JanV

I have used the same method, and the lions coudl be released from the tape without any problem (after approximately one week after finishing the yellow colour)

Well this is it, she is finished. Maybe to the left or to the right some things could be added or improved, but I consider her ready.  Last pictures:
 






 
Thank you for watching! You were a nice audience! 

Update time !
 
Sorry for the poor quality pictures but she 's to big to make good pictures......
I can not move her easy so I have to do it this way.....
The sails on the fore mast are also in place.
The next update will be as the sails are on the bowsprit and totally rigged.......( the bowsprit of course, not the whole ship )
Then I hope I have finished also the cradle and maybe when the weather is good I can take her outside.....( when there is no snow  )
 
Sjors
 
 
 
 
 

My original attempt at the message port was simply to scribe a square and add some hinges.  I didn't like the result so I decided to create a port and put a small lid in it.  First I cut out the port, by drilling some holes in the corners, cutting them together, and cleaning up the result with files.  Then I needed a support for the lid.  That involved a small strip of wood maneuvered through the hole and then rotated.  There are now several such small strips of wood rattling around that part of the hull :-)
 

 
The port lid itself is very small and has an extra thickness at the top where the wale runs:
 

 
The port lid in place...
 

 
And stained with hinges added.  The result is in my opinion much nicer than scribed lines, although the size of the port made the project a little tricky.  Again, the rope used to raise the lid will be added at the very end of the build.
 

 

Hi Jan,
 
Thanks for your kind comments.
Yes, I will keep all the parts to the side until I see that it is the right time to finish them. I'm not quite sure when that will be. I'll keep an eye on things while I'm doing the rigging. Once I start to feel that I won't be able to get my hands in there soon, I'll add the railings. Even though I am pre-slotting now, the railings will still need some final trimming and shaping to get them in the right spot. So it will be important to have some room to work around them.
 
Thanks,
 
Frank

And now the round gun port decorations.  They don't look much like those on the real ship, unfortunately not a lot of detail.  But putting them on the model gives the upper part of the hull a nice finished look.  And I like the lower location of the rearmost port. 
 

 

 

Hi friends:
 
These two last weeks I was a little lazy with my sails, in part of doing other things as:  dealing with termites in my house!! , and in part because fixing the sails to their spars is not as fun as with other parts of the construction.  Anyway this are some of my advances with the bowsprit and foremast sails:
 

 
Saludos, Karl

Some modifications on the mainmast according the original
 

 

The sails and the yards on the main mast are also in place...
 
Still the fore mast to go and the bowsprit yards.
And then all the rigging that goes with it.
It keeps me still busy for the time being.......
 
Sjors
 
 

started with the canon rigging
 

 

 

 

 
I have no to figure out n correct methode to complete all other canons

I decided to deal with the rudder now, rather than at the end of the build, because I want to finish the stern completely and see how it looks.  This may be a bad idea since the pintles and gudgeons will be fragile.  The plans for the rudder are not very detailed; fortunately there are lots of pictures of the real model and Matti's build to steal from :-)  To begin with, there are no cutouts for the hinge pins, so I made those and attached the tiller stub:
 

 
I then added the pintles and hinge pins.  The kit provides some thick plastic pieces that wrap around the end of the rudder, but there are only 6 instead of 7, and they also look over-scale, so I didn't use them.  I had success with my first model using construction paper painted black, so I tried that here.  The hinge pins are planking nails with the heads cut off:  
 

 
And finally the rudder in place.  The gudgeons are also black paper.  I used wood glue to attach the paper hinges to the hull and the rudder, and sealed them with flat acrylic medium.  The result is pretty fragile - the only points of attachments are at the hinge pins - so we'll see how it holds up.  The plans don't show the tie rope, but various sources have it in their drawings, so I added it.  I assume it's to keep the rudder from falling off accidentally.  The sources I looked at don't show rudder chains; the portals on either side are for tow ropes.
 
You can also see the lion sculpture in place.  Only the head is gold - the rest is dull ochre.  I don't think King Gustav would have approved of lots gold leaf down near the waterline where it wouldn't be highly visible...
 

started with the canon rigging
 

 

 

 

 
I have no to figure out n correct methode to complete all other canons

started with the canon rigging
 

 

 

 

 
I have no to figure out n correct methode to complete all other canons

started with the canon rigging
 

 

 

 

 
I have no to figure out n correct methode to complete all other canons

started with the canon rigging
 

 

 

 

 
I have no to figure out n correct methode to complete all other canons

Did you consider to use a mixture of the white wood glue with water (50/50%) and then fix each knot with a small drop of this mixture using a small old brush
consider that CA might break after several years and this is a very hard glue connection which can also break after touching once you are finished.
 
this is my experience as well from several experienced builders in the Netherlands, we try to not use CA on shipmodels except when all other glues cannot be used
I am using CA only to make a needle from the beginning of a rope so this makes it a lot easier to have the rope in small openings from blocks etc.

And now I've added the tritons on the rear tower of the upper gallery, and finished one side of the stern (except for the balusters - still waiting for my drawplate to show up).  And there was much rejoicing.  I really enjoy painting the figures, but it's also a huge amount of work.
 

 
And the finished galleries together.  If I counted right, each pair of galleries has 74 sculptures.
 

 
Just for comparison's sake, here's the completely unadorned other side:
 

 
And finally, this is what the stern of the ship looks like so far.  Nothing exceeds like excess!  I still need to tweak some things, but it's by and large the way I want it.
 
 
I think at this point I'll take a break from painting and finish up some structural stuff on the outside of the hull - the rudder, message port, rearmost gun port lid, scuppers, etc.
   
 

fixed the ropes of the gunports using the white woodglue
 

 

 

an the other side is also mounted
 

 
now only the gunports near the galleries (needs to be closed) and in the rear.

gunports on the first side mounted
 
 
 

a dry-fit for the masts.
I will fix these the next step.
 
 

 

First I would like to thank all those who liked my previous posts
 
I finalized today the stairs, I used the originals from the kit which have been sanded to make them smaller
 

 
further I made the hings for the doors
 

 

 
oops I do not like the macro on my camera

the last days some small points done, today I painted the doors
 

gunports on the first side mounted
 
 
 

Today I received the blocks in 3, 4, 5 en 7mm
I orderded these by clasicmodel.com
 

 

 

 
first impression looks very good so I can now continue