samson

05/02-2016

The iron base for the mers

After starting on this forum i must amid i have to up my game to compit the hi standad  on this forum so i du my best to get all details right from her .

Well this must just be the beginning 

Cheers All 

Jens

it coming along well .   well don.

it looking good 

cheers 

Jens

Well said Phill! It is quite the pleasure seeing this build !

Hi Elijah Thanks for your frindly koments , I presiate it  

Samson

The more I read the logs of the various ship builders the more I realise the mountain I have to climb.  Your work is beautiful and if I can achieve a fraction of a percentage of the beauty you have created in this build I will be more than happy.  A real pleasure to follow a master craftsman.  Thank you.

 

PhillB

Hi Nenad and Elijah   

Thanks for your nice coments. wirly prisiete it . 

Yes Nenad It nice to finely get starting on the riging after nerly 2 years building 
But with my speed it proberly takes the same again and meny pic. and pagdes before finis it off for good . 

Elijah , Yes my plan is to folow the pic. of the riging i have found on the net and paint in the right colors - i can understand you asking hwen i not ben consekvent with collors on the ship. 

Cheers 

Cheers

Jens

Hi Nenad

It is seriously investigating and very convincing result well done.

Hi Mark

well don  it looks great  Cant wait to see more 

Hi All  
I beginning on the rigging now . its a big job so i just take it bid by bid starting with the bowsprit.

This just the beinning ther sune coms more  

Cheers 

Jens

 Hi  Chef de gare 

Lovly build you making ther .  il like your details on the masts ( the brass strips.) wery mouch.

Cheers.

Jens

Hi Nenad , Elijah and Popeye      
Thank you for your nice comments I'm glad you all like my work
lines and pulleys still missing on the davits but it coms on soon.
I will now continue on the foredeck - here I abstained to put anchors on, but it can not wait longer.
On the black and white pictures I have mentioned, there is also an old anchor on the foredeck, such an iron and wood as they are on HMS victory. that I should of course also have on here.
I do not want to use Billing B. plastic anchor so I vill mold my own in tin.
 

awesome looking life boats Jens.........never knew that there were two sets on board.    nicely done.   there are folks that have used the plastic ones as jigs here on the site.........I've just planked over them with thin strip.   really like the way you did that  

Glad you mensind it so her i put in  cuple of blak and wite pic.  infact you also can notis the ancor i menciend  just as a dark shadov . 

Anchors and chain chock maed joust need more chain , have to get hand on that before continue.

Anchors finish 

Jens 

All for now 

Cheers All

Jens

Hi Popeye

Thanks for looking in an komment   

It mad me investigate more on the ship on the pic as you se above .

But I also have a litle update to schowe you . Im nerly finish vith the lifebots 

Her pic. deskribing the building of the life bots

Billing boats life bot yoused as a moll. 

Ribs atast vith virer.

Im  into old pic of Cutty Sark so i desided to let me be inspired of pic from the 20ties hwer ther is duble set lifbots .

Cheers All

Jens 

I'd be interested in your log and your approach. The Ferreira has a very rough life under the Portuguese..and her story is hardly known.  To try to tell CS's story and to exclude the Ferreira saga would be to deny CS's history.

 

Rob

Excellent work. Why the aluminium for the stern and bulwarks? Your work very good and I have to up my game to make better build models.. 

 

Ambassador. British Clipper 692 register Tons, composite building, that is to say, hull with steel frames coated by teak wood.Even though this ship, grounded today in a beach at Magellan Strait's “San Gregorio” farm, 120 km North of Punta Arenas, does not represent a shipwreck, we think it is interesting to mention it here, because is one of the famouses and fast Tea Clippers that sailed between the chinese port of Fuchow and London, circa 1872.

This sailboat, along with its similar Cutty Sark, exhibited as a museum in Greenwich, England, respresents one of the lasts Tea Clippers.

As a curiosity, Ambassador's figurehead was rescued in the 70's and today can be seen in the Maritime Room at the Patagonia Institute in Punta Arenas, 

Chile.

 

Ambassador is an United Kingdom tea clipper built in 1869. She was a composite clipper, built with wooden planking over an iron skeleton and was W. Lund & Co's first tea clipper. She is now a beached wreck in southern Chile

 

History[edit]

William Walker built Ambassador at Lavender Dry Dock in London.

 

Though considered a fast ship, Ambassador was said to be "very cranky and overmasted".[2] Her first passage to the UK from Foochow came during the Tea Race of 1870 under Captain Duggan and took 115 days, a mediocre performance; that same year the fastest tea passage, also from Foochow, was made by the clipper Lahloo (clipper) in just 98 days. Ambassador '​s fastest passage between China and England was 108 days, in 1872.[2]

 

Ambassador has been beached at Estancia San Gregorio, Chile since 1899.[3] In 1973 Chile declared her a historic monument.[4]

 

The wreck is now reduced to a skeletal frame.[5][6] It is an example of a dwindling number of composite ship constructions. Better preserved examples include:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cheers All

 

 

 

 

 

Excellent work. Why the aluminium for the stern and bulwarks? Your work very good and I have to up my game to make better build models.. 

very nice Cutty build Jens.......lots of great techniques and detail.    welcome to the Cutty club!  

Thanks Popeye I wirly feel welcom her on this forum  its a real plesure .

Jens

Quote option and multiquote copies post when you click that button bellow, and when you click in your new post, you got button "answer to quote" option which paste quoted text in your post. You can edit pasted text

It sems i understand now . Great --Thanks for help.  

Model 1: 100  That is small. You must have good eyes and steady hands.

I had to involve extra space to complete my captain cabin interiors.

Here's cabin built by homemade plywood. I've got a lot of lists of 0.7 x 7 mm which are glued together as shown here

Since I have problem with the light is fading in the ship I refrain from doing the two lights that were meant to be here in the cabin

Instead I build the deck in this way so that there comes mers light in and there is a small experience of that something is happening inside

This is almost where I am today. hull with its buildings are finished and the next (current) mission is rescue boats and equipment belonging to them

It will be when I'm done with it next update comes and it can take a looong time.

I am happy to have come this far with my building log so I can continue to build on my model at a pace that looks more reasonable  

 

Cheers All  

 

Jens

 

 

thumbs up .