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Hello Challenger86, I decided to make the copper hull myself. I think it enhance the appearance of the model. I made the copper tiles from 5 mm copper tape using a pouncing wheel to recreate the copper tiles. B41EE86F-8D32-45C6-B6F7-D59CE2E27DA6.heic 7D9D7C4E-1E51-41A1-A977-4BF0284D375A.heic 66041DDE-5FD3-4E0B-9062-66A01CEC699D.heic
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Welcome aboard, Dave E. Current build: Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes - Occre
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Bedankt Backer. Groeten uit West-Vlaanderen. 😉 Current build: Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes - Occre
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So, a little update on the NS Mercedes. I have finished the backstays on all three masts. Not a whole lot of work, but a very slow progress. I was looking forward to the rigging when I was building this ship, but I must confess that I will be happy when the riggings are over. 🙂 The ropes from the Occre kit are not the best in its class, to say the least. I've used Beeswax to stop the fraying of the ropes. It will have to do for now, maybe in the future I will have to look for another brand of ropes. Kind regards,
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Very nice build Backer. Love to visit the Wasa museum one day and see the real ship. Must be very impressive.
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Thank you, Mercator and Keith Black. I have already started a build log, although it is almost the finished product. I have been building the NS Mercedes since August 2020. The project has been halted a while when we moved to Slijpe, but since then building has picked up again. You should be able to find the build log under my name. Any comments are greatly appreciated.
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Thank you Ccoyle, en bedankt Barbossa.
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Hello, my name is Jason (aka Sonny Skipper) and I live in the lovely village of Slijpe (West-Flanders - Belgium) not that far away from the Belgian coast and the North Sea. I’m 43 years old and the father of 3 lovely daughters. So always a busy house over here. I think I started with modelling ships at the age of 9 when my father bought me the Revell 1/570 RMS Titanic. Ever since the Titanic was discovered I couldn’t get enough of this ship. A model was a good way of admiring the ship from all angles. There was no internet back in those days. After building quite a few plastic model ships I decided in 2018 to tryout a wooden ship. I had no previous experience with this so I decided to keep things simple and opted for Amati’s Nina. I was quite pleased how this model turned out to be. Though not perfectly build, this ship has won me over to continue building wooden ships. Even my wife thinks these ships have something special. It does give you a sense of pride knowing you’ve crafted this ship from wooden strips. Currently I’m in the process of building another Spanish ship, namely Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes from Occre. Again, she’s not perfect, but then again I am still learning and enjoying every hour of the build so far. Kind regards, Jason
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Hello, I’m new to this forum and would like to share my build of the Spanish frigate Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes. I’ve put a short history from the actual ship below which I’ve found on the Occre website. This is my second wooden model build (my first being the Amati Nina) and I am very much liking it. I’ve started with the model in august 2020 and it is now almost nearing completion. I hope you’ll enjoy this thread as much as I have been building it. Kind regards, Jason (aka Sonny Skipper) The frigate "Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes" was built in 1788 in Havana owned by the Spanish Royal Navy and equipped with 34 cannons. Having left Montevideo on August 9, 1804 he was loaded with gold, silver, copper, tin, wool vicuna, Peruvian bark and cinnamon. On October 5, 1804 takes place the Battle of Cape Santa Maria, where a projectile of the English fleet, hit the Santa Barbara, causing their tragic and fast sinking. The company Odyssey, using a modern and sensitive sonar discovered in May 2007 in the Gulf of Cadiz, the wreck of the frigate. Using an underwater robot controlled from the surface and operating at about 1,100 meters deep recover the sunken treasure of Mercedes. 500,000 silver coins and gold. (Pieces of eight and escudos minted in Lima, Peru in 1803) is the largest sunken treasure has been recovered to date. Currently, the National Archaeological Museum in Cartagena, displays some of the recovered patrimony of the frigate. Enjoy the historical spanish frigate, with the assembling the ship model of the Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes. The kit is ready to mount with a high quality of assembling pieces.
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