Edward Stein

After seeing what others on this site has done to bend thick wood, success!  It was actually easier then I thought it would be.  Oh how I love this web site!

The forecastle and quarter decks are almost done.  I have eliminated rigging the rear of the gun carriages due to the limited space on these decks.  I'm not going to do anything else until I get the whales done.  I have been dreading this step but I can't put it off anymore. 

After 45 minutes of painstaking carving and removing an extra plank due to a knife slip, all I have to say is "What hole!".  I am thrilled I was able to do this.

My first major oops.  I failed to mark the hole before I planked the deck.  I'm going to try and pull up those pieces but I've never tried this before.  The build was going so well up to this point, I guess it was inevitable that a major mistake was on the horizon. 

On 1/28/2022 at 5:47 AM, robdurant said:

Very neat work with the lights. I just found this thread. Hope you don't mind if I follow along. It looks like you're making great progress!

 

1:50 is a nice scale to work in. How big will she be when she's rigged?

The measurements are H - 35 3/4" W - 18" L - 43" approximately    

I'm so glad I put the lights in. 

The upper deck is completed with the lights.

On 1/24/2022 at 7:55 AM, allanyed said:

Hi Edward

No harm especially as they are on the lower deck.   For the upper deck, they are likely set up with two single blocks with the line attached to the block hooked to the bulkhead ring, then run through the blocked hooked to the ring on the carriage, then back through the sheave hole in the block at the bulkhead.  Following is a rough picture, thousand words, yadda yadda.    

Allan

 

This does make more sense then what I did.  I wished I could have seen this diagram earlier.  It's to late for me to make the changes on the lower decks but I will rig the rest of the cannons this way.  Thank you for sharing this with me.

Upper deck is now planked and ready for the deck furniture. 

On 1/15/2022 at 5:21 PM, allanyed said:

I love the lights Edward!

 

A question, hope you don't mind, is the cannon/carriage construction and their rigging what is instructed in the kit?  The reason I ask is that the running out tackle has the double and single block on each side reversed compared to what is normally seen.  Thanks

 

Allan

I wasn't sure how to do it so I just made a rigging plan that I thought was right.

8 hours ago, ChrisLBren said:

Looks great !  Cant wait to get to finishing my WVH after finishing Bismarck

Thank you

My trail run with the lights.  The picture does not show the true color of the lights.  It is a dim soft yellow color.  You can see inside the lower gun deck pretty good so I'm going to keep the lights in the ship.

The lower gun deck is finally finished.  It was a lot of work making the cannons but now that it's completed made the effort so worth it.

21 hours ago, allanyed said:

Happy New Year Edward,

Can you tell us which Wappen von Hamburg is this supposed to be as there were four from the 17th and 18th centuries, 1669, 1686, 1722, and 1740?    The information on the site given at Texas A&M is probably inappropriate depending on which one you are building as messengers and nippers were not used until about 1740.  (Harland Capstans and Windlasses p.66 and Lavery Arming and Fitting English Ships of War p. 47)

Cheers

Allan

 

It's Corel's Wappen von Hamburg I 1667.

A jig I made to rig the cannons.  I know that the rope coils are not accurate but it is my first attempt at it.

I'm sorry about that.  The Wappen is hanging over the Constitution.

I would like to do the rigging for the capstan on the Wappen von Hamburg.  I cannot find any pictures that shows it. Any ideas would be appreciated. 

The new version of my gun carriages using hardwoods from the advice of ChrisLBren.  I like this a lot better and I've already started to mass produce them.  I will be painting the wheels later.  I am also very close to being done with the planking on the lower half of the hull.

I found a real thin sheet of brass in my bone yard.  I like this look so I'm going into full production with it.

I decided to make my own gun carriages so that I can rig them.  The ones that came in my kit where not casted well.  I would love to make some brass strips for the sides but I'm not sure how to cut them.  I have no tools to cut metal that small. 

I already started this build when I found this site.  I haven't built a ship in 10 years but I always dreamed of building this kit.  The price tag has prevented me from building it sooner.  I purchased this kit from someone who had started it and there where pieces missing.  The keel I had to make from a piece of oak and I will most likely stain it to match.  Like others, I have had to make a lot of modifications to the parts supplied.  I built Model Shipways U.S.S. Constitution and I was thinking of putting lights inside it but the gun ports where to small to see inside the gun deck.  But this kit has bigger gun ports so I was thinking this could be the ship to add lights and more detail for the gun deck.  I know by doing this that the lights can never be replaced so I'm not sure about doing it.  If anyone has any thoughts on this, I would love to here them.  I'm terrible at planking.  I have watched videos and read many different techniques but every time I try it never goes the same.  So I will muddle through this planking as I have always done.