Mirabell61
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Many thanks Keith, I`m admiring your rigging and sailmaking of the Germania schooner, its a real masterpiece of maritime modeling, in museum quality. Mine is just a workboat and therefore the rigging, sails, etc will be a bit easier. I am just preparing for the sails patterns. the red and brown cotton sail cloth are already here. For the sail fastening to mast and spars I bought some mini 1,5mm eyelets and the appropriate tools for setting them. The copy shop promissed me that there is no problem in printing the white color reg. # to the red mainsail. The model shall bear a revival reg.# of an actual Zeesboat that was layed up and broken down many decades ago, so there will be no interfierence with the reg.# of momentary actual craft and / their owners. Nils the duck seams are at 24" for the 5 sails here red/brown cooton sail cloth, the small eyelets, tools for setting. At the point of the needle is a sample of a mounted eylet with ID 1,5mm, OD 3,5mm the scetch is showing the intended sail lashing to the mainmast. I still remember this from the rigging of my actual "Cornish Cormorant" sail dinghi with brown gaff sail, many years ago.
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Update today I sewed the pillows for the two berths and made an accessladder from the work cockpit to the deck, and belaying pins for the main sails Nils for the pillows I found a bit of chequered cotton cloth ladder and belaying pins
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Hi Gary, I`m pleased that you looked in again and that you liked the meantime progress. I`m preparing to make the rigging and the sails next.... Nils
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MONTAÑES by Amalio
Mirabell61 replied to Amalio's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1751 - 1800
A beautiful build Amalio, it is candy for the eyes.... Nils -
Very nice clipper drawing views Simon, thanks for sharing these Nils
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amazing work Michele and excellent photographing, are you using the black blanket background technique ? how is the object fixed in position for the poses shown ? wonderful framework and the warm wood tone is beautiful Nils
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Thanks for input Chris, The german names are Butt, Flunder, and Scholle. I used Scholle for Google translater : plaice They all taste the same I find. Nils
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Update made the bow sprit, the two traveller rails, some fittings for fastening the sails, and the extendable poles of the fishing gear. It looks like all is ready for the sails to be sewn. The plaice are in one box and hering and cod in the other. I intended to apply Syren blocks for rigging, but the postage costs to germany are too expensive, so I found a source in Germany selling Master Korabel blocks, which are also good in quality. Nils over all view water stay and fittings bow view aft view the chain has soldered links, and will become a greyish coating (fake Zink) view into the cabin, berths and the front compartment anchor chain storage. plaice, hering and cods are in the boxes, I need to get some eels from somewhere
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excellent work Michele, I love the lines of these french ships, and your model will be a beauty Nils
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wow, what an elegant hull the chebeque has, everthing is trimmed for speed.... Beautiful work Daniel Nils
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Update now the semi round nutwood outer deck rails are mounted, and also the beech foot rails attached to the anchors. The larger and smaller deadeye are ready for rigging the masts. The deadeye fastening screws are still to be shortend a bit. The bow sprit spar has to be made fastend to the deck and rigged. The poles for bringing out the Zeesen network (Fishing gear) will be made later on Nils rails mounted deadeyes safely mounted to the deck anchors There are 4 smaller deadeyes for rigging the mizzen mast
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Hi Dan, thanks for you`re nice comments.... Now that the deck finaly is complete it gave me confidence again, to build on with the model. Yes I`m proud of the little tuc-tuc engine, a pitty that it will never run... Nils
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Update For the deck I had removed the intended pine planking again, changed the pattern arrangement and now mounted a new planking in straight larch wood, planks 4 x 0,8 mm. It went faster than I had thought This looks OK in my opinion and gives a good contrast with the beech wood comings The main mast with gaff and spars and the mizzen mast with boom and spars is also done, but yet without the rigging blocks that are on order Nils the first rough sanding is done. The outcut on the front deck is for sight acess to the storage compartment and the anchor chain The brass anchors at the deckside shall be for mounting the footrail, the dark stained anchors are for taking up the shrouds the gaff to the main mast is rigged preliminary without blocks
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excellent Dainiel the boat`s build looks very promissing...., nice work with the plug and the many frames Nils
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Many thanks Keith and Eberhard for your input.... I guess I`ll have to provide a frying pan on board as well Nils
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Update today I concentrated on the over night catch, Ì`m still looking for some eels in scale 1:24. Made the masts and main gaff,as well as mizzen boom Nils I used a thick viscosity primer both sides to get some "flesh" onto the flat etched fish.... and turned them into Hering, plaice and cods. Am still looking out for some eels in scale 1:24 The fish boxes are also from etched brass sheet the plaice remain white on the bottom side the mizzen mast can be layed down, when the shrouds are released The mizzen boom is hooked in for easy removal The main mast upper gaff is equiped with with a glide shoe, in order to slide up an down the main mast
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Daniel, I like the deck with the flush gratings and the sub-deck just below that with the triangle scuppers to the outboard, great details I wonder how the rather long containments beneath the gratings were regulary cleaned and rinsed, it must have developed a smell on the actual ship (seagrass, seaweeds, tang, etc). Maybe the gratings could have been taken up for cleaning Congrats, In all a masterly build Nils
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Thank you for your nice words Keith, The next one (Zeesboot) is in progress and to date about 80% completed Nils
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