Bruno Siljeg

HMS Pandora was a 24-gun Porcupine-class sixth-rate post ship of the Royal Navy launched in May 1779. She is best known as the ship sent in 1790 to search for the Bounty                                                 
 
Material for the building-                                                                                                                                
-Fruitwood(wild cherry)
-Brass
-Varnish(Shelac)
-Ebony
-Teak
-Mahagony

HMS Pandora was a 24-gun Porcupine-class sixth-rate post ship of the Royal Navy launched in May 1779. She is best known as the ship sent in 1790 to search for the Bounty                                                 
 
Material for the building-                                                                                                                                
-Fruitwood(wild cherry)
-Brass
-Varnish(Shelac)
-Ebony
-Teak
-Mahagony

HMS Pandora was a 24-gun Porcupine-class sixth-rate post ship of the Royal Navy launched in May 1779. She is best known as the ship sent in 1790 to search for the Bounty                                                 
 
Material for the building-                                                                                                                                
-Fruitwood(wild cherry)
-Brass
-Varnish(Shelac)
-Ebony
-Teak
-Mahagony

HMS Pandora was a 24-gun Porcupine-class sixth-rate post ship of the Royal Navy launched in May 1779. She is best known as the ship sent in 1790 to search for the Bounty                                                 
 
Material for the building-                                                                                                                                
-Fruitwood(wild cherry)
-Brass
-Varnish(Shelac)
-Ebony
-Teak
-Mahagony

Dear friends model builders,
 
I am starting here a new build log in the name of my very good friend Mile Bijelić. We have registered Mile last weekend and since Mile has limited access to a computer and is just learning in getting used to it, I will be posting his photos more often. Nevertheless, Mile will read the comments and reply - possibly with a certain delay, you may excuse him.
 
First to introduce Mile Bijelić from my point of view: Mile is a very kind and dear person who impressed me since many years with his extremely exact way of working with the models. As far as I am concerned, Mile made something over 20 model ships of higher complexity. I myself was always getting my jaws dropped when looking at the beauty he managed to express with his models. All the photos I made cannot express the feeling when I observe them in the nature. At the same time, Mile is an extremely uncomplicated, openhearted person willing to help without end. We were sitting, I can remember the winter where we had some repairing at the electrical installation in the district of the town Zagreb and it was cold, we were sitting in the coats in his room for 13 hours and in the evening we were using our pocket lamps. He was and is always here for me to support me with my (challenging) project (De Zeven Provincien, 1665 in scale 1:45).
 
Mile won gold at the world Championship twice: in August 1998 with the Royal Caroline 1749, scale 1:35 and in September 2013 with the Royal Prince 1670, scale 1:70.
 
Just for the introduction, I will post here the photo of Mile (he is in the blue shirt on the right, Royal Prince in the middle and myself am on the left side) and a second photo of Mile with his awards.
 
From now, I will add photos under my name and Mile will write from his account directly.
 
Cheers
Dražen (in the name of Mile)

2011-02-26: details of the chains and deadeyes

 
2011-02-28: HALF-BREADTH PLAN added - keel assembly, main half breadth, toptimber half breadth, top side half breadth, half breadth of the rising line, projections of the diagonals

 
2011-03-02: BODY PLAN added. A set of lines for the inner surface of the frames are also drawn but not shown in this figure.

 
2011-03-04: water lines, cant frames, fashion piece, hawse pieces, transoms, inner post, apron, keelson, first thick limber strake next the limbers

 
2011-03-05: deadwood knee, disposition of the frames

 
2011-03-08: disposition of the square frames

 
The 3D build began from this point!

Hello Dražen,my ship Friesland is Kit build model,plans from Mamoli in
Italy.Modelmaker Narim Maygeldinov is started model ship De Zeven
Provincien,But the Russian forum has not released pictures,probably soon.He uses plans Otte Blom.http://otteblom.vedor.nl/tekeningen/.

Bruno,
 
what is the base for your model (Friesland) in the gallery – which plans did you use? Is it a scratch or a kit?

Can I (we) see the project Narim Maygeldinov is doing? I am curious also about his sources (plans, etc.)  since this is one of the
biggest issues in my build. How does he mean to do it in admirality – Dutch did not have so strict rules like e.g. English ships? But, maybe a Dutch ship model showing the construction underneath... could be interesting.
 
A great book about Dutch shipbuilding  (I also have it) is by Ab Hoving: "Nicolaes Witsen and Shipbuilding in the Dutch Golden Age"

Dražen