Baker

An interesting and challenging project.

Good luck 

13 hours ago, Ferrus Manus said:

Seems people have kind of lost interest in this build, which is kind of a shame. That's because i have the biggest update yet: 

besides building model ships, there is also.
work.
family.
households.
chores in the house.
etc..

Welcome back  👍

Nice model 

And

Great work.

Good luck finishing her.

The 6 X 6 chassis deserves some better pictures.

And the Boxer is painted in the standard NATO colors (Tamiya)

Thanks for following

Thanks everyone for your interest 

A dummy plywood "keelplate" is made.

This showed that the mutual distance between the bulkheads was too great. So everything has been disassembled and the intermediate supports have been made 3mm narrower.

The new arrangement is now in proportion to the keel, stern, stem.

The shape of the front and rear bulkheads don't look right on sight (i think). I used the drawing from the book Anatomy of the ship (AOTS) and It looks if these are "taken" from MR Noblest Shippe (MRNS)

The AOTS scheme has 12 frames.

The MRNS has also detailed  "sections" and frames.

That is why the drawing of the sections (MR noblest shippe) has been enlarged by 200%. I spent a few hours at work today at the engineering department...😇

The intention is to make masters with these to check if the shape of the bulkheads matches with the sections.

This will also help to determine the position of the decks more easily. The deck of the cannons is open (a real deck, no holes in the hull with dummy cannons)

@Ondras71 This is indeed going to be a large model.

@Veszett Roka

The keel will consist of 3 pieces from 2 different types of wood. The idea is to install it first. 

Glad everything is okay with you.
Great models (as always) 👍

18 minutes ago, Mark P said:

Good Morning All;

 

Another suggestion for Ferrus Manus re a good book to purchase for information about galleons is Peter Kirsch's book 'Galleon', which is based around contemporary sources, and contains plans for a complete galleon. I don't remember my copy being particularly pricey when I bought it.

 

All the best,

 

Mark P

Indeed.

7 minutes ago, Ferrus Manus said:

this model is now slightly inaccurate.

I think this kit is almost as OLD as me.
Forgive revell these little mistakes.

17 hours ago, Ferrus Manus said:

This is the beakhead of the Vasa. Pins.

This is the only place they are found. No pins on any other rails. How were things belayed without pins?

Vasa is 50 years younger than this model. The difference in ships between about 1570 and 1620 is immense.
Vasa has sometimes been used as an example for this model, but not for belaying pins.

Vasa indeed had belaying pins in the beakhead.

But, an old saying :    "Eén zwaluw maakt de lente niet "
Just seeing one swallow doesn't mean spring is coming...

All the frames are sawn.
The idea is to build the hull upside down. I've never done this before, something new to try.

The frames are clamped onto the buildslip. These are not yet fixed on the plate, This setup is to see if all my drawing and sawing work is correct.

The result is not bad. Actually better than expected.

These drawings are also enlarged. For now, it's still Chinese to me. 

But again something new to learn.

Thanks all for the comments 👍

Long tima ago, when I only made military models, and almost no new models came out for a while.
I sometimes made a batch of a whole series of scratch models.
Not 3 or 4 or.. at the same time, but sometimes more than 10 
Some pictures of Hotchkiss, Renault and German converted Somua half tracks.

And the chassis of the 6 X 6 is ready

5 hours ago, Ferrus Manus said:

You seriously need to use belaying pins, dude. Belaying pins were found on the Mary Rose, which sank in 1545. This dispels the idea that they were invented in the early 1600's.

Read some books first, and then judge

Great pictures of a great diorama 👍

Found this while searching for info
The Leopard 2 is not a dangerous weapon of war, but a friendly waitress in disguise 

Next builds, 3 kits from Revell. They will all have the same camouflage scheme

GTX Boxer GTFz A1

7 ton MAN 6X6 truck

10 ton MAN 8X8 truck

Revell kits at this scale are well detailed, with clear instructions and very well cast for a very good price.

The Boxer box, parts and instructions

history

So the instructions are very good, but I never follow them. After years you have your own method of building.

Building the Boxer went without any problems.

ready for painting

The MAN 6X6 is next 

Box

content

instuctions

History

to be continued

Thanks

1/87 wow, that's a challenge

6 hours ago, king derelict said:

The Olympia looks really nice. Great work

Alan

Thank you