Jean-Pierre

The finish you got looks superb indeed, but you are building a ship model, aren't you, and this hull is so flashy that you don't even notice the beautiful work you did or are doing on the rest of the ship.  As an example, you have a beautiful flat black finish for your ship sides in (too) sharp contra&st with the lower hull...

Just my grit of salt

Are the Victory Models version cannons with metal carriages?  If so, they are OK as long as you don't want to rig the guns...

Anja, I am sure that your second interview will be a success, and that they will like you as much as your fellow model builders do.

I do not know if it's due to me, but the last pics I saw of your model are on page 2 of this thread, wgile we're currently on page 7.  This means that you probably have other things to take care of, but also that this community fully supports you!

Good luck to you and... Maak er wat van!

JP

I really love this build, beautifully and carefully done, but also very informative.

I'm also quite interested in ships of that period, and I think I remember that cogs were usually represented this way until, say 1960.  The discoveries of ancient cogs like the Bremerhaven ship learned us quite a lot.  I am pretty sure that the plans for this model are from the early period, and it is interesting to note that Euromodel of Como have in their range of model kits a cog that I suspect is based on the same plans as the ones you use here.  It still makes a superb model and as the suggested date of 1470 certainly was a time of huge changes in ship building and no doubt that various types of ships existed under the same type name.

There is one point that was constantly modified when a ship of the Middle Ages or late Middle Ages was represented, and that is the longitudinal deck camber, which was almost always made less curved than ALL pictures show us.  And it is interesting to note that this model makes no exception, and looking at the various pictures above, you can notice that some models or pics have a much less pronounced deck camber than others.  Even that great illustratyor, Mr Landström, in his book The Ship, represents a cog and a few otherr ships of that time with a much reduced deck camber.  Just my little grit of salt.

Thanks for sharing this build, and happy modelling

JP

This planking looks excellent indeed.  And with a lateral bend of rather wide planks.  Congratulations.  One question: do you clamp the planks to the former row of planks while drying.  Wherever possible, this is the way to ensure that no plank sticks out.

By the way, I just finished a second planking with no less than 102 full length planks at midships, with not a single damping/wetting/steaming/heating/burning (myself), just with my dear Amati nipper.  And there also was quite a lot of side bending to do (on almost evry single plank).

Keep on with the good job: your San Francisco will become one of the best around!

jp

Nice progress on your model.  Starts to really take shape.

A little suggestion.  You could get a cleaner result with your second planking by using full length or half length strips.  The advantages are that it is easier to have the whole length layin perfectly flat.  Second advantage is that there are always some slight differences in width among the strips, which makes it difficult to have a nice coverage with the plank just underneath.  When you apply the full length strip, it is easy afterwards to score the plank where you want the butt joint to be.

I just finished a quite difficult second planking and the few butt joints I had to include all had to be filed or filled.

Happy building.

JP

Grazie, Cristiano.  Not en extensive rage, but cute models anyway, with quite exceptional detail (as may be expected from Russian model makers!)

Copper plates are visible on the manufacturer's prototype pictures.  Caldercraft is a serious manufacturer, so yes, the plates will be there.  See http://www.jotika-ltd.com/Pages/1024768/Nelson_7.htm.

Happy building

Through the former forum I came upon a fairly unknown Russian brand of ship model kits.  The name was something liike Cascabel?  They didn't have many kits, but one of them was a one-masted little merchantman, round bellied, and the fittings looked amazingly good. I was stupid enough not to put the site among my favorites, so is there anyone who can help me find this?  Thanks.