Kronprinz

That looks great!

Yes, Grecian is a great opportunity to show a "diagonal keel"   - feel free to catch this chance to built a beaty - but avoid a WLmodel ...

Schootish Maid I found in Mac Gregor's "Search for Speed" - your source, too?

A great sea you did!!!

Guillemot, I allways like to come to your postings here...

She is such a beautyf!!! I'm still dealing in my mind with Diligente from the Chapelle plans...

Baltimore Clipper are so wounderfull ships... Lines like a women...

Thanks for showing!

Christian

Wonderfull work!

Super! That looks very fine, Jim!

Christian,

 

As I'm having a measure of success with the wood I'm pressing on with trying to make wooden spindles. When I say I'm having success I'm also having some failures, but I'm having more successful cuts than failures, so I'll keep going for now anyway.

 

However, while I grind away at the tedium of trying to sort the stern quarters I'm also diverting to other (less tedious!) parts of the build from time to time.

 

The poop deck now has its planking done.

 

That sounds great, Jim!!!   

Go ahead, that is the right way of thinking went away from the tedious to the parts that groooooove!

If anything is going to annoy you - make it standing in the corner...

You have got more successfiull cuts than failers

-> so the process of learning works inside of Jim

-> called handcrafting experience grown out of empirically

-> brings progress in prowess 

-> this brings fun into the work,

-> so you like more what you do...

-> and you like to be able to do what you do...

-> so you can what you like to do..

 We call it reinforcing learning..*

(or if you don't like to mindf*ck):

  Hobby!

It looks fine your Quaterdeck - the rst will follow...

Go on - keep course and speed!

Yours,

Christian

*I do it with my food every day!

Jy Hym!

Changing the material might be the better solution... Yes it is very brave to stay with wood - but it may be hopeless to be too fundamentalistic in the vote of the material. Untill a specific thinness is reached everything is okay - but if you undercut a specific measuring value the wood will got broken by the loading of its own wight!

Its a physical law.

WHO is to blame for your bad situation?

Guilty is a guy called :mellow: Isaac Newton... 

He brought, introduced and promoted a so called law of nature - and only because of his *heavily censored swarewords* law we are forced to crawl on all fourth under our workbench and try to find the corpulating little pice of anything we worked on for the last hours or days...

As Canada was whilom a part of the Commonwealth - you might put this case before the House of Lords (today there might be s.th. like a the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.. or better ask for me also and drag the guy and our task before the Worldsecuritycouncil.

DOWN    WITH      GRAVITY!    

and everything would have been better if he lived on the Caribian Ilands (see below)...

Yours,

Christian

If you fall - I'll be there.

                            The floor

Jim, you have got it!!!

...that's a very good idea to "automotivate" yourself by changing the location of your concentration!

Well dann the parts under your quaterdecktimbers...

Gratulor!

Christian

Dear Jim,

there is the possibillity to use Evergreen plastic sheetes and stripes to undo your window problems.

The spindles on the balcony are easy to "march in rank and file" by using a spaceholder - just simply cut a stencil from cardboard and use it between every spindel. Put a simple grasp/handle on it so you can positionate it easier and also remove it more simply.

The form of the spindels requested by the plans drawings can be made from toothpicks - in cheap an easy way...Oor if you want a more historical and want to work them out of a quareed timber... take the complex way from behaeded wooden matches. By rolling the rounded result along a roll up pice of sandpaper you get a curved collum -> a spindle. 

You can roll it by fingers or using a drillingmaschine as a lethe.

Jim - the most important is that you have seen that it is possible!!! ...and now you refine the work. ..

May be you NOW thing you'll not be able to do them as on the drawing! But you will wonder what your fingers can do!

"Every dustbin of a good modelshipbuilder is well filled with pices other would give their teeth eye for it." a worldchampionship shipmodel winner.

How old ar you now? Belief me you'd get mad if you would find out after so many years, that you have been a born modelshipbuilder and wasted your time with something else then winning one championship after the other... You've started an interesting project...

Yours Christian

Okay Jim -

it's a great first start!!! You made a bridge from thr skelleton of wood to a well done first stern!

I think your feeling of imperfectism depenses on your view - on the  model. The cross in the windows are able to be better.

If the horicontal parts were more parallel they will look a lot better.

Lots of years I've built scratch wagon for my O16.5 freelance railway by adopting Pullmann and othe prototypes - there is the source of my idears to find in.

1st save wood - use cardboard:

It's cheaper, easier to cut und it doesn't hurt so much to bin a second and third trail. 

2nd go the easiest way:

The easiest way (i.m.h.o.) may be to cut the windows out from the extra plancopy and unsing them as a direct stencil.Perchance the used wood in windows corsses are too wide, so a smaller/thinner pice of wood might bring more satisfaction in the building becauce it is closer to the prototype.

3rd keep you flexibley - stay able to change your mind:

If wood doesn't work - don't try it a fourth fivth or dozendth time - change the material... take plasticcard - and paint it like wood - the hole ship will be painted... why not begin with the windows crosses?

4th trust your eye:

The circle of the higher balcony seems to be too plan - check it with the plans pattern.

Take both - the sideview and the sterns frontalview as you are driving backward with the car - using both wing mirrors by changing between them!

"It's a pure mixture of diffrend materials under the skin of colour - but nobody knows without me!"

Wolfram zu Mondfeld                      

HTH,

Yours,

Christian

Hello Mark,

thats highly inspriational for me, very well done work! The ideas you have shown are great... a steps spacer - gereat!

Thanks a lot!

Christian 

es stern decoration is a very important point - a tremendous eyecatcher for everybody including ourself... 

To copy the stern's shape seems to be a good idea - why should we always try to reinvent the wheel a second time?

Then have a nice walk with the dogs... my four kitten only have got a finely adjusted "stomage-clock"

and geather completely to an orchester twice a day - allways on the tick at seven...

Christian

Dave: Thanks for theKind  offer. In fact I have had an initial reply from the museum to the effect that my request has been passed to the relevant department...so we'll see if anything happens!

 

Christian: ?? a joke? Or is this some sort of comment on what I'm doing?

Yes - don't look on the watch - the time you can't see on the clock is shown in the progress on/in/at our model - and no watch hand can take away the satisfaction from your model... It's great work you do. The run of the planks aft is well done!

I'm very interested to see the stempost and the opening to let the rudder come to the decks level to "cross" the tiller... 

Greetings from the man with two clockfree rooms in the flat: bathroom and workshop

Hy Mark,

she looks great - a wonderful prototype. I've got no idea about french shipbuilding! Thanks for sharing,

Yours,

Christian

Hy Sherry,

beautyful built - but please! Please don't risk anything by using only this stand on two columes only - here you can see some mitship additional stands - to secure the work done.

Also the small Sloop Queensborough from 1718 or the tremendous 120 gun ship HMS Queen of 1839 - much closer in her dimensions to your San Filipe...

A breaking out keel would be a pitty, wouldn't it?

If you fall down - I'll be there.

                                   The floor

Yours anxious

Christian

That's a good idea, the pictures of the both 50-guns Experiment and Portland may be helpfull to your project.

No I don't think it's compleetly inaccurrat - the lower gunports may be closed in a fighting situation in a not calm sea - to avoid an end like Mary Rose or Vasa...

Theri is always a plenty of work before us, Jim, but the goal of an fully rigged ship with striked saily placed in tree-angled nets on the top of the middle of the yards is a great goal...Here at the model of the Jean D'Arc form the Alma Class very well done.

So today my Planking historical ship models about HMS Cruiser arrived - and so I read now four books parallely - there is allways a plenty of work to be done...

@all - is it possibe to interrupt the Project when the hull is ready for the showcase and to readopt the project for rigging later on?

Yours

Christian

Hello Jim,

this is very interesting for me and very much of ideas I've picked up from your Leoppard PoB-built!

Thanks a lot from an other beginner in scratching on bulkheads (I allways feel a  little bit poor skilled by looking these wonderfull PoF- AdmiralityBoardModels in here.)**

So you gave some hope to be not being the only beginnen in bulkheads at all in here, B.t.w. - mine will be as large as yours*.

The infos about Eboni were very important for me. Thanks a lot!

Are you going to build a hull-modell or will you rigg your Leopard? You've closed the lids - in what situation you'll show her in? Blank-wood or are you going to paint her -- here the wounderfull paintings of two views of Experiment and an other 50 gunner the Portland  (Paintings for Gerorg III by Williams, Josh.)

You are very close to the quality of NMM-Models...

Greetings from Berlin,

Yours

Christian

____________________________

*smaller in prototype larger in scale.

** :mellow:

It looks great!

you'll hit the target going this way foreward!

Thanks for sharing!

Christian

P.S.: My gift to you - your new clock you wear when working in the shipyard...

Christian,

 

I can't locate plans for Wolf on the NMM site. Is that where your wife purchased them? Did you do the lovely illustration?

No its from the developers homepage a cutoff out of the frontpage

Hy Greg,

thanks for your answer.

till now I haven't decided if I went to 1/48 or 1/50 or if I try to think in the future towards larger younger Sloops and paddlewheelers by choosing the  "three-sixteenths scale", since 3/16-inch represents a foot = 1/64 (or the old S-Scale for the modelrailroaders between us -> http://www.s-scale.org.uk/history.htm).

Yes "my" choice was fortuitous: my wife brought the plan to me as a consolation for the downfall of my royal prussian Kronprinz by costs of the absolutly essential documents.  I was still looking for a nice ship but with a completly drawn plan... so she "overtook" me... ...she has had choosen it because of the name - my nickname is the persian word for "Wolf" - as my cote of arms is. That's very haphazardly - and she was lucky, wasn't she?

Looking over your shoulder,

Christian

Hello Greg,

I look very interested, because I'll start the sister of Speedwell with her Snow rigging - the Wolf - in the next week.But I will do it in PoB - and hope to find some help in here.

It's great to know how it could be built as PoF...

As far as I could see you scaled her to 1/48 - is that right?

Looking enranced,

Christian

P.S.:

And please be well prepared for a well filled number of stupid beginners questions...

Dear Doris,

thanks a lot for this thread - Your Royal Caroline is so beautyful, the colours are realistic and the detailing is magnificent!

I have the AotS book also in my shelf... but I'm unable to crave the figureial moulding - and so the böök got "rusty"...  And due to this I was overwhelmed reading your thread - and raptourus looking to the pix.

Thank you very much,

Yours Christian

(I'm the one building black battleships - too boring for you    ) 

I can only nodd to you Nenad, it is to hot...

Thanks for the interesting technic of a first planking by shout bulkhead to bulkhead "matches"

Yours

Christian