Kevin

lovely work, 

so for scale it looks like they are about as long (extending past the stern panel) as the roof of the 1/4 gallery

brilliant thank-you, please don't remove

Looks great Kevin. 

 

I don't know if you have the Haynes Victory book but on the plan of the deck it shows that the stern davits are quite a bit thinner than the cat heads and only have 2 slots instead of 3 - so it looks to me like 3mm might be spot on

thanks Yon, no i have not got a copy of that

good afternoon everyone

 

God - i wish i could paint, lol - i try so hard to make all my work presentable- and then spoil it with a paint brush

 

Anyway - the panels between the stern windows are complete,

The holes in the top left and right are for my stern davits for one of the ships boats, these are 3mm square wood stock, any bigger and it will interfere with the edge scrolling.this size is smaller than the cat heads - so i am not sure if it will look to small and be out of scale

 

May 25

 

 

1768

James Cook promoted to Lieutenant and given command of the bark, HMSEndeavour.

1795

HMS Thorn , Cdr. Robert Otway, captured Courier National in the West Indies. 

1801

Boats of HMS Mercury (28), Cptn. T Rogers, re-took and brought out Bulldog from Ancona but had to abandon her.

1811

Tamatave and French frigate Nereide surrendered to HMS Astrea (36), Cptn. Charles Marsh Schomberg.

1812

HMS Hyacinth (26), Cptn. Thomas Ussher, HMS Termagant (18), Cptn. Gawen William Hamilton, and HMS Basilisk (14), Lt. George French, silenced the fortress and destroyed a small privateer at Almunecar.

1814

Boats of HMS Elizabeth (74), Cptn. Leveson Gower, took Aigle off Corfu.

picking up one of the above dates, made my hair - as a ex submariner stand up

 

1939 - The submarine Squalus sunk in the Atlantic with the loss of many lives and the worst part of this tragedy was how the 5 that were saved only did so by sacrificing their 26 crew mates by closing the Bulk Head door to the battery compartment to stop the rest of the submarine flooding. This must have been one the most difficult decisions for any sub mariner and these men who were lucky enough to survive

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Sailfish_(SS-192)

Andy how much of the shroud is served - is it just down to the catharpins

nice to hear that yr ok, i am going trough all my list of pages of topics that i follow, and not heard of for a while

 

and yes please update your build log and please put a profile of your build in the thread that is under my signature, the reason for asking is on page one

 

all the best

Chris at present i am doing the Caldercraft Victory, i doubt i will do another version of the same ship, but i love the work and the investigation you put into this, The Euromodel Royal William is/was to be my next build, but there are quite a lot of new more accurate kits around waiting to be built. Again thankyou for the research you do into keeping the non scratch people happy

Wackowolf 

 

LOL - he is not back, i was asking - where is he

then i suppose all the other stays and lines would prevent the yards being pulled together under the weight of the boat,

still a big task and made worse in bad weather, with a pitching sea,

which brings me back to why on bigger ships, why were they not always carried external to the poop deck, but thinking about it i suppose they would be more liable to damage, from the elements and cannon fire

Decoyman

 

Been a couple of months since i have seen a build progress of your build, just wondered how you are getting on

 

all the best

Good morning everyone

 

nearly a week since i managed any build work on the Victory, but its a bank holiday here this weekend - WITH NO DIY- 

 

intentions are to progress the stern/1/4 galleries - and inserting some stern davits, for one of the ships boats, as to which one goes there i may have to puchase a 1/72 scale cutter, 

 

 

 

not my photo

May 24

 

1779

Black Prince, owned by Irish and French smugglers, is commissed as an American privateer through the efforts of Benjamin Franklin.

1808

HMS Swan (10), Lt. Mark Robinson Lucas, destroyed Danish cutter (8) at Bornhohn.

HMS Astræa (32), Cptn. Edmund Heywood, wrecked on a reef off Anegada in the Virgin Islands.

1810

HMS Fleche Sloop (16), George Hewson, wrecked on the Shaarhorn Sand, off Newark, Elbe.

HMS Racer (12), Lt. Daniel Miller, wrecked on the coast of France

nor by me, there are some fantastic looking plastic builds on this site

 

all the best

May 23

1792

George Rodney died

1798

HMS Braak Sloop (14) foundered in Delaware Bay.

1799

HMS Les Deux Amis Sloop wrecked in Great Chine, Isle of Wight.

1809

A Danish flotilla of 20 gunboats, under Lt. Cmdr Ulrich A. Schønheyder, engaged a large British convoy in the "Storebælt" (Great Belt) escorted by 5 ships-of-the-line and 2 frigates.

1811

HMS Sir Francis Drake (32), Captain George Harris, captured of 14 Dutch gun-vessels off Java.

HMS Amazon (38), Cptn. Parker, captured the French privateer brig Cupidon (14)

1850

America sends USS Advance and USS Rescue to attempt rescue of Sir John Franklin's British expedition, lost in Arctic. 

yes Yon i have come to that conclusion - but i may try, especially the very aft one, Perhaps it is just a whim on my behalf, but wanting to set nearly 30 sails, was always going to make the ship look busy, now the admiral would like my to put royal marines on, and ships crew, 

an alternative for me - was to possibly think about having the ships boats as part of the name display on the stand - but at present the verdict is out on that

 

hope you are well

 

all the best

GTM - very well explained

May 22

 

 

 

1681

HMS Kingfisher (46) engages seven Algerine pirates.

1798

USS Ganges (24), Cptn Richard Dale, is the first US warship to set sail since independance 

1801

Nelson created Viscount Nelson of the Nile and Burnham Thorpe.

1810

Boats of HMS Alceste (38), Cptn. Murray Maxwell, captured four feluccas, drove two on the rocks at Agaye.

1812

HMS Northumberland (74), Cptn. Henry Hotham,  and HMS Growler (12), Lt. Hugh Anderson, drove ashore and destroyed French frigates Arianne (44) andAndromaque (44)  and brig Mameluke (18) off Port Louis.

Chris - the last couple of posts between you and Wilz are the reasons why this ship will be a sucess- 

that's because you are prepared to listen and and adjust, for that alone i am very thankful

its been wonderful following the progress of this prototype, thank you Chris, and everyone who has helped you

May 21

 

 

1762

HMS Active (28), Cptn. Herbert Sawyer, and HMS Favorite, Cptn. Pownall, took Spanish Hermione off Cape St. Vincent.

1800

Boats of HMS Minotaur (74), Cptn. Thomas Louis, & consorts cut out a galley La Prima, Cptn. Patrizio Galleano, from Genoa.

1809

HMS Black Joke lugger engaged French Corvette Mouche.

one of the biggest problems with the older boats when dived was condensation, every used to get damp, the wing bilges used to top up, so going anywhere near the surface, invariably caused it to overspill into the working/living spaces. 

 

Any bags(grips packed) and stored in the after torpedo storage hatch space, would go mouldy in a short space of time

all the best

 

slop drain and sewage, was another story of its own

i like the photo's i posted as it shows where to put the davits, for the strern, if i get chance to work on the build after i get home  tonight - ill see if it is feasible for me to put all 3 up there out of the way 

 

all the best