mhkash

Hi 

Here am working the rigging, there is not many left to do, I expect to get it done soon.

Thanks 

Hello

I started working on the rigging.. hope you like it.

thanks.

Hi All

I've completed painting the Hull with a G5 Deco Spray, Black and Blue, with a yellow strip in between. The G5 is one of the best that i found here in the local market and gives a nice effect. here it is.

Hello All 
sorry for not posting the updates for long time, I was away for a month and as i came back home, i decided to resume working on my model , here are are snap shots for building the Deadeye blocks.
first , i took a piece from balsa sheet, used sandpaper for getting the shape of a tube, cut the blocks , paint and wrap a wire around to maintain against cracks

Thanks 

Good Afternoon to you all
I'm still working on the Deck rigging, here is a piece i built this weekend.
Thank you 

On 5/19/2019 at 12:53 PM, G.L. said:

It is indeed a very nice winch.

Thank you very much for your nice words 😊

Hello All, 

Hope you are all having good time with your models 😉, spent some hours working on the deck rigging . I think a did a good job with the anchors winch. Please let me know what you think of.

Thank you

Hello All

It is always like that, as I go on building, the model looks more better then it was at the beginning of the  process. At the Beginning it is like a junk to me , however , I keep saying to myself ... no no , wait and be patient .. until the shape becomes similar to the Original ..  here i did some work on the bow. hope you like it.

Thank you All.

13 hours ago, Chalo said:

 

Thanks you so much for your help !. Will take these plans as a sample and start from that. One more question: The deck rigging is not showing below. This is the only set of plans that you use in your project ?

 

Thanks again for you help !

 

Kind regards,

 

Chalo Guevara

 

Hello Chalo, Yes this is the only plan I got, however, i keep reading and collecting information about the Rigging. Some times I'm lucky to find some photos of a previous build, but the hard work is to collect the info from Naval sites for the boat in progress and similar boats of the same purpose & origin. I hope this may help you.

Kind regards

Hello

I spent yesterday building the rear cabin and finalizing the 2nd Layer of hull planks. Here is the latest progress.

Please notice the Deck and the hatch.

Thank you 

On 5/7/2019 at 10:06 PM, Heinrich der Seefahrer said:

That looks very interesting - whit some impressive progress. Could you kindly thell me what set of plans do you use?

 

Hello Heinrich

Thank you very much for stopping at this thread and apologies for late . Here is the plan i used, they are a little bit large.

Thank you

15 hours ago, Chalo said:

Hello :

              Please can you help me to find the blue prints  of this vessel Vapor Rimac ? My Email : vchalo@gmail.com

 

              Will appreciated !

 

              Chalo Guevara

Thank you 

9 hours ago, KeithAug said:

Mhkash - looking good - what wood are you using for the second layer of planks?

Good Morning Keith, I use Balsa wood 1.5 mm thickness, and i was lucky to find 3 sheets of good quality. 

I have completed the 2nd Layer yesterday. Here we go

Thank you

Good Morning All,

am still working on the 2nd layer of planks, here it is. Please Notice the difference

thank you 

Hello,

I've completed the first Planking layer.

Good Morning 

I painted the Model with two types of paint

1- Above the water line, used a cheep Black Spray I bought from the Stationary, and to get good result, i sprayed the color directly after sanding so the color is absorbed in a short time

2- Below , i used Acrylic bronze paint, to have the effect of copper plated surface.

here we go

On 4/24/2019 at 9:24 PM, KeithAug said:

I agree they are so elegant - I'm looking forward to see how your build develops.

Thank you very much Keith, please do. I find your Models stunning and inspiring.

Hello 

Just started building the Brigantine Schooner "Gigino", an Italian sailing Vessel from the Early 20th century. Actually I'm very fond of Schooners and Ocean Paddle Steamers as well, and I plan to  work on "Barquentine cote d'émeraude" in the near future, ((supposing that I find the Plan (I hope so)).

I'll follow the same technique, which is Double planking on Bulkheads. The first layer of planks will be 3 mm Balsa wood to get a tough body, while the second is 1.5 mm is to get a natural wood finish look. I guess it won't be easy to find a 1.5 mm Balsa wood with clear wood grain appearance and it would need some research to use coloring to get that look.

Thank you 

Models in Progress

L'Etoile

Vapor Rimac 1848 -  a side Wheel Paddle Steamer

Previous Models

Bluenose II

On 4/19/2019 at 12:57 AM, mtaylor said:

mhkash,

I think the translation to English is a bit off on the guns.  Looks like "weight" (lbs or pounds) got translated as inches.  From Wikipedia I get this: 2 68 pound muzzleloader guns and 4 24 pound guns.

You are right, thank you for the correction ... It seemed OK to me to imagine a 68 inch Gun. However I didn't think more about the 24 inch side guns (to have a 60 cm side gun is ridiculous   ) sorry for that.  

The Rimac steam-powered frigate was built for Peru in New York, United States of America, between 1847 and 1848, for the famous firm Brown & Bell, which had designed several warships for the United States Navy.

The ship possessed a motor of 200 horsepower manufactured by the company Stilman & Allen, that allowed her to reach a speed of 13 knots. She was armed with two 68-inch guns and four 24-inch guns, all of British manufacture. Rimac was handled by a crew of 100 men.

The Rimac arrived in Peru in 1848 and became the first war steamer in Latin America.

The ship sank in 1855, after colliding with a submarine rock at Punta San Juan, Ica, in 1855. A total of 78 men lost their lives in the unfortunate accident.

http://www.geocities.ws/barcosdelperu/rimac.html

16 hours ago, ccoyle said:

Hello! I took the liberty of fleshing out your build log title a bit, as I'm sure that many members (like me, for instance) will have no idea what a "Vapor Rimac" is. Perhaps you know the story behind the unusual name?

Thank you very much, I should have included that from the beginning., thank you for being there

Hi All

I decided to work on 2 models at the same time , perhaps this is because I do get bored of looking at the same build every day. So i got the idea of working on 2 models , and as i work on different stages of each model, I hope to have fun  . Here is the first one, it is Vapor Rimac 1848, a side wheel paddle steamer. 

I didn't start shooting the building log from the begging cause it looked awful . 

please help me with your comments . thank you all

Hi All

I'm Finalizing 😁 , almost done. Do you have any comment regarding the scale ?

Thank you 

1 hour ago, GrandpaPhil said:

Nice work!

Thank you GrandpaPhil, Thank you for your nice words🌺

Hi All

Still have some work to do on the Deck rigging, wish me luck 😉

thank you