Jeronimo

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Hi friends,
new pictures of the construction progress of the Bonhomme.
Regards Karl
 
 
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Hi friends,
new pictures of the construction progress of the Bonhomme.
Regards Karl
 
 
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Hi friends,
new pictures of the construction progress of the Bonhomme.
Regards Karl
 
 
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Hi friends,
new pictures of the construction progress of the Bonhomme.
Regards Karl
 
 
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Hi friends,
new pictures of the construction progress of the Bonhomme.
Regards Karl
 
 
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Hi friends,
new pictures of the construction progress of the Bonhomme.
Regards Karl
 
 
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The first Eleven Frames.
 
 
 
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Hi friends,
new pictures of the construction progress of the Bonhomme.
Regards Karl
 
 
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Hi friends,
new pictures of the construction progress of the Bonhomme.
Regards Karl
 
 
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Hello,
I am glad to be back on the new forum after a long silence.
I am a very very slow builder. I started my Aggie in 2010...
Here are somme pictures of some previous steps and the present situation.

I am making a first test to see if I can properly use the new features of the site. It seems it works.

You see here the way I installed (temporarly) the pedestals.
Here, some planking on the main gun deck, in case they should be visible from above.

First half of the upper gundeck in position.

Planking of the upper gundeck completed.

The same varnished.
I stop now. This is a first test. More pictures are coming later.
I just finished the first plankig of the hull.

I have good news:  Agent P is back
and he has brought incredible top-secret material from the armory of his Majesty of England.

The Guns of Caroline are not cast as profane ...... no no ................ from bones these guns are made.

Rotated on a special lathe (Unimat "SL"), but see for yourself:
 
 
The raw material is thoroughly selected
 
 
The various production steps
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
The trunnion holes are fixed for drill in a prism
 
     
 
Looks good
 
 

 
 
And here is the hero of the act .... Agent "P" 08/15 - 006   (with the license to fly)
 

 
 
 
Our department of decryption works  at full speed,
  to decrypt the rest of the top secret material.
Once the material is present, the rest of the report will following
 
Have fun

Hello Alexandru. I know this has been brought up before but just some food for thought on the beakhead bulkhead raised platform. For me I don't think that Victory or other 90 to 100 gun ships had this platform. My reason are that plans of the Victory as well as others such as the Princess Royal of 1773,Ville de Paris of 1788, don't show this raised platform. My thinking is that the raised platform didn't come about on Victory till after they redid the bow turning it in to a round bow minius the whole beakhead itself. The upper deck went all the way fwd and was even with the main rail of the head work making ever thing on a even keel. There really was't any need for this small raised platform. Once the Victory bow was redone, as she looks today, it show's the beakhead buckhead, along with the  raised platform. Do believe that some of the authors that has been posted,do not show the small platform because plans and other primary reseach doesn't show this. Here are some photo's of the plans I have of Victory going back to her first drawing which came from the Danish NMM. Also one from the English NMM and one out of Bugler book. One thing you will noticed is the primary plan doesn't show the small platform. You will also notice the plan of Victory with all of her carvings also doesn't show this small deck. It's not till you see the plan by Buglar that shows this. This might also explain why the round houses and collums go down two feet more. I have also added a photo of Alfred that does show the raised platform which was a common item on ships of 74 guns. It seems that if they had this raised platform it seems that primary plans would show this. If you look in Rob Napier book Legacy of a Ship model, on page 89, 90,91 and 92 how it shows the upper deck going all the way fwd and no small raised platform. Do hope that this is some food for thought on this small raised deck that raises a lot of question about did she or didn't she. Some food for thought sir.
 
Gary

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Thanks Bob,
 
I totally agree with your opinion concerning the beak head deck.
Here are some more progress photos.
 
Alexandru

Much thanks for the kind comment Timmo.
 
It's going on with the build. I added two rails during the last days.
But I want to display how make the planks above (or under) the gunports at first.
 
First step is to mark the position where the plank must be wider

 
Then I saw the plank with the bandsaw

 
and sanded it

 
Thereafter it must be fitted to the other planks. I did that with a chissel. That's the easiest way to do it for me.

 
Here you can see the result.

 
And now some photos of the current progress.





 

Well guys, after finally getting all the gun deck ports cut in and the framing of the gun deck done I went to work on the out side of the hull installing the main wale. Montagu main wale was four strakes of 8 1/2 inch thick planks, with the upper two being locked together and the bottom two being locked together. When I mean locked together am talking about a hook anchor type of plank. Peter Goodwin shows this in his book but I also found to primary plans of it one being the Elizebeth and ,Montagues. I like Elizebeth wale and also her other planking that Montaguplanking is taken after her. Being that I don't have any ideally of which type was applied, felt safe following her's. Now when it came to the thickness of this planking I decided to do it in two layers both being applied hook anchor type planking. Doing the first layer like this gave me a chance to practice before I layed the outside layer and once it was done,it was dyed black and given a coat or two of wax. I wanted a black wale but didn't want to mess with ebony and one can not tell the difference when you look at it with ebony laying next to it. Another one of those interesting items that was fun to do.






 





 



 

Thanks guys your words mean a lot and does help one to keep going. As far as the next update it is the ledges and carlings of the gun deck. As with every thing else it does take awhile to get all the parts and pieces installed.







 
 
 
 

I finished the upper deck. Now I will cut a deal with the elements and gun ports. It's only fitting.

upper deck

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Thank you all, your comments are appreciated.
 
Several more pictures on the last week progress. Lower deck is now fully framed and I started working on the waterway and the planking above it.
 

Hello Tony,
this I have made here.
The two models for casting, I made from brass like this one.

 
And here again the castings.

 
Incidentally, Thank you for your interest in my model.
 

On building the items for the gun deck I have uploaded photo's showing how I made my capstan's. Not quite as advance as Ed's, but am sure that several years in to Montagu life she just may of had those types. In ones travel of building and researching a ship of the line, one runs in to some interesting items such as the fore jeer capstain, and it being lower down in to the capstain room on the orlop deck.  Just to give some of you a heads up on this item, while researching this capstan, most of the contracts I have on them state that this capstain was lowered down to the orlop deck to make room for the long boat.  Steel shows this in his plates and talk's about it in his book Steel's Naval Architecture of 1805. After spending time trying to figure out how it worked I built what I thought was a good repersentive of it.  Did they really lower this down, I do believe so, why else would they have built it this way.