harvey1847

Hi All,
 
Well I’ve come across some interesting plans for a scratch built Bomb Vessel Granado Cross
Section over on Model Ship Builders site. Now I’ve never been known to be
impulsive, carry on more then one build at a time or unable to resist the urge
to start another scratch build.
 
Talk about going to the darkside! It’s so dark on this side I’m not sure I’ll ever see light again!  
 
The Bomb Vessel Cross Section has some interesting details both on and below the deck
(i.e. mortar pit and shell room) The plans are based on "Anatomy of the
Ship - Bomb Vessel Granado" by Peter Goodwin and original drawings by
Thomas Slade. All plans were drawn by Jeff Staudt. In total there are 63 pages
of drawings in the set and are very well done.

The scale for this build is a whopping 1:24 (½” to 1’) so it will be interesting building
something at this scale. The single frame pieces are ½” wide and a completed
frame is approximately 13 ½’ wide by 9” high. The keel is ½” wide by 14 ½” long
and over 1 ¼” high at its highest point. There are some frames that are doubled
so they will be 1” wide!
 
I have some Cherry cut offs from a furniture factory and I will be cutting them down to ½”
billets for the frames. I’ll decide the other woods as I go. The main problem I
see is turning the mortar and cannon as I do not have a lathe or mill. Oh well
I’ll cross that bridge when I get there.
 
So here is a look at a couple of sheets of plans to give you an idea of what it will look
like. You also can go to www.modelshipbuilder.com   to see more information.

 
Here is a sample of some of the rough cut Cherry I have.
 

 
You can see that the sides are rough cut so to start I shaved the sides on the
saw to clean them and then ripped them. The below pictures show I ended up with
two pieces of 1/2" x 3" x 14" and one piece at about 1/8" thick.
 


 
I will have to run them through the thickness sander to get them to their finished size.
This should be interesting and will take a good while to complete.

New beams have been bent and temporary installed on x-section for marking.
 

 
Drilled through frames and used straight pins to hold beams....will be planked over later to cover holes
 

 

 
Layed out most of the cross beams while main beams were on the x-section. May be hard to see the lines
 

 
Started cutting the cross beams to length..used scrap wood on miter to prevent any tear out when cutting to length.. 
Decide to use clamps to hold wood while cutting....[to close to moving blade for my fingers]
 
Here is my set up......maybe it may help someone later on. Pictures should explaing
 

 

 

 

 
Back to the shop for more sawdust  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

What a beautiful work Ed!
 
Every single part is so well explain that in some way is like reading a book in fascicles delivered every single week…
 
I just could not resist to attached some pics from Charles G. David´s book (The Built-Up Ship Model). Has nothing to do with the YA but are quite inspirational pictures. The size of the ship is going to be amazing and fully framed!
 
Best wishes.
 
 
Daniel.
 

 

 

 
 

What a beautiful work Ed!
 
Every single part is so well explain that in some way is like reading a book in fascicles delivered every single week…
 
I just could not resist to attached some pics from Charles G. David´s book (The Built-Up Ship Model). Has nothing to do with the YA but are quite inspirational pictures. The size of the ship is going to be amazing and fully framed!
 
Best wishes.
 
 
Daniel.
 

 

 

 
 

I have finished cutting out all of the frame pieces and have them all in their individual envelopes marked with the frame number/letter. I decided to make the keel again, this time with the dark section of crab apple wood. It is strong and has the color I like. The Russion Olive wood keel did not turn out to my liking so I made the switch. For the next week or so I will be finishing the keel for the second time. Once complete I will begin building the frames. Slow but sure progress.
On a side note, when I got to the hawse timbers I had run out of my supply of apple wood. So I searched my closet for stock and came across a box of supreme apple wood that I had put aside for something special. It is strong, without grain, and is a nice pinkish-tan color. It is really nice stuff for carving but I needed it now so my bollard timbers and hawse timbers and the transom timbers will all be made of this wood. Here are some pictures of the wood. It is a limited supply that I have:
 
 

A couple of pictures to prove I am still working on this model.
I been cutting up the frame pieces from the drawings and gluing them on apple wood (still 13 more to go).
 
Then cutting them up on the bandsaw. After cutting up each wooden frame piece I put them in an envelope marked with the frame number or letter. Once all are cut up I will start in earnest in putting the frames together. It will probably take me all winter to get them done.
Cutting up these frames makes for a lot of scrap that is too small to use for anything. The wife made me clean it all up for the holiday weekend. Something about her wanting to use the outdoor table for eating on. I thought it was there to catch my scrap wood.....
 
 
 

Thank you,
Alexandru

Hello,
 
Here is another update on the Japanese Fune.
 
The progress was slower than I initially imagined. The ship only looks simple but it has a particular shape that proved quit difficult to plank using wide planks. Additionally I had to do some small planking around the ruder as later will be even more difficult. Also added two bulkheads in the hold and the mast step even if I am not decided yet if the hold will be visible in any way or fully closed. There are other few details in the hold that I might not do if I decide to close it.
 
Here are the pictures

Thank you all for interest. 
Here is a small update.

Regards,
 
Alexandru

Hello,
 
I decided to start another small project as a side summer project to my Victory to break a little bit the monotony of drilling holes and nailing the main deck.
 
As I just returned from a very nice vacation in Paris, from where I bought the three volumes of the book "Souvenirs de marine" by Vice-Admiral A. Paris (reprinted in 1975 by "4 seigneurs") I decide to build one of the small curious ships that he (or his son) measured and made the draughts while voyaging around the world late 19 century.
 
Some of the strange things about this ship I've noticed so far (which I discovered by reading the book, was common practice in Japanese shipbuilding at the time) are:
no keel almost no use of nails or anything iron - only wood treenails square, hard wood masts in a single piece ruder that can be brought up on the ship use of very vide and long planks no cannons even if this is a warship different way of rowing - not even rowing in fact they were sculling  Scale is 1:50 and the plans look quite detailed but there are not complete or very precise in al details - so I'll have to use my imagination sometimes. In fact I'm not even sure the ship is called Fune - might by Bune or Tune - a bit hard to decipher as this re-print is a identical reproduction of the hand written original book. I google it for images and found some with all  names.
 
Here is the progress I've done this weekend.
 

Young America - extreme clipper 1853
Part 7 – Stem and False Stem
I decided to do the stem next because I still have some checking to do on the drawings of the sternpost.

The first picture shows the four pieces involved.  They are all sided 16" - same as the keel.



In this picture the gripe and the false stem have already been assembled. Once the pieces were cut out and trimmed to their final shapes, the patterns were removed to permit close fitting of the joint. The two stem pieces in this picture have been cut to “almost” final shape and still have their patterns attached. Once the assembled forward assembly is fit and attached to the keel the stem pieces will be added – lower stem first then upper stem.

The next picture shows the connection to the keel assembly – not yet fit up.



The desired result in fitting this joint is that the false stem adheres to the line on the underlying drawing, and of course, that the joint gripe/keel assembly seams are tight.  The unfinished end of the keel rabbet can be seen in this picture.

The CAD patterns are extremely accurate. On these pieces I cut up to the 1-pixel line before final fitting. I use a disk sander where possible to keep the edges square. The final adjustment of the joint faces was done with a #0 barrette file with many test fitting. Some adjustment is being made in the next picture.

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In the next picture the back face (port side) of the joint is being checked for fit. The joint will be visible from both sides.



In the next picture the assembly is being glued to the keel while aligned on the drawing. Waxed paper is being used under the glue joints to protect the drawing..



Once the glue has dried and the assembly has been cleaned up, the lower stem is fit into place on the drawing to assure final alignment - as shown below.




The next picture shows the lower stem permanently attached and the upper stem being fitted. Again, patterns have been removed to be able to see the final joint line.




The last picture shows the finished assembly.







The forward edge of the rabbet runs along the joint between the stem and the false stem. Forward of the rabbet the false stem and the gripe taper to a smaller thickness forward – roughly in line with the planking. The rabbet should probably be at least partially cut at this stage.

It is also time to start thinking about bolts.


Ed

I just happen to have these passage posters in my collection.

Thanks for the link, Jack.  You've done some amazing work  on your ship.

Hello everyone.
 
Hereby I will restart my build of the Hohenzollern model by the plans/book of Heinrich Winter.
The project was started late 2009 based upon the plans of the Mamoli-Friesland kit but I changed
over to Winter's one. 
 
Jack is the name, The Netherlands my homecountry.
 
I will not post updates from the past, I start with new pics the way she is now.
(for those interested in the start of the project I can give a link to a Dutch forum if you like)
 
 
The latest update from the stern, not the easiest part
 







Jack

Hello,
more pictures of the construction progress of the carronades:

 

 
Here the rings for breech rope are made:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

Hello Friends,

the aligning the carronade was performed with an iron bar.
For this I made ​​the metal fittings.

 

Another photos...
 

 

 

Hello,
thank you for your comments, Gyula.
 
There are some pictures illustrating the macking of guns.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
So thats it for now, hope you like them.
 

Hello dear friends,
I appreciate your nice comments and thank you very much for your nice words.
Today I will explain the process for preparing grids for the skylights.
Therefore please note the following pictures.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hello,
the La Créole had a total of 6 light swivel guns, which were probably intended for close combat.
4 of them were in the front and 2 mounted in the rear.
 
The swivel guns are made ​​of brass.
Here I show you the components before assembly.

 

 

 
Other pictures show the finished swivel guns.

 

 

 
And in the end a picture from the forecastle with swivel guns mounted.

 
 

Hello,
here I will show you now, how the figure mounted on galion looks.

 

 

Hello,
I reworked the face of something figurehead again. Hopefully it's getting better.

 

Hello,
today I'll show some pictures of the figurehead of the la creole.
I used wood as boxwood. This timber is ideal for this.
The images explains the attempt to carve the female figure.
Here is the result.
The figure is not yet finished. To be continued ...
 

 

 

 
 
 
 

Dear Johann, i just found your build log here. I am so happy that you finally decided to show your Creole in MSW too. The outstanding work on wood and metal and the combination of how you present it is a pure pleasure to watch. Especially how you plan your parts and how you perform them is always an amazing process.
It would have been a great loss if you wouldn`t have opened a log here!
Thank you again and looking forward to accompany you and the Creole from now on!
Kind regards
Harry