Beckmann

Don't wory,  I wont get ahead of you. Your careful step be step instruction and the laser cut kits makes it so easy. I rather wait on chapter 2 than making mistakes.

They fit, I took care about that.

great fun, how the puzzle matches 

the plywood that was left from making bulkheads was just enough for the brackets

I must admitt, without all the assistance you provide chuck, people like me would probably never start such a model projekt. If I come home after work I have about 1 hour time every second or third day to go into the Workshop and make some progress. You make it all very easy, so fulltime busy people still can have some model-building fun and make some progress late in the evening. 

is that enough tapering? I'm not shure, if the top of the head knete Muster be reduced to 1/8" as well.

I started assembling the knee of the head and gluing the rabbet Strip to the bulkhead former.

I did transfer them. I made a cut in the surface of the bulkheads with the chisel. One can hardly see it on the photos, but they are there.

I have never seen a model kit with so many bulkheads.  

They are a ready for the next step now.

The bulkheads are all cut now. They just need to be cleaned up a bit. Yesterday I received the starter kit. So things become interesting now.

There might be a problem to get it planked. MDF has a good surface, but if you cut it, the surface is a bit fibrous and extremely absorbent. Another Point is, that it as far less stable then plywood, the narrow beams of bulkhead 27 for example will probably just break of, if you sand them in shape. That might actually happen to all the small top parts of the bulkheads.

Hello everybody,

to finish this build Log, here are some photos of the Display case. I altered the baseboard by reducing the mirror-surface. I think it looks better like this and confuses not so much, if one looks at the model. The mirror area still allows , seeing the unplanked bottom of the barge. Now I just need to finish the varnish of the baseboard, and thats it done.

One word to Chuck:

Thank you for this fantastic kit, it was really fun to build it. Looking at the barges in NMM, Greenwich or the book about the Kriegstein-Collection makes me think, how nice an oarsmen-crew would be. Maybe one day, you should talk to your chinese carver, (Jack was his Name?) to develop a resin-casting for one ore two types of oarsmen. This is such a popular model, I am shure you will sell hundreds of oarsmen, to man all the barges. How many did you sell by now? Maybe 150 barges, that is a demand of 1500 oarsmen :) !!!

Matthias

Matthias

Okay, I will use cedar then. 

Just a question: using the cedar laser cut kits and planking with boxwood strips is propably not a good idea? Or do the both match well together?  

There are quite a few examples of figureheads not looking straight forward. Usually animals do so. The huge Lion- figureheads for example. Here is the figurehead of danish Prinz Friderich (1761), looking almost  60 degree to the right side.

40 minutes ago, Beckmann said:

 

They look really fancy. If I would buy them, my daughters would take them away anyway for bookstands on their  shelfs, so I better make some simple ones myself

Okay, that makes sence. I thought, you seperated it, because of the size, to make it easier for shipping. At the moment it doesn't look too bad, but I will have to watch out.

Exactly, I cut with the table saw as far as possible, the last 5 mm are cut with the bandsaw and cut out with a 6 mm chisel.

Hi everybody, 

after finishing the Queen Anne-barge, I am quite excited to join in the Winchelsea project.

Yesterday I got started, printing all the plans and cutting the first plywood peaces for the bulkheads. 

I use 6 mm birch plywood (the heavy one) and made the main part out of one Peace (not 3 peaces like the laser-cut Version)

Matthias

Hi, you are incredible productive. I am doing aquarell-painting myself and know, what it means. Do you sell your pictures sometimes?

Thanks Matthias

How did you blacken the planks? Did you paint them or pickle them, before you glued them in position, or did you use ebony wood?

Yesterday I installed the oars. I like them being in place like seen on the photos, it gives an Impression of speed. Although this is quite a space-consuming way of displaying the model, I think I will go for it. I also made a mirror-baseboard, so one can see better the unplanked bottom of the model. Next I will made the showcase.

Matthias

Hi Doug,

that would be great, if Jeppe could add some Information about these Details.

Thank you for the Information.

Matthias

At the moment I am busy making the oars. I had some Problems, sanding the blades in shape, because they kept breaking off. Maybe it is an idea to make the pole and the blade out of one peace. The adhesive Surface between them is very small.