Bob Legge

Yes, I will carve every single piece of ornament in boxwood. I had a proposal by a russian modelist to make me every sculpture of the SR in resin, (or wood with cnc I don't remember) in exchange of my plans, and a proposal just like Michel Saunier by a french modelist to offer me some of the decorative parts in resin but I declined both, I want to make as much as I can by myself and I want only wood for the decorative parts. Resin looks good on Michel Saunier's model but who knows how the wood will turn in a few years... Resin will always look the same so maybe in a couple of years the difference between the two materials will be too obvious. 
For my photos I only use my Iphone... with the light of my workshop. Only the last picture is made by daylight in my living room. I find the Iphone make some really good photos, with much faithful colors than my canon compact camera I previously used. The only inconvenient is when you need to zoom, the precision of the image runs down. And I like to take some distance from the subject and then zoom rather than make closer shots because the closer you are the more deformed is the image. Especially with rounded shapes as a ship's hull. I have not found a solution for that.
These last days were my week of "holydays", and I tried to stay offline from the work as much as I could because I needed to. On sunday I return to work and I will make my part of the job of course. 
Take care everyone, best regards !

 

Thank you Victor ! I didn't know about it, I will try ! 
Work on the Soleil Royal goes on, this time I shoudn't disapear for a few months... well, I hope !
I'm working on the decorative parts of the third deck, much time to adjust these small elements... But the result is there, it's quite good looking. The boxwood parts are 0,5mm, and they are made round on there edges. (sometimes I struggle with english language to exprim simple ideas !! 😅)
 
 
 

Hi all !
Marc, for the quarter galleries I have no precise plan yet, but I think I will make a quite elaborate form with balsa wood as a draft to study the volumes. Then I will build the stern and the galleries the way it's meant to be, building the frame then planking and then adding the ornaments. 
I finally made a last correction on the sheer cap railings, wich on reflection I found a bit too stiff and straight. I remade the last level and gave a bit more plunging; it's only 2mm but it makes a difference. So I post the same views as before for a comparison. For the susbandes I resigned myself to use what Alexey Baranov had graciously sent me at the time. It's not bad, and for what will be seen it will do the job. For the guns of the upper decks I will do them by myself but for the first two decks it will save me considerable time. I also post again a pic of the carpenter, I love this little guy. It puts a touch of colour, of life, it pops much more than my little wooden Tourville. It immediatly give a good idea of the size of the ship !

 

Hi everyone
 
this is my last build Pazar caique. this is a traditional bosphorus boat used frequently back in empiral times for cargo or passanger transportation. I am done with the hull and the decks. next will be the cargo on the boat.

One more update: I finally made the trip down to the Missouri River for a photo shoot along Arabia's natural habitat. I had hoped to do this close to her actual sinking date of September 5, 1856, but this is only a few weeks off so conditions look pretty similar. I shot this at Eagle Bluffs Conservation Area, about 135 road miles downstream of her sinking location near Parkville, MO (just upriver from what is now downtown Kansas City); she would have passed this location many times in her service along the river.
 
First, a reminder of the iconic painting used by the museum:
 

 
And here are my two best attempts to recreate the setting and angle (try to ignore the stand):
 

 

 
A few other shots at different angles:
 

 

 
Me with the model:
 

 
And for fun, a black and white shot as a what-if (she was never photographed, or at least no known photograph survives):
 

 
The river itself looks very different than it would have in her time. Back then it would have been a broad, shallow, multi-channelled river full of sand bars and tree snags, carrying a lot of sediment and generally brown, always shifting across its mile-wide floodplain between bluffs several hundred feet tall. Now, it's been channelized for navigation into a single narrow deep channel that never moves, flows a lot faster, and carries far less sediment due to upstream dams. But the shape of the landscape hasn't changed much and she certainly saw that small bluff in the background. There are much larger and more dramatic bluffs in this stretch, but none that can easily be accessed for a photo shoot in this context. But I hope this gives at least a slight idea of how she might have looked churning her way up and downstream in service before finally hitting that snag in 1856,

Hi.
Hi Robert. Did not check the post since October. 
Its been a while but she's all finished and turned out as I expected. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Just a little tidying of the edges and clean the dust off and she's ready to go.
Been a interesting build with Help from a lot of people from all over the globe.
 
Thanks for looking in.
Regards Antony.
 

HMS Dolphin passing St Abbs Head with some local inshore fishing craft
HMS Dolphin (1882) was a screw sloop launched in 1882. She served as a submarine depot ship in WW1 She foundered in 1925 but was beached then salvaged and used as a school ship in Leith. She was broken up in 1977. I did my 'Carering Boy' training in her , straight from school in 1956.

HMCS Rockcliffe on escort duty in the North Atlantic.
w/c 16.5” X 11.75”

Hot off the Brush. Thames Estuary on a blustery day. w/c 14” X 10”

All right, here's all the pictures and captions duly redone from above. Grrrrr.....
 

The way the jig was used to drill a 3/16 inch hole equidistant from the edge of the casement at all Davit points. A 3/16 inch long drill bit used in place of the brass rod. (BK05/24/19) 
 

With the use of the jig, the stanchions were able to be aligned perfectly. (BK 05/24/19)
 

All four and a half surfaces of deck houses are finished to add visual appeal to the model. (BK 05/24/19)
 

Hammocks (160) are tied and ready to be fitted into the line of hammock stanchions on the hurricane deck (done by Vince and Tim, 05/10/19)
 

Using a 1-in. belt sander, the front casement portholes are rough sanded off the ship. (BK 10/10/19)
 

The horizontal timbers are all fit in place and the port and starboard gun ports are filed smooth and true to the template gauge.
 

 

(Previous two pictures) Pear slabs are end glued to begin remaking the gun carriages.  (BK 05/30/19)
 
 

Front of carriage locks are trimmed to plan dimensions. (BK 05/30/19)
 
 

When glue which joined the stacks of cannon carriage sides is removed at plan lines, the stack of gun carriage sides falls apart. (BK 05/30/19)
 
OK, hopefully this will be good. Again sorry for the clunkiness, working to get better. October coming next.

And this is the finished model.
 
Regards,
Alexandru

And here is the rest of the rigging

Cordially
Adrián Sorolla

Hi I’m Adrian Sorolla, I haven’t participated in the forum for a long time
 
 
I’m building a 34-gun Spanish frigate, 1789, called "Mahonesa", I am building it on a 1/32 scale and for its realization I am following the plans drawn by Fermín Urtizberea.
 
Although its construction is already under way, but since there is still a lot of work ahead, I want to present it now in this fórum.
 
I’ll put an excerpt of photos from the previous construction, so you can get an idea of how it is.
 
 
 

 

 


 

 
 


 





Cordially
Adrian

Nice to see you posting your paintings again Jim. I know it has not really been all that long, but when I see a new one it always brings a little enjoyment to my day so I miss them when when they don't show up regularly. 

On the Clyde
 

Queen Mary

George!!!!
 
Thanks a lot for your kind words.....
 
Let’s see the progresses ......
 
First, I spent some time studying how the “stays” are going to be fixed in the hull......in some of the pictures and documents i found something like this....
 
 
 
So not having something else ..... I decided to “install” a couple of these artifacts....
 

 
And now... it is time to start with the external hull....
 



 
Let’s see some pictures of the interior....
 

 

 

 

 
Thanks for all those “likes” and kind words
 
 

This document is in the public domain.
 
Royal_Navy_Wooden_Shipwrecks_Database(1).pdf

Preview of next preparation :
     

90% of Niña's yard done :          

The illustration doesn’t necessarily have to be based on the Turkish ship they met.   I’d wager we are looking at a Hanseatic ship with Turkish flags. Even the figurehead (I doubt 15th century  Turks would put a dog sculpture on their ship by the way - though as mentioned they did charter ships from Christian subjects) looks like the one recently picked up from the bottom of the Baltic: https://www.vrakmuseum.se/en/wrecks-and-remains/shipwrecks/gribshunden

I haven't gotten to 1487 in The Great Sea yet,  but the Turks were mostly lubbers and the Greeks mostly handled the sea going - if not Genoa, or Venice or other webfoot traders - leading up to this time for the city on the Dardanelles.  For the ship type, I would be reluctant to make any regional specifics limited  to too small a region in the Med.  The relevance of the script may not be all that much.
 
There are some interesting details. 
3 masts,  main mast made,  sliding slot for lateen mizzen,  two part yards, 
near horizontal after castle,  too many mushrooms when drawing the fore castle slope. 
serious number of wales, 
I have wondered about  the vertical strakes at the waist -  vertical wales? , but with the number of horizontal wales and the problem that they could cause, I guess that they are rubbing strakes.  These guys stopped as often as a city bus,  for water, food, and trade so hauling up a boat or big barrels must have been a near daily operation.  
The "circular attachments" on main mast castle and fore mast castle - shields? 
The web above each of the mast castles -  was there a problem with resting sea birds and their poop?  If things got to a point where that was needed as a defense netting, conditions on deck would likely have been dire already.  To keep the soldiers in?   I remember a dice shaker -  a flat base, a clear hemisphere, middle long spring with a suction attachment - pull it to one side and let go - the dice rattle all around the interior.  In a blow, anyone up there would be a die.
Why does only the right side of the mainsail have a stitched supplement?