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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 found your build log today. Really nice build and a beautyful model. Very well done

I found your build log today. Really nice build and a beautyful model. Very well done

I found your build log today. Really nice build and a beautyful model. Very well done

Vince,
I think it's fear.  The fear that they aren't "good enough".  I'm pretty much convinced that if you can build a kit, scratch some of the parts...(and don't they all have parts that need scratching?) then you can scratchbuild.  The only difference is that you don't have the classically crappy instructions that come with kits.

I hope I don't offend some builders here, but I am confused about something. Some builders will buy a very expensive kit and then throw out most of the expensive parts and supplies to replace them with scratch built parts. If they have the talent and skills to build from scratch, and they obviously do, then why not save the kit expense and just buy the plans and scratch build. I can see replacing some parts in kits, as improvements can be made here and there, but not to discard most of the kit, like lumber, metal castings, fixtures etc. By the time they are finished, there is very little of the kit left.
 
Vince P.

Hendirk,
 
it's allways nice to see the pictures of your build. Very good work.

Hendirk,
 
it's allways nice to see the pictures of your build. Very good work.

Some progress; walls and doors of the cabin of the Captain and the closet

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you for your kind welcome contributions
 
Indeed I found some almost forgotten pictures from the early beginning of ths project.
 

 
Building the bow section I felt inspired by the plank on frame guys   Surprises stern is rather unpretentious, she is a french corvette of under 500 tons.
 

 
Miss Unité as she appeared before make up...    and in full dress
 

Most of Surprises metal parts are not brass but alluminium.
 
The Guns
 

 
The 12pounder guns are too big for such a small frigate, but I followed POB  in this detail. Despite the weight, it is empirical obvious that you can´t handle them properly.
 
The barrels are tin casts in silicone molds, the carriages constist of some 50 pieces each
 

 

 
 
Hendrik
 

HMS Surprise,
"a trim, beautiful little eight-and-twenty,
French build with a bluff bow and lovely lines,
weatherly, stiff, a fine sea-boat,
fast when well handled,
roomy, dry…"
 
(Patrick o´Brian)
 
 
Roomy indeed ...with a max headroom of about 150cm under the forecastle...
 
One of the most important features for the common sailor must have been the pantry.
The galley stove was a giant thing concerning the little availlable space.
 

 
This oven is more or less in working condition but most of the different brass parts are glued together.
 

 
You don´t see much of it now but at least you know it is there.....
 

 
Not far away and of similar importance is the waste management system.
roomy and definitly not dry...
 

Please not another „HMS Surprise“
 
I thought this international forum literally crowded with them, but when I looked through the pages, there were not so many examples, at least they didn´t show up to me jet.

Well, there are a few possible approaches to that specific frigate:

The real HMS Surprise ex Unité , which was sold (and broken up? ) in 1802
The fictional Frigate from the novels of Patrick O´Brian, beautiful but hopelessly over rigged and, over guned (which was the exact thing I did)
The “Movie Surprise” (ex Rose) which played the role of the famous ship so well, that it almost dominates the public impression of the small frigate.
 
When the book "The frigate Surprise" of Brian Lavery, Karl Heinz Marquardt und Geoff Hunt came out, I finally found my personally image of the beloved Surprise.
 
In 2011 I started the project as a classic PoB build, scaled the plans of KH Marquardt to the dimensions of the existing NMM views of the real Surprise, took many details from the various novels of POB and finally the colors and overall appearance from the artwork of Geoff Hunt.
 
Voila!
 
 
 
 
As the Surprise is not jet finished, it is too early for the gallery and somewhat too late for the build log. If you are interested, I show some pictures from “the past” and start rigging up the yards and sails, which will hopefully come to an end this year.
 
 
 

thank you so much -  John - Dimitris - Don - Piet - Bob (Rafine) - Michael - David,
for your Kind and nice words, comments and appreciations, that is very much appreciated
 
also all those who expressed their "likes" by pressing the appropriate button
 

 

 

 

 
 
 
I am now putting in a break with the KWdG build, before I begin with the top superstructure, railings, decks, etc,  in order to proceed with my "HMS Pegasus" and get her out under the dust protection foil.......
 

 
Nils 
 
 
 
 

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.
 

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.
 

Your boats will become better and better, it's absolut amazing

The lantern on the mainmast platform
 
 
The shape of the lamp is hexagonal
 
The floor
 

 

 
 
Roof
 

 
 
Holder for the lamp
 

 
 
The windows of the lamp
 
The windows were made from Plexiglas and bone struts.
The struts are to be recorded on the Plexi and cut with a 0.3mm circumsawblade 0.5mm deep into the Plexiglas.
After that the struts may be glued into the joints
 
  
 
 
  
 
 
Cut and assemble the window frame
 
  
 
 
  
 
 
The roof cap made on lathe
 

 
 
Bracket for the lamp
 

 
 
Lamp in position
 

 
 
The struts of the lamp have been round and made by three parts
 
  
 
 
This is what the finished result looks
 
 
 
 

 
 
have fun
 
 

Hi,
after finishing the Banterer my father and I started to search for the next ship to build. We agreed that this time it should be something mall and easily to transport.
After some research we agreed to built a cutter ordered for the Navy, the "Surly". She was the second and last cutter of the Cheerful class ordered to be armed with 10 18pdr Carronades  and 2 6pdr long guns. We were quite surprised by the heavy caliber but  plan copies we got from the National Maritime museum in Greenwich explicitly stated on the side view plan "... to be armed with 10 18 per Carronades and 2 6pdr guns ...."
we started to contract the hull again in two parts (upper and lower) to allow for easy access to the mechanics and electronicsCurrently we finished coppering the hull and are working on the deck.
   
 

Hello,
thanks for your interest, for the comments and the likes!
The second frame work for a cutter is completed.

 

Here is a size comparison of all previous boats for the French corvette.

Hi
 
While still patiently waiting for our postal service to deliver my orders from Chuck I decided to start making some of the tools that I might need in the future of this build
 
The first one is a rope hook to be used when rigging. It was made using 5" needle and a custom made handle.
The handle was made from some nicely spalted dowel, got no idea what tipe of wood it is.
The needle is epoxied into a hole drilled an inch deep with a #61 drill.

 
 
Because of the damage to my thumb (the ligament was torn out in a motorcycle accident and I have nearly no movement in my thumb) I had to make the handle just.. so.. so that it would be easy for me to use it.



 
 
Finally the eye was cut open with an abrasive disc in the dremmel and the sharp edges was softened with some emery paper.

 
 
The next tool to be made will be a very sharp awl, again from a 2" needle and a custom handle.
 
Cheers till next time
 
Deon

Nice work, and I certainly understand the desire to work in the larger scale.  But don't I spy some treenails in the smaller version?
 
Cheers,
 
Martin

The Revell Kit is quite old, but with a lot of substance to create a very beautyful model. One problem of every plastic kit is the thiknee of the side, which is to small. Have look in the beautyful build log of dafi's HMS Victory, to see what is possible with an plastik kit.
 
Have a lot of fun during your build.

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.
 

Young America - extreme clipper 1853
Part 132 – Forward Lockers
 
There were two forward lockers that abutted the forecastle breast beam and the bulwarks at the side.  The enclosure on the port side was evidently (also?) used as a toilet.  These were undoubtedly used to stow gear that needed more protection than that afforded under the open forecastle.
 
With the windlass permanently installed, these enclosures could be constructed and the ladder ways between them and the windlass also installed.  In the first picture a panel of siding has been edge glued and is being fitted between the rails of the port bulwark.
 

 
 
After fitting, the panel would be cut off square to size.  These would most likely have been made using tongued-and-grooved planks maybe 2½” thick.  To accentuate the plank joints, the edges were rounded before edge gluing – as was done for all the other deck structures.
 
The next picture shows some pieces in assembly.
 
 

 
Although the workshop is in the basement, I get very bright sunlight through the windows this time of year – hence some overexposure in some of the pics.  In the next picture the end walls have been fitted and the fore-and-aft wall with the door is being test fit.
 

 
In the next picture the wall has been installed, the roof has been planked and is being smoothed out.
 

 
The flat faced curved riffler is being used for this.  Note that door hardware was installed prior to setting the wall.  In the next picture the edges of the roof planks are being pared flush with the chisel.
 

 
The next picture shows both enclosures installed.
 

 
The ladder way on the starboard side is also installed and the glue on some decking for the port ladder is drying.  In the last picture the second ladder way has been installed and roof planking on both enclosures painted.
 

 
 
 
Ed

Thanks a lot for the Likes and Your interest.