Doreltomin

Putting cannons together and tying them on to the deck.

Build log part 4
 
 
 

White part above waterline only primered
 

bulleyes fitted, hull "riveted", plated and painted
 

tackle brackets for fastening the aft mast stays, soldered to the railing stanchions (through deck below
 

above the rectangular wooden window Frame there shall be fitted Ornament decors later on
 
 

model for making the clay-mould for the ornaments (intend to use low meting Point metal for that)
 

 
 

stair to 2nd passenger deck, swan neck vents, and fastening bracket rail for Front mast stays
 

anchor crane and bowpost flagstock
 

Progress well under way
 
 
 
 
Build log part 5 to follow....
 
 
Nils

I like this material, making models from card/paper does not  need any special tools. I have only basic tools and modest equipment for my hobby. But it doesn´t matter, I enjoy making models even so...
 
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Well dear friends, these days I am making the plastic model IJN Yamato, so please be patient, I will continue with Royal caroline as soon as possible. I will prepare all masts and yards.
 
Here is a link with Yamato in Czech language ( i am a beginner with plastic models... ) :
http://modelforum.cz/viewtopic.php?f=175&t=83940
 
Have a great time
 

Hello dear friends,

Thank you very much for your kind words and praise, they mean a lot for me. I appreciate your support, thať s a great honour and pleasure for me. I will try to continue as best as possible to make the model worthy of your words!
 
 
 Hello dear Sherry,

well, I do not thin the clay, I only soften it by kneading in my hand / it needs also a bit higher temperature. Then it is possible to shape the clay easily, because it is soft enough.

I dip my fingers or tools in a cold/icy water to prevent stickiness of the clay.
 
 
 
I believe, you will manage it perfectly, your skills are superb! I love your Caroline a lot.
 
 
 
Well, all decoration is handmade by myself. I try to make the details according to plans to achieve more realistic result.
 
 
No, all are shaped individually without the mold. I know, that using the mold could be easier for making same ornaments, but I prefer extra fine details, so i decided to make them this way. BTW, i must say, that I haven´t much experience with making decorations using mold.
 
 
 
Best regards
Doris

The satyrs look wonderful Doris   I have mine to do soon.I have already reproduced the drawing to 1/47 and these things are small!!!Probably going to carve a master from boxwood and cast them in resin,at least then I only have to struggle once    
 
Kind Regards
 
Nigel

Amazing detail Doris - those decorations are very tiny!
What do you use to thin the clay? I noticed in one of your videos that you dip your finger in some liquid and use it to smooth the clay. 
Polymer clays, like Sculpey and Fimo don't work with water, so I'm just wondering?

These first steps are nice ones as they're fairly easy (just find a method of keeping the bulkheads square with blocks or Lego bricks).
 
Your next choice will be whether to fill in the spaces between the bulkheads. That's really useful for the stem and stern where you're going to be bending the planks round at a sharp angle, but I filled in between all bulkheads with balsa and that proved very useful as a support for the planks and a guide for the fairing. If I did it again I probably wouldn't use balsa, but balsa is very easy to shape.
 
You might also consider how you are going to mount your ship. If you are going to place it on the stand provided by Caldercraft, there's no issue. However if you want to mount it on pedestals then you'll have to insert a couple of nuts into the bulkheads and drill through the keel. That requires very accurate drilling. I set up mounting points in mine, but on reflection it would have been easier to stick with the standard way of mounting.
 
Tony

This is my own version of spanish galleon 1588 rigging...try to make it based on information frm The rigging of ships. In the days of the Spritsail topmast 1600-1720 - Anderson and Peter Kirsch "The Galleon the great ships of the armada era" galleon rigging drwng
How accurate it happened I don't know...but I try to do best of mine

continue with masting...there are some various artists contemporary galleons pictures wihich I reffer as samples for my models...
ps
"name"s of those pctrs are wrong,don't look on it...found that for me was very difficult to find old pictures of spanish galleon which painted by spanish artists...most of spanish galleon pictures made by duch artist...and often looks like dutch galleon

Thanks this dry pastel make sometimes miracle...with minimum "artist" participation...let say need only water and brush

The first deckbeams as well as the ladder down to the hold are built in:
 

 
the longitudinal square batten is not part of the model and serves only to align the deck beams
 
close up of the ladder:
 

 
The wales and a several strakes of outer planking are fitted: the plankes are treenailedtwice  at every second futtock respectively toptimber, the wales are treenailed twice at each first and second futtock.
 

 
a few more strakes and the klinker planking at the poop are added:
 

 
the outer planking is nearly finished:
 

 
 
 
Klaus
 

Making the frames:

Since my model is rather small I choose a method of frame making which produces quite an amount of waste wood but safes a lot of work.
At each double frame the floors and second futtocks are in the same plane and are overlapped by the first futtock and toptimber in a second plane.
I have sawn out each first plane as a whole unit (A in the pictures) and made then a short cut vertical to the outer surface at points 1 and 2 (red lines in B).
Then I glued parts as shown in C as a second layer onto the first one, these parts will later become the first futtocks and toptimbers.


 
When glueing the parts together care was taken not to get glue onto the hatched area (shown only at the left hand side). After cutting out the outer contour of the first futtocks and toptimbers and the inner contour of both layers the part between the cuts 1 and 2 falls out and the result we have the double frame D. All toptimbers were prolonged to a reference height. When cutting out the inner part I did not cut away the uppermost part (marked green in the following photograph), this serves as a temporary stiffener, the upper edge of these cross pieces is at the level of my reference height. On these cross pieces the centerline was marked in pencil (marked red in the following picture).
 

 
The heads and feet of the various frame components are located along the colored lines indicated in the body plan in the next picture.
 


It seems that for Navy Board models these lines were made just arbitrary so that the ends oft the frame components followed fair curves, maybe they were also made with the help of flexible batons. These lines did not necessarily correspond to the actual position of the timber ends of the full sized ship.
 
 
Klaus






 

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Thanks

Hi Nigel
 
Just checking in to see what great details you have added to your ship the Sovereign of the seas, great job on the tree nailing it sure looks nice, kind of wondering just what you will come up with next, keep up the great work and the pictures coming,          ENJOY.
 
Regards   Lawrence

You will be pleased to learn that CaptainSteve has mostly recovered from the injuries inflicted upon him by the evil pizza delivery company of the previous week (at least, he is fairly sure his misfortune was due to the pizza !!).
 
Fortified against further attacks by renewing the alliance with his friend, Jack Daniels, he has vowed to continue forward with his mission.
In his quest to bring the Holy Grail of SawDust unto the assembled crowd, he hast taken upon himself the twin tasks of tapering of the Stem piece, as well as the fairing of the many mould formers.
 


 
“All is now faired in Love and Boat-Building !!”, he did declare.
(And with that, CaptainSteve didst offer up his gratitude to the One known as Alde, for twas his suggestion.)
 
Thusly, with these battles now behind him, our hero was able, finally, to present the precious Vials of SawDust unto the slavering masses.

 
“Not before Time !!” didst the horde mumble.
 
But then they were heard to add, “Is that all ??”
“Nay !!” he didst reply, “For I have also dealt a savage blow unto future mis-alignment by a-fixing the Sheer Tabs to their rightful places upon the moulds.”

 
“Indeed, whatsomore, I have unto the moulds added many temporary tabs of my own making, the better to fortify the positioning of the cherrywood frames which the Plans have long foretold must come.”
 
Further, to assist with that which still faces him, CaptainSteve applied wax of the purple scented candle unto the edges of the mould formers, declaring:
“This be to allow the frames an easy departure from the formers, also as foretold by the Plans, whence the time doth cometh.”

 
Having thus done as much as he could, he thence didst state:
“I must rest !! The better to allow construction of the Building Jig on the morrow.”
 
"But, first, a gift ... brought to me across the oceans from the faraway land of Tasmania."

 
“’Tis called Tasmanian Blackwood - veneers from my Father.  For I feel these could be used to make most excellent thwarts and trims for my Launch !!”, was his parting comment.
 
And, with that, CaptainSteve didst retire for the even-tide.

I made it just in time!
 
This sounds like a great project and I can't wait to see each and every step!

Last post I mentioned the statues. Building a model goes in small steps, many ot them hardly worth mentioning.
 
This one I'd like to show you the escutcheon on the lower stern of the ship, with the emblem of the VOC on it.
 
The A is for Amsterdam, VOC stands for Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie - Dutch East India Company.
 
Wikipedia says:
 
 The Dutch East India Company (Dutch: Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, VOC, "United East India Company") was a chartered company established in 1602, when the States-General of the Netherlands granted it a 21-year monopoly to carry out colonial activities in Asia. It is often considered to have been the first multinational corporation in the world  and it was the first company to issue stock.  It was also arguably the first megacorporation, possessing quasi-governmental powers, including the ability to wage war, imprison and execute convicts, negotiate treaties, coin money, and establish colonies.
 
Link to the Wikipedia-site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_India_Company
 

 
(the ruler is in mm, not in inches  )

Marc,
 
Thank you! In fact the photos aren't at their best - due to the dim light and the fact I made them with my cell (but that's because it's easier to upload them to my PC).
 
Every now and then I will post some pictures, and add some history about the Batavia, the VOC  - Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie  ( Dutch East India Company) and the naval history of the Dutch during their rich period which was called "de gouden Eeuw" (the golden age).
 
Hope you like it!

Keith, Michael, and all others who are following this topic - welcome!
 
On my own small Batavia wharf (lokated in our livingroom and my small office beside our house) I'm trying to do my best to build a nice replica of the Batavia.
 
Because I'm building from scratch I have to work with the Willem Vos drawings and the many photos I made on the replica in Lelystad. This makes it all a bit diffirent from the normal out of the box work, but on the other hand again not.
 
Making all the statues, carvings etc. is in fact the most demanding part of it - but I like it!
 
My model - which is a 70% scale of the 1:50 drawings will become roughly 80 cm long and 80 cm high. Width between 15 and 20 cm. This is ca. a 1:70 or 1:72 scale.
 
@Michael, thank you for the link - I did not have that one - will take me some time to have a look at it this evening.
Nice photos at it, and all very familiar somehow 

Hans,
 
Nice project I'm glad that I looked in. I'm sure that you already know this, but in case that you don't (:-)
 
http://www.bataviaphotos.com/gallery.html
 
I'm building her cousin (:-)
 
Regards,
 
MIchael.

Hello dear friends and warmly thank you for all your comments and praise. Your words mean a lot for me and I am pleased very much.

 
Well, the crew is interested mainly in the bottles with delicious drinks inside the cabins. I have to watch them not to be drunk. Maybe during  the nights, when I sleep,  they have a party on board..... because sometimes some of them fall over during the model construction.
 
 
Best regards
Doris
 
 
The port is finished, all deadeyes are placed at the channels according to plans.
 

@ Buck
 
Hi Buck,
Thank you for asking about me, Thank God I am fine.
It's pleasure to be remembered my friend...
I have changed my residence and begun to live in a rented flat. For now, Berlin is staying in my oldie house.
 
 
@ wq3296
 
Thank you wq3296 for your kind words. The ship vocabulary is another and wide world. I have a little knowledge about it. But day by day I am learning. Now it's another word: whipstaff... Thank you again.
For Corel, I love the quality of the wood but have some doubts about scales.
I would be happy if you could show your Berlin at MSW. She will be a source of inspiration.
 
 
@ Keith
  Wish I'll be here...
Thank you Keith for asking how I am. Thank God I am fine. I had thought that it had to be a momentary lapse of building but unfortunately it dragged on...
 
 
@ Augie, Sjors, Popeye,
    (and updated) Mark, Jason, Michael, Doreltomin
 
Thank you for your kind contribution and agreement with Buck and Kieth...

Recently I have started the scratch building of the Dutch VOC Vessel Batavia, which shipwrecked on her maiden voyage on the 4th of june 1629 - near to the australian westcoast at morning reef near Beacon Island. If you do some research on the internet you will find a lot of information about the shipwrecking of the Batavia and all that happened afterwards...
 
As there is no wooden model kit for the Batavia I bought me the plans which where made on the Dutch shipyard "Bataviawerf" in Lelystad, Netherlands - and started the model from scratch. In this topic you'll find the pictures I made during the building proces - started beginning of december 2013 up until now. I'm about halfway building the Batavia.
 
I started with plywood and a jigsaw...
 

 
Keel and frames
 

 
same
 

 
First decks planked
 

 
Hull partly planked
 
 
 
 

In the instructions as you have noted they just lay out long strokes of strips across the ship, it´s called cheating.
The width of the strips is exactly like mine, 12 mm, i just cut them in smaller parts. I want the ship to be closer the real ship, therefore i built up the inside of it as close as i could to the original.
As you will notice Billing Boat have also cheated with the amount of bulk heads, so if you want to lay the deck as i have you will need to construct a large amount of bulkheads from scratch to get the correct length of the deck strips between the bulk heads.
 
Sorry for my bad english.
Good luck.

Excellent work, thank you for re-posting your log, I truly love how you managed to do it! Congratulations!