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  1. Hubac's Historian
    Time well spent: There is some sense of foreground and background. The proportion of the carving, relative to the area of the back board, closely copies the Berain drawing. I am happy. It is fascinating to me how different this is from the stock kit. Thanks for looking-in! More to follow..
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    I believe the mizzen mast locates in a square hole on the lowest battery deck. It can only go so far. If the square pin locates properly, you shouldn’t be able to rotate the mast after it is seated. If you didn’t true-up that square locating hole before closing up the deck, that may be a slight problem. Either way, the mast can only go so far.
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    It's only a dry-fit, so no harm, but be mindful that your fore, main and mizzen mast sections will need to rotate 180 degrees for the final glue-in.
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    Sorry for the late reply. I am also basically doing the same as Henry, here. I will replace the topmast tops as well, as their scale and design is not really appropriate for the time period. As for the cheeks that support the trestletrees, what Heller has moulded on the topmast and t'gallant sections is this weird conical thing. I will make cheeks that are appropriate.
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    I will comment more in-full, Bill. I just haven’t had a chance yet
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    I haven’t quite decided yet, Bill. I have made my new channels so that the shrouds won’t interfere with the guns above. Because I lowered the channels on the hull, I could not simply copy the layout of the kit channels. I haven’t yet figured out whether I want the chain plates to extend down to the middle band of wales. Doing so would certainly make them easier to fashion. I recently bought some brass 24 gauge wire, so I will begin experimenting soon.
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    An interesting particularity of French practice: on the Frolich model, you can see that the preventer plate spans two wales. The French fill the space between wales, flush to the surface of the wales, and for the length of the channel above.
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    A Dutch ship of the mid 1660s: The Frolich model of L’Ambiteaux, 1680, which was produced from the Boudriot monograph: I think these are reliable guides for period practice on the Continent.
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    From 1670, onward in France, chains are appropriate.
  10. Hubac's Historian
    Unfortunately, FWW doesn’t project much of a market for art nouveau, and so they tend to stick to the tried and true favorites; Mission, Arts and Crafts, Scandinavian Minimalism, etc. My member page is on the FWW website, though.
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    Don’t be too impressed, Ian. That’s just a member page that I created. None of my stuff was selected, as such. Bill, you have certainly filled your home with some beautiful pieces!
  12. Hubac's Historian
    Thank you very much, Bill! Actually, my background is in woodworking, and I’ve designed a number of projects with varying degrees of carved work: https://www.finewoodworking.com/tag/marc-laguardia
  13. Hubac's Historian
    As was the case with the amortisement, it takes a good deal of fettling to get all of these elements to nestle together nicely, the way they were drawn. I now have the clouds positioned and Apollo’s head centered on the cornice archway: As you can see, there’s still profiling to do on the port side of the chariot. I think this last element of the carving should be fun to model. The horses will take some effort to get them to where they need to be: It’s really such a small area, but I can begin to now see where the fade line should be between the Cerulean sky and the Ultra Marine heavens. My idea may not work out the way I hope, but I will try to create this soft transition with multiple dilute applications of the Ultra Marine. Little by little..
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    As you should be, Michael. Just outstanding!
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    Superb planking job, Patrick! It is really fascinating to me that the tiller is so short on this ship. I am assuming there is still a whipstaff connection to the tiller, in this early time of large warship construction.
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    I always liked the Endeavor replica!
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    Yes, I saw this on Henry’s build and did the same.
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    From the topmasts, on up, I will just fabricate everything from scratch. I’ve already made all of the round tops to replace the kit ones because I found them to be under scale. The mast caps that connect each higher mast section to the one below are easy enough to make. I’m keeping all of my lower mast sections in plastic because they are certainly string enough with dowels embedded, they are reasonably accurate and can be made more-so with a little modification, and they’re going to be painted, anyway.
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    Yes, the t’gallants can’t be re-enforced, but they can be replaced with wood or metal. The issue of overlong topmasts on French ships is interesting to me. On much period portraiture, they are depicted as also seemingly too long. A few examples: When in doubt, Anderson is pretty unimpeachable. There are also fairly reliable mast and spar dimensional tables taken from the Le Havre de Grace survey of SR in 1685; dimensions are in the old French foot, but they are easily convertible to imperial by a factor of 1.066. In case you might be wondering to yourselves - I have not yet applied these dimensions to the stock kit topmasts, just yet. I plan to use the stock kit topmasts as spares lashed to the deck to either side of the main hatch coaming. What I have done is to raise my lower mast sections by about 3/8” above deck level. I will more or less preserve the topmast lengths, but I will replace them with wooden spars, and I will shorten the t’gallant masts, which actually are far too long on the kit. Those will also be replaced with wood.
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    Definitely, the mast re-enforcements are a must - especially for the topmasts.
  21. Hubac's Historian
    Thank you, David.
  22. Hubac's Historian
    Yes, thank you Bill. Physically Dad is fine. Pretty solid, actually. Mentally, though, he is declining quickly. Pretty much, on a daily basis, I shake my head at what this disease does to a person. I appreciate the thought.
  23. Hubac's Historian
    About 5 hours per pair. The nails take longer 😀
  24. Hubac's Historian
    Yes, actually. I am not a casual fan. Jamal Murray is really good, and Jokic is the best and craftiest passing bigman since Larry Bird. I really like Denver and was very happy they won. Nice to see Porter Jr. have a solid game, as well.
  25. Hubac's Historian
    This is a placeholder post of sorts. My daughter had taken over my workspace with finals studies, the prior two weeks, so the kitchen table was never free until 10pm. By that point, I had nothing left in the tank for modeling. The NBA playoffs were also particularly interesting, this year, so my attentions have been divided for a good long stretch. I did manage to fit and secure the under-framing for the tafferal backboard, but apart from that - not much else has happened on the model itself. Most of what needs to happen on the model requires my utmost concentration. Now that the kids are done with school, and we aren’t running around all over the place, I should have deeper reserves in the evening time. I have been chipping away at the tafferal carving, itself, though. I decided that the best way to go about this was to break the carving up into separate elements, as I had done for the amortisement. Not only did this make the carving more manageable and replaceable by section, if need be, but it enabled me to more easily glue-up laminations of different thicknesses so that there would be a perceptible foreground and background to the composition. The clouds in the foreground are the thickest stock, the horses of medium stock and the chariot the thinnest stock: I have completed the clouds, which were further subdivided into port and starboard. I haven’t taken pictures of them, but they are fluffy, happy clouds that would warm Bob Ross’s heart. What I am working on, now, are the horses. I began with the port pair, which was the more challenging side to figure out. My thumb gives a pretty good indication of scale: I’ve made a start on the starboard pair, which is moving more quickly. I think the whole ensemble with capture the depth and drama that I am looking for. Thank you for your interest. More to follow..

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