Beckmann

Here is some more Information about the ship.

Matthias 

Good morning Herbert. There exist detailed plans from Harold Underhill about LEON. He even wrote two books about building this model. There are lots of Informations. I suppose, you need the original dimensions? Or of the model 1:48  scale?

Matthias 

Merry Christmas to all of you.

I hope you are enjoying some time with your shipmodels. My wife got me an incredible book about the shipmodels of the musee de la marine in Paris. Looking at the great cabin of the frigate "La Flore" makes me dreaming of finally continuing my Winchelsea!!! 

My rigging project made some Progress, but I am running out of blocks, so Winnie will continue soon.

Matthias

Hi Chuck, will the port lids be equipped with ropes to keep them open?

Here is a picture of the model itself.

Matthias

Hi Matt, thanks for your sympathy! While waiting for some parts, I started the rigging of an 1/75 Model of a frigate. The parts for the next Winchelsea arrived long time ago, but the rigging takes so much time, that I didn't yet continue with the next chapter. Here are some pictures, of where I'm stuck at the moment. 

Examples from NMM

Making sails

making the yards and adding the sails

most of the time goes to reading to understand, how the rigging works.

Hi Bob.

A phantastic model. Well done!!! Did you carve the scale figure yourself?

Matthias 

Sieht super aus!!

Hi, your model looks beautiful, but what happened to your friezes? They Keep in better condition, of you spray them with varnish, before gluing them in place.

Matthias

stern frieze.pdf

If anyone is interested in using the pictural stern frieze of HMS Winchelsea for his model, feel free to use this pdf-file. Matthias

Hello Everybody,

Chapter III is done now, the model looks so beautiful, thanks again Chuck, for this design.

so it is time now to do some cleaning and repairs and maybe continue rigging of a few older models. They all can't keep up with the Winni, but I still like them.

Matthias

Well done Reg. Your stern arrangement looks very good! And I like your base. It looks really nice with those brass collumns. Where have you got them from?

Matthias 

Hello everybody, thanks for the likes and comment. Here is a little update of my work  on the stern columns.

This is so much fun, building this model. Thanks Chuck.

Matthias

The carvings are now added to the stern. I had some trouble to get the right balance of Neptun and Diana. (is it Diana, or Athene?), because Neptun is a little bit larger. Here you can see the result.

Matthias

Thanks for the comments and likes, here some pictures of the model, after adding the moldings at the stern.

Matthias

Hi Steve, that looks good! Just a little thing: The lower molding at the bow should be longer, so there is no gap to the stem.

Matthias

The friezes and Fancy moldings on both sides together with the Qgallery-roofs are now finished. 

After printing the friezes, I sprayed the paper 2-3 times with varnish, then cut it out and glued it to the model.

Here are some Pictures.

Now I look forward to the stern with all the wonderful carvings from Jack. That will be the absolute higlight of my so far modelbuilding.

Matthias

Okay thanks for the advice. I will close the Qgallery with tape from the inside, that might help against the dust. I actually just spent more than one hour searching one of the windows wich fell down when I carried the model outside, thats why I spontaniously glued them to the model. I was so happy finding it  inside the doormat. 

Matthias 

Today I almost finished the port side Qgallery.  These photos are always so mercyless. Now I see the incorrect angles and the bent window glazing. I didn't see that in my workshop under the artificial light.  But there is still the starbord Qgallery to do it better. 

Matthias 

Maybe my profile is just scraped too thin at the lower edge. It was a great moment, adding the first of Jack‘s superb figures to the model. 

I started building the Qgalleries.

Chuck, did you somehow double up the upper fancy molding? I had to put a strip underneath it, otherwise the collums would not fit underneath the profile.

I also sanded the roof, but that does not fit properly yet.

Chuck, That model is another example with red painted coamings. Wich one is it? The cabin panels of your Winni look great, even upside down !!!

How to explain in a foreign language...

Here are two photos. If there are Copyright issues, please delete them.

The first show the panels with frames and fillings. The second shows something like plywood with a painted frame.

Hello everybody, I spent some time playing around with photoshop. I wanted to make an attempt to use the stern frieze wich is painted on the Winchelsea model at Greenwitch. What do you think?

Here are some pictures.

Are these panels just painted, or actually built with frames and fillings?