flying_dutchman2

I don't want to put another log into the fire but I think Michael is right,
just attaching this little site of an artist using cedar.
I was amazed!

I have put shavings of cedar inside some models to keep the critters out.  I don't know how well this works, but at least they smell nice.
 
Allan

I just built one of these too!  I didn't get the screw plug though, so my wood floated up out of the top until it became more saturated.  I'm going to go get a plug for the top!  

Hi Marc,
 
This is the best result of my "bug and flower" hunt last week.
 

 
I am trying to work out attending the NRG Conference.
 
Good luck on your "Utrecht" I will follow along when you start the log.  I finished the Oseberg nails (unless I decide to nail the deck planking).  I am working on the deck planking now.  I should have an update soon.
 
Thanks for dropping in.

I am working on that. Will post a thread in the museum part of the forum. One for the Rijks museum and on for the Naval museum.
Marc

I am working on that. Will post a thread in the museum part of the forum. One for the Rijks museum and on for the Naval museum.
Marc

The ship has come to a nice milestone so I decided to take some studio shots for this update.
 

 
This is what the set looks like.  I pulled out the big Spiderlite soft boxes for the shoot.
 

Here is the oar update, I have been working a little slower lately because a little consulting work has gotten in the way of hobby time and the Oseberg is a birthday present for the Admiral and her birthday is not until late December.  I don't want to finish it too early because then I will have to come up with another present.
 
The first step was to cut oak strips 2x12.5 mm.  I cut five strips and taped them together and copied the shape of the kit supplied paddle portion, then cut them into individual pieces.  Originally I intended to cut them out with a scroll saw but since there was so little material to remove I just used a 1 inch belt sander.  I cut the notch where the dowel joins the paddle with the scroll saw and filed it out to the correct size. 
 

 
For the round portion of the oar I cut 3x3 mm square dowel and routed off all four corners and got them close to round and finished them off in a drill motor with hand held sandpaper.  The routing was tricky since the dowel is so small so I rigged a feather board and guide to keep my fingers away from the blade.
 

 
Then I sanded one end flat to fit into the paddle and the other end reduced the circumference to make it into a handle.  The last step was to glue them together and finish the fine sanding.  There were a lot of steps and a LOT of sanding in this process.  30 oars stained and ready to row.
 

 
 

Hi Mobbsie,  Thanks for stopping by.  I am really looking forward to the next adventure.  Thanks to you and Grant for letting me play.   
 
Thanks also to the "likes" they are always appreciated.
 
Time for a small update.  I have been working on the fiddly bits. The kit supplied parts are plywood or plastic so they needed to be cloned into a more natural material.  The cleats, blocks, spar and oar holders were all scratched from oak.
 

 
The plywood cradle was remade out of Mahogany.
 

 
The rudder is mounted loosely until I blacken the brass pin head, The cleats and oar holders are mounted.
 

 
I milled slots into bits of left over oar handle to act as keepers for the rudder suspension leather piece.  I have not completely figured out how to terminate them.  You can see them closer up in the second picture.
 

 
The paint tests are finally over.  I had some trouble finding the correct paint that would not creep under the masking tape.  My oldest daughter paints a lot of fabric and both she and the Admiral recommended a brand named Tulip.  It is the stripe on the left and the obvious choice.
 

 
The sail painting and rigging are next but I am heading to St Louis for the NRG meeting so they must wait.  
 
Thanks for looking.

Like ammonia, alcohol dissolves the lignin in the wood.
The other thing is that people used to use anhydrous ammonia, but that is a bit too dangerous to use so they started using household ammonia.
 
Forget all the chemicals to bend wood. Like Kurtvd19 says, 'water is still the best method'. Use the natural ingredients and not the man-made ones. Many of you have different methods that you use and it works for you. To me this is cumbersome. Too many steps and I am not in a hurry. When museums restore a model and or build one they use water only.
 
Plant physiology on a cellular level:
Water will soak and make the dry intact cell walls of the individual lignin spaces moist and pliable. You bend to form, clamp it and it will dry naturally. Leaving some of the cell walls intact and others cracked, but most of the individual cells are still there. Water evaporates but ammonia and alcohol melt the cell walls. Try spraying alcohol or ammonia on plant leaf and see what happens. Do it in 90 degrees F and see the leaf melt in front of your eyes. Once the cells and cell walls melt and the chemical evaporates it leaves larger holes here and there. The integrity of the lignin is gone and makes the wood wobbly. Meaning it has bubbles.
 
I will not bore you with the very detailed plant cell physiology of the steps of how wood deteriorates with chemicals. There have been many scientific articles written on this subject and the above is some of the basic information.
 
 
 
avsjerome2003 - Surfactant or sticker is pretty similar to dish washer soap like Dawn. In horticulture a surfactant is mainly used to make a herbicide stick to the plant. Once dry, the chemical does its job. Also there is a minimum run-off when spraying it on the plant, like they say a "sticker". Soap does the same thing and it is what I use.
 
If you want more details I can give you some links of some deep explanations on this subject.
 
Marc

I am working on that. Will post a thread in the museum part of the forum. One for the Rijks museum and on for the Naval museum.
Marc

I'm really just speculating but the alcohols we commonly use for modeling (methanol, ethanol, isopropyl) have a tremendous affinity for water.  By soaking the wood in alcohol, that alcohol probably combines with the natural moisture in the wood (giving the softening effect).  But when it dries, the alcohol will take some of that natural water with it making the wood brittle.  If the wood sits around for a (long) time at ambient conditions, it will eventually re-equilibrate at it's 'normal' moisture content and come back to normal.  But the whole process is subject to so many variables (type of wood, original moisture content, type of alcohol, soaking time, ambient conditions during drying) that I doubt it could be used reliably for any specific purpose.

I'm wondering if alcohol will degrade the wood?   I was soaking some glued pieces in the stuff and found the wood became very pliable and then re-hardened after it dried.   Any thoughts?

Looks to be ready for display in het Scheepvaart (Naval) museum in Amsterdam. I like the sails on the ship. My motto is, " a ship is complete with the sails". 95% of the model ships in museums have sails, either fully open or furled.
Excellent job. I love the stern on the Batavia.
 
The "Michiel de Ruyter" is a movie I have to see. I will just wait for Netflix or VuDu.
Marc

I have never used ammonia to bend wood - it just isn't needed.  The bit below is a reprint of part of my article on building the Gunboat Philadelphia kit in Ships in Scale.  I doubt anybody who attended the NRG Conference I reference has ever used ammonia since hearing it.
Kurt
 
 
AVOID AMMONIA SOAKING
 
At the 2007 Nautical Research Guild Conference in Manitowoc, Wisconsin Alex C. Wiendenhoeft of the U S Department of Agriculture Forest Services Center for Wood Anatomy Research at the Forest Products Laboratory in Madison, Wisconsin explained how and why this damages the wood.  After this length of time I do not remember all of the details of his talk, but the point was well made and I don’t think that any of the modelers who listened to his talk that day has ever used Ammonia again.  The very non-scientific points I remember is that soaking in Ammonia breaks down and liquefies the Lignin in the cells making the wood more bendable.  When the Ammonia evaporates while the wood is clamped in place to the desired bend, the Lignin solidifies in a somewhat degrade state weakening the wood.
 
Ammonia also causes some woods to discolor when they dry out.  This might not be critical when the wood is to be painted but if it is being stained or clear finished the discoloration would not be acceptable. Concentrated Ammonia fumes are used commercially to darken some woods with oak being very susceptible to this process.
 
Mr. Wiendenhoeft explained how and why soaking in water or steaming wood made it bendable while not damaging the cellular structure of the wood.  Again, a non-scientific explanation is that there is a chemical bond with water in the cellular structure of wood that varies between 0% and 30%.  Soaking or steaming wood with water raises the percentage of water within the wood, called “free water”, above the amount bonded within the cells temporarily.  This makes the wood swell and more easily bent.  When the wood dries out and the bonded water stabilizes back to 30% or less, the wood retains the shape it was formed to by the clamping while it dried while retaining its strength. 
 
I have only mentioned drying the wood while clamped in place but the application of heat using some sort of plank bending tool or other heat source works the same way as clamping just at an accelerated rate.

Main mast and its sail are (almost) ready. Some better pictures:
 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Hi Folks.
As Wayne has said seems that am classic bibliophile, with no hope in sight. Figure I would post my small library and it may help others on what books may be worth adding to their own library. Hope it does help. Not as big as Wayne's but it fits my need's. The name of the book is first followed by the author. If you want to know a little bit about the book and if it fits your needs just let me know.
Gary
 
English Maritime Books Printed before 1801- Adams/Waters
Art of Building of Ships 1719 -Allard
The Rigging of Ships in the Days of the Sprit sail Topmast- Anderson,R.C.
Seventeenth Century Rigging.- Anderson,R.C.
The Sailing Ship- Anderson,R.C.
Encylopedie Methodiqiue, 1783-1787, 3 vols plus plates.- Ancre
Dictionary fo Sea Terms- Ansted
Album of Colbert 1670- Anonymous
The Fully Framed model . H.M.S. Swan Class Sloop, vol 1, 2, 4- Antscherl,D
The Fully framed Model. HMS Swan Class Sloop vol 3 -Herbert, Greg
Shipbuilding Repository-1788 -Anonymous
Album DeCobert-1670- Anonymous
The Wooden Fighting Ship in the -Royal Navy Archibald
The Ashley Book of Knots Ashley,-Clifford W.
Building Britain's Wooden Walls, 1697-1851 -Barnard,John E
Ships and Seamanship -Baugean,J.J.
The Art of Gunfounding- Beer,Carel De
A.O.S Royal Yacht Caroline -Bellaburla/Osculoti
Sailing Rigs, An Illustrated Guide -Bennett,Jenny
Mariner Mirror 5 CD set -Bethell,John P
Cross Sections of Man Of War -Biesty
Steering to Glory,A Day in the Life of a ship of the line -Blake,Nicholas
Naval Expositer -Blankley,Thomas
Album Del marques De La Victoria -Borbon, Carlos de
The Sea. Its History and Romance. 4 Vols -Bowen,F
Scale Model Sailing ships -Bowen,John
Model Shipwright, Vol 1-131- Bowen,John
An Anthology,1972-1997, Model shipwright -Bowen,John
2010 Shipwright -Bowen John
2011 Shipwright -Bowen John
2012 Shipwright- Bowen John
2013 Shipwright -Bowen John
Artillerie De La Marine 1758 -Boudriot
History of the French Frigetes,1650-1850- Boudriot
74 to 120 gun ships in the French Navy, 1650/1850 -Boudriot
The Frigates in the French Navy,1650-1850- Boudriot
Naval Gunnery in France, 1650-1850 -Boudriot
La Belle Poule, 12 pdr Frigate,1765 -Boudriot
La Venus, 18 pdr Frigate, 1782- Boudriot
The 74 gun ship, 4 vols- Boudriot
Compagnie Des Indes-2 vols- Boudriot
John Paul Jones and the Bonhomme Richard- Boudriot
La Salamander 1752- Boudriot
Le Fleuron 1729, 64 gun ship- Boudriot
Le Navire Marchand Ancien Regime L Mercure 1730 2vols- Boudriot
La Jacinthe, 1823, Schooner- Boudriot
50 to 64 gun ships in the French Navy. 1650-1850 -Boudriot
Le Trois Ponts Dw Chevalies De Tourville 1680,2 vols- Boudriot
L Aurore 1766, Pleasure Sloop of War, 1766- Boudriot
L Aurore 1784, Slaver- Boudriot
Le Cygne 1806, Brig 24 guns -Boudriot
la Belle Expendition Vessel, 1684, 2 vols- Boudriot
La Diligente, The King's Tartan,138-1761- Boudriot
La Renomme, 8 pdr Frigate, 1744 -Boudriot
Le Requin Xebec, 1750- Boudriot
La Salamandre, Bomb Ketch,1752 -Boudriot
Le Coureur, Lugger 1776 -Boudriot
Bonhomme Richard, 1779- Boudriot
Le Cerf, Cutter 1779 Le Batearc De Lanveoc, Brest's single mast righ boat, 1780 -Boudriot
La Creole Corvette 1827 -Boudriot
La Chaloupe Armee En Guerre, 42 ft Longboat armed for War,1834 -Boudriot
Le Francous 1683- Boudriot/Lemineur
Le Bateau De Lanveoc -Boudriot/Berti
Le Gros Ventre -Boudriot/Delacroix
Encyclopedie Methodique/Marine Vol 1,2,3 and plates -Boudriot reprint
Uniforms of the Royal Naval, 17th 18th century-Boudriot/Petard
Lost Ships Bound, -Mensun
The Model Ship, Her role In History -Boyd,Norman Napier
Anatomy of an Admiralty Model (CD) -Bruckshaw,Robert
H.M.S Victory, Building ,Restoration and Repair, 2 vols -Bugler,A
Sovereign of the Seas -Busmann,H
How to Carve Wood, A book of projects and techniques -Butz,Richard
Nelson in the Caribbean, The Hero Emerges,1784-1787 -Callo,Joseph F
Van De Velde Drawings in the National maritime Museum, 2 vols -Cambridge
Neophty shipmodeler's jackstay -Campbell,G
Old ships Figureheads and Sterns -Carrton
The History of English Sea Ordnance, Vol 1- Caruana
The History of English Sea Ordnance, Vol 2 -Caruana
Vase 1, The Archaeology of a Swedish Warship of 1628- Cederhind/Hocker
Search for speed under Sail -Chapelle
History of American sailing Ships- Chapelle
The Baltimore Clipper, Its origin and Development -Chapelle
The History of the American Sailing Navy -Chapelle
Architecture Navalis Mercatoria -Chapman
Sailing Ships, Their History and Development,part 1 -Clowes,G.S. Laird
Sailing Ships, Their History and Development,part 2 -Clowes,G.S. Laird
The Royal Naval, 7 vols -Clowes,W.M
Historic Architecture of the Royal Navy -Coad,J
Early Sea Painters,1660-1730 -Cockett,F.B.
Peter Monamy-1681-1749- Cockett,F.B
The Age of Sail, vol1 -Conway maritime Press
The Age of Sail, vol2 -Conway maritime Press
The Decorative Arts of the Mariner- Cook,Gervis Frere
Drawing of Nicholas Pocock, 1740-1821- Cordingly
Figureheads, Carving on ships from ancient times to the twentieth century Costa,- Giancarlo
Ship Models -Crabtree
Royal Yachts of Europ -Crabtree, R
The American Built Clipper Ship -Crothers
Pilots,, The World of Pilotage under Sail and Oar, Vol 1 and 2 -Cunlifle,T
Anchors, An Illustrated History -Curryer,Betty Nelson
Naval Architecture 1695 -Dassie
Pepys's Navy, Ships, Men and Warfare, 1649-1689 -Davies, JD
Ship models and How to build them- Daviess,C
The built up ship Model- Daviess,C
Ship Model Builders Assitant -Daviess,C
Art of Knotting and Splicing -Day,C.L
Nelson's Favourite;HMS Agamemnon,1781-1809- Deane,A.N.
Sailing ships(Dutch Prints) 16th to 19th century- DeGroat/Vorstman
L'Amarante Corvette 1747- Delacroix, Gerard
List of French Ships,1661-1715- Demerliac
Memoirs of the Royal Navy -Derrick
Building the Wooden Fighting ship.- Dodds/Moore
Splintering the Wooden Wall -Dudley,Wade G
Dictionay of Ship Types -Dudsyuis
Element D' Architecture Navale, 1758 -Duhamel Du, Monceau
Manufacture of Anchors Reaumur 1723-1764 -Duhamel
Ship Modeler's Shop Notes -Edson
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain -Edwards, Betty
The Restoration Warship -Endsor, Richard
Grinling Gibbons and the Art of Carving- Esterly, D
Falconer's marine Dictionary 1815 -Falconer,W
Progressive Scratch-Building in Ship Modeling (CD)-Feldman,Clayton
H.M.S Victory -Fenwick, K
L'Artesien, Vaisseau de 64 canons 1764-1785- Fichant,Jacques
Introductory Outline on Practice of Shipbuilding -Fincham,J
A history of Naval Architecture- Fincham,J
A treatise on Masting Ships and Masting making -Fincham,J
Outline of Ship Building,1852 -Fincham,J
Laying Ships off on the Mould Loft Floor.- Fincham,J
USS Constellation, From Frigate to Sloop of War -Footner, Geoffrey M.
Ship Models,1951- Fox
A Distant Storm, the Four day Battle, Battle of 1666- Fox,F
Great Ships; The Battle fleet of King Charles 2 -Fox,Frank
Sailing Ships of War,1400-1860 -Fox,Frank
The Great Ordnance Survey of 1698- Fox Frank/Richard Endsor
Sailing, Seamanship and Yacht Construction- Fox,Uffa
Navy Board Ship Models, 1650-1750 -Franklin,John
Les Genles De La Mer -French Museum
L' Art De Modelisme -Frolich,B
To Build a Ship, the voc replica ship- Garvery,R
Royal Yachts -Gavin
Naval War of 1812 -Gardines,R
Navies and the American Revolution,1775-1783 -Gardines,R
Nelson against Napoleon -Gardines, R
Fleet Battle and Blockade; The French Revolutionary War, 1793-1797 -Gardines,R
Warships of the Napoleonic Era -Gardines,R
Frigates of the Napoleonic Wars -Gardines,R
Heavy Frigate, 18 pounder Frigates,1778-1800 -Gardines,R
The Sailing Frigate, A History in Ship Models -Gardiner, R
Nelson's Ships, a Trafalgar Tribute -Gardner,D
The Floating Prison -Garneray,Louis
The Ships of Trafalgar, The British, French and Spanish Fleets, Oct 1805 -Goodwin,P
The Naval Cutter Alert -Goodwin,P
Pandora, Bomb Vessel -Goodwin,P
Nelson's Victory -Goodwin,P
The Construction and Fitting of the English Man of War -Goodwin,P
Nelson's Ships, A History of the Vessels In Which He Served. 1771-1805 -Goodwin,P
The 20 gun Ship Blanford. -Goodwin,P
Ships of the American Revolution and their models -Hahn.H
The colonial Schooner -Hahn,H
Marine Carving Handbook -Hanna,Jay S
Trafalgar and the Spanish Navy -Harbron,John D
Catchers and Corvettes, The Steam Whalecatcher in Peace and War,1860-1960 -Harland,John H
Capstans and Windlasses -Harland,John H
Seamanship in the Age of Sail, 1600-1860 -Harland, John
F.H.Chapman, The First Naval Architect and his Work -Harris,Daniel G
Manual of Traditional Wood Carving -Hasluck,Paul N
Log of the Union -Hayes,Edmund
The Ships of Abel Tasman -Hoving,A/Emke,C
Nicolaes Witsen and Shipbuilding in the Dutch Golden Age -Hoving,A.J.
The Staten Jacht Utrecht 1746, Sea Watch Books -Hoving,Ab
Marine Art Of Geoff Hunt -Hunt,G
Tall ship in Art -Hunt/Myers
A Treatise on Naval Architecture -Hutchinson, W
The Model shipbuilders manual of Fittings and Guns -Isard
History of Art -Janson,H.W.
Bound for Blue Water- Jineshsan
Charles Brooking,1723-1759 -Joel,D
The Great Age of Sail -Jobe,J
The Period Ship Handbook, 2 -Julier, Keith
Modelling Late Victorian Battleships -King,Brian
The Kriegstein Collection, 17th and 18th century ship Models- Kriegstein Brothers
The Lore of the Ship- Kelalbery,B
Gunfounding and Gunfounders -Kennard,A.N.
Portsmouth Dockyard Papers,1774-1783, The American War -Knight,R
American Heavy Frigates, 1794-1826 -Lardas,Mark
Trincomalee -Lambert,A
Life in Nelson's Navy -Lavery, B
Marine architecture, Directions for Carrying on a ship,1739, Edmund Bushnell -Lavery,Brian
Jack Aubrey Commands -Lavery,Brian
The Royal Navy's First Invincible, 1744-1758 -Lavery,Brian
Nelson's Fleet at Trafalgar- Lavery,Brian
Nelson Navy, 1739-1815 -Lavery,B
The Arming And Fitting of the English Ships of War, 1600-1860 -Lavery,B
Ship of the Line, 2 vols -Lavery,B
74 gun ship Bellona -Lavery,B
Building the wooden walls -Lavery,B
Dean's Doctrine of Naval Architecture, 1670 -Lavery,B
Ship models, Their purpose and development. From 1650 to present -Lavery,B
Line of Battle- Sailing Warship, 1650-1840 -Lavery,B
Nelson and the Nile, The Naval War against Bonaparte -Lavery,B
Ship Board Life and Organisation 1731-1815 -Lavery,B
Ship Modeling From Scratch -Leaf, Edwin B.
Masting and Rigging of English Ships of War, 1625-1860 -Lee,J
Endeavour,a pictorial record of the building of the replica of H.M. Bark Endeavour- Lefroy,Mike
Young Sea Officer Sheet Anchor -Lever,D
Anatomy of Nelson's ship- Longridge,C
Modeling the Cutty Sark -Longridge,C
The Blackwall Frigates -Lubbock, Basil
Modelos De Arsenal, Del Museo Naval -Lunwerg
Album Del Marques De La Victoria -Lunwerg
Sea Battles in Close up. The age of Nelson- Lyon,D
Sailing Navy List- Lyon,D
The Sail and Steam Naval List- Lyon/Winfield
Ships in Minature -Macaffery,L
Building plank on Frame Ship Models- MaCarthy,R
Sails Through the Centuries- Macfie,G
The schooner, Its Design and Development from 1600 to the Present -MacGregor,David R
Merchant Sailing ships. 1775-1815- MacGregor,David R.
The boats of Men of War- May,W.E.
Frigate Constitution and other Historic ships -Maqorew
Artillery of the Navy (Ed. canvas) 1758 -Maritz
The Global Schooner, Origins, Development,Design and Construction,1695-1845- Marquardt, Karl Heinz
18th century Rigs and Rigging- Marquardt,K
AOS, HMS Beagle -Marquardt,K
A Most Fortunate Ship Martin,- Tyrone G
H.M.S. Sussex, 1693 McArdle, Gilbert
Ships, from the archives of Harland and wolff, the builders of the titanic -McCluskie,T
H.M.S. Victory, Her Construction, Career and Restoration- McGowan
The Ship, the Century before Steam -McGowan,A
The Ship, Tiller and whipstaff -McGowan,A
Granado, 24 gun Frigate -McKay/Coleman
The Hudson's Bay Company's 1835 steamship, Beaver -McKay, John
The 100 gun ship Victory- McKay,J
The Practical ship-Builder, 1839, Facsimile reprint, 1940 -McKay,L
Granado, 24gun Frigate -McKay/Coleman
Shipbuilding in Miniature- McNarry,D
Naval Guns, 500 years of Ships and Coastal Artilley- Mehl,H
William Frederick's1874, Scale Journey- Mendez,Antonio
American Ships of the Colonial and Rev Periods- Millar
Building Early american Warships- Millar
The Elements of Naval Architecture, Or A Practical Treatise on Shipbuilding 1764- Monceau, Duhamel/Murray,Mungo
Naval Architectuure Elements 1758 -Monceau, Duhamel
Historic ship Models -Mondfelt
Spars and Rigging, from Nautical Routine,1849- Murphy,J.M/Jeffers,W.N.
A Treatise on Shipbuilding and navigation in Three Parts -Murray, M
Sailing Ship Models -Nance
Legacy of a Ship Model, Examining HMS Princess Royal 1773 -Napier,Rob
Queen Anne's Navy -Navy Records Society
The Sergison Papers -Navy Records society
Schooner Sultana, Building A Chesapeake Legacy -Niemeyer,L/McMullen,D
Ships' Plans -NMM
The Portrait of Peter Pett and the Sovereign of the Seas -NMM
Plymouth's ships of War, Maritime Monographs and Reports, no 4-1972 -NMM
18th Century Shipbuilding, Remarks on the Navies of the English and Dutch, 1737- Ollivier,Blaise
Traite De Construction, 1736 -Ollivier,B
Naval Veneziane, Venetian ships- Penzo,Gilberto
Rigging Period Ship Models- Petersson, Lennarth
Modeling the Brig of war Irene -Petryes,C.W.
Warships of the King. Ann Wyatt(1658-1757)Her life and Her Ships -Philbin,Tobias/Endsor, Richard
Navy Board contracts,1660-1832- Pool,Bernard
Danish Figure heads -Poulsen,H
The Warship Figureheads of Portsmouth- Pulvertaft, David
Figureheads of the Royal Navy -Pulvertaft, David
Building A Miniature Navy Board Model -Reed, Philip
Modelling Sailing Men Of War -Reed, Philip
Period Ship Modelmaking, An Illustrated Masterclass.- Reed, Philip
Rees's Naval Architicture, 1819-1820- Rees's
Ship Models from Kits- Riches, Colin
A Marine Vocabulary -Roberts, David
The painting of the Willem Van De Veldes -Robinson
Allgemeines Worterbuch Der Marine, 4 vols -Roding,J.H.
The Wooden World, An anatomy of the Georgian Navy -Rodger, M.A.M.
HMS Warrior 74 gun Ship, 4 vols -Romero,W
Royal Yacht Fubbs -Romero,W
Conferedacy -Romero,W
L, Art De La Mature, 1777- Romme
L, Art De La Voilure, 1781- Romme
Ship Modeling from Stem to Stern- Roth,M
Dominic Serres, 1719-1793 -Russatt,A
High Relief Wood carving -Schnute, William J
Carving Ornamentatio for Ship Models, -Short,Bill
Naval Achievements, 1793-1817, -by James Jenkins Sim Comfort
American Naval Broadsides, Maritime Prints -Smith,E
Ship Models -Smith,C.Fox
The Warship Vasa-Sculptures. -Soop,H
A goodly Ship , the Building of the Susan Constant -Spectre, P.H./Larkin, D
Naval Architecture,1787 2 vols -Stalkartt,M
Vada Mecuem -Steel,D
Mast Making, Sailmaking and Rigging -Steel,D
Steel's Naval Architicture, 1805, 2 vols -Steel,D
The Elements and Practice of Rigging and Seamenship,1794 -Steel,D
An account of the construction and Embellishment of Old Time ships -Stevens,J
The world of Sail and Steam -Stobart
Shipbuilding Asstant, 1711 -Sutherland,W
Britain's Glory or ship Building Unvail's1717 -Sutherland,W
Lords of the East -Sutton,J
Ship Modeling Techniques -Takakjian,P
AOS Essex -Takakjian,P
Complete Guide to Wood Carving -Tangerman,E.J.
The Naiad Frigate (38) 1797 Vol1- Tosti, Edward J
British Figurhead and ship Carvers -Thomas,P
The Age of Sail, Vol 1 -Tracy,Nicholas
The Age of Sail, Vol 2 -Tracy,Nicholas/Martin Robson
The Frigates Seafarers,-Time Life
The Clipper ships Seafarers,-Time Life
The Great Liners Seafarers,-Time Life
Fighting Sail Seafarers,-Time Life
The pirates Seafarers,-Time Life
The Explorers Seafarers,-Time Life
The Armada Seafarers,-Time Life
The Men of War Seafarers,-Time Life
The Original Ships in Scale (CD) Vol 1 1983-1987, Vol2 1988-1991 -Seaways Publishing
Seaways Ships in Scale (CD) Vol 1 1990-1994, Vol2 1995-1999 -Seaways Publishing
Model Ship Builder (CD) Vol 1 1979-1984, Vol 1 1985-1989 -Seaways Publishing
Model Ship Builder (CD) Vol 2 1990-1994, Vol 2 1995-1999 -Seaways Publishing
Plank on Frame models, Vol 1- Underhill
Plank on frame models, Vol 2 -Underhill
Sailing ship Rigs and Rigging -Underhill, H
Souvenirs De Marine Conserves, 2 vols -Vice Amiral Paris
Naval Architecture, A Manual on Laying off, 1898 -Watson, Thomas H.
Old Ironsides-Americans Build a fighting ship- Weitzman,D
The Shipwrights Trade,1948- Westcolt,A
Fighting Ships,1750 to 1850 -Willis, Sam
The British Navy and the State in the 18th Century- Wilkinson,Clive
First Rate, The Greatest Warships of the Age of Sail -Winfield, R
British War Ships in the age of sail. 1603-1714- Winfield,R
British War Ships, 1714-1792 -Winfield,R
British War Ships, 1793-1817- Winfield,R
The 50 Gun ship -Winfield,R
The Techniques of Ship Modelling -Wingrove, Gerald A
Coronelli, Ships and other craft -Witt,M.M.
Architicture Navalis, 1671, -Witsen,N
HMS Euryalus(36) 1803. A Plank on Frame Model -Allan Yedlinsky/Wayne Kempson
His Majesty's Royal Ship -Young, Alan R

New article "Modeling small figures for Ship Models" placed in the database and is ready for download.
 
Thank you Dave Fellingham for the article submission.  Very well done.  I enjoyed reading it and I am sure most of our members will also.
 
Click Here to download article
 
Chuck
 
 
Remember if you wish to submit an article to the database or for consideration in the Nautical Research Journal...please contact me.  We welcome all submissions!  

2014 Nautical Research Guild conference

St. Louis - October 16, 17 and 18

See the website for Details - CLICK Here

 

A new Conference format is being offered in 2014 to help make this event more affordable.  The featured tour will be held on Thursday, and the Technical Sessions, which focus on model making topics, will be held on Friday.  These two events have been switched so that those wanting to attend only the two days of classroom discussions can do so without having to incur the cost of an additional room night.

 

   At the NRG Charleston Members’ Meeting, a number of attendees suggested that round table sessions should somehow be included in the weekend schedule.  In the past, these talks were conducted on Sunday morning when most were leaving the conference.  The Friday schedule will have three guest speakers in the morning, and five round table sessions in the afternoon.  The General Sessions on Saturday will highlight topics that cover a wide range of nautical interests relating to research and history. 

 

The Conference Tour will feature a cruise aboard the Tom Sawyer, a 50-year old riverboat. The journey will take you from downtown St. Louis to Kimmswick, Missouri, a quant riverside town known for its historic homes, shopping, and antiques.  The narrated cruise will feature onboard bingo, card games, and riverstyle music.  Upon disembarking from the “Sawyer,” lunch will be served at the Blue Owl Restaurant and Bakery. There will also be ample time to shop and explore the town on foot.  A motor coach will be provided for transportation back to downtown St. Louis.

 

While visiting Kimmswick, guests must anticipate uneven walking terrain such as stairs and graveled pathways.  With that in mind, we cannot recommend this trip for those needing the assistance of a wheelchair, walker, or those with significant physical/heart conditions or limitations.

 

Friday Technical Sessions:

Pat Mathews – 3D Printing

Greg Grieco – Excavation of the Riverboat Heroine

David Antscherl – Building the Fireship Comet

Friday Round Table Discussions:

David Antscherl – Frieze Painting

Steve Wheeler - Electroplating

Chuck Passaro – Ropewalk Demo

Greg Herbert – Making Scale Moldings

John Vojtech – Unique Modeling Tools. 

Saturday General Sessions:

Jack Custer – Using images to take off the lines of steamboats

Dan Pariser – Comparing French & English ship building practices

Gary Lucy – Researching models and settings for paintings

Institute of Nautical Archeology – Speaker & subject to be determined

Banquet Guest Speaker

Christopher Gordon, President St. Louis Historical Museum

Topic: St Louis and The Lewis and Clark Expedition 

 

You can download the registration form from the NRG website page here.

I'm afraid the AC72 is still just a pile of electrons. (very early stage CAD)

 
Things at work have been going ballistic and I've been distracted by old Fisherman's Cup racing schooners...
 
Watching you guys finish cool models is a great spectator sport, though!

While I was on vacation at the naval museum in Amsterdam I took these pictures from the model Volvo 70 ABN-AMRO. It was part of model display of 400 years of yachting in the Netherlands. Antique models from 1600 to modern models of 2000.
btw. I took 500 pictures of models, paintings, figureheads, etc. all from Dutch ships.
 
Marc

While I was on vacation at the naval museum in Amsterdam I took these pictures from the model Volvo 70 ABN-AMRO. It was part of model display of 400 years of yachting in the Netherlands. Antique models from 1600 to modern models of 2000.
btw. I took 500 pictures of models, paintings, figureheads, etc. all from Dutch ships.
 
Marc

While I was on vacation at the naval museum in Amsterdam I took these pictures from the model Volvo 70 ABN-AMRO. It was part of model display of 400 years of yachting in the Netherlands. Antique models from 1600 to modern models of 2000.
btw. I took 500 pictures of models, paintings, figureheads, etc. all from Dutch ships.
 
Marc

While I was on vacation at the naval museum in Amsterdam I took these pictures from the model Volvo 70 ABN-AMRO. It was part of model display of 400 years of yachting in the Netherlands. Antique models from 1600 to modern models of 2000.
btw. I took 500 pictures of models, paintings, figureheads, etc. all from Dutch ships.
 
Marc

Thanks Bob, no doubt she is built for speed, speaking of speed hows the AC72 coming along ( lol)
 
Thanks Kees, I am totally hooked on the Volvo Ocean Race ( Oct 4th 2014 is the start of this years race)
 
Thanks Piet, The Keel and bulb turned out to be more work than I had thought , I am pleased with the result
 
Thanks Omega, The keel has not been installed yet , once I get the 2 more coats of flat black and the rudder blades painted,and installed, She will be ready for Tank testing
 
Best Regards,
Pete