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Not simplistic at all. Boxwood has very little apparent grain cut either way. Other species will show more grain in one way than the other, but it is so variable from sample to sample. Personally I don't favor obvious grain structure on a model even at 1:48 scale but, again, it is a matter of personal taste. The best cuts of wood are quarter sawn, where the growth rings run diagonally across the piece as seen in end-grain. There is no clear side or edge grain either way! Hope this clarifies things a bit.
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I suspect that this was first done unofficially, then formally adopted. The requirement to remove names was a Napoleonic wartime measure. An 1854 photograph of the Duke of Wellington shows no sign of a name on her stern. See: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:H.M.S._Duke_of_Wellington_at_Keyham,_England_in_1854_by_Capt._Linnaeus_Tripe.jpg Probably Victory should not have her name across the stern unless she were restored to her post 1770, pre-1790's condition. I guess it's a nod to tradition....
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Thanks for beating me to the corrected dates, Mark!
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I would need to look this up to confirm it, but think that the Admiralty order was to paint the name on the counter in letters 12" high in 1781, and a year later modified to be 'as large as possible'.
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Names, when in fashion, were painted on English ships; they did not use raised letters at all. This is a kit-makers' way of making a model look more appealing!
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Ziemlich erstaunlich! As everyone has said, outstanding work, Johann. What did you use to imitate leather?
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It all depends on a particular piece of wood and the visual effect you like.
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Attaching Pedestals
druxey replied to kier's topic in Discussion for a Ship's Deck Furniture, Guns, boats and other Fittings
The earlier you consider and make the arrangements for the pedestals, the easier it is. -
Check the planking tutorials on this site for the best advice. And welcome!
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Fender Guitar by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - CARD
druxey replied to Dan Vadas's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
So, next you'll be designing paper models!!! -
HMS Enterprise by AlexBaranov - 1:36
druxey replied to AlexBaranov's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1751 - 1800
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Both styles of coppering are correct, but the angled rows at the waterline were from about 1760's to about 1800, and the parallel rows at the waterline were a later style. The earlier style usually had a light batten of wood tacked on along the top to protect the pointed ends of copper sheet.
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Patches can look darker if light is coming through from behind them, Radek.
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I use SilkSpan and dilute acrylic paint. Weathering should be relatively easy, and all painting done before shaping the sails. I've found, painting flags the same way, they can subsequently be wetted and shaped. No starch required!
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...and, you're off to the races with it! I guess it wasn't so bad after all?
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Original Rigging for Cutters of 1763: with a Jib boom?
druxey replied to Gregor's topic in Masting, rigging and sails
For a start, the figures you you read as '0' are in fact the old script way of writing '8'. It appears sort of sideways on. Hence, not 22 10, but 22 18, etc. A yard is 3' 0", so 22 18 translates as 67' 6". 'Excl' is, as you say, excluding. I believe that the length of the mast head included the tenon, (but not the tenon at the heel of the mast) but need to check that. One needs to dig a bit to answer the other questions you have. Normally poles are integral to topmasts in lieu of a topgallant mast, or (as in your illustration) is the extension to the topgallant mast, but not to lower masts. The exception might be a one-piece mast. It is possible that this is what was intended. If that were the case, the mast is a single stick, perhaps the part above the stops being called a topgallant rather than a topmast. Does any of this help? -
That seems to be your answer, although I like the typically French comment; "It should be noted that these could equally be used to hoist barrels of wine.”
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Very, very impressive rigging techniques!
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That drawing shows a trunnion-style carronade, rather than the lug type, on a light carriage.
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Which magazine are you referring to, Tasmanian?
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No date, but probably the late 1790's. It was apparently experimentally used in Wolverine, ex Rattler, in 1798. (Text, page 207).
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The nearest carriage I can find is in Caruana, Volume II on page 208. It has a two-part trucked (wheeled) carriage. All four trucks are 6" in diameter. The lower part, 4' 0" long, is wedge shaped, higher at the aft end. The upper part, also wedge shaped but with the narrow end aft, can slide up this inclined plane. This part has conventional steps. The illustration shows a 24 lb carronade mounted. This non-recoil carriage was invented by the same Captain Schank that invented the sliding keel.
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I'm sorry to read of your situation, Mark. I hope that things will improve for you sooner rather than later. In the meantime, my best wishes to you.
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