Jack H

I bought this book last year. It's a good reference. Looking forward to make drawings of HMS PRINCESS ROYAL and shipmodel in the near future.But it require a lot of knowledge of ship model-Beyond my ability, so I am looking forward to developing this project together with somebody who have common desire and knowledge of ship model.

Great model, look at your 74 gun, I want to start my 64gun again

Hi matiz nice work!The French or the British 74 gun is also the model I want to make,Your build log will be a good reference resources for me,thank you!

Hi Gaetan. I can understand your thoughts or needs. Make 3D models for a variety of uses, research structures/game/and drawings... At present, there are some free small software, you can import the 3D model, check to see the model from many angles, it's very useful to understanding the structure of the model.Better software such as UE4-a powerful 3D game development software that can even simulate real naval battles.It seems is free by developer(official).You can search it online and get authorization. But who will develop the 3D model?After all, this demand is very small, and team development is still not possible. As other members says,a good 3D model is no less than a real model.So, you can work with people who have 3D modeling capabilities. Now,I have give up making 3D virtual ship model instead of using 3D technology to make the actual one.Such as cnc

It's a good idea to press the glass over the frame,I'll assemble the frame in your way

Although some busy, I still took the time to make the fifth figurehead, a little bit of regret is that some of the flaws of wood Cn processing out of the sculpture is quite accurate, basically the same as the design,because it was not polished yet, so looks more rough.

Very spectacular and amazing

Thanks Jeronimo,and thanks everybody. Maybe I will stop the buildlog for a while,I promised the request of a member to development of a private drawing of the frame and make its sculpture, including the figurehead. This is the last update of the production of the figurehead. After the figurehead is fixed, the support is finally removed. Remove the fixed softener... Finally, It's also need to be manually modified/polished and so on...

Hello Gaetan Good start and a excellent ship model. It is difficult to use the milling machine by hand to process this part of keel. I haven't studied the structure of 74 gun's yet,perhaps such a structure would be more reasonable? And whether it is the structure of the stern?

Thanks Dan and Mark for your attention. "Fascinating to say the least. How long did it that the CNC to make the figurehead?" Some areas that not carved by maching need secondary processing, it took me total about 18-20 hours to complete a primary processing- 0.8mm millcut/0.05mm stepover.

The fourth production

Thank you very much for your detailed introduction,I will do some improvement in your way.

hi Mike Y I admire your ability to mill or polish the surface of wood,I'm amazing such a delicate model was made by hand.Do you have some suggestions for the selection and polishing of wood to me?thanks. hjx

rhino- industrial design software

Thanks attention For the first time, the face of the figurehead is too small .This error is caused by the failure of the Z axis when the milling cutter is broken. The difficulty of processing in the arms

Because of a small mistake, the first attempt ended in failure, but there were also some gains. The second production has begun...

zbrush - Digital engraving software

Hello to all! For my poor English ,the following was translated by software and maybe have some grammar or other mistakes . The plans of L'ARTÉSIEN were purchased from France in last year,the ship is so beautiful and i want to make it(into a ship model) by cnc. First I scan the drawings,then make it into 3d model or 2d Vector graph,Then NC engraving,Including 2D and 3d kits for example frames/figurehead... My project starts from the stem and the main material is pear and jujube... This process is almost all CNC machining, manual only assembly and polishing... some photos of Actually produced... mill on double sides The two faces are basically the same Double sides milling of bow special parts... The following is "no bridges" The previous production was "have bridges" As shown below... pre-assemble... The figurehead ... 3d model Although not very similar, I have tried my best... NC machining programming and simulation Preparation materials It will take some time to process the finished product

Hello everyone! This is my first build log for ship-model building, The Zeehaen, a 17th century dutch merchant ship. The primary references is 17th CENTURY DUTCH MERCHANT SHIPS(by Ab Hoving) and Shipbuilding in the Dutch Golden Age. The reason for choosing zeehaen is it seems simple but a bit special, and the carving patterns are relatively simple for me to practice. Cor Emke's plans are not suitable for a full frame ship model, but I like some challenging making, although I find I think too simple at first- my 3D building process seemed to hit a brick wall, I can't get any reliable reference of internal structure on the stem and stern. so I finally changed my mind and took Mike Y's advice- start my log while the project is not yet completed. Perhaps someone can provide more accurate internal structural drawings to correct my mistakes, in addition, I also make a presentation of my making methods- Almost all parts were designed by 2D/3D and output to CNC processing. This is current progress The frames from k#-35# using 2D cutting Assembly process Keel and some special-shaped parts using CNC double-sided milling processing The "V slot" was processed directly by CNC. even so tiny parts were processed by CNC The Building jig This kind of jig is recommended by my friend, wangshuoliurui,as a senior shipmodel builder in china. I think this kind of jig is more suitable for those hull in 17th Century. Some experiments of figurehead or figurine carving patterns were designed by 3d and processed by multi-axial CNC . 3Dmodel was build by rhino, This requires accurate size. Convert the model into polygon format output to zbrush and sculpt it by virtual technology CNC programming and machining.

Great work, Mike. Pretty clean and beautiful, thanks for sharing your build log, I put your log as a reference for my project.

Mike Y,That's my test project and there are some specifics need to be improved.The blog Maybe released after the project is completed.The project of Zeehaen is some preparation or test for HMS Cumberland 1774 -i want to make my drawings by 2d/3d technology and CNC engraving machine to process parts.