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Decor for the catwalk

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Hello colleagues
Many modeler friends said to me that it would be nice to assemble a cardboard sailing ship, but rigging is generally too difficult. Therefore, a few years ago I asked Ab Hoving for an idea for a simple model with the simplest possible rigging, and I didn't have to wait long (2-3 hours) when a precise and immediately three-dimensional design of a "recreational yacht" appeared on my computer. ", i.e. "Speeljacht".
This design is very similar to the commercially available plans drawn by Cor Emke.
[url]https://www.modelbouwtekeningen.nl/nvm-1006017-speeljacht-volgens-nicolaas-witsen-167.html[/url]
 
Recreation on the water was probably not an invention of the Dutch, because in the tomb of Tutankhamun an image of the pharaoh fishing on the Nile was found, which can be considered entertainment on the water. However, until the 17th century, sailing ships of various types fulfilled basically only commercial and war functions or were used for work, such as fishing. It was only when the trade in Asia enabled merchants to build great fortunes that yachts for entertainment appeared.

Maybe it was then that "yachting" appeared as a way of spending time with family, friends or for business purposes. Not only did people relax by sailing for pleasure, but such expeditions were accompanied by delicious feasts, including plenty of drinks. Nicolaes Witsen even mentions a "beer house" under the aft deck. In addition to romantic trips, owning such a yacht meant prestige and/or wealth - a bit like modern billionaires and oligarchs.

The decorations were chic, but not flashy. The Netherlands was a Calvinist country, so one had to be modest. There was usually a family coat of arms on the stern.

A similar model was developed in wood by Kalderstock.

And for the inquisitive and curious: the Clean2Anywhere Foundation has been experimentally recycling plastic for several years, building replicas of small historical yachts from it, including this speel yacht. Link to one of the videos where you can see the construction of a speel yacht:
[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqrIHFulcZU&t=3s[/url]

And how is my construction going? So quick and easy that I didn't take many photos, especially obvious stages like frame frames,...


...or "first - false planking"


The retouched cardboard edges of decks has always "disgusted" me, so I experimented a bit and glued narrow strips on the visible edges, imitating the face of the boards. The stripe is 0.7 mm, my hand trembled a bit and it didn't turn out perfect, but I think it's a very good idea for the future.

Since masking the edges like this has a future, I went ahead and played with the edges of the planks at the stern. There is also something to complain about, but that's my fault - I liked the idea itself.

A large number of visible frames required tedious gluing and retouching, and initially I planned to glue them to the hull first and then continue covering them with the planks. Fortunately, before I started committing such stupidity, I changed my concept and built this component separately, finally gluing the finished one to the model. In total, in four stages: 2 amidships and 2 aft.



The last layer of planks (in color) went very well, and of course the corrections were made on the edges that are covered with wales. This is how it turned out:


Modest decorations (as I wrote at the beginning) will only be made of cardboard (no resin), so that the model is fully paper as standard. It was necessary to choose the coat of arms of some noble family. The final choice fell on the van Loon family, also because their "palace" still houses a popular museum.([url]https://www.museumvanloon.nl[/url])


That's it for now, only decorations, leeboards and very simple rigging remain.
 
Regards
Tomek

Slow, but beautiful  👍

I´m continuing with the decoration, it goes very slowly, they are very small. 

Actual step of built :

Here, the sunlight is soon coming back, I've taken this opprtunity to prepare a fast afternoon photo bonus :


 

Hello,
during the week the carpenters have cut the beams and today they installed the clamps for the pop deck.
You may see, that there is not much headroom even in the great cabin. From the floor to the upper side of the beams it is 6ft 8in! At the beginning of the deck, 6ft 6in. And the beams are 5in high.

Hello,
because the weather changed here dramatically, it has not rained now for 4 days and the sun is shining , I'm not so busy at the shipyard. Since November it is raining here with only some dry days between and may be 2 or 3 days with sunshine. Since Christmas it stormed every week, sometimes also twice a week and now for 14 days we had no storm. They said, this winter we had 22% more rain and it was 5°C warmer then the years before! 
 
But at the shipyard the carpenters where busy and finished the quick-work. 

 
 

Hello,
that was a week of drawing. But at least I will build the cabins after the standard drawing. If it was really so, I don't know

May be I make the bed place a little narrower. But here I can store the cannon in the cabin.

This is the version they used at the Medway. The difference is, at the Medway the cabins are going until right behind the mast. So they are a little broader, but there is at least no space left for the cannon. 
They had this cabins for the master and someone else, but I think that the master must look in this case for a place in the lobby for his maps and octant. When the 1.Lt. and the master had this deck, there are these extra cabins. Below the drawing for the 1745 establishment.

The carpenters where also busy and build the spirketting for this deck.

 
 

Hello, and many thanks for your likes and comments
 
Ian, I would be lucky if there where no sanding or glue marks  But at least, now the last are gone
Marc, with the symmetry it's such a thing. Because I had no real experience with this way to build a model, I chose a too thin plywood. So the starboard side is some millimetres broader then the port side of the ship. But you would't notice it without a ruler.  
 
Here a picture with all 12 pounders in place, but now not permanently. Notice also my efforts to make the walls of the QD symmetrical. 

As long as the oil has to dry, I'm looking how to set up the cabins. At the sheer plan the first bulwark begins 1m behind the wheels. At the floor plan directly behind them. That may also be a mistake in the sheer plan, or there where some cabins like at the model of the Centurion? The wheels here are behind the mizzen mast. And is there a cabin for at least the master? I looked at the pictures of models and plans from that period. They are all different. Even from plan to model  I prefer the way they did it at the Medway. That correspondent with the way they did it at the 60 gunner model I saw at Chatham. And I think that it will work, when the bed place for the captain is at least 2 m broad. 

I found a possible answer to this puzzle:
 
This definition is given in Steele's The Elements and Practice of Rigging and Seamanship, page 87"
 
"HEADSTICK. A short round stick with a hole in each end, strongly sewed to the head of some triangular foresails and jibs, to prevent the head of the sail from twisting; the head-rope is thrust through the holes before it it sewed on the sail."
 
 
Here is a drawing (Plate 25, before page 129) of a "sloop's jib" from Steel showing the "head stick".
 
" ... the rope on the hoist put through the holes in the head-stick; then served with spunyarn, and spliced into the leech-rope. The head-stick is seized round the middle to the head of the sail, and a thimble seized in the bight of the rope."

Further planking of the rear castle.
I started with the part that was planked according to the clinker build method. These planks were not sawn but made from tree trunks that were split. length of the planks no longer than 2.70 meters
The first of these planks was tapered.

Above the tapered plank it is marked how high the upper plank may be

Further planking

And then there was a week's holiday in the sun, which was put to good use doing research .

Back home and continue planking. The intention is to have 6 layers of clinker build, in total I should end up with 9. Above that there will be shields.

That's why I first have to place the 2 dales, which determine the correct location of the upper deck in the rear castle

English lesson :
Dale.. old English word. The intention of these two dales is to drain the pumped water from the hold outside.
And if you have to pee....Do it in the dale (so their 2nd name : pisdale... 😳)

The boat placed on a stand...


...and bound...
 



 

Děkuji moc přátelé, děkuji za další lajky.😍
 
Kormidlo hotovo..🔥



Loď vypadá na palubě dobře..




Udělám stojan a pevně postavím loď...💥

Hallo Modellbaufreunde.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
 

First, I drew all the frames, then laid them out on wooden blocks. Then I created the trajectories in the ArtCam program. Now I'm sawing them out. It takes an hour to cut one piece, 120 dies in total.

scale 1:48

This is the ship.

Final preparation.....😎
 

 
 
Done:
 


 
 
The smaller cannon (demi-culverin drake) is from the upper deck of my Sovereign of the Seas  -  also a scratch-build and made out of card, but in a scale 1/90:
 
 
Kind regards
 
 

Here they are attached to the masts...
 
Mamoli had short changed me on the 0.4 mm rigging thread.
I have been careful with usage and barely saved enough to create enough rope coils for my rigging line belay points onto the pins.
 
So I tied the flag poles to the top masts with 0.8 mm rigging thread (all that I have left) and thought it looked fine and walked by the model a dozen times and then one walk by and oh boy, the 0.8 mm line looks out of scale all of a sudden!

I do have to tighten just a couple lines, so that is not bad.
I have to fix a few lines creating a nice natural sag with regards to a few lines on the foresail that don't sag naturally at this time. 
 
I have to of course make and add all the rope coils but true to Mamoli, I will be short the 0.4 mm rigging line that is the vast majority of the rigging lines, to complete the task on the various pin rails on the decks.

Anyways... all my shrouds and ratlines are completed and I am very happy with how they all turned out!
Pictures below...
 
Now on to the sails...
 
Some debate on what to do now with regards to the sails... the premade sails at hismodel.com look very very nice but a little expensive or I could purchase the premade sails that Mantua makes as I am sure they will fit as the Mantua Santa Maria is the exact same scale as my Mamoli.
 
Or I can try and sew them myself...

The warped keel was a steam and iron project, repeated probably 7- 8 times to get the result I needed.
I did not want to soak the whole keel as it surely would have delaminated (given the kits age) if left in water for any length of time. 
Steaming and ironing flat and clamping overnight on my granite counter top was not getting the keel straight.
 
I actually put a couple of sticks of Lego fore and aft (as the keel always wanted to return to its warped form when completely dry) to get the keel reverse bent while ironing and while heating the mid section of the keel.
I repeated this probably 4 of the total 8 times and FINALLY got the keel to where it needed to be, the keel maintaining a straight line.