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Really wonderfull. The old river steamers have an own fascination

Really wonderfull. The old river steamers have an own fascination

Sorry, for the late reply, Jack.
 
I add a picture from a reconstruction drawing of Werner Dammann. It shows a possible viking style figure head for the Gokstad ship.
 

 
If you have a look at the original in the Oslo museum, you see that stem is also a little smaller than in your model.
Werner Damman shows in his wonderful book about the ship also another solution that as far as I know is the most common interpretation
 

 

Really wonderfull. The old river steamers have an own fascination

Really wonderfull. The old river steamers have an own fascination

Really nice progress and very clean work.
 
The only thing I don't like are the very old styled sterns, which are part of the kit.

Congrats for finishing this beautyful Swan Class Sloop. She's looking very nice

Congrats for finishing this beautyful Swan Class Sloop. She's looking very nice

Congrats for finishing this beautyful Swan Class Sloop. She's looking very nice

To check the lines I started to build a half model. For the frames I use 3mm birch plywood, it's for a model in 1/32 perhaps a little small, but I've had a bigger batch at home. All space between the frames I fill with poplar plywood. It's easy to shape but stable enough for the purpose.
I glue the drawngs with rubber cement on the ply woord


 
With a sharp knife I mark every 5' line. The picture shows frame 0:
 

 
All bulkheades and the center are cutted out. The hull has a length of around 1m, which is not as big compared with the new 1/200 model kits of the WWII battle ships.
 

 

With the build of my control model I started at the end of March.

The edges of all frames I've colored black. This will be later a great help by sandig the hull.
The glued surface of the cant frames is very small, so I've glued first plywood stripes on the center board.
To get the correct alignment the colored 5' marks on the frames and the center board are a great help.
 

First half of frame 0
 
Six frames have been installed.
 

 
At this time I've started to glue the filling pieces of polar plywood between the frames. I've used a chess board pattern to avoid the distortion of the frames.


 
Until the mid of April I've installed all frames and filling pieces from the center to the stem on the stem.
The next two pictures show the result of the work. It's looking very horrible
 

 

Congrats for finishing this beautyful Swan Class Sloop. She's looking very nice

Hi All,
 
 
Well the Winnie is in dry dock, I've finished the Cazador for my grandson, things have
 
calmed down and now I'll start my build log for Chucks Syren Ship Model Company's
 
HM Cutter Cheerful 1806 in 1:48 scale. The model will also be fully rigged.
 
 
I plan on using a lot of Chucks available laser cut parts. Most of the wood used in the
 
model will be boxwood except for the deck which will be holly and the bulkheads which
 
are plywood.
 
 
I know there are plenty of great Cheerful’s being built here and anything I do won't be
 
different from those build. I've listed the build here as a scratch build but quite honestly
with Chuck's laser cut parts it's a lot like a kit.The plans and practicum are Chuck’s usual
splendid work. Easy to understand and very precise.
 
Here are the laser cut bulkheads.
 
 

 
The two halves of the bulkhead former weighted waiting for the glue to dry.
 

 

 
The keel attached.
 

 

 
All of the bulkheads added and drying.
 

 

 
Lots a sanding to do next to fair the bulkheads.

Thanks Eric. Oh I'll apologize to you right now then!
 
Ok next up I started fairing the hull. Lots of elbow grease needed here.
I mainly used 80 grit sand paper and course perma grit files. I then switched
to 100 grit sandpaper. Once I frame the port sills and fair them I’ll switch to
150 grit paper.
 
 

 

 

Hello,
 
now the lantern are installed. 
 

 

 

 
The chests are for the signal colors. The ensigns where stored in the sail room. 
 
And one picture for those who like dimensions. 
 

 
Regards,
Siggi

Hi Robin,
 
I must say, I understand not really what you mean. But if you mean if it's my version of a lantern, than I must say no. It's a mixture from these two lantern. First the Bellona and second a 70 gunner from 1717.
 

 

 
Regards,
Siggi

Hello,
 
today I finished the stern lanterns. This is the second version, but that is a longer story. I'm not happy with the color of them at the picture. In reality they are ocher like the rails.
 

 
Next thing would be to install them and then the last thing, the cranes for the nettings and hammocks.
 
I thought and meditated a lot about this and came to the conclusion, that I only build the cranes. If I made it correct, I should build it with the tarp, in red and white, over it. But then the lines of the ship are destroyed and that is something I did't like. I think there I'm not the only one. All other modelers in the past and most of today did't like it too.
 
Regards,
Siggi

Hello,
 
thank you all for your kind words and Robin, it's good to here something from you. You feel better now? I hope you had all a good start into 2016. In my case, the model comes more and more to an end and that is for me the good start. 
 
Over the weekend I did only small things, like the rail for the ladder from the upper gun deck, the ropes to open the gun ports at the quarter deck, the emergency steering and the flagpole.
 

 

 

 

 
But the next weeks come the last great themes. The lanterns and the nettings for the hammocks. I don't know if I should build the later with hammocks ore only the frames like at the model of the Victory? I really have no idea how to build the netting, but I think I should build them. 
 

 
Regards,
Siggi

I think Chuck's idea to sell parts for a ahip model as he does with his cutter Cheerful is an excellent idea.
You can buy the drawings and perhaps the bulkheads, choose the timber for the planking job and buy then the smaller parts if you like. I hope that other manufacturers will copy his idea (if he don't has the Copyright for this )
There are a lot of talent modelers who don't have an own workroom or the money to buy the machines. For these kits especially on Chucks way are the only possibility to take up the hobby.

Really nice progress and very clean work.
 
The only thing I don't like are the very old styled sterns, which are part of the kit.

Hi JA
may I suggest you not to bevel all the teeth in the frames?
The teeth have been designe to house the precut planks, of course they MUST be beveled but as you already understood the frames are very fragile. Nonetheless the amount of bevel is not large and, mainly, it is very confined in a small space...the height of the tooth itself. So you cannot use your usual sanding sticks the way you are accostumed to.
 
I suggest you this aproach, which I already successfully tested in my Knarr (also by Dusek):
- bevel just the first tooth, the one close to the keel
- glue the first plank (the "garboard" in the later ships) on port and starboard
- with the first plank glued, the frames are already a little bit stiffer and able to sustain the tools pressure for beveling the second tooth from the keel
- and so on
This way you are strenghtening the frames at the same time as you work your way down from the keel.
 
Another warning for you...just in case: the planks are already precut with the required shape, in theory the should be just removed from the sheet, sanded and immediatly glued.
Well, this is just theory! Don't know if it was a defect of my kit, but the fit of the planks was very poor, with errors up to a couple of millimeters, sometimes the curvature was incorrect, some other time the amount of planks overlap was unsufficient .
I only could use them as templates to cut new ones out from a 1mm thick sheet of wallnut...had to re-build 3/4 of the planks! Nonetheless it was a very good excercise for planking, and a beautiful experience for the klinker type planks.
As I've seen that Dusek is going on in this philosophy, I hope they have improved their design or the appreciation for their kits will sunk in very short time!!
 
Cheers
Fam

Thursday, January 14th, 2016
 
Today was really a whole day with rain . . without any pause from morning until midnight. The small river close to me has nearly tripled its flow rate, although without absolutely no risk of flooding.
So nothing better than close myself in the lab and do something. Then I finished installing and fixing, using the usual system, all the remaining frames and spending the idle time waiting for the glue by reading "The Lord of the Rings", Tolkien's classic fantasy masterchief. The result can be watched in the attached pictures.
 
What remains now to be fixed are the last two frames, those at the extreme bow and stern that have a different development from the others, and then I have to stop and think about what to do next.
 
I tried to remove the hull from the building slip and immediately I got to see how it is flexible and very suitable to incidents. Therefore it becomes inevitable to adopt a new building board that will hold hardly and perfectly the hull in a capsized position. This is because I do not think it will be possible to apply the planks with the hull in a different position. In addition there is the problem of beveling many frames; fortunately this angle is not very pronounced, but only the simple action of smoothing one frame, without firmly holding it, is rather risky.
The current building slip will be again useful later, after planking will be complete, allowing to work on the deck and its superstructure.
 
Hence the need to think, and maybe for some time, on the next step: the building of this blessed new planking board. Of course I'll keep you informed as soon as there will be something new to show.
 
Sincerely, Jack.
 
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Tuesday, January 12th, 2016 . . Frames installation.
 
On the day that my daughter left Pisa for Los Angeles, where she will stay +/- for a full month, I started with "nostalgia" to install and fix a first batch of frames of my "Viking". Obviously I used the process I described previously and I must say that it works brilliant, at least until now.
 
Here in Tuscany my new workshop seems to run well: till now I didn't need to use the electric heater because the weather feels more spring-like than winter. Only one thing confirmed its uncomfortability and impracticability: the chair, but in ten days will be discarged.
 
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Regards, Jack.Aubrey

The keel is laid down.

The picture shows the current version compared with the old keel in 1/48.



Due to the larger scale it is much easier to display small details such as the treenails to scale correctly.



The next steps in the construction of the complete keel arrangement are the same as described in my old build log. I will only change some smaller details.
 

I'm going to redo the mast step, I try to avoid "I'll do that better on the next one"  as much as possible. Before you know........
 
Ok but first the port stops for the gunport and sweep ports. A nice challenge to follow the contour of the hull. Well, I just used the hull to mark the contour and the rest was a matter of time and patience, fun to make.
 

 

 
Here you can see something that concerns me, the black strikes getting lighter and lighter over time. And also quit blotched  I used Fieblings to dye pear strips of wood. Unfortunately it already received a few coats of finish (tungoil) so there is not much I can do about it.
 
Remco