Small Stuff

Look Gluck with your personal rebuilt, Mark. Oh yes it's a bold descission.
But I think it's the best you could do for yourself. And I copied your "Lessens learned" into my Literature - folder together with the sentence:
"Buying tools cheaply'll bring you to buying it twice."
Yours
Stan

Daear Rob,
 
from my work on 1/700 ships in boxes I learned the hard lesson that gypsum is going to give its water into the air for/after very long years! So this "water" of a closed bottle or showcase will show "dew" inside. And later you'll get mold or serpula fungus! But the model's wood will have "labored" long time before you can see these or other signs. This is why ships are bottled in coloured window putty. I like your sea in action and authentic colours very much. And so I want to give you my bitter know-how - before you enclose your showbox -due to the wonderful work you are doing.
 
HTH.

DigiCam2USB-wire was found some seconds ago!!! So after the weekend&party here,
And there 'll be some new pictures..
The cat played with it
untill it was gone unter the cupboard
and left there for the vacuumcleaner's snorkel

Hello friends,
 
here my project of the Dove...
 
A beauty by her lines and rigging, 
 

 
...and a ship well documented and of a good size for a scale 1/2=ft 
 
Lpp: 42' - 11'' = 1' 9.6'' 
B moulded: 13' - 0'' = 6.6' 
D.: 6' - 2'' 
 
So I'll get a model about some 900 mm Loa and without stand nearly as high as long -  at a beam of some 170 mm. A big model but a flate-able   one
 

 
in "The American Fishing Schooner" of Howard I. Chapelle you can find three very good plates of the Canadian pilot schooner "Dove". Biult in 1875 by Sylvester S. Baltzer in Preaux. Nova Scotia. She was owened by Cptn. James George a pilot.
She was Canadian - proofed by the text in the index of H.I. Chapelle's book ( p.686). "Dove, Canadian pinky".
 
But what is the right flag to her?
 
So my question is the to the flag - 
 

 
blue or
 
 

 
red canadian ensign?
 
But this article confusede my completly:
 
http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/gb-pilot.html#pilot
 
Or does this article deals with the flag used on a ship to show they are under pilots order on the bridge?
My english is not good enough for this... 
 
Thanks for your help,
 
Chris

Old Collingwood - great work you do! Perhaps these pictures from the NMM 1/48 original model  of 1720 may help:
 
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/40/Sixth_rate_ship_model_3.jpg
 
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/Sixth_rate_ship_model_2.jpg
 
The systematic number in the NMM is SLR 0411 and you can find good pictures in Robert Gardiner's The Sailing Figat A History In Shipmopdels, too.
I found a drawing about Lyme in Robert Gardiner's The First Frigats Nine-Pounder And Twelve-Pounder Frigates, 1748-1815. You have got this book in your shelf? (Or you may like to use Chapman's well known Plate LV, No.10.. .http://www.sjohistoriska.se/ImageVaultFiles/id_3085/cf_1803/55.JPG )
 
Edit: http://www.shipwreckworld.com/media/article/images/2008/06/13/118-original-hmsontarioadmiraltydrawing02.jpg
 
Is the AotS book helpful to you also you built Lyme?
 
HTH,
 
yours Stan

Par l'Ingénieur De La Morandière 1823 HISTORIQUE DES GOËLETTES & MONOGRAPHIE METHODE DE CONSTRUCTION DU MODELE
 
this is the original title on the books cover but I'm working with my "working edition" copied from the english libary edition - because I can't spreak french and only guess some vocabulary by my rest of latin from school.
 
Some months ago I borrowed the english edition from the libary and figured out there are more than five schooners awaiting the reader inside.  I decided to buy the book because it is a very economical way to built a hand full of ships by one book - due to the fact that I'm not wealthy. And so I buyed the french edition pre-owned on the antique market with all the five plan sheets inside for all that I cannot speak french at all! So I payed again for the interlibary loan to get english-languaged copy again - copying it to be able to read it at all. I searched out three possible model ships for myself to get more difficult projects "to keep the challange alive" - going foreward step by step. So I followed the Monfeld's way of growng complexity in the chose of the paragon.
I wrote to the Ancre publishers to get some more details about the sweaps for the boats and the oars for the aviso - because I decided to build her in a clam towed by boats.
 
This type of model will give the possibility to me to show her full rigging of all sails and studdingsails set in an spiral order (after MacGregor "The square rigged sailing ships"). The spiral is the trial to catch any wind from any direction. And to use this moment also to give an idea of the size of the schooner to the viewer by using 1/48 figures at the oars in boat and on the deck. (I made mility modelbuilding for many years and so I'm used to alter figures to get them to fit to the situation they are placed in.)  
"La Jacinthe" is an aviso schooner built for the use in the colonies. The small armarment of two 12 pounder carronades shows clearly the were not built wor the battle line. The were built and used as dispatch vessels for collecting information and having an eye on the trade traffic. The schooner belonged to the Anemone-Class and the ships were in duty till the 1860th - some of them were altered and got an encloses bulkwalk and a one part gun lid from the hulls side up to the middle of the port. A problem I'm dealing with in my article about the  "La Munite" in her appearence of 1833 ( http://modelshipworld.com/index.php?/topic/4810-la-jacinthe-building-a-variation-further-sources/ ). A picture added below.
The shistership "La Topaze" doesn't had a topgallant sail and yard. She may have used the two triangeled sails instead.
 
The dimensions are given in the original enlisting from the drawing below. A very good model was to see on the woldchampionship in Rijeka 2012 winning a C1 silver medal by the skilled builder Slavian Narlev from Bulgaria.
 
So I'm going to tell something about her and my thoughts about my first scratch project - I'm going to catch as much information before my start as possible.
 
Here are the plans sheets - all are scaled to 1/48! The very best point for the very beginning greenhorn like me is the planking is shown plank for plank in the sections drawing. Where to glue to the formers and how thick the pear has to be. 
Best for me may be to put a first planking of solftwood (lime/linden) on bulkheads and than to sand till the blood is coming out under the nails... to be able to add the second pearplanking on a smooth surface.
 
So I start now to collect some information, ideas and perhaps warnuings from all of you - long time before starting the building. So I'll have a look towards my copies and asks some of the typical greenhorn questions.

Hello again, 
 
I.
As the sideview only gives us the position of the deck's superstructure, an auxilliary source may give us the rigt deepon deck... the 14 years older 31 3/95 cutter may be a good reference to look at. Also a sceptic view to the bigger sisters of this class type's trio may be usefull. So I added them, too.
 
What do you think about this?
 
 
II.
I wasn't in the workshop this night - I still was thinking, drinking and constructing my RC's backbone. So I got some solutions and some more problems figured out: So I highlighted these areas with yellow circles for you.
 
The mast's area will be easily supportet against cracking by adding softwood and drill the mast's hole inside. But the staircases area is still a problem and the reduced bulkhead destabilised this part of the construction additivly. 
 
Have you any solutions for this, too?
 
Thanks a lot,
Chris

Hallo wooden colleques,
 
due to the further eye operations, finding of a new job and the end of the holidays with my son - I am able to getting restarted back to the beloved Jacinthe .
Today I rebuild my workshop back to wood... to start tomorrow. Than I'll go in the afternoon to sign my new job's contract...joining the afterworkparty   .
 
Yours
Stan

Hello friends
 
after a row of senseless eye operations I'm back in here... working on the Chapelle-plans. 
 
That's all in here.
 
Yours
Stan
 
Edit here the drawingboard:

DigiCam2USB-wire was found some seconds ago!!! So after the weekend&party here,
And there 'll be some new pictures..
The cat played with it
untill it was gone unter the cupboard
and left there for the vacuumcleaner's snorkel

Hello friends
 
after a row of senseless eye operations I'm back in here... working on the Chapelle-plans. 
 
That's all in here.
 
Yours
Stan
 
Edit here the drawingboard:

Wayne,
during the next days I've to help my wife (she fall on the iced pavement with her backbone muscel right on the stone edge  ) so I can help to put your Ranger out of the shelf by doing further worknext week - so I hope!
 
Don't give uop the ship!

Hy Wayne!
 
As I have the same kit in the shelf I look here highly interested! Thanks for sharing! Looks well done and I'll use the mind-work done in here. Thanks for this to all the others, too.

Hello friends of the saw,#
due to the fact that I'm permanendly in trainings and teachings I've got no time really to work on my model. So here is the very last progress - the backbone is redy to take in the drawings for the bulkheads slots:  

I nearly forgot the reality-check!!!
 
Does it realy fits
 
in the place
 
where I want
 
to put it laterly???
 

 
 

Thaks a lot - inbetween I made some progress in the workshop:
 
I've got some tooling equipment by eating not so and avoiding contatct to cigar dealers -so saved the money for this. 
 
The framed ship in the background is the Georgian "Experiment" from the "50 Gun Ship" but far too big to be built in 1/2" and on its right the "HMS Hood" of the era of uncertainy Admirals-class copied from "Birth of the Battleship" and framed on VC-cross red ground... she and the giant gun fitted "Benbow" are the favorites of this era to me...
 
But to be realistic towards my capacitys to steam & sail I'll have to turn my mind towards the Crimean Gunboats under 110' Lpp or the later screw sloops with board side guns... and without guns in 3/4 turrets.
 
The next projects will still be Revenue Cutters under Sail. For ships of this size under 1.000 m/m I prepared the workshop:

Hello friends of the saw,#
due to the fact that I'm permanendly in trainings and teachings I've got no time really to work on my model. So here is the very last progress - the backbone is redy to take in the drawings for the bulkheads slots:  

Thaks a lot - inbetween I made some progress in the workshop:
 
I've got some tooling equipment by eating not so and avoiding contatct to cigar dealers -so saved the money for this. 
 
The framed ship in the background is the Georgian "Experiment" from the "50 Gun Ship" but far too big to be built in 1/2" and on its right the "HMS Hood" of the era of uncertainy Admirals-class copied from "Birth of the Battleship" and framed on VC-cross red ground... she and the giant gun fitted "Benbow" are the favorites of this era to me...
 
But to be realistic towards my capacitys to steam & sail I'll have to turn my mind towards the Crimean Gunboats under 110' Lpp or the later screw sloops with board side guns... and without guns in 3/4 turrets.
 
The next projects will still be Revenue Cutters under Sail. For ships of this size under 1.000 m/m I prepared the workshop:

Hello friends of the saw,#
due to the fact that I'm permanendly in trainings and teachings I've got no time really to work on my model. So here is the very last progress - the backbone is redy to take in the drawings for the bulkheads slots:  

Hello friends of the saw,#
due to the fact that I'm permanendly in trainings and teachings I've got no time really to work on my model. So here is the very last progress - the backbone is redy to take in the drawings for the bulkheads slots:  

I nearly forgot the reality-check!!!
 
Does it realy fits
 
in the place
 
where I want
 
to put it laterly???
 

 
 

Hello again, 
 
I.
As the sideview only gives us the position of the deck's superstructure, an auxilliary source may give us the rigt deepon deck... the 14 years older 31 3/95 cutter may be a good reference to look at. Also a sceptic view to the bigger sisters of this class type's trio may be usefull. So I added them, too.
 
What do you think about this?
 
 
II.
I wasn't in the workshop this night - I still was thinking, drinking and constructing my RC's backbone. So I got some solutions and some more problems figured out: So I highlighted these areas with yellow circles for you.
 
The mast's area will be easily supportet against cracking by adding softwood and drill the mast's hole inside. But the staircases area is still a problem and the reduced bulkhead destabilised this part of the construction additivly. 
 
Have you any solutions for this, too?
 
Thanks a lot,
Chris

Hello again, 
 
I.
As the sideview only gives us the position of the deck's superstructure, an auxilliary source may give us the rigt deepon deck... the 14 years older 31 3/95 cutter may be a good reference to look at. Also a sceptic view to the bigger sisters of this class type's trio may be usefull. So I added them, too.
 
What do you think about this?
 
 
II.
I wasn't in the workshop this night - I still was thinking, drinking and constructing my RC's backbone. So I got some solutions and some more problems figured out: So I highlighted these areas with yellow circles for you.
 
The mast's area will be easily supportet against cracking by adding softwood and drill the mast's hole inside. But the staircases area is still a problem and the reduced bulkhead destabilised this part of the construction additivly. 
 
Have you any solutions for this, too?
 
Thanks a lot,
Chris

I nearly forgot the reality-check!!!
 
Does it realy fits
 
in the place
 
where I want
 
to put it laterly???
 

 
 

"Moderation is the order of the day!" otherwise you're going to build a catamaran...     
 
Here te latest news:
 
Here you see the inner part placed on the beech plywood strip and below the Stern & Stem - but the keel!!! 
Is it possible that a nearly 60ft long keel is made from one single pice of tree???
And the plank under it is also from one pice???
Due to the Mondleld's rule "No plank was longer than 35ft" I ask my question.
 
Looking foreward toward your answers,
 

Christian