Some Idea

Here's mine - I keep everything away - its easier to keep clean that way

Hi Paul - your Winchelsea is beautiful mate and I bet you get the itch to Start Le Rochefort before you finish her! Hi Mark - Thanks but the question is when are you going to start your first scratch build? Thanks druxey - I'm obviously very familiar now with Le Rochefort and I do get a lot of help from Gerard who always answers my questions regarding the drawings. I'm now getting nearer to the end of this build so I purchased L'Aurore (slave ship) as my possible next build. When look at the drawings I find it difficult if not impossible to relate the half breadth and lines plans to the actual hull. I've discovered I'm a craftsman not a draftsman thats for sure and I have tried to read a couple of books on the subject but still no. However once it's been explained I get it! Well until the next point where I do not. I think what I probably need to do to get that one off the ground would be to start another build and just get the questions out there. It's a little while away yet though as I can only ever build one thing at a time.

Thanks Vladimir they look very realistic did you etch them yourself or is something that can be bought. The reason I ask I would be very interested in either learning how to do the process or even better purchase some.

marsalv beautiful work - I have to ask how did you make the metal hinges for the door? They really look to scale and are so tiny - Mark

Fantastic work and how you do all of this with paper is just amazing - Mark

Tis done - but I still need a drawing mentor ta 👍

🤣 Hi Chris - This "name" dates back to when I first thought about having a go at a scratch build. I was looking through this forum and some books and realised I had no idea at what I was looking at. I didn't understand the terminology, drawings, techniques and skills required. Forward a few years and I now understand the terminology and techniques - however the drawings still take me months and months to get a bit of an understanding of how things all fit together. So until someone offers to be my drawing mentor - I still often have no idea 🤣 However I'll change my name to some idea if I can work out how to do it

More done - I started off by making the hatch surround which sits in the cabin. This will be the third one of these I've made and I have always enjoyed their construction. Next it's pretty much been an assembly of many parts that I had previously made. This did take me quite a long time as so many joints are meeting each other which ties everything together. I have to say though this has probably been one of the most satisfying parts of my build for me so far. When it all comes together and the joints are where they should be. I also made the carlings which pretty much finishes the quarter deck bar the finer details. Here's a few pictures. I did make a couple of errors - I forgot to cut the 4 recesses into the hatch surround to allow the hatch cover to sit flush and I also forgot to put the nails in the beam supports but its too late now. Next I need to make and fit the upper moulded rail that sits flush with the waterway. I can then finish the planking on the outside - but first I need to solve a problem of my own making. I cut the planking too short at the end of the final tall frame which the gunwale runs down too. I'm not sure how to cure this issue yet but I'll get my thinking cap on. I can see me having to carve and mill a solid piece for both sides of the ship - I don't know but I'll keep you updated. Thanks for all of the support - Mark

What a fabulous model - amazing Chris

Hi Mike - thanks very much for the reply. I'm looking forward to getting the books

I don't know if this helps but when I intend to plank a hull I spend several days drawing all of the planks on the hull. This is done by a combination of all of the tutorials above and a bit of experience. I think that if I can draw them - I can make them. The fitting does take literally weeks and many abandoned pieces but hey what's the rush.

I too would like to get a rough idea of when they will go back into print. I did buy the ebooks but I did this pretty much to reserve a physical copy.

Lovely work its looking great!

Lovely work mate and don't worry about the speed of your build. It will get done when its gets done