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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.
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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.
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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
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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?
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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Hi, you are incredible productive. I am doing aquarell-painting myself and know, what it means. Do you sell your pictures sometimes? Thanks Matthias
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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?
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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
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Brigantine Leon by Beckmann - 1/48
Beckmann replied to Beckmann's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1851 - 1900
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.
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The flag staffs, the tiller and the nailing is done now. Here are some photos.
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Here you can see better, what I mean, but you are right, it is not too much noticable.
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Thanks Chuck, I have a problem, I don't know, why it occured: The keel ist bending about 3 mm upwards in the middle. During the planking I had it on the frame all the time. I preformed the planks with heat, so they were not very much forced in place. Is there a way to prevent this? Certainly not any more at this stage of building, but I would like to know, what I did wrong. I will post a photo of the problem later. Matthias
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Hello everybody, The ornaments, frames and moldings werde gildet and added to the hull. At the moment I am busy preparing the rudder. Matthias
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Brigantine Leon by Beckmann - 1/48
Beckmann replied to Beckmann's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1851 - 1900
Hello Doug, there are some fellow members of our german "association historic naval Architecture", who are incredibly well informed. One told me, that this photo originates from the catalogue of an Exhibition in Hamburg Harbour in the year 1978 about shipping on old photographs. It was subscribed: "Fischerleute des Kutters H.F. 249 um 1905" (Fishermen of the cutter H.F. About 1905). Wheras the term "cutter" is no description of a certain type of ship. In german it is a general term for fishing vessels, still used today. It was probably a vessel like the still existing H.F. 294 "President Freiherr von Maltzahn". Have a look at https://www.hf294-maltzahn.de there are plenty of photoes on this page, also many historic potos. Matthias -
Brigantine Leon by Beckmann - 1/48
Beckmann replied to Beckmann's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1851 - 1900
I was wondering, how the windlass exactly looked like and how it was used. In a german Essay "Ausarbeitung zum kulturhistorischen Wert des Giekewers Frieda" I found a nice photo and with the permission of the author I can share it here.
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Brigantine Leon by Beckmann - 1/48
Beckmann replied to Beckmann's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1851 - 1900
Hi Scott, there is a page about the shipbuilder Colin Archer, who built LEON. It says: Year of Building: 1880 ship builder: Colin Archer Built at: Larvik / Norwegen History Hjemsted: (Port of registry) Arendal 1880-1900 Kragerø 1900-06 Solum, Porsgrunn 1906-15 Skipsfører: (Captain) P. Eilertsen 1880-87 M. Andersen 1887-94 C. Jacobsen 1894-96/97 Ole I. Jobsen 1896/97-1900 I. N. Knudsen 1900-06 Isak Olsen 1906-13 Th. Halvorsen 1913-15 Eier: (Owner) Brødr. Herlofson 1880-86 Axel Herlofson 1886-88 Axes Smith , mgr. 1888-94 (D. Herlofson, eier) C. Jacobsen 1894-1900 Chr. Jobsen 1898 J. Schelderup 1900-03 J. M. Jensen 1903-06 (A/S Leon) N. Realfsen 1906-15 (A/S Leon) so that explains the inscription of the bell -
Brigantine Leon by Beckmann - 1/48
Beckmann replied to Beckmann's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1851 - 1900
I got this photo from the Aust Agder Museum at Kuben / Norway (together with the permission to use it here). So that's alle what remains from LEON. I presume, every ship of that size had a bell. Shipbells always were important for the daily routine onbord the sailships and as well as alarm Signals at night, or when ist was foggy.
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Brigantine Leon by Beckmann - 1/48
Beckmann replied to Beckmann's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1851 - 1900
Maybe this is a possible position for the ships bell of LEON
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Brigantine Leon by Beckmann - 1/48
Beckmann replied to Beckmann's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1851 - 1900
Hi Johno, thanks for your reaction on my question. I put LEON apart at the moment, for I am building Chuck Passaros wonderful barge, but I can show some more photos of the state of things. I hope to proceed on Leon soon.
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