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Happy New Year 
 

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Thank you very much for your comments and likes.

Really nice progress. Your x-section looks very good.

When the ladders and the top sail sheet bitts are stained dark, they are glued into position. A wooden stick laying over both gangways is giving support to the top sail sheet bitts until the glue is dry.

Thanks Mark and G.L.
 
G.L.
If you do it in tin that will be interesting I have never seen anyone do that , so I would be excited to learn this technique.
 
I got The other one done as well here they are side by side close enough I believe.

 
She is coming along nicely I started the rigging of the guns today .It was my first time using Chucks rope and it is great stuff !
He has a customer for life .
 
Here is a few pictures of how she is looking  I hope to have to get the rigging of the guns done this week .working a little bit each night after work .





 
Thanks for checking out my build !

 
Derek C

Well guys I finally got to a point that figure I would do a up date on Montagu. As I had posted some where, may here or on Marks log of the Bellona that I had placed my channels wales to high and had to remove them and lower them  closer to the gun deck ports. Don't ask me how, maybe along the same line as redoing the cant frames more then once but they now reside in the right place. Had to take a few addition planks off of her, guess I just didn't like their look of them. Also been working on the cheeks and the  quarter deck gun ports and happy to report, they are in the right place and one more piece and they will be done. Also installed some battern's to help with the placement of the upper railes, in the near future. That is as soon as I am happy with how they look.   Gary

Before placing the brackets and gangways, I want to color the inner bulwarks. For the color I let me inspire by HMS Victory, one of the rare still existing examples of period men of war. On HMS Victory the bulwarks are in ocher. I paint mine also in light ocher. I use oil paint for it, the kind of paint artists use to paint on canvas. My wife is going to the art school, so I find the color that I need in her paint box. I dilute the paint strongly with turpentine and add some drips of siccative oil, otherwise it takes weeks before the paint dries. Before the paint is dry I rub it up with a soft cotton. The result is that the wood colors in ocher, but the wood grain remains visible. The inside of the portholes are painted in red just like on HMS Victory.

Hello  Everyone. Seems its been awhile but some times life hits you between the eyes but I did get a little bit down on Montagu. Hope you enjoy the photo's. Gary

Hello everyone 
i have been working on the trim ,fenders and gangway ladders. As for the hanging knees I have half of them cut out lol. I don’t know why but I keep putting them off .
my plan is to get those done tomorrow  . 
 
Here are the pieces of the gangway ladder 


 
i assembled them them ,then added the trim and fenders .I am getting close to the end of this build ,I think i can finish it up next week.Im already thinking about my next project, I’m thinking to try a ship in a bottle .For now I need to concentrate on buttoning up this beast.
Here is what she is looking like.

 
Thanks for looking in on my build 
 
Derek C

HI ALL
I DECIDED TO REDO THE WATERWAYS TO INCLUDE A SCARF JOINT RATHER THAN A PLAIN BUTT JOIN.
THE SHAPE OF THE WATER WAY WAS ATTAINED WITH A PROFILE SCRAPER FASHIONED FROM A STANLEY BLADE.
CURRENTLY IN THE PROCESS OF BEING FITTED.
 
CHEERS FOR NOW....MICK

Hi Kent,
 
have a look in the articles database. For the binnacle, stove, wheel, and capstan you can use the articles of Rex Boocoock.
What do you mean with Chocks481 and Stem481? The tapered keel is visible in the different keel drawings.

Hello,
 
first I have to say many thanks for your likes, comments and help. Second I have to announce, that the raw hull is mostly ready. Only the inside is not really ready. But that will come after the outside is planked, for a better stability. 
 
So the next work is to make the wales and then plank the upper part of the hull.
 

 

 

Hello all,
 
after building the Dragon, I'm starting now the blog about building the Tiger from 1747.
 
The Tiger was a 60 gunner after the 1745 establisment. Last year I ordered the plans for the 60 gunners of the 1745 establishment, but learned later that all the 6 ships, build after that plan, where all a little different. So I decided to build the Tiger and that, because it was the only plan that shows also the artwork of the ship. Interessting is also, that they moved the captains cabin sometimes down to the upper deck! There was more space.
http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections.html#!csearch;searchTerm=Tiger_(1747) Here you could see the plans.
 
Then last fall I went to Chatham to see two models of 60 gunners, the Centurion and a unspecified ship (SLR0442 SLR0472). Both ships from the 1730s, but the models are made ca. 1745/47. They will be my reference for the Tiger.
 
And because I had build the Dragon already with frames, I decided to be lazy and build in the bulwark technique. So I started early this year with the hull and that he is.
 

 

 

 
 
 
But before I started with the hull, I made the figure head. Just to see if I could do it after pause for a year. 
 

 
And before the questions come, with what did you do the carving, here is most of it to see. Just with hand tools. To the right you see Leo the second.
 

 
And here is Leo III. From toe to crown hi is 9 cm high, in reality he was 4,5 m high  
 

 

 

 
Here Leo did a sit sample. The guy in the background it's me. 
 

 

 
The next steps would be to close the counter and then made the cannon ports. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Hi Aldo,
 
if the hard discof your old computer is ok, you can take it out of the computer, put it in an external drive station and put it with the USB port on an other computer. if you're lucky, you get access to all drawings, you have done. 2011 my old notebook crashed and I could restore a lot of my work on this way. In the meantime I store my data in an cloud, to avoid these problems
I wish you a lot of luck with your data.
 
You're hull is looking really well.

Thanks G.L. I appreciate that .
 
I have finished the lower deck . And added a coat of  clear poly to the underside and half the top side , leaving the side that I’m planking bare. I have not glued it in place yet . I want to set the center support beams in first then I will glue it in .here is a few pictures pics of how she is looking.
 
The First two are without the poly.

 

 
The next two are with the poly I tried to get a shot of the under side while it sat in place ....I’m no photographer 
 

 
Next will  be the supports ,
Thanks for checking on my progress. 
Derek
 

The drawing is from Goodwins book.
 
Have you further pictures of the model? I see very interesting details here and like to see more

Hi Alan,
 
have a look in Goodwin. You can use the 3 or 4 but shift system for the planking of the deck

Hi Christian,
 
Unfortunately, I only got the pictures from Chuck's post in the discussion below:
The first contemporary model is of the frigate Winchelsea and I think the second one is Minerva.
Perhaps Chuck has some other high resolution pictures of these, the low resolution pictures can be seen at the RMG website:
 
http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/66277.html
 
 
 

You could also have a look at TFFM vol. 2 by David Antscherl. It contains some pretty detailed planking diagrams for the decks including the "hooked" planks as they go towards the bow and stern.

Hi Alan,
 
have a look in Goodwin. You can use the 3 or 4 but shift system for the planking of the deck

Today was sanding day.  I'd installed additional "filler" blocks in the bow, and have been sanding the bow back to them. This has started to bring the bow section into alignment with the deck templates.  Below is a pic showing the templates quasi-sitting in position (I bumped the table before taking the pic, which threw things out of whack a bit, but you can see what I was doing).   By sticking a dowel straight down through the mast holes in each template, I was able to ensure the gun deck was in alignment with the lower deck, and to help me to be sure I was sanding the bow area back appropriately.  Before sanding, the deck templates were removed.
 
The funny thing in all of this is that if I'd been paying more attention to the bulkheads while sanding initially, I wouldn't have had to do this.  For some reason, I felt the bow was far more rounded than it really is, and shaped the bow filler blocks accordingly.  Wow, that was a major error.   Hopefully future POB'ers read this series of posts, and don't make this same error.  
 
Now I need to correct the bow shape on the next deck up!  Time to cut out another template.....
 
Alan
 
 

Hi Aldo,
 
if the hard discof your old computer is ok, you can take it out of the computer, put it in an external drive station and put it with the USB port on an other computer. if you're lucky, you get access to all drawings, you have done. 2011 my old notebook crashed and I could restore a lot of my work on this way. In the meantime I store my data in an cloud, to avoid these problems
I wish you a lot of luck with your data.
 
You're hull is looking really well.

Hi Aldo,
 
if the hard discof your old computer is ok, you can take it out of the computer, put it in an external drive station and put it with the USB port on an other computer. if you're lucky, you get access to all drawings, you have done. 2011 my old notebook crashed and I could restore a lot of my work on this way. In the meantime I store my data in an cloud, to avoid these problems
I wish you a lot of luck with your data.
 
You're hull is looking really well.