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Sir Charles Edward

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About Sir Charles Edward

  • Birthday 10/12/1956

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    Montana - USA
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    Wooden Sailing Models before 20th century.

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  1. Next update shows the installed ships boat supports, note the brass tie downs that will be used to secure the boat to its stand at a later date.
  2. An update showing the brass wire decoration affixed to the prow, painted gold. The figurehead is not yet cemented, I just dry fitted it to align the lower brass wire decoration. After this I attached the main stern gallery. The photo shows that I painted over the middle glazed window because there were two obvious stern supports showing through there and I want more realism. I realized that I maybe should have painted all of the windows black, as there is really nothing to see behind this piece except wood supports. I next installed the port and starboard stern gallery supports which will be used to install the brass window highlights and some metal railings. I plan to glaze all of these and paint them black on the inside since there is no detail behind them. I dry fitted the lower metal stern gallery pieces that will adorn the port and starboard gallery and saw that I needed to grind, sand the main wale in order to better fit the pieces. The photos show the already removed / grinded / sanded wale on the starboard side and the next photo shows the wale where I will have to grind / sand / remove it. The last series of photos show the quarter deck stern lockers, I believe that these are not yet cemented to the deck.
  3. Yes, the second planking will cover all of that up. I still hope that my RW will look similar to yours, when I start it up again.
  4. To continue with the bow detail. Installed the lower head rail and the anchor davits and you can see the finished doors in the photos. Added the bowsprit grates. The main stern piece with all windows glazes both front and back views, plus a close up.
  5. My Montanes follows the curve of the wales very slightly on the 2nd battery, but they are far more shallow with only two gun decks than the RW. As this picture shows my 1st battery wales are apparently way off the mark in curvature, but the precut bulwarks, which already had the gun ports cut into them, do show a distinctive curve that my wale should have followed. Ah, live and learn.
  6. This update is to show the results of using that "Liquid Windows" stuff to glaze windows. I wanted to see if the stuff was still okay after being stored for almost four years and to see how it looks. I found that I liked the effect and you can actually paint it after the glaze has dried. I was thinking about glazing the three lantern brass details, then painting them red instead of following the instructions and using a simple red colored paper affixed to the interior of the brass windows for those three stern lanterns. The first picture shows the result, it had not fully set when I took this photo. It looks much better now, and the glazing does not leave much trace so I could actually get away with using the glaze on the front side of the windows versus the back side. The last photo shows the effect of a light directly behind the glaze, it does look pretty neat.
  7. To continue with the bow detail.....I affixed the upper head rail and the completed doors to the forward bulkhead. I also cut out the bowsprit grates and dry fitted them to the bow. I discovered that there really was nothing to attach the grates to along the hull, so I determined to place a couple of small 2 x 2 mm boards just under the grates cemented to both the hull and the largest head rail support. The first picture shows where I needed the support, the red circles, and the arrows indicate UNDER the grates. Those Sampson posts that I made by "slicing" a shaped piece of wood, were then placed and painted all along the foredeck. The outer amidships railings were attached also and finally the foredeck railing that was incomplete a few posts ago. The final picture for this update is the starboard view of the Montanes at this time of construction.
  8. Wayne, Thank you for letting me know. I guess either I was clicking on the "add to post" button automatically and for some reason didn't do that last night. Thanks again.
  9. After installing the rubbing strakes, I started the bow detail work. The semi-circle heads, the upper head rail supports, upper and lower head rails were all precut. I had to construct the two doors using 1 x 4 mm dark wood strips, adding hinges and door handles before cementing them to the forward bulkhead. The photos show the bow section, and close up shots of the port and starboard heads, which show the brass decoration and brass wire used as a highlight for the decoration. The pre-cut upper head rail and the two incomplete doors are shown also. Argh for some reason my pictures are being loaded in reverse order!!! I thought that this was fixed? Am I doing anything wrong?
  10. Raddrick, I believe that the Segal took the longest to build, probably about two years, as I was still active duty in the US Navy until 1981, and could only work on the kit in CIC, when we were in port, and I wasn't on duty. I did not keep an accurate hourly work done during that build like I did with the next kits. The Dallas took maybe 550 hours to complete, followed by the Scottish Maid that took around 425 hours to complete. These two kits I did while I was attending the University of California, Berkeley, when I wasn't studying. Next kit was the Mantua Santa Maria, but life situations during that time caused that kit to take almost three years to complete, but I guess actual hours worked on it amounted to about 600 hours or so. I did actually keep track of the hours of building somewhat until the next couple of builds. Mamoli's Yacht Mary, and Golden Hind were done almost at the same time and I believe that I completed them in 700 and 750 hours respectfully. The last model completed before I began six different kits, was Corel's Half Moon, with some life situations delaying that build for a bit but a total of around 800 hours were spent on construction. Currently five of the six incomplete kits are on hold until I finish the OcCre Montanes, I HAVE to complete at least one kit for me and it is easier to build just one at a time. Although I do read over the plans regularly of all those kits, just to keep my construction notes up to date.
  11. Yes, I remember that going through the plans, but I also remember a comment from an interpretive instructions from the Euromodel site that mentions that those closed gun ports actually are located directly on a bulkhead, and the bulkhead would have to be cut out to make room for a cannon.
  12. The rubbing strakes had to be built out of 2 x 2 mm wood stock with a groove carved into one side with a triangle file. You can see this groove better after they were installed onto the hull, but I have included some photos of the grooved painted rubbing strakes before installation. There were ten pieces to make of three different lengths, I used a combination of various sized triangle files, a rotary cutting tool, and a sharp pyramid shaped engraving tool to try to get the groove just right. Painted them a gold and cemented them to the hull. There were also two decorative details made from 1 mm copper wire, rolled up like a seashell, needed. The photos show those pieces quite clearly before installation and after installation and painting. Oh, during all of this construction I was also installing the gun port frames along the first and second battery. I had also installed all dummy guns and the ten guns directly below the airways on the main amidships well. This is where the gun carriages made without the wheels went. There are 14 more guns to install along the main deck that I am going to try to rig accurately, since you will be able to see them and these carriages do have the wheels attached.
  13. The foredeck railing parts awaiting assembly and some additional close up shots of the various railings installed.
  14. Now on to some deck furnishings. I made the amidships well railings, the curved main mast railing and the bell tower railing. The curved main mast railing was missing some cannon balls as I had dropped this entire kit box which overturned and spilled ALL of the contents out onto my hobby shop floor. It literally took about three hours to pick up the dozens of cannon ball scattered all about and of course I missed some. OcCre happily replaced the missing cannon ball / ammunition, in fact I received about 50 or so of both black cannon balls and silver cannonballs, which I may use on another kit some time. They also included to my surprise a custom wood model name plaque, which I showed in an earlier post. That curved railing is now complete and I will include a more recent picture of the model with a future post. The final photo shows all of the previous discussed deck furnishings, plus the chimney assemble, which I forgot to take a picture of upon completing that piece.
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