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Nicely done. I like the way you have it displayed to set off the details.
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Nice to hear you're ok, Ferit. New accommodations can be a good thing. I hope there's room for Berlin at some point.
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Lovely work on the stove, Bob. Looks like it's ready to take a load of salted beef and dried peas.
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Thanks for the comments. Hmm... now I am pressured by all the confidence expressed. B.E. Frolich actually cuts the frames from a slab of wood. I just feel I know my limits at this point so I'll be doing the best I can at this point. I may try Chuck's method if this fails. Sjors, I'm building the small boats that go onto Licorne's deck. I'm still waiting on the wood for the framing. I'll be posting pictures even if this is a failure, although I feel pretty good about how it's going. Thanks Nigel. Frolich, Bello and some of the others that I reference do beautiful work and I'm studying how they did it. I like the idea of the solid piece shaped and I can see having two as he shows.. one aft and one forward at the bow. I have the mold lifts cut out and glued together so today will be spent shaping it. For the mold, I'm using basswood since the experts said to use a "soft piece of wood". After shaping, I'll coat it with a couple coats of diluted white glue, some wipe-on poly and then furniture polish. But gotta' get it shaped first.
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Piet, It just keeps getting better and better. As for slats needing touch-up.. where????? Building this sub is one thing.. to add the working details is whole other matter.
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Thanks Michael. That's just about where I figure it needs to be to follow Gaetan's plans.
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<Pendant mode on> The 1888 Cup Races on TV??????? I didn't think you or TV was that old. <pendant mode off>
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Thanks for the encouragement, guys. Thanks for the tip, Dan. Actually, I'm using the lifts to make a mold. I'll add the frames, keel, and planking to it and then remove it from the mold.
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Wonderful pictures, Daniel... thanks for letting us see them. As soon as I can figure out how to register, I'll look at the ones in the link.
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Robbyn, I hope it all gets better... mom, job, houses... Things don't always go the way we want them and so it goes. What I've learned is that character isn't built by trials and problems, it's revealed. You have a strong character so take a deep breath, follow your priorities. We'll understand.
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You're too late with your warning, Sjors. At least one Dutch word has become pretty common around here.
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Thanks again, Gaetan. That pretty much answers my questions.
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This ship's boat business is giving me serious pause for reflection. I at first thought: "Well, I've got a couple of the ME low-budget ship's boat kits...." But they are too generic and not right. If I'm going to do this, I'm going to do it right. This first pic shows the kit boat with a new keel I thought I'd use... So it's in the scrap box... I dug through Frolich's book, re-examined the plans, and also looked at the Bonhomme Richard plans. Seems the French pretty much standardized what boats and sized them accordingly. I dug some more on the best way to do this... Frolich, Bello, various builds here on MSW, etc. Ah-ha!!! Lifts! After scaling the plans appropriately for all three boats, I generated a set of lifts for the longboat. The barge and cutter will follow if this works. The other alternative is to generate a series of bulkheads/frames like Chuck designed for his boats but I'm trying the lifts first. The one thing that I'll change between the plans and the build is the framing wood dimension. The plans show the frames to be 1/32" X 1/32" (~0.5 mm).. I've tried but I can't cut wood that small, so I'll be using 1/16" X 1/16"(~1 mm) for the frames. Here's where I am now... cutting out the lifts on wood of the appropriate thickness. There's also a small pile of cherry cut to the frame size and a wide strip for the keel, etc. Now to go see where this path leads....
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Thanks, Gaetan. I'm assuming (probably incorrectly) that the boat's chocks were not very tall? What I'm trying to figure out now is how tall the chocks were.
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Anja, Congratulations on the new position. Taking care of work, home, family is more important than a hobby. We are a patient lot as we wait for glue and paint to dry so we'll wait for when you can get back to the modeling bench.
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Sjors, Now that's the way a workshop should look... Like it's being used to work on things!!!! Remember that a clean workshop is a sign that nothing is being done.
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Thanks Robin.. I'll look into those. Bava, There is a "main" ladder behind the main mast and just in front of the mizzen. However, it goes (eventually) to the quarterdeck so it's probably an "officer only" ladder. The ones that are problems are the 3 with the red arrows. Where the boat sits blocks the one in the middle (a pole ladder) and the one to the left which is dual ladders coming up through twin hatches. The main hatch seems to be the one in the middle as it's largest hatch on the ship.
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David, There's one build: http://modelshipworld.com/index.php?/topic/1916-friesland-by-aj-mamoli-scale-175/page-1?hl=friesland
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Galleys, Xebecs, and Galleases. When did they become obsolete?
mtaylor replied to Ame's topic in Nautical/Naval History
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Thanks B.E. A 74 is different than a frigate (as I've found out). I checked Bonhomme Richard and it shows the same as you described. But again, a bigger ship. I'm continuing my search but finding not much more than what I've found so far which is nothing definitive. It just seems like they wouldn't have it so low as to block the ladderways.
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Thanks Chris. Note to self: Scratch the tarps idea... just build the damn boat. I'm hoping there's a definitive answer to this. I'm leaning to "shoulder high" as some of the pics I've seen of model ships of that time frame have the boats raised well off the deck.
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I would think that 1) the wind would keep the stench closer to the bow and 2) the smell of whale blubber (if the Bounty was even carrying such an item) would be preferable. :D
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While waiting for wood to resume my Licorne Version 2.0 build, I'm doing a side project of the ship's boats. Given that any decision raises questions... here's mine: Frolich states that even frigates carried three boats nestled inside each other - a Longboat (the largest), a Barge, and then a Cutter. They were stored on the gundeck on chocks. Hahn only shows a Longboat (he didn't want to build the other two) and it seems a tad large for the area it goes in. I have plans for all three from the Bonhomme Richard and from Frolich's book but will have to adjust them for sizing. 1) Given that there's several hatches (4 to be exact) and two scuttles, how high would the chocks have to be? Hahn doesn't show this. The problem is there's a main hatch with a ladder that comes up under the boat. 2) Would all the boats after being stored, have a canvas tarp over them to keep water out? I've heard the boats were left uncovered so rain, etc. would keep the wood swelled and the joints tight.
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Michael, If you hadn't put the ruler in the shot, I would have thought it was full-sized. Excellent work.
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