Ferrus Manus
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I put in the first quarter of the supports for the outriggers/oar benches. There are about 100 in total. They look to be straight, but some of them are not perfectly level with each other at the ends. I guarantee I'll have issues fitting the long strakes onto the supports.
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Don't let the deep blue and gold ornamentation fool you. You could almost always smell a galley before you saw it. If you ever caught the distinctive scent of human feces on the high seas, there was probably a galley nearby. This was because galley slaves and convict rowers were kept permanently chained to their benches- that includes to use the bathroom. Free crew members simply went over the side of the ship, as there were no heads on a galley. Even a large galley could only go four days without resupply, meaning long voyages were out of the question. A third of all galley rowers died within three years, mostly from disease. For that reason, I made the midships area of the Reale look especially disgusting. If King Louis was ever transported in a galley, which I'm sure he was, he would have been travelling in the disease-ridden maritime equivalent of an outdoor toilet.
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I went and looked at multiple other renditions of this model, and no one nailed down the paintwork on these two pieces. Anyway... This subassembly makes no sense to me. I am used to making galleons, caravels, and other sailing vessels. It seems to me as though this deck should be flush with the hull, but the instructions clearly show this assembly the way I have it. More than that, there seems to be another deck that goes directly on top of this one. If so, why is this deck textured, or even there in the first place?
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I'm not exactly happy with the paint job on these two bulkheads, but it will have to do. Someday, I'll become a better painter. Anyways, on to the next thing- decking.
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That means a lot to me, Michael. Thank you. When I had finished painting the gold work on the starboard side, I noticed something strange- the blue paint on the upper edge of the port side of the hull was being worn down, everywhere except at the bow and stern. I reasoned this was because that's where I was holding the hull when I was painting the stbd gold works. So, in preparation for the port side decorations, I decided to run a protective line of painter's tape along the stbd midships section:
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This is what I spent the last two and a half hours of my life doing: In contrast to Michael D's experience, the fleur-de-lys were bearable. The scrollwork, however, made me want to turn the Reale into an airplane.
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When the shade coats are done drying, I will coat the entirety of the hull in a gloss varnish to protect it. After the fleur-de-lys and scrollwork is done, I will apply another coat of varnish. When the ship was under sail, the slaves on the lee side of the ship would sometimes be swamped waist-deep in water. Thus, owing to the low freeboard of the hull, covering the entire thing in gloss would not be outside the realm of reason.
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This is the hull so far: The water content in the dark blue shade I used took off some of the paint in the raised areas, which will be repainted gold anyway. I will likely add another coat or two of shade, as the hull is not dark enough. I fixed the waterline as much as reasonably achievable.
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This is the hull below the waterline. I wanted it to look like the Landstrom painting.
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This is an image of another Reale. I doubt the broken off bits on mine will make that much difference to the whole. However, crappy reconstructions of them will. I can remake the railings with wooden strips.
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Now it's time to start the real fun- painting.
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Is it possible I could email Heller for a new sprue? I have heard horror stories about Heller's lack of answering emails. Will they do this for a model that was bought second-hand?
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The only other damage is to one of the swivel guns in one of the bags. I assume the piece itself still exists. I will chop off all the thole pins, drill holes, and insert brass rod. That seems reasonable. The construction of the galley has been, so far, a galley. Neither the beakhead nor the stern have any kind of locator pins whatsoever, The decks have some sort of guide points on their underside, but no corresponding element on the hull. In French, comparing something to a galley is a hyperbolic figure of speech indicating the arduous, difficult, or a pain in the neck.
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The galley arrived, mostly intact. That's right, mostly. Four of the seat rests are broken off and one of the assemblies is broken in half, some of the thole pins are broken off, and the railings are completely unusable due to warping. The broken-off elements were not in the box. I could just cut all the foot boards (or whatever those are) off and be done there. I will ask 72nova what he did with the railings. The rest of the box:
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Thank you! However, I own the Landstrom book, which is something I addressed in the PM. That being said, I should probably make that clear to the rest of the viewers of this log. What I don't have access to (yet) are comprehensive rigging plans that show where (and on what) everything belays. The model and instructions should be here by tomorrow. I can use Google Translate to decipher the instructions, which are sure to be in French.
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Wow Baker, that was fast! Thank you for the comments on my last project.
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@Isaiah @kirill4 @72Nova @Baker Welcome to the circus. At some point I might have to start charging admittance.
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I know the two of you have encouraged me multiple times to replace plastic masts and yards with wooden ones. Well, I did it on the last project, the caravel Elisabetta: I think it turned out satisfactorily.
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I know I have a few languishing build logs on this forum. Trust me, I will get to them. A few weeks ago, my father told me I should make at least one of these for a profit and sell it online, as he believes my talent is sufficient to make it a reasonably achievable venture. Well, this is it. He and I both agreed that a model of La Reale (with my added painting skills and rigging) would be a magnificent model and demand a high dollar amount. As such, I ordered the model on eBay, which should arrive by this Thursday. In the meantime, I have been looking rather unsuccessfully for rigging diagrams or even the kit plans, as I expect the Heller rigging diagram to be wrong in many significant ways. This is a painting of the 1694 Reale, which shows practically nothing in the way of rigging. However, it gives me a general idea of what my paint job should look like, at least on the outside. I plan to paint the ship's railings, as well as most of the interior, red. I have bought copious amounts of both dark blue and gold in the meantime. The build is to be as out-of-box as possible. Something like this: This build should take me about six months.
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I was talking about tacking the sails (moving them off-center from the mast) and making trusses (just ropes and thimbles) like I did in mine. Check out what I did on my galleon for reference.
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I suggest doing what I did and filling the slots in the masts near the mast-tops, shaving off the parrels, and making some sort of parrels or truss of your own so you can actually tack the yards. Great paint job!
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Naval History On This Day, Any Nation
Ferrus Manus replied to Kevin's topic in Nautical/Naval History
July 12, 1346. The forces of Edward III of England finish crossing the English Channel and land at St Vaast la Hogue, Normandy, beginning the invasion of France and kicking off the Hundred Years' War. Famously, Edward face planted while disembarking his ship, writing it off as the land of France being ready to receive him. From there, the English army pillaged, looted, and raped their way through Normandy and on to Calais, in an action now known as the Crecy Campaign. -
WOW. How do you even count that?
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Most pilot cutters you see today seem to be highly restored and modernized. As you can see here, pilot cutters in their heyday were kind of a hackjob as well, just not to the same extent as other working boats like oyster smacks:
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New plan. As you fellow shipwrights know, I worked on the outlines for the Devin Collins for about 2 months. I apologize for my absence. But, we're scrapping the entirety of the plans. This is because I will be halving the number of frames down to 10 as well as the scale. The sheer size of this thing has tormented me ever since I began, and I have now come to the point of making the decision to cut the size in half. At least it can be displayed (as well as constructed) more easily. Silkspan sails will be in order and the rigging blocks and ropes now need to be half the size. That's not all. I will likely buy some wood from the local model shop and probably redo the drawings directly on the wood, at half scale for every other frame. The hull planking thickness can remain the same- it won't show anyway. More than that, the stanchions for the bulwarks will be less load-bearing, and thus easier to pull off. The Lizzie Annie, my main reference for this, should do great in helping me determine the height and thickness of the beams.
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