Rock_From_Korea
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Hi All~ I suppose a lot of you are on holidays. I am on a one week holiday before joining a new position in a new company next week. It will be quite busy for at least couple of months after my arrival in the new company and therefore I may not be able to post new progress for some time. I have worked on cannon doors and hinges for the last 2 weeks. and they are finally finished and installed in place. The below are pictures of these works, beginning with the making of cannon door frames and lids.
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Thanks very much for your compliment!
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Not the final product yet, but the stern balcony is put in place for further work later on - after the planking work on the areas above wheatherdeck and etc.
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The pillars and handrails are glued into place.
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These rounded and rectangular pillars are positioned and calibrated for angle etc before glueing into position. The rounded pillars are dyed with light oak color. For the balcony taffrails, I laminated 3 thin hardwood sheets to come up with naturally curving shape.
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Hi All, Finally, the work on stern balcony started in ernest. I have used disposable bamboo chopsticks to get the rounded pillars into shape. These bamboo chopsticks are quite hard but still relatively easy to work on. Once again, I used the IKEA drill for shaping these pillars. Below are some pictures during this process. The picture in the middle shows the original unprocessed bamboo chopstick along with the half processed bits and final product. These rounded pillars will be positioned in an evenly spaced interval throughout the outer edges of the balcony except for the corners - which will need to have wider pillars to fasten both sideway and horizontal stern balcony taffrails. Once again I used a decommissioned hard wood choptstick to get these rectangular pillars.
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You are right, AON. I just scratched the lattice design with a thin file~
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Hi~ nothing fancy was done here. I just scratched the lattice forms with the thinnest file I have on to the back of the plastic panel.
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Thanks AON~!
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Stern door finishing works on hinges and stopper.
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For windows, I used simple clear plastic container (contained fruits I think) as the window panel on which I just scratched with a thin file to get the lead latticed window effect of 16th century galleon. Below are some photos of these works.
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Back to GH1! On top of the second planking of GH2, I managed to finish the windows and door of the stern area. The stern door was made using similar method as the beakhead area doors - with just minor difference. I also made some modification in the stern area to secure the balcony for future work on it.
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Hi All, It's been quite a while since my last update. I was finishing the second layer planking of GH2. I tried to test how the overall ship would look like if I applied second planking all the way to the weather deck level. Frankly, I think I like the GH1 look better. The wales of GH2 were dyed with a different color from GH1 and this I think looks better than the simple black wales. Below are couple of pictures of the current state of GH2. Also, I am testing slightly more sturdier wood for the display rack, with different wood dye applied.
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Thanks very much, Tomasz B!!
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Hi Steven, Thanks very much for your input on this subject! I dug deeper on your picture above and I found the following description of the above picture in a book 'Sir Francis Drake: The Queen's Pirate' and actually the Caca Fogo is depicted as Drake's ship firing on Caca Plata. A bit confusing as in the same book 2 explanations are given : 1) in one account Caca Fogo seems to be a ship captured by Drake, 2) in another, Caca Plata is the Spanish ship and Caca Fogo is Drake's ship (new nick name obtained through Drake's Spanish captives). Anyway, the flags seem to suggest that Caca Fogo is under English command, and Caca Plata under Spanish. I was planning to apply similar design (to Caca Fogo) for balcony and entrance to quarterdeck on my Golden Hind. This picture gives me some support for the direction I am heading at.
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Hi Patrick, Thanks so much for your input! I wonder why I did not notice the different method you applied to your grating although I am following your build log quite closely. I think unless I find new historical evidence of 16th century grating, I may follow your footsteps. I hope you don't mind me benchmarking your grating method!
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Hi Allan, Thanks so much for the detailed pictures of how correct grating should be! Much appreciated and will be definitely quite helpful for my grating on Golden Hind. Best regards,
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Hi All, I am currently scratch building Golden Hind and I am about to start on grating. So far I could not find any historical data on grating of 16th century English Galleon anywhere. All the build logs that I am referencing also applied more or less generic/usual grating methods. I am wondering if anyone has encountered any historical evidence of 16th century English galleon grating, be it the method usually applied or something else entirely. Thanks all in advance for your help on this topic!
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Thanks Alan!
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I also started on balcony. I laminated several thin layers of wood sheets to get the desired shape and thickness of the base of balcony and then applied the deck strips both above and below. I am still deliberating on what type of design I am going to apply for the balcony, but for this prototype I am thinking to make it an open balcony - i.e. not applying side panels but with podium like poles.
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Hi All, I finished the planking on lower part of the forecastle and after castle, with additional layer of planking done inside. I am still not very satisfied with this part of the planking and redrew the whole planking plan of GH2. I will apply quite different planking scheme for GH2 and have been working on the first planking of GH2. Anyway, below are some pictures of the finishing work on the weather deck planking.
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Rocky definitely does not look happy with the results.
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Before starting the planking of the upper area (starting with the weather-deck), I deliberated a lot on what type of wood I should be using. Couple of tests later, I decided to use a thinner, more flexible wood strip for these areas. After installing 2 rows, I began to regret this decision as the overall look did not correspond to the tests I performed before. Anyway, I will contemplate on what to do with this section but will definitely not use this strip of wood for GH2 and beyond.
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Hi All, It's been a while since my last update as I have been quite busy at work recently. I managed to finish the door & window frames at the aft gallery area and also finished planking this section. After which I began planking the upper levels.
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Hi CiscoH, Thanks very much for your kind words~!
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