Jolly Jo
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Thanks Mark. It's basically double cooked linseed oil with pine extract from the German manufacturer VLVR -
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Golden Hind by Rock_From_Korea - 1:48
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Carrack by Alvb - scale 1:250 - CARD - after Pieter Bruegel's "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus"
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US Brig Syren by Redshadowrider - Model Shipways - Scale 1:64 - First wooden ship build
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HMS Grecian 1812 by ECK - Vanguard Models - 1:64
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The bulwarks got raised as planned after the third gun port was cut. As the oak strakes were wider than the bulwarks I had to cut and sand them to the right width. After repainting the bulwarks the walnut cap rails could finally be glued on and oiled.
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Albatros by Dr PR - Mantua - Scale 1:48 - Revenue Cutter kitbash about 1815
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Revenge 1577 by Loracs - Amati - 1:64
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Lynx 1812 by SaltyScot - Manuta-Panart - 1:62 - building as Mosquidobit
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Lynx 1812 by SaltyScot - Manuta-Panart - 1:62 - building as Mosquidobit
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Good job Mark, the bend looks really good! As an old the saying goes: The better the bending, the less the sanding
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Newport by Jolly Jo - Mamoli - Scale 1:57
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Newport by Jolly Jo - Mamoli - Scale 1:57
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Blackened the barrels with burnishing gel and built a carriage prototype from oak today. The wheels are from stained 4 and 3 mm beech wood as I didn't have any other at hand. As the oak didn't stand out much from the deck I decided to paint the carriage red and also sand the tail piece. The wheels are darkened in Photoshop to decide whether to paint them black or go for walnut. I'll order some walnut.
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Prince de Neufchatel by Coyote_6 – Constructo – 1/58 scale - American privateer
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Well done Steve! You will win a lot of prizes...
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Polaris by Meekes - OcCre - 1:50 - First Build
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That's what I thought about my first first planking as well but it doesn't have to be perfect to fulfill it's purpose anyway. And it is likely to look much better than you think after sanding. Good luck!
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A satin look to match the anchors would be nicer, at least to my taste.
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SHIP MODELER'S HANDBOOK - A new publication
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Hello all, today's work was making a mockup for playing around with bulwark proportions and different aspects of armament. My plan is to raise the bulwarks. At first I thought I put the deck to high but I didn't. Checking other build logs again I saw that all of them had about two and a half planks above the false deck whereas I put on just two. Therefore I will top them up with two stripes of 1.4mm oak wood of my stash I already bent to shape. The mockup represents the new height. Next will be cutting two additional gun ports aft. I couldn't shake the feeling that just two 3-pounder guns per side wouldn't have been enough, even for self defense. Therefore I contacted @Daniel Dusek, the new owner of Mamoli, who generously sent me 6 barrels of his new designs for this ship. The barrels are a bit longer and better made - all muzzles got the same, evenly centered bore now. Thanks again Daniel! I was also thinking about the gun port dimensions which are currently 8x8mm like stated in the manual. I tried 7mm square on the mockup and like it better so I will change the existing gun ports accordingly. Next will be scratch building carriages (the one on the pictures is an original cast metal one for the small guns) and then gun port covers.
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Oh dear, the Mantua boat looks at if they found it under the shelf... The Vanguard cutter turned out very nicely!
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Your second version of the captain very much reminds me of Robert Lindsay as Captain Pellew (which both I admire). A figure as reference is great I think. I use a clunky stick so far... As for figures in a diorama or standing model: Historical accuracy would be something I would look into. Paintings of the period should be available digitally, in books and museums for reference. As your crew will be privateers they would have worn whatever was available and practical. Maybe the Captain would have been better dressed for status. In the end: It's your model, do whatever you please 😉
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Steve, thank you very much for your encouraging words! Seeing our schooners side by side would be nice but as yours will be a privateer mine should better keep a distance... 😄 I've seen plans and models of the Grecian but honestly I don't like the look. I think it was made in this special manner to reference to columns in classical Greek architecture and hence named Grecian. Nevertheless I am already working on a solution... Thank you for following. I'll follow your build too.
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Planking is done. The deck has been sanded and oiled.
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That sounds reasonable on a real boat but, as I see it, in this case the second planking is most of all intended to cover the naked lime wood from first planking with walnut for a nicer appearance. Therefore, as it visually wouldn't really make a difference when painted, I skipped this step.
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Hello all, Easter business kept me away from the shipyard so I couldn't make much progress. Nevertheless I painted the inner bulwarks green (instead of planking them with 0.5 mm walnut) and decided on the deck planking pattern. I thought a two step would be a little clunky for the long and slim deck so I went for the three step version. Furthermore I choose to lay just one pair of king planks for the same reason. Later I looked at the deck plans of Chapelle's "Baltimore Clippers" again and dropped the idea of wide waterways with staunchions, again due to the narrow deck. Happily planking away I realized that I didn't adjust my planking layout accordingly so I ended up short with some planks. As I didn't want to rip the deck apart I glued two stripes together to form a wider plank (impression) on the tips of two planks which I thought would be a plausible solution. The planks butt at the stern and nib at the bow as I've seen it on many deck plans in Chapelle's book.
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