GrandpaPhil

I'm currently making sails for the Prince de Neufchatel.  I'll be back to the Victory soon enough.  I've resumed planning for the Victory in the meantime.

Nicely done!

Nicely done!

Nice!  I like how you made the swivel guns!

Bottom to top, front to back is the recommendation in Zu Monfeld’s Historic Ship Models.  It has served me well.

I’ve coppered two hulls now.  It’s well worth the work.

They just want to help, lol.

Very nicely done!

Very well done!

Very cool!  Excellent work!

On 4/4/2019 at 6:26 AM, dvlp47 said:

I have finally figured out the reason I keep backing off on the build is I'm afraid I'm going to make a mistake. From what I have read that is expected in the beginning!

Mistakes are how you learn (it’s how I learn at any rate).  You just have to fix them the best way you can and keep going.

Have fun with your build.  

If it’s not perfect, that’s perfectly okay.  The odds are that the only one who will know that there is a mistake is you.  The important part is to have fun and to finish the model, don’t give up or start over.

You’re doing well!  Keep at it!

In my opinion, planking the hull and getting the rough work done, is the hardest part of the entire process.

Detailing the hull and the deck is the fun part for me.

Nicely done!

Very cool!

Very nice!

The rigging plan for the Prince de Neufchatel, which had a hermaphrodite rig, can be found in The Search For Speed Under Sail by Howard I Chapelle.

Nicely done!

Looks good.

Excellent work!

Very cool collection!

I’m getting ready to attach sails to yards, after I finish sewing them and I billow them.  I’ll be attaching them with the yards off the model.

I’ll let you all know how it works out for me. 

One complete set of rough cut sails for a Baltimore Clipper, some (read a lot of) sewing required.

Yes, she’s going in my office.  

I already have the stand and location picked out.

Thank you for all the comments and the likes.

 I believe that the Prince de Neufchatel is ready to receive sails.

However, in order to install sails, I must first make the sails.  For this purpose, I traced all sails and am in the process of enlarging them and tracing them out on slightly darker than cream colored linen that I bought many years ago for sail making.

I made the brackets for the blocks on the fore course tack.  

I completely missed them until I was getting ready to rig the sails.

They may or may not be made of toothpicks, lol.