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Hello, and many thanks for your likes
today is a great day, the chain pumps are ready. Even the man from the admiralty came to watch it. Ok, there is no water in the ship, so we could't test it working.
 

 

 

 

 
 

The first transitional moulding I needed to master runs just beneath the false windows of the quarter gallery.

I was unsure, at first, whether I would be able to successfully recreate the turreted appearance of the moulding, above each pilaster.
 
The difficulty has to do with the fact that moulding scrapers do not get into inside corners very well.  Ultimately, I found that I could clean to those inside corners with my 1/8” straight chisel and my #11 EXACTO.
 
The moulding is actually made up from two layers, laminated together.  The thin, under-layer  has a tiny cove cut into it’s edge, and it is stepped-in, slightly, from the upper layer.  The piece, below, marked “template” is a card pattern I made for the under-layer:

 
The trick to all of this was to try and cope this side moulding into the overhanging ends of the stern shelf-moulding that the Four Seasons will sit upon.  It took a good deal of patient fitting, but eventually I got there:




Once I had fit the upper layer, I could cope-in the lower layer and then laminate the two:

A few pics to give a sense of this section:




After I make and fit all of this for the port side, I will make up the transitional moulding for the underside of the seats of ease.  The connection with its counterpart, at the stern, is a little funky, but the answers will become clearer as I work my way through it.
 
Thank you for the likes, your comments and for stopping by.

It has been a long time since my last posting. I started work on the gundeck spirketting and quickwork. Here are a few images in progress. Apologies for the dust I see in the photos; time for a little housecleaning!
 
I said earlier that in order to keep a clean line between the stained spirketting and the natural wood waterway, I would not be able to make individual strakes of this inner planking, level them down, and then stain in place. I did what Rob Napier discovered in his refurbishment of the 18th century model of the Princess Royal; he named this typical 18th century model builder technique SWOPEM- "Situation Where One Piece Equals many". I scored the hooked scarp joints onto a single strake for the spirketting. The butt joints between the pieces will be covered by the standards.
 
Laying out the sprirketting and joints:
 

 
The SWOPEM scored joints in the spirketting and quickwork:

 
The aft most piece of spirketting took such a severe twist and bend that I decided to carve it rather than steam it. My steaming always required clamping into final position, and there was no good way to clamp this:

 
and now to see the guns against the red:

 

 
 

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The ratlines of the formast shrouds have been completed in the meantime, as can be seen on the following pictures.

 

Good morning.

Good morning and thank you all, Yves I prepare some photos then I put them.
More photos.

 

 

 

 

 

 
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Good morning thanks Ekis and thanks to everyone, more photos.
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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Good morning and thank you all for the like, more photos...
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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@Dowmer
Hello,
thank you very much for your positive comment.
Also for the many LIKES I would like to thank you all very much.
 
Four years have passed again !

@Jorge Dias O
Fhank you very much for your positive remark.
The opening for the rope ladder is already visible.

Good morning and thank you all, 
Schrader, you have to try, you don't have to be afraid.
More photos.

 

 

 

 

 

 
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the bridge between the front and aft of the deck

Hello,
and many thanks for your comments and likes.
Today was a great day, because we laid all beams of the upper gun deck. The shipwright was very pleased, and spend a brandy! 😊
 

 

 
From the ropewalk came the anchor cable. For this I used dark brown yarn, but made also an experiment and tarring a cable. That looks very interesting. That tar diluted with benzine is now dry, that one diluted with turpentine is still sticky. But they are both black now, as at the contemporary models.
 

 

 
 

Given the modelling aspect of this site, there might be some interest in Martin Saville's "Hornblower's Ships their history & their models" published 2000 by Conway.  It mainly covers the making of fairly large scale models for the TV series in Russia and a bit on the full size ships alsoo used for filming.  There are a number of drawings from a variety of sources of the basis for the models.

The stuff does look good, John!  Thanks for the reference.
 
The lower-finishing pieces are now ready for prime and paint:

I have yet to make the waste pipe rosettes that mount to the aft overhang of these pieces, but I will tackle that shortly.
 
Today was a very productive day spent trimming out the next level up - the functional seats of ease.
 
The first order of business was to clear away the wales and let the forward edge of this section into the wales, as neatly as possible.  My goal was not to disrupt any of the paint that will remain visible, as the touch-ups were such a pain:

The pre-shaping on the scrap hull created a good mating joint:

I am quite satisfied with the subtle outward, billowing shape of the piece.
 
One thing that dawned on me, here, is that the aft end of this section should follow the round-up of the stern.
 
The picture, above, reflects this, however - before, the back ends were square to the mating surface, which created a weird back-angled appearance, considering that the ship sides taper inwards, at the stern, like a wedge.  This is one of many small details that are not immediately apparent, if one hasn’t first made a full set of drawings.
 
One benefit of altering this profile into the roundup is that it enabled me to bring the side profile of the stern counter into more of a vertical plane.  The difference is slight, but an improvement, nonetheless.
 
A montage of the paneling process:



There is no substitute for the gradual process of arriving at a line; draw, erase, repeat!








I still need to add the rail pieces, between the pilasters, which will create the sunken panel effect.  I also have to cast a series of fleurs for these panels, but this has been a very satisfying step in the project.
 
Thank you for the likes, your comments, and for looking in!
 
 

Little step:







 

Good morning and thanks to everyone, more photos....
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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Good morning.

Hello,
 
now the Rudder is ready. Because there was no protest or other solutions, I build it the way I think it is right. At least it's not an unknown praxis.
 

 
 
 

Ruder2.mov  

Perhaps this(not very clear) view of Lisbon around 1500/1510 will help in having a better idea of the look of those ships
 
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficheiro:Lisboa_1500-1510.jpg
 
hope that helps
 
Zeh

At the moment I am dealing with the ratlines of the foremast. The first picture shows a section of the shrouds of the main mast.

 

Hello and many thanks for your comments and likes
 
the last week I was not very busy at the shipyard but I got the tiller and most of it's components finished. The sweep, flush with the beams, as the 1719 establishment asked for.
 

 
And here all parts are together, and it works! 😅 I don't think to build also the ledges here, most of this you would't see when the ship is ready.
 

 

 

 

 
So far, so good but how to get the ropes up? The wheels are behind the mizzen mast, so I should have the sheaves direkt behind the beam. In the middle of the beam is a carling and I could build between this and the next carlings to the outside diagonal carlings with the sheaves in the middle (blue line), or build like the French there a block with the sheaves and support it with the carling. At least is this the same as at the side of the ship. I don't know, but prefer the last method.