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Night view of Royal Caroline

Aft cabin

Interior of cabins

Royal Caroline is finished. Here you can see many pics of the model:
 

And almost last steps at my work on Royal Caroline...
 
A sailor (woman) with binoculars

 
Anchor buoys

 
Rudder´s chain

Rigging finished


 
And here are some anchors made of card

And finally the sails....


 

Yeards and rigging



 

Completing the masts


 

Hello, dear friends!
Thank you very much for your support and kind words. I appreciate them a lot.
I was not here for a long time and I have to apologize. In January I started new career, the work was not difficult, but I had no free time and also the new job did not bring me any pleasure nor satisfaction.

So I decided to finish there and few days ago I have found a new occupation as a branch Manager at Don Bosco society and believe this will be much better for me.


The Royal Caroline is already finished a  have to say, that she is my best ship model I have ever created.

 
I would like to bring some pics from the progress for you and hope, you will enjoy them.
Have a great time and take care
Doris

Haven't posted much- have been plugging away at the upper planking around the gun ports. This has been going slow for me. I can only work on it so long & my pain sets In & I have to stop. Anyway I noticed that there was too much of a dip in the planking curve on one side. The planking wasn't lining up at the same height on both sides. A little alcohol & a thin blade got this corrected. Re-glued it & continued on.
 
Oh, almost forgot to show the method of caulking I ended up using. I tried to do the pencil but I kept indenting the edges of the planks because I couldn't seem to maintain an even pressure as I marked the edges. I also smudged it all over the place. I experimented with a few things & settled on this. I use a makeup sponge applicator thingy my wife dropped on the floor & paint the edge with some black paint. I smear this with my thumb to keep it thin. This seems to work well for me.
 
Every day as I work on the ship one of our dogs, Lucy, faithfully lays at my feet as long as I work there.
 
 
 

JesseLee, Mobbsie,Carl, and the likes - thanks for all the positive comments
 
Continuing with the main yard:
 
After adding a few of the requisite blocks, it was finally time to figure out how to tackle the stirrups and horses.  The instructions indicate using wire, but I wanted something a little more realistic so tried making with 0.5mm line.
 
Made the usual false splice into a length of line using an offcut of .75mm wire to get eye of appropriate size.
 

 
These were then lashed around the yard in the appropriate places and diluted PVA applied to add some stiffness and secure in place.  A length of wire was used to try to keep the eyes aligned and clamps provided a small amount of tension while glue dried.  Instructions indicate the eye should be 15mm below the yard, I reduced this to 13mm as Ifelt it looked a little more to scale, and also seemed to match up better with diagrams in the AOTS series.  I also decided to use 3 stirrups per side against the 2 indicated on the plans as the spacing looked too great to my eye.
 

 
Horses were then added with yet more false splices around the center of the yard and around the cleats.  The cleats were the smallest I could manage but seem to be what is required to keep to appropriate scale.  The cleats are installed 1/20th of the length of the yard from the end.  I had previously used paper to simulate the iron bands for the end boom iron.
 


 
Yard dryfitted.  Although the stirrups and horses will need a little bit of adjusting wjhen finally in position, I'm pretty happy with the result.  Now need to replicate on the remaining yards now the plan of attack has been determined.  Its amazing how congested things are getting, not sure how I'll manage to get the trusses on and the sling lashing when I get there, but thats a challenge for the future.
 

tool for gun ports

use the tool

 
some gun ports prepared

Prepare the sanding

after sanding

 
and continue with some deck second plank


 

It seems to have been a long time since my last post, so just to show proof of life here is a quick update.
 
Upper Deck Framing
 
These last few weeks have been a very busy time since returning to work, and so visits to the shipyard have been few and far between.  As the opportunity has arisen, I have kept plugging away at making the various knees, Carlings and Ledges.  Preparation of the Carlings was very similar to that for the Deck Beams, with notches cut on the mill and finished by hand with a chisel. Knees and Beam Arms were all cut on the scroll saw and finished on the Spindle and Disc Sanders.
 
Unfortunately, despite the care that I took in aligning the Deck Beams, Beam No.2 is slightly out, meaning that the Carlings between Beams 1 and 2, and between Beams 2 and 3, are also slightly out of alignment.
 
Here is an overall shot to show progress to date – of course the angle was carefully selected to hide as many imperfections as possible!  This shot was taken immediately after sanding, so some clean-up is still required. The side that will not be planked will also receive a coat or two of Wipe-on Poly in due course.
 

A small update - aren't they all anymore???
I finally got a trundle head I am satisfied with; points centered, no major voids in the joints etc. Below is the progression of parts as I figured out what I wanted it to look like and how to do it as well as a closer shot. The close up shows that I missed slightly on placement, from a foot away its not noticeable though. I need to pick up a felt point for the dremmel and get some more finish rubbed out. 
I've also finished a rigging couple more carriages. I thought with work slowing down I would have more time to build but it hasn't been the case, all the little things that were put off over the last six months have to be taken care of.
 

 

 

Carl, Jonny, Nils, Mort and Jim and the 'likes', thanks for the "welcome back"...
 
Breaking up shaping the remaining yards with the first of what I suspect will be a lot of work on rigging the yards, the lower sling.
 
Previously estimated length of line was served, and then fed through itself to make a loop.  About 6mm was left to allow the end to be cut into a short taper.  GS Hypo glue was then placed on the end and rolled between my fingers.  The thin thread is the end of the serving line not yet trimmed)
 

 
Thread was then used to cover the unserved join, I used consecutive overhand knots, alternating sides.... 
 

 
Maybe a little bulky, but once trimmed its a reasonable approximation to a spliced, served loop.
 

 
Fitted to the main yard....
 

 
....and length checked to confirm it is of correct length.  Second time was a charm!
 

Chuck,
 
I was reading your log about the Cheerful and I have seen one Dutch model that you thought it was a fisherman ship from around 1950.
I knew there was something wrong about it so I have search the internet.
I found this drawing and picture.
It's a beurtschip (like a Barge )
 
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