Henke

Hi everybody, Just a short update. I have started planking! Maybe I am a little bit childish but I really like planking. It requires a bit of planning and thinking in three dimensions. Sometimes you get it right and sometimes you get it wrong but the good thing with wood modelling is that you can normally redo. The worst thing that can happen is that you have to buy extra wood strips 🙂.//Henrik

Sorry for coming in late Mike, but what a nice build! I take a back seat so that I do not disturb the other in the audience./Henrik

Hi everybody, Top and poop decks is temporarily fixed as well as the bulwark patterns in order to mark out the first planks. I test fitted dowels for the fore mast, main mast and mizzen mast. The dowels show perfect alinement! Next step will be some balsa around the bow and after that start of first planking. 😎 Kind regards Henrik Test fit of a 9 pdr cannon. The grand admiral looked at the cannon and said it was cute. I wonder what Nelson would have said?

It all looks very nice indeed. Good job Joe! The detailing makes the model look very "busy". The guns/carronades, are they painted or have you used "chemical blackening"? Kind regards Henrik

Hi John, Good start and brave of you to start a build log. Now you have to hang on but feel no pressure🙂. I think it is a good idea as relative newcomer but with ambition to chose an object where there already are a couple of build logs and also some which are actually finished. There is a source of pictures and builders who can help you out when you get uncertain on how solve details. I will grab a seat on the front row to watch your build. King of Mississippi is not an object I have considered building but your build may change my mindset. Regards Henrik

Another picture. I try to understand how to post better pictures. I have to remember to dust my ship before I take pictures.../Henrik

Hi boys and girls, Last week I got a cold (first in two years). Not a very pleasant experience but the good thing was that I had to stay home from work one day so I got an extra day at the ship yard 🙂 instead. Then the admiral left me (she went on a business trip) leaving me alone with our two navy cadets. Since the navy cadets spend most of their woken time in their rooms behind their computers I have had a lot of time spent at the garage ship yard. When the admiral came back home yesterday she had a severe cold. Where did she get that cold from? Gun deck has now been planked and inner walls are planked and painted. The red paint is water based Admiralty Paints Red Ochre. I did two thin applications and it looks OK but it dries extremely fast. A little bit too fast in my opinion. This the first time I use Admiralty Paints so I did not know what to expect. But it looks nice with a saturated red brown colour and matt finish. although the quick drying was a bit disappointing. Next up will be preparations for the first hull planking. Kind regards Henrik

Have been off for a couple of days for Easter holiday in Finland with my family and have not spent much time in the ship yard this last week. Deck planking of the upper gun deck has started and the bow deck is in place. Enclosing a picture of the bow deck. Planks got a stroke of white oak before the polyurethane varnish. Cheers Henrik

Construction continues. Thanks first for constructive comments regarding the “sheer” and the lower gun deck from Jon and Vossiewolf. This exactly what I like about MSW. There is always someone who can help you out. Lower gun deck is in 5 mm plywood so it does not bend easily. After a couple of sessions with dry fitting and filing I glued the bulk heads and lower gun deck in place yesterday. In order to gently press down the lower gun deck towards the false keel and bulkheads I drew a center line along the gun deck and drilled small holes with my Dremel. I then inserted small screws and secured the lower gun deck towards the false keel. It worked perfectly! The smallest screws I had was in brass🙂. I can of course take them out now when the glue has set but I think I will leave them in. I plan to paint it black all over anyhow. I think I saw in Sjors nice building log that he did some deck planking on the lower deck. For me it is over the top. I am soon finished with the hull construction. I am looking forward to the deck planking of the middle gun deck. I intend to divide the middle gun deck and put it in place before planking so that I can plank the deck with the correct curvature. Instruction says deck planking can be done before as well as after. I imagine deck planking is easier to do before installation into the hull but I think I will do the other way. Any comments on that? @peveka and @Jörgen This is not my first build. I have done a couple of other kits before. Worth mentioning is Billing’s La Concalaise (Bretagne peveka as your indicated location!) and Amphion by Corel. I enjoyed both projects. Kind regards Henrik

Hi everyone! Last week I celebrated my birthday (53rd). From my wife I received HMS Agamemnon by Caldercraft. What a wife I have! To push me a little bit further I have decided to start a build log on my project in order to push myself and encourage others. I know there are so many skilled builders out there. I am perhaps not one of them but maybe I can help others avoiding the mistakes I eventually will do. I am a slow builder. I can be expected to put in 4-5 h a week into the project. The building instructions warns you to expect 1000-1200 h of building joy. With my tempo I will struggle for at least the next five years so be patient and enjoy my quest for the holy ship. So far I have dry fitted all the bulkheads on the false keel as well as lower gun deck and bevelled edges. The garage where I do the building is white with dust which slowly spreads in the house. I have to vacuum clean the garage before the wife retakes the birthday present… Whilst dry fitting I discovered that the upper side of the false keel is slightly banana shaped (not parallel to the bottom of the keel). It has its lowest height in the middle (around main mast) and the height by bulkhead 3 is different from that by bulkhead 14. I first thought this very strange. The height difference from the highest to the lowest point is slightly less than 10 mm. That is 64 cm in reality. Imagine dropping a cannon ball on a sloping floor like that. Sailors will lose their legs! Checking drawing 1 I realized the lower gun deck is bent into the banana shape of the upper side of the false keel. I cannot remember anyone commenting this on Caldercraft’s Aggy. I will now follow the drawings in hope that lower gun ports will be correctly located. Anyone who wants to comment on this? I suppose Caldercraft’s lower gun deck is not an exact depiction of the reality. Kind regards Henrik

Hi everyone. As a new member of Model Ship World I would like to present myself. My name is Henrik and I live in the city of Norrköping in Sweden. Norrköping is an industrial city and used to be called Manchester of Sweden because of its extensive textile industry. I am interested in different kinds of modelling not just model ships. I do all kinds of plastic modelling and I build on a model rail road in HO as well. I am a little bit sceptic joining fora on internet because of the tone and atmosphere which not always is that nice but MSW seems to be populated by just friendly, knowledgeable and encouraging people. My building experience is not massive but I have done a couple of Billings and a Corel. The Corel build gave me taste for a big building project so this week I have started building HMS Agamemnon (Caldercraft). She is massive and the learning curve is steep! I have started taking pictures and taking notes of what I have done so far. Maybe it can turn into a build log? Kind regards Henrik