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Thank you Mirabell61 and to all who given thumbs up. The model is now finished and I can change my sig to Chinese Junk completed.
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Good building log, nice and informative. If the walnut planking is brittle, try soaking it for a while so that it regains a little moisture. (Nice recovery on the gap too!)
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Watch those dead eyes. you'll have a better looking line if you keep them all orientated in the same direction. You've made good progress and the model is developing a "personality".
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Been AWOL Bug. Now get back to work, there's a continent needs discovering!
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First of all, thanks for encouragement from Aussie, Senior ole salt and AntonyUK and all who ticked "Like this". Rigging finished except for Sampan and port and starboard companionway rigging. Then on to make and rig anchors. I'm thinking of donating this model to a model supplies shop here in Tenerife.Three have closed because of the recession so I would hope that seeing a finished model in their shop window might encourage others to take up the hobby and support this last shop that is teetering along. Might put a load of tea chests on the deck as these cargo junks brought tea in to load the clippers. Click on the images for a larger version.
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Galleys, Xebecs, and Galleases. When did they become obsolete?
marktime replied to Ame's topic in Nautical/Naval History
Wasn't the introduction of gunpowder the "death nell" for galleys? Fighting from long distance instead of hand to hand employing the galley as a ram? -
That's an interesting concept, S.os. but no, that's one experiment I haven't tried. Thanks for thumbs to you and others. Will be a challenge when I come to the mizzen sail as I don't yet see how the sheetlets can be operated, It might be that there is a different way to rig the mizzen. Anyone know or have a source?
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Mainsail Rigging I've followed Arne Kverneland's scheme in rigging this junk. http://www.junkrigassociation.org/Resources/Documents/Arne%20Kverneland%27s%20files/Junk%20Rig%20for%20Beginners.pdf I rigged in the following order: Batten parrels Halyard hoist Sheetlets and euphroe Tack line and tack parrel Yard hauling parrel Lazy jacks An extra clew line to create tension on the rigging The stay on the mizzen mast is a temporary feature.
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Muy bonita. Nice detail work-
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Hey, come on now, you're cheating. Footropes tut!tut! But very nicely done. I like the way you give instructional hints for others, too. Sometimes we see stuff we like on builds but have no idea how it was done.
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I can confirm that Amati make their junk plans available. As pointed out above, the rigging detail is far from accurate but as a starter it's not a bad design. I'm using them as a template for my scratchbuild. Cristiano, that's a very useful resource though it might take some time to go through it all. Do you have a pointer to where the junk plans are?
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Thanks Aussie. Long time, no see on the SM. How's it going?
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Vivian's question about figureheads prompts me to talk about the stern decoration of junks. Many of the hundreds of illustrations of Chinese junks that you can view on the internet show an enormous range of stern decoration,and the bigger the junk, the more ornate the artistry. Not being an artist of any merit, I used a modified Amati pattern and coloured it with poster paints. I used a monstrous face as anyone who has spent time in the Far East will know that Chinese art falls into two broad categories, either delicate washes in watercolour and ink or brightly coloured monstrous figures of demons or dragons. My attempt falls into the latter "school" but that presents a problem of coordinating the colours with the Walnut, Pear and Sapele used in the hull construction. My solution was to paint the lower hull off-white (actually "cotton white" whatever that is) and frame the stern decoration in the same colour. I think it successfully links the two elements. What do you think?
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Vivian, I'd like to think I'm being original but a search for junks will show you many pictures of junks with bow ornament including dragon heads. Thanks to all for the thumbs up.
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In the sailmaker's loft One of the problems at working at this scale, 1:100 is to keep things in proportion. For example, using 5 mm dia. material for the main mast means it would be a 5 metre diameter mast at deck level! I used placemat material as pictured to make the battens.
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So here we go, not too sure about some of the "improvements" but when we get more clutter on the deck they may fall into place.
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A long time ago in a Modelshipworld forum far, far away ...I started a scratch build based on Amati's pirate junk. All went well and I was enjoying the challenge of a first scratch build until, until.... I used 17th century furniture to support the upper deck railings. I actually thought they looked rather neat, especially as I spent an ice age ensuring they were equidistant. Not so, said my mentors. Take them off and do it again. So after 6 years or so of muttering, I've done the deed, ripped out the old and replaced them with something more vernacular. So here's the restart. All comments more than welcome.
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ummm....hate to break it to you but sails in this epoch weren't reefed aloft. The yard was dropped to the deck when the sails needed furling. But lovely stitchwork. :D :D
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Welcome to the club!
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I got that particular technique from photos that a member on the old forum posted. He was Kentyler and he took photos of the replica Niña when it docked somewhere in the States, Cleveland ? maybe. Others will know better than me. Anyway, he took about 100 photos but they were lost in the crash. I have a couple that I saved so I'll post them here and give a heads up to the other Santa Maria Crew.
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Typical. Bloomin' Brylcream Boy on his backside as usual. Not like us in the old Andrew. Never a day's rest I can tell 'yer! D/M 961595 for those in the know .
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I think the destination place is on a cleat at the base of the bowsprit. Doesn't go through the triangle as it stops at the base where you haven't got cleats!
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This might make it clearer.
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What's that man doing sitting down when he should be working? High quality work as usual.
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It's important to point out that the cruelty recorded by history was a result of contemporaries of Columbus who arrived on the second and subsequent voyages with the sole purpose of enriching themselves, although this doesn't alter the fact that Columbus himself was driven by an almost inordinate desire to find gold. In his log, the "Diario", he continually records his longing for gold when in fact he had, in discovering a New World, found a treasure beyond belief in the resources it contained.
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