Jeronimo
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Jeronimo reacted to mtaylor in Licorne by mtaylor - 3/16" scale - POF - TERMINATED LOG
Augie: "Stalwart of professional building"???? Huh... who...? me...?
Andy: Just look for Sjors. He always has the popcorn cart. And usually a front row seat.
Just to make the point that I'm not a total slacker (Hi Ben, I took your post to heart)..... here's an update.
First picture is where I am at present. The lads in the sawpits have been busy cutting the deck planking. I've been busy fitting and caulking. About 6 more strakes and then the sander comes out.
Special Tools department: Here's the clamps I made for working with the decking and hull planking.
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Jeronimo reacted to mtaylor in Licorne by mtaylor - 3/16" scale - POF - TERMINATED LOG
Here's the pics to date:
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Jeronimo reacted to garyshipwright in HMS Montague 1779 bygaryshipwright - 74-gun Alfred-class
Thanks Grant and Mark.
Sort of got tired of working on the cannons so decided to work on something different and this time the rudder. I built a rudder earlier from a plan I got from the NMM and unlike the TFFM rudder this one is a little different. I sort of built two of them and this is the second one. The first one I ended up having a knot in, which the main piece is made of boxwood and figure that the knot would end up in the waste, at least that's what I thought. ( O well, it was fun making another one. Have finally got a chance to really use my little smith torch and it's a blessing to have it. Don,t believe that soft solder would have stood up to the abuse of all the cutting, filing and twisting that it took to finally come out with the finally braces. Still have some clean up to do, due to the metal work. Funny how even small metal work makes a mess. Any way hope you enjoy the photo's. I didn't add any small planks under neith the braces and to me it doesn't look to bad.
Gary
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Jeronimo reacted to Gaetan Bordeleau in Le Fleuron by Gaetan Bordeleau - FINISHED - 1:24
Here is what happened since the last update,
Building a ship is fun, but building it in good conditions is even more fun. Building this size means that standing for long periods of time is a common thing. For this reason, I searched an ergonomic mat to work on and ended with some kind of rubber mat. Standard ergonomic mat are made to stand on. They are not made for compression meaning that a heavy trolley would sink in this kind of carpet. This is exactly what I saw with the version of the working desk 1.0 and also for a rubber mat a hard plastic caster wheels are needed.
To correct this problem, the working desk will be cut in 2 parts a multidrawer unit to store all the small tools and a desk. The 16 drawers unit is made from cherry and as all the big tools, 4 caster wheels to move it easily. As I realised with the electric table that working at the good height makes working easier, we usually have a height adjustable chair with an oil chuck. If we look the problem from the other side a height adjustable working desk can make the life easier.
I bought the electric mechanism, built the top of the table and kept some old parts from version 1.0 table and now here is version 2.0 of the working desk. To keep the table as low as possible in the lowest possible, double caster wheel are used.
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Jeronimo reacted to Gaetan Bordeleau in Le Fleuron by Gaetan Bordeleau - FINISHED - 1:24
Having some cherry wood a second table is done to be use as a base for the 74 guns.
Here is the kind of finish I used this time. I had an unfinished bottle of teak oil. In it I added about 1 table spoon of natural bitumen which is a black organic pigment used to age wood. On this forum, Russians showed good examples. 1 coat applied. For the low luster finish I like the effect of bee wax. I did a rolling top desk about 30 years ago and used bee wax as a finish and still today, it is as nice. Shavings of bee wax block are put in a jar with turpentine, again to accelerate the aging process some bitumen is added. Very easy to apply with a rag let dry and luster with and electric buffer.
Sorry Karl I just saw your question. I use standard belt sander for fast removal and 1 orbital sander, 5 inch disk for finishing.
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Jeronimo reacted to AlexBaranov in LE BONHOMME RICHARD by Jeronimo - FINISHED
Really big and delicate work. I always tip my hat to such models and humans (very great masters) who decide to build these things. I build these models are very rare, so this type of work I admire. Bravo!
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Jeronimo reacted to jaerschen in LE BONHOMME RICHARD by Jeronimo - FINISHED
Wow, I don't know what to say Karl............outstanding
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Jeronimo reacted to Ferit in LE BONHOMME RICHARD by Jeronimo - FINISHED
Like a original ship being under construction, the workers are waiting just outside of the range of the photos...
"- If you finished taking photos Sir, we must go on working!..."
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Jeronimo got a reaction from greenstone in CHALOUPE ARMÉE EN GUERRE 1834 by Jeronimo - FINISHED
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Jeronimo got a reaction from Siggi52 in CHALOUPE ARMÉE EN GUERRE 1834 by Jeronimo - FINISHED
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Jeronimo got a reaction from Siggi52 in CHALOUPE ARMÉE EN GUERRE 1834 by Jeronimo - FINISHED
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Thanks to all for the kinds words and comments.
Danke an alle für die freundlichen Worte und Kommentare.
Regards Karl
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Jeronimo got a reaction from Mirabell61 in CHALOUPE ARMÉE EN GUERRE 1834 by Jeronimo - FINISHED
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Jeronimo got a reaction from Mirabell61 in CHALOUPE ARMÉE EN GUERRE 1834 by Jeronimo - FINISHED
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Karl
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Jeronimo got a reaction from Mirabell61 in CHALOUPE ARMÉE EN GUERRE 1834 by Jeronimo - FINISHED
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Regards Karl
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Jeronimo got a reaction from FrankWouts in ROYAL CAROLINE 1749 by Doris - 1:40 - CARD
Hello Doris.
Pictures of Ivan Trtanj and Royal Caroline.
Regards Karl
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Jeronimo got a reaction from JerryGreening in LE BONHOMME RICHARD by Jeronimo - FINISHED
Hello,
assembly of iron knees and
A Hold
5 Shot- locker
6 Pump well
B Orlop-Deck
9 scuttle providing acces to the shot-locker
Karl
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Jeronimo got a reaction from Hannerl in LE BONHOMME RICHARD by Jeronimo - FINISHED
Hello,
assembly of iron knees and
A Hold
5 Shot- locker
6 Pump well
B Orlop-Deck
9 scuttle providing acces to the shot-locker
Karl
T e i l 32
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Jeronimo got a reaction from Luca in LE BONHOMME RICHARD by Jeronimo - FINISHED
Hello,
assembly of iron knees and
A Hold
5 Shot- locker
6 Pump well
B Orlop-Deck
9 scuttle providing acces to the shot-locker
Karl
T e i l 32
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Jeronimo got a reaction from Jason in LE BONHOMME RICHARD by Jeronimo - FINISHED
Hello,
assembly of iron knees and
A Hold
5 Shot- locker
6 Pump well
B Orlop-Deck
9 scuttle providing acces to the shot-locker
Karl
T e i l 32
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Jeronimo got a reaction from Mirabell61 in LE BONHOMME RICHARD by Jeronimo - FINISHED
Hello,
assembly of iron knees and
A Hold
5 Shot- locker
6 Pump well
B Orlop-Deck
9 scuttle providing acces to the shot-locker
Karl
T e i l 32
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Jeronimo reacted to Hannerl in LE BONHOMME RICHARD by Jeronimo - FINISHED
Excellent work, Karl.
Hannerl
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Jeronimo reacted to Jim Lad in Stag by Jim Lad - FINISHED - Scale 1:96 - English Revenue Cutter of 1827
The spiders have been busy on the Stag again.
The headsail rigging is now in place and the boom is set up, but not fully rigged as yet. The gaff has also been fitted but is still awaiting its rigging. She's really starting to look like a cutter now.
The line running from the peak of the gaff to the masthead is a temporary expedient to hold the gaff in position until the peak halliards have been rigged.
This will be the last update for a while as we're off to Queensland next week to visit family.
John
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Jeronimo reacted to Jim Lad in Stag by Jim Lad - FINISHED - Scale 1:96 - English Revenue Cutter of 1827
A proper update at last. I got some good progress today, which was very satisfying. The main halliards are now rigged together with quite a few other bits and pieces, and I have been able to make a start on the lower square yard. It won't be too long now before she's finished.
Here a few photos showing as she is at the moment - she's starting to look like the lady she is.
And in this one you can just see the square yard horse - the lower square yard isn't attached to the mast, but rather travels on a vertical horse up the fore side of the mast via a thimble on the after side of the yard. Then horse is the black line you can see running vertically between the yard and the mast.
John
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