Baker

Hello everyone

Cannons, main armament.
A lot of information about 16th century armament can be found in the following master theses (They were free to download).

http://www.academia.edu/20120786/The_Arming_of_Late_16th_century_Merchantmen._A_Masters_Thesis_from_the_Maritime_Archaeology_Programme_University_of_Southern_Denmark

These smaller "private" ships and merchantmen usually had armament of 3 and 4 pounders. Mainly iron guns, bronze was too expensive. Only the navy could afford this.

It was not usually the intention to sink a hostile ship. Boarding another ship was the most "profitable". Then the cargo could be captured.

Step 1: Determine the locations of the guns

Billing Boats and Amati guns are used as the basis (I do not have a lathe, so improvising) Adjust the shape with the drill and files.

The "cannon factory"

The bore is too big. These are filled with plastic and fitted with the correct bore diameter.
We make 1 pounders, 3 pounders and 4 pounders.

Painted in Tamiya matte black

Then a wash with diluted and extra matte gun metal.
The bore opening is a little accentuated with pencil

Ready

Thanks for following and the likes

Good luck with your first wooden shipmodel

The sea and the firing guns with the smoke are beautifully done (The ship also of course).

Great work Piet, very realistic. 

Respect 

Magnificent
Very nicely done

Greetings,

Patrick

13 minutes ago, md1400cs said:

Patrick,

 

your lock slide is BRILLIANT - well done indeed !!

Thanks,

The idea is actually Finnish. 

Last year seen on holiday in Northern Finland at a very old wooden church.

A church, Built in the middle of nowhere. Only to be reached after a walk of 3 hours along a lake and then a walk back 3 hours (Swampy and a lot of mosquitoes...)

I found this model of lock so robust and special that I wanted to use it on this model

Greetings 

Hello,

Further finishing the beakhead. Drawings of ships from around 1570 served as an example

The photos speak for themselves.

Bad luck

Pre bending on a mold
Strips soaked in water and boiling water just before bending

The door is kept open with a wedge.

ready.

 I think I'm starting on the canon deck now.

Thanks for following and likes 

Build index in post 1

Amalio,

Very nice work. 
Unbelievable !!

Greetings from Belgium

Did some homework / search in all my books and printed info and the gardening is done for the time being.

Result

• Boomkins: found only 2 times (Portuguese and Spanish)
• The "Vasa / Revenge solution": occurs only twice, very late in the 16th century.  But is quite common from the beginning of the 17th century.
• "Nothing" is fairly common in the second half of the 16th century.

So we are going for the "nothing" solution. How it goes further here with the rigging, those are worries for later.
As long as I can turn the model upside down, i can still make an adjustment if necessary.

This piece of deck had already been planked
Treenails and kaulking has been done before the planks are glued.

Dry test

But I felt that the black gave too much contrast to the light gray planks. The kaulking has been redone with dark gray paint ( German Panzergrey...) After this the deck has been polished with scotch brite.

Meanwhile, the work continues 

Still a lot of work to do on the beakhead.
Thanks for following

18 hours ago, canoe21 said:

Hello Patrick

 

What a wonderful job you are doing on your Golden Hind, so very much very fine detail that I love to see on a ship. Your gratings sure do look great, how did you get the nails that you applied with a pencil to stand out like that? WELL DONE,                                                                                           ENJOY.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Regards   Lawrence

Thanks Lawrence,

After painting and sanding. 

1. Take the pencil and place it where you want a nail.
2. Press the tip of the pencil slightly into the wood.
3. Turn the pencil slightly between the fingers.
4. ready.

A pencil with a harder point gives a better result.
The point is "splintered" less quickly. And it gives a better metal look.

Best  first do some practice on some scrap wood

I have been using a pencil for years in my military modeling   (Shore leave : ADGZ M35 funkwagen)

Greetings,

And

Beautiful model of the Victory 

On 20-5-2018 at 11:58 AM, G.L. said:

The sock is tied again just at the bottom of the wedges.

I fix the binding with glue and cut of the excess at the deck level.

 

The canvas on fishing sloops was sealed with tar. I seal it with acryl paint.

The mast sealing

 

I have been looking for an explanation for this for months : What is the cover between the deck and the mast on this pictures??

And then comes G. L. and explains this with text and photos

Thanks !!

I never thought that my question would become so complicated 

This week there is a lot of work to do in the garden.

In the meantime I will first look at all my info. Because it seems very much that before and after 1600 much changed.
The manner like the Vasa is usually only seen after 1600

So first study and gardening 
Thanks everyone for the info

34 minutes ago, davyboy said:

Hi Patrick,

 

The Golden Hind would not have had Boomkins, they didn't appear on English ships until circa 1710. (Lees Masting and Rigging states the Foretacks were led through holes in the stem) Her Foretacks would have been led almost identically as shown in your last pic with the red pointing arrow,also as in the pic's Christian previously posted. The 1637 engraving of the Sovereign of the Seas also shows the same lead for the Foretacks.

 

Regards,

 

Dave 

Then I follow the advice of you and Christian
There will be no boomkins on the Golden Hind. I shall make holes in the stem like on the picture.

Thanks

1 hour ago, SGraham said:

Hi Patrick,

I think that spar may be called a "boomkin." Not sure, though.

 

Steve

Yep,

Did a search for "Boomkin ship" on google .

Thanks!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomkin

https://www.google.be/search?rlz=1C1SFXN_enBE500BE526&biw=1600&bih=720&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=6VIIW4b4D5LdwAKMnrX4Aw&q=boomkin+ship&oq=boomkin+ship&gs_l=img.12...6678.8926.0.11325.5.5.0.0.0.0.102.403.4j1.5.0....0...1c.1.64.img..0.2.175...0i19k1j0i10i19k1j0i8i30i19k1.0.DsiLfpP92wA#imgrc=EEUbI7GpVvHtPM:

3 hours ago, Barbossa said:

Hi Patrick,

I have no clue and I can only offer a questionable alternative as some anachronism is involved (pics are related to a gallion dd. 1610 or so,...)

On the other hand, when you Google for Victory/Amati's HMS revenge you'll find the same device.

Aside from this : great work !

 

 

 

Thanks for the reply and the compliment Cristian.

This is indeed an alternative. 

On drawings from the time the GH sailed the boomkin is the most common.

If I can not place a boomkin, it will probably become this alternative solution.
 

Thank you for the reply.

It will provide a "normal" capstan on my model.

Does anyone have an idea how these "things" are called?

I would have liked to have created a topic in : Masting, rigging and sails. But I can not make a title as long as I do not know the correct name.

Does anyone know how they could have been attached to the hull?

I would like to use this type of capstan for my Golden Hind.

Has such a capstan ever existed?
If so, did this already exist in the late 16th century?

Patrick: 

Yes I intend on adding knees. I did not for the orlop deck, OcCre did not, and many drawings that I have seen did not either. It was a mixed decision.

Greetings from a concerned Patrick that panicked a bit to early.  

Thanks Michael,

Just a question. Do you go to install Knees ??

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knee_(construction)

15 hours ago, G.L. said:

Patrick,

Are the crew heads just the holes or did they have something to sit on?

 

G.L.

GL

How the sanitary looked like on a 16th century ship is hard to find.

At the back of the balcony of the model there are made primitive facilities (holes) for the captain and the officers . It may well be that there was nothing at all on the balcony of a real ship.

How does one go to the toilet on a 16th century ship? What I found about it:

Crouched above the hole, leaning back against the side of the hull. And then "aim correctly) ... 

Perhaps not politely explained, but that was the intention.

If I foresee something in the front to sit on. Then regular sailors have more luxury than the captain and the officers. 

That is why there are only holes. And nothing to sit on.

Hopefully this answers your question

MaybeIMaybe you will find an answer with Marijn.

Check this post. There are beautiful little figures on his ships