cotrecerf

Best wishes for a good year 2020 to all of you,

of course I support the point of view of Bilge Rat:  "Go with what you feel on this .  And don't feel alone, my head hurts too"

However, I looked a little deeper into the matter and  found some pics of a modell of a 74 gun ship by the name of Le Protecteur actually built in 1760, this model of which was made in 1770 and is part of the modell collection of the 

[afficher]musée national de la Marine de Paris

you can see the hammocks in their nets partially protruding over the line of the hull.   Source: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Protecteur_mg_7259.jpg

regards    Cotrecerf

Gentlemen,

I found a quote  concerning hammock in French Marine Royale: "règlements de la Marine. L’article 9 de celui du 15 janvier 1780, finit en ces termes : ”Les hamacs seront mis à la traîne tous les mois et en relâche ils seront lavés à terre”. proving that according to the regulations of the marine  issued 15. January 1780 in article 9 hammocks were so commonly used, that there had to be regulations of usage, cleaning etc.  So to me the racks shown in th drawings are hammock racks. 

Source: https://voilesetvoiliers.ouest-france.fr/culture/histoire-de-la-marine/branle-bas-d1477128-69c9-a34c-885a-cdcd48f48467

😉 you are so predictable: pure excelence again!

and again, I'm full of admiration.  and I see how much there is for me to learn yet.

Here is my long time build (> 10 years) . I'm going to pick up work on her by the end of this year. Basically its's my first ever scratch build after initial two kit models. 

Still a lot to do, but I enjoy very much thus being compelled to learn lots of new technologies and skills, materials and manufacturing know-how. With the support of this Forum I'am sure to come up with a nice model some day. 😉

Thank you ever so much, Valeriy for your quick answer. They look so perfect. I've seen some half cowls made from brass sheet embossed by hand in a negative wooden die.

Electro-forming is undoutedly much more precise. Congratulations 

Thanks Chris for your putting my question into an understandable technical expression. Yes, electro-forming is what i wanted to say.

Thanks Valeriy for confirming. I would appreciate very much a description of your technology, if your time allows.

Dear Valeriy,

absolutely stunning work!  How did you make the cowls of the ventilation shafts, by electro-galvanzed building-up fall-out?

They look so much better than punched half-cowls brazed together.

Hello Valeriy,

wow, fantastic work! Varyag is of the same period and style as a future project I am planning to build: German Gun Boat Iltis II stationary  of Tsing Tau in 1900.

Looking forward to learning of the progress of your Cruiser.

Joachim

Hello Captain Hook,

I made a compilation of gun sizes ( Armstrong Frederick-Design ) of 1760. Dimensions in Imperial and conversion into metric.

Some details of carriages ( also in German language) from various sources as well. All in a xls sheet. I will try to turn the 3 -pounders on my small Unimat-3 lathe.

I'll inform about results later. I'm working on Af Chapman English cutter. 

Armstrong-Frederick Cannons Umrechnungen.xlsx

Hello to all of you from the beautiful area of the Western Wood in the State of Rhineland-Palatine in Germany,

I'm happy to be a new member of MSW and this most interesting forum. I very much appreciate the profound  historical knowledge and technical Know-how displayed here in the Forum. I am mainly interested in historic ship building of the 18th century in Europe and the US.