minimini

Hi
just a small update , the knee parts and keel ar done ,one last thing that needs to be done is tapering the knee of the head.



Below is a dry fit of the bulkheads except frame nr. c


 

 
Michael
 

Mark 
A master, no just lucky
Christian
no but I have access to one where I only pay for the materials I cut , plus 10 $ per hour
 
My building board is finished and the same are the 8 angle braces


next one on the list is to cut some wood on my new table saw

 
Michael

hi all
I am almost finished with the building plan for the HMDS Perlen , so I decidert to start a buid log for her.
all i need to do is the last few frames and the bow filler pieces , and then I be ready to make wood dust.The drawing is made in autocad
My plan is to start cutting wood when my 3 week vacation start on april 5 




Michael
 

Hi All
Now after 6 weeks of high sunshine, where time has been spent outdoors, it now  time for a little update.The first picture shows my work table without any mess, it will probably be the last time it will happen.
picture 2 and 3 show The three section bulkhead shapes and 13 out of the 32 bulkheads and last but not least some of  the wood I received from Jason from Crown Timberyard last week.


It's only when you stand with the part between your hands you get an idea how big this model will be , the ruler is 100 cm long and the 2 bulkheads in the middle are 41 cm wide.

Michael
 

just a couple of pictures more before bedtime,




Michael
 
 

Hi All
just a little update , before i start the model i have decided to make a build table it is made of 18mm beech ply  700mm wide 2000mm long (sorry for the bad picture)


All the bulkheads ( 32 ) and the 9 pieces that make up the stem I post some picture in a few days. out of the 32 bulkheads I only mess up one

Michael

Update.
 
Cannons installed on the first gun deck, 
inclouding the deck beams of the second gun deck.
Next, I' ll make and assemble the blocks and rigging for the cannons
on the first gun deck.
 
Karl
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Update
 
Mounting the gun barrels on/in the carriages.
 
Karl
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Manufacture of the cannon barrels.
Instead of the tin casting process,
this time I used casting powder.
Advantage ower tin casting , considerably cheaper
and enormus weight reduction at this 1/24 scale.
 
Karl
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

I don't doubt that, but the issue is, I believe, "compared to what?" Seawatch appears to me on first direct impression after a somewhat protracted chat with Cathy, to be a retirement online business run by a husband and wife. At present, Bob is incapacitated and Cathy is caring for him and keeping the business running. The "heavy lifting" of warehousing and shipping is outsourced. Their website needs to be rebuilt and the coding has been destroyed, so their son, who did the programming, has to start from scratch, this after losing his home in one of our firestorms. (Recovering from which is a near impossible task for many of the victims. "'Socialism' is when the fire department comes to put out the fire, 'Capitalism' is when you try to collect on your fire insurance policy.")
 
What doesn't seem fair to me, assuming one knows the circumstances, is to expect the speed and efficiency of an international online marketing and delivery conglomerate. I didn't get an immediate email response, either, but Cathy called me back right away when I left a phone voicemail message and was most helpful. In the olden days, we had to wait for "mail orders" and nobody complained. We've been spoiled by modern mega-technology. Seawatch provides a very small niche publishing service for a very narrow spectrum of customers. I'm sure that in order to have that business model "pencil out," they have to do it with relatively limited business resources. Given that fact, I don't think it is fair to complain when one doesn't get an immediate response from some fellow working in a customer service "boiler room" in Mumbai when they email an inquiry. As I said, Seawatch ain't Amazon. If it weren't for them, I doubt the titles they publish would be available to the hobby at all. I really appreciate their efforts on our behalves.
 
Everyone should appreciate the small entrepreneurs who provide the ship modeling fraternity access to parts, tools, information, and other products unique to the hobby. We are watching those sources dry up one by one because the smaller "one man band" businesses simply cannot compete with the likes of the huge online conglomerates. Scale wood is becoming increasingly hard to find as is amply demonstrated by the many posts lamenting the suppliers who have gone out of business. Chuck Passaro of Syren Ship Models has just stopped producing his line of scale rope because he can't keep up with the demand and maintain the quality control he feels he must. His posts concerning the abuse he has received from customers exhibiting "bad behavior," while sometimes related in humorous anecdotes, amply demonstrate what our suppliers have to put up with from spoiled and outrageously demanding consumers. I think we really need to take care of and respect the small businesses that are trying to survive by providing us what so many rely upon. When they are gone, there will be nothing but junky pirated Chinese kits, if that, and total scratch-building and that development doesn't bode well for the longevity of the model ship building hobby.
 

I spoke on the phone with Cathy, one of the Seawatch husband and wife team, a couple of days ago after encountering a problem with their ordering software when ordering a book from them. She got back to me by phone quickly. She's got a wonderful sense of humor and we had a nice chat. To keep the forumites up to date, the problem with their ordering software is "being worked on," but as it turns out, their son did the coding on the website for them and he, who conincidentally lives in my neck of the woods, was one of the many who lost his home and all of its contents in one of the firestorms that we've been having on, it seems, an annual basis, here in Northern CA. All of his data on maintaining the Seawatch website was lost in the fire and this has seriously hampered their website maintenance, so they are limping along at the moment. 
 
Bob, her husband, is presently not ambulatory due to a non-life-threatening health issue which should resolve in time, but that has left Cathy to "hold the fort" and pretty much handle the Seawatch business on her own. Seawatch is a small family operation. Jeff Bezos has spoiled a lot of us who now expect everything ordered on line to arrive in a day or two. Amazon they ain't. Yet, they are a valuable resource to our hobby. So, let's cut them a bit of slack. The shipping of their books is outsourced and shipping is indiscriminately impacted by the pandemic these days. They have no more control over how fast things come through the mail as we do.

Christian
ther ar a company in ukraine that make the guns for the  la Vénus
but I'm not sure if they also make them in 1/64 scale
http://www.shipmodels.com.ua
 
Michael

Christian
ther ar a company in ukraine that make the guns for the  la Vénus
but I'm not sure if they also make them in 1/64 scale
http://www.shipmodels.com.ua
 
Michael

Hello modeling friends.
 
Animated by the pictures by Gregory Franchetti
and the drawing by Jean Boudriot,
 
I try to build the three gun decks as a cross-sectional model on a scale 1/24.
First, I made an auxiliary construction four the mounting and alignment of the frames,
to strengthen them, the bar timbers and the deck beam girdes were installed,
the first gundeck was planked.
 
The whole  now has the required stability for the further interior design.
 
Karl
 
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Mark 
A master, no just lucky
Christian
no but I have access to one where I only pay for the materials I cut , plus 10 $ per hour
 
My building board is finished and the same are the 8 angle braces


next one on the list is to cut some wood on my new table saw

 
Michael

Michael

Hi All
just a little update , before i start the model i have decided to make a build table it is made of 18mm beech ply  700mm wide 2000mm long (sorry for the bad picture)


All the bulkheads ( 32 ) and the 9 pieces that make up the stem I post some picture in a few days. out of the 32 bulkheads I only mess up one

Michael

just a couple of pictures more before bedtime,




Michael
 
 

Hi All
Now after 6 weeks of high sunshine, where time has been spent outdoors, it now  time for a little update.The first picture shows my work table without any mess, it will probably be the last time it will happen.
picture 2 and 3 show The three section bulkhead shapes and 13 out of the 32 bulkheads and last but not least some of  the wood I received from Jason from Crown Timberyard last week.


It's only when you stand with the part between your hands you get an idea how big this model will be , the ruler is 100 cm long and the 2 bulkheads in the middle are 41 cm wide.

Michael
 

hi all
I am almost finished with the building plan for the HMDS Perlen , so I decidert to start a buid log for her.
all i need to do is the last few frames and the bow filler pieces , and then I be ready to make wood dust.The drawing is made in autocad
My plan is to start cutting wood when my 3 week vacation start on april 5 




Michael
 

Hello Siggi
I have found this drawing in the Danish archive. It's a plan of a Danish 90-gun ship of the line  from 1766, I have 3-4 drawings more that show the same
 

Michael
 

Hi
just a small update , the knee parts and keel ar done ,one last thing that needs to be done is tapering the knee of the head.



Below is a dry fit of the bulkheads except frame nr. c


 

 
Michael
 

Mark 
A master, no just lucky
Christian
no but I have access to one where I only pay for the materials I cut , plus 10 $ per hour
 
My building board is finished and the same are the 8 angle braces


next one on the list is to cut some wood on my new table saw

 
Michael

Hi
just a small update , the knee parts and keel ar done ,one last thing that needs to be done is tapering the knee of the head.



Below is a dry fit of the bulkheads except frame nr. c


 

 
Michael
 

I started working inside the belly ....
In order not to make the model too heavy, I decided not to place the planking of the hold