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  1. BradNSW
    Excellent progress. We look forward to watching these joints come together, step by careful step. IMO, they can make or break a model. You are several months ahead of my latest project. The mobile shipyard is still working on frames. We did have a friend deliver a package of pearwood stock to our current campground, for the keel and rising wood. So, workers here are already planning the steps and process for laying the keel and stem/stern pieces. I will continue to follow closely to glean what I can from your techniques and experience! Thanks for the great pictures and process descriptions!
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    She's going to be over a yard long! Looking great. Can't wait to see it after you get it all glued up! Thanks for sharing!!
  3. BradNSW
    I just discovered your excellent build log! I'm excited because you are a few weeks ahead of my build of the bomb ketch Salamandre. This means I can see how you complete the steps I am about to start!! Your frames look superb (I'm 75% through frame construction). I wait with anticipation to watch you mill and construct the keel. Thanks for posting such detailed pictures and descriptions!
  4. BradNSW
    Well done!! Your work is so crisp and precise. An inspiration to us all. Regarding the last photo...I'm sure it was nice to not have to go to the "head" of the ship! Especially in heavy seas. Rank had its Privileges!!
  5. BradNSW
    Beautiful work!! The lines and grains were so crisp and beautifully executed I initially thought I was looking at an AI image😄! Love it! Don't forget the seats of ease for the Captain, in those wonderful quater-galleries!!
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    First read the post and thought it said 1.5 years but rereading only 1.5 months! Amazed how the color mellowed and love it as a choice for the pillars! It really adds character and texture to any model when one uses different woods to highlight specific items!
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    Wow! Hours spent browsing this incredible log and I wish I could get more. Breasthooks and Hause Holes look great. I speak for all, when I say, I'm glad you are back with your tools and workshop, so we can gain insights and knowledge from your great skills and clear documentation of techniques.
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    Look forward to seeing how this ages! I'm totally into "painting" a model with different woods. I hope this one loses some of the pink/purple hue...it seems too "colorful" right now. Glad you have some months to let the color mature.
  9. BradNSW
    Yep, that is where she did battle with the HMS Serapis. John Paul Jones was the CAPT of Bonhomme Richard and replied with the immortal quote "I have not yet begun to fight" when asked by the better armed Serapis CAPT to surrender. They fought for several hours, and John Paul Jones (father of the US Navy,) finally pulled alongside, tied the two ships together and boarded. A second US ship continued to fire into both ships. Eventually the Serapis CAPT surrendered and shortly thereafter, the Bonhomme Richard sank off the coast of Yorkshire, Flamborough Head (your backyard!!!) I built the Bonhomme Richard Cross Section to go with my scratch build of the HMS Serapis that I built over a 35 year period. There is a short photo summary of the Serapis build at this link: HMS Serapis Scratch Build
  10. BradNSW
    The lighter color of the boxwood on the lower deck would highlight the geometric construction. Then the upper deck geometry would be highlighted the same? Then using the pink pear for deck planking, furniture, etc. The inverse would be nice also...darker geometric construction and lighter (scrubbed/washed/moped) decks. Either way, your work is superb!
  11. BradNSW
    Pictures of the guns, ships oven and water station. My build log is on another forum. BHR build log Thanks for your interest.
  12. BradNSW
    I've discovered your build log and spent two evenings just trying to absorb all the detailed info! Your incredible joints, milling, plane and chisel work, as well as the accuracy of your measuring and set-up will be something I strive for when I begin my next scratch build!! Thanks for sharing this wonderful work with such thorough documentation and photography!
  13. BradNSW
    They are all much smaller scale than your superb build. The corkscrew effect was just wire wrapped around a small toothpick. The button in the tampion is brilliant and well executed!
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    Agreed...it was my inspiration, while studying Naval Architecture there. I began my first scratch model several years after graduation and finished it 30+ years later. I drag my wife through the displays, every time we visit. Not so sure she finds them as inspiring as I do!!! The POW bone models never cease to amaze me. Your work is superb and I will be following!
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    I love the chain shot and water bucket! I may need to add the tompion (barrel cover) to my cross section of the Bonhomme Richard...yours looks awesome!! Have you thought about adding some of the tools needed for reloading? I added a few to each station on my cross section (see below). Thanks for sharing!
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    Thanks for the invite to the Denver Club. I've attended two meetings. I brought my latest project: a Bonhomme Richard cross-section, the 2nd time. I'm up in Loveland, so it's a bit of a drive. I'm also on the road in our RV for 6-7 months/year. I'll continue to attend, when time and travel permit...and look forward to meeting you. I was also a member of the San Diego guild off and on, when I wasn't deployed or living overseas. I looked over your build log and am impressed with how it's coming along!!
  17. BradNSW
    I had two Artesia Latina kits under my belt. The Scottish Maid and King of the Mississippi. My first scratch build and first carvings. For the cradles, I traced the frames where I wanted them to sit, then just started whittling until they began to take shape (a dinosaur or sea creature or???). Yeah, I'm a stick-with-it guy (or as my wife says...stubborn as a mule):)!
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    I've got 100s of other pictures documenting the build, but I'll close with pictures of how she sits now. Following 3 years on the road in our RV, we finally bought a home in Loveland Colorado. A corner of the basement is my "Navy Bar", where the finished model finally landed.
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    Finally ready to tackle the figurehead. Serapis is an Egyptian Bey who guarded the gates of Hades with his three headed dog Cerebrus. He is always depicted with an upside-down bowl/grain holder on his head. Tracing the figurehead from the Serapis 1782 drawings. The finished results.
  20. BradNSW
    Quater gallery construction and carvings.
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    Cannon port covers, backstay chainplates and quarterdeck accommodation ladder.
  22. BradNSW
    I got some additional carving practice, before trying the figurehead, while decorating the cathead.
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    Next were the bow gratings and seats of ease.
  24. BradNSW
    My next big task was the anchor rails and main head rails. Below are pictures of the anchor wale construction. The mainrail supports were the most difficult parts of the model to create. Below is a jig I mad to get the proper curve, using laminated alder planks. Below shows the result of 4-layers of lamination. After applying WATCO wood oil (dark walnut), the lamination lines are almost imperceptable. Finally, an overhead view of the Main Rails and the lateral support beams.
  25. BradNSW
    Around this time, COVID hit. I we went on the road full time in our RV and this became my mobile shipyard. Below is how the stern, with carvings eventually turned out, while I learned to carve in campgrounds across the USA! This is where I discovered pearwood. I started on the stern, hoping to gain some skill before tackling the figurehead!!

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