Beckmann

Hi Empathry, thank you for your kind comment.  ebony is too unflexibel and difficult to bend. What do you mean with "Laufbohle"?

Here is my first attempt with these difficult planks below the wales. It is actually my third attempt, I broke all the others. If I keep going like this, I will soon run out of planks.

I have a question concerning the joints. They jump every second bulkhead from one row of planks to another. And after 4 rows, it goes back to the first bulkhead. Is that right? That produces a regular pattern of joints. And it means, that one plank goes over 8 bulkheads.

Yesterday the carvings of Jack arrived. They are extraordinary. 

Here is the figurehead.

Hi Chuck,

I know, what you mean. In my case, it is now 7 or 8 weeks, that I started the planking. And there are definitely more than one planks, which I should not have glued in position, because with a little more effort, it could have been better. It is a matter of habit and willpower and Patience. At my work as civil engineer, things are never fast enough. You are actually always behind, trying to not loose connection. So shipmodeling is a bit like a therapy to slow down. 

The other thing is, that this model is so much fun. And I think it is a level, which is new for ordinary shipmodelbuilder like me. You just can‘t resist sitting down, doing the next plank. Today for example I spent all morning fairing inbord - and enjoyed it. I will take my time for the planking below the wales.

Matthias

Thank you Jim. Using mordant always has the potential to completely ruin, what you did so far. Once it is in the wood, you never get it out again. So I am glad, all went well. I wiped some varnish on the surrounding planks, that kept them clean.

Matthias

As usual, things didn't quite work as I thought.

I had to do some sanding and following that, some more dying. I would not recommend doing this my way. You have to be extremely careful with the rest of the model. The advantage is, that the planking structure remains very visible. Painting it might cover the seams and joints, so you have one black belt without any visible planks.

In the end it is a matter of taste.

The best thing to do is propably using the black hornbeam, wich JpR62 mentioned above.

This is the finished starboard side of the model.

Matthias

That is, what I did. 

The cedar is so absorbent, that the stain went almost through the entire strip. And You can still enjoy the flexibility of this wood.

First I thought about using ebony, I have got a peace of  ebony, but that stuff is like iron. Very heavy and I suppose impossible to saw and bend.

The next thing to do are the black whales. I dyed the strips in advance, so I don't have  to paint them. We will see, if that was a good idea or not. The disadvantage is, that you have to glue them very careful into position, because you can not sand the surface later. And no glue on top of the surface. And if you moisten the strips fot bending, you will dissolve the mordant.

But I prefer the look.

Hi everybody,

I hope you enjoy some spare time at your christmas-vacation. I did some planking.

This one was a really tricky one.

Matthias

Okay, if that is the colour, I am fine with it. I thought you changed into a lighter blue.

On 11/29/2019 at 3:12 AM, Chuck said:

Here is a photo of the frieze with the name

 

 

Hello Chuck,

I personally prefer the colours, you used above.

Is it possible to get the freeze with this green-blue background? I am still thinking about the old masters gel stain. It would match better, using the darker Colours.

Thanks 

Matthias

Slate was propably used to cover a qgallery in those days. Here is an old shingle together with the Winnie.

The qgallery of HMS Surprise has a comparable construction. My daughter visited the ship in San Diego in 2017. Here is a picture.

HMS Victory and HMS Trincomalee have both Black roofs over the qgallery.

I prefer the dark roof. This is a peace of architecture.  The focus is on the columns and  the moldings and windows. The upper and lower framing ( roof and frieze) have to be darker in order to make a contrast.  Otherwise it might look a bit out of balance in my opinion.

The Photo of Minerva is excellent. Would you mind putting some more photos from that CD into the gallery of contemporary models?

The model of HMS Amzon, you mentioned above in your post of July 4th, has a white (or light grey) painted great cabin and even a white painted ceiling in that cabin.

Chuck, your Quartergallery is very impressive. As the gunports are painted red, and the painted freezes are added as well, my question is: will the captains cabin from inside be painted in any kind of color, white for example? That would mean, that the inside of the quarter gallery could be painted white, or light grey, or even red as well. My other Question is: are you going to install toilets in both quarter-galleries? That would be a bit funny for just one person. But on the other Hand, it might make sense, regarding luv and lee. 

Matthias

The complete set of ivory-windowframes is now clean. But before installing them on the model there is still a lot of planking to do.

Very nice planking!! Are you going to make the seams black?

First one is cleaned from char

The laser didn't cut all the way through the material, so it is a delicate thing to get them out without breaking them. 

Obviously I again was not patiently enough

I will make an attempt to clean it! You are right, it really is a miracle, how they did this in earlier times with primitive tools and no technical help. 

Here we go with my ivory experiment. As I said above, I use some old piano keys, wich are about 100 years old. 

I had to clean them, for they are very dirty. Then I made a CAD-drawing from the windows. An old woman! who runs a  laser-cut-company nearby made the cutting for me. It was not easy, because eather the ivory gets yellow or it doesn't cut through the material. But she did a good Job and this is the result. What do you think?

The upper side withe the laser char.    

the backside without the char. I am not shure, which one I prefer.

The little fence for the quarter gallery broke into pieces when I cut it lose. It is just too delicate. 

For getting the notch around the gunports right, I made myself a little "help".

Hello Mike, your Winni Looks fantastic. Are you going to nail all the planks or not?

Matthias