GrandpaPhil
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Progress has been slow because life is busy. The cutter just needs painted once the glue dries. The supports for it are now made and just need painted. Also, two carriage gun barrels are done now.
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Nicely done on the figures! I haven’t had any Victrix miniatures, but the last set of Perry miniatures that I had were excellent. Hope the knee is feeling better. That is very painful. Sorry to hear about that.
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Thank you very much!
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The cutter progresses: Even as imperfect as this is, these still look so much better than what comes with the kits. That’s why I am going to scratch build the ones for my Victory instead of using the Mantua boats that I bought.
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This is the little cutter: It still needs the wales and the rest of it, but the hull is done. This went better than the last round. Here is my first 4 pound cannon barrel:
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Thank you very much! I used an Army Painter Strong Tone wash. I have the new mould carved and wrapped in plastic wrap, so the glue doesn’t stick. The keel is glued to the support around the mould and all frames are on. I am currently working on planking the boat. This is a little cutter so it was most likely clinker built, so that is what I am doing. That means the plank above overlaps the plank below. It’s a little challenging but not overly difficult.
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Well done!
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I know a few younger people who build models, but not too many. A couple of my coworkers are interested in the ships but claim lack of patience to build one.
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Very nicely done on the painting, OC.
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I cut out the shape of the ship’s boat and laminated the two slices together. The finished one is a leftover from the Prince de Neufchatel. It is slightly too large to fit on Hannah’s deck. I included it in the picture because I used the same drawing out of the AOTS, for the Victory, for the one I’m making now.
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The Hannah is inked. Time to finish the ship’s boats and make the guns. Part of that will be making 100 eyebolts.
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All fixed deck furniture is in place: Once the glue dries, I’ll use Army Painter Strong Tone to shade the deck and give the deck depth. Then it will be time for shading and highlighting using dry brush techniques.
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Thank you! And thank you all for all the likes! Painting the next round of fittings: Working on the ship’s boat:
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The last hatch is made and is sitting in place. The windlass is under construction: For those who would like to try this method of construction. I used a generic dowel rod that I squared off and then turned into an octagon. I then cut a groove in the center to simulate the gear in the middle. I drilled holes for the posts used to turn the windlass and squared them off with my scalpel.
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The pumps, the stack for the galley, the deckhouses and the binnacle are all complete and in place: In other news: The belfry is drying because the bell keeps breaking off. I started on the last hatch and I resized and printed off the plan for a cutter out of my Victory AOTS book. I’ll carve a blank out of it and build it with the shell method, using card instead of wood. I also cut out the supports for the windlass which are just laying on the forward deck in the top picture. I still need to make four carriage guns and ten swivel guns, two anchors and chain plates. I am planning on using a bunch of leftover deadeyes and rigging blocks from my bits box to rig Hannah.
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The fittings on the aft deck are made, except for the swivel guns. They just need painted.
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One roughed out belfry: The bell will be made from a dowel rod, like I did for the Victory.
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The binnacle is made: The two deckhouses are going to be getting their iron banding in the near future:
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Two deckhouses are made now. The binnacle is roughed out and the supports for the windlass are made:
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Thank you. I am having a lot of fun building Hannah. This is my second scratch build. I built the Prince de Neufchatel from the plans in the Chapelle books. I am trying to refine my methods that I used there. I made the discovery that I have a lot more fun building from scratch than I do building a kit (it is much more satisfying too). I used it as a learning project so I could improve my skills to finish the Victory as a bash, instead of out of the box. It has worked beautifully. I will hopefully finish the Victory next year. I tried several new things with this build than what I did with the Prince de Neufchatel. I made the impression of there being a second deck. I made an actual stern instead of cutting off the hull covering and bulwarks and gluing on a transom. The corrugated cardboard worked like a dream. I didn’t have the twist in the hull that I did with my earlier models. I used many of the same methods for my deck fittings that I used with Prince de Neufchatel. The binnacle is nearly identical to the one I made for Victory. I will use the same method of carving my cannons and making the gun carriages, that I did with Victory. Hopefully, this project will be done within the next couple of months and I will get back to working on the Victory.
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