old books they are all the same colour leather bound usually with gold writing/titles, I have some very old cookbooks from this period and even they are brown leather Love the furniture and details you are putting into your model, not sure how you are doing such fantastic miniatures Regards Paul
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Thanks, I will drop him an email and see if he does any in 1:48 scale Paul
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Hi Alex Wonderful build, I love how clean and precise everything looks I wish mine was like that Quick question where did you get the coats of arms for the gun barrels, I can see a name on there but searching the internet doesn't bring it up Thanks Paul
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