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Thank you gentlemen...
 
I took a break from framing because I wanted to work on the windlass.  Its 3 1/2" long. I have had the design concept in my brain for over a year and I wanted to see if it would work.  I think it came out really well.  The design is much like the lantern.  You build the windlass drum in sections and slide them onto a 1/16" x 1/16" strip.  There are 65 pieces in this windlass.   All laser cut.  Its a perfect match to the plans.  The hardest part (which isnt very hard at all)  is to bevel the edges of each face of the drum.  This is so they fit tightly together.   Once you get the angle down,  it goes quickly and without incident.   You have to bevel the edges without over doing it because you will lose the original shape of each precision cut piece.  The laser char on the edge actually help out a lot.  You need to bevel the edge until the laser char is all gone and resist beveling further.  
 
 I was worried about this ever since I saw the model in the Rogers collection.  Yes, you could shape the windless drum from one piece and carve the sprockets by hand...but that is a real challenge.  I have seen what David Antscherl did for his Comet model and it scared me to death ever since.  Knowing that others will ultimately build this model I needed to put my kit designer hat on.  This windlass is a MAJOR deck fitting and can make or break a model of a cutter if it isnt done well enough.
 
Ultimately,  this windlass will be painted all red but I am not sure yet.  Its usually shown that way on contemporary models.  If I decide to leave it natural boxwood I will paint the ends of the drum so you cant see the construction method.  If its painted carefully to look like wood, it will look like a solid piece.  This is still not glued together.  The individual segments are just slid onto the stick.  I just have to snip the ends of teh stick off and sand them down after the segments are glued together. Silly me, I got so into making it, that I didnt take any construction photos.
 
That means I will have to build another one at some point.  Lucky me. 
 
Now to take my daughter to the movies and sit with her and about 7 other 14 year old noisy girls.  Lucky me again!!!
 

 

 

 

Same scale as the O19? Would be beautiful with all that rigging and functional cranes. I have count seven. The only problem is that you might buy a bigger blue bucket to paint it on the backyard...
 
Happy weekend!
 
 
Daniel.

I have been chatting with John (tarbrush) about whether or not to do a scratch build log of the Mary Rose, which I fancied doing as a cross section.... so here goes... my first attempt at a blog.
 
A bit of background first. I saw MR towed in to dock after she was raised, and have been fascinated ever since. We get random tv programmes about how they found it etc, but what finally got me going was a volume on the MR weapons I found at Leeds armouries...'weapons of warre' which was closely followed by buying 'Mary Rose, Your Noblest Shippe'... (best £50 I ever spent on a ship book!) This has 15 sheets of 1:100 scale drawings as part of the volume along with numerous scaled illustrations... if anything I now have too much information...
 
I wanted to crew the model but struggled for anyone other than Henry 8th at first... since then I have found some border reivers (40mm tall, Perry miniatures) but finally hit on some nice 28mm figures from the assaultgroup.co.uk, which also includes gun crews. They have fixed the scale. (plastic, but you cant have everything! )
 I have just finished scaling up the plans from the book, deciding to go from just behind the forecastle to around the midway point. That area gives me an accurate piece to work on without making up/inventing the bits of ship they haven't found yet...
 
Once I work out how to size photos on here I will post up the keel etc. I don't get a lot of time to spend on model builds, so this is going to be a loooong blog time!
 

Thanks fellows for your comments and accolades, much appreciated.  And thank all others for visiting and your like vote.
 
Hoi Remco, thanks and yes, I need all the luck I can get.  Just to tell yuns that the keel is 1 mm wide for my dingy model.  Now you can imagine how thin the rest of the frames and planking has to be.      I guess I'll have to fudge a little here and there 
 
Hoi to you too Jan,  you have more confidence in my abilities then I but we'll try to give it a bloody go     
 
Hi Boris, hmmm, Hr. Ms. Java eh?  Well, yes, that was my original idea and still listed on my bucket list but - - - I will most likely not do that one.  I did purchase the drawings for the model through Remco, just to have them.  You know - - - and to tell all yuns the truth, my father hated that old rust bucket with a passion.  It was the second time I saw tears in his eyes when he was transferred from his beloved O19 to that old ship when he was promoted.  So, I'm just thinking that if he knew that I build a model of the ship he hated and was killed on, what he would think.  Would he be pleased?  There is a beautiful model of that ship in the Navy museum already, it should function in the honor of all who served on her and gave their lives for country, Queen and family.  You on the other hand must go ahead and make the most beautiful model available in kit form with the story of her last heroic stand against a more powerful enemy.  I'm sure that your model will be one of the best available because your heart is in it and for the lives of the crew.    
Thank you for the suggestion but if I would build another ship model it'll have to be the KPM ship Musi.  That's ship my wife's father served on as captain before his retirement.
 
Here is a picture of her.
 

 
For those who are interested in seeing a fine model of the cruiser Java here is a picture of her.
 

My father's battle station was below the # 9 gun, that's the second aft gun looking forward, the one just behind the long room.  That's also where the torpedo hit.
 
hello Daniel, thank you for comparing my ladder with a photo etched one.   A very great compliment indeed. Well, the pictures show that each part was hand made so there is no argument   Yes, the ladder was removable and stowed somewhere in the sub.  My guess is that the crew would usually not even bother using it.  Being young and agile  - - - ladders are for sissies 
 
Cheers,

The planking (made of foil stripes) was finally improved by painting (I use Tamiya acrylic paint):




 
I decided to create treenails (used on English ships). On my model they are painted by 0,3mm wide tip of a micro-pencil. All are painted by Tamiya colours. The pencil tip was every time dipped into thin paint and after that was made one treenail on the hull planking.
 


 


 

 

Hull planking - second layer from stripes (I used again 1mm thick card):


 


 
Second layer after grinding:



 

Hull planking - first layer:


 

 


 
And after grinding:


 
 
 
 

Beautiful progress, Doris.  Your work is very inspiring and after seeing the "showroom" it's a bit daunting too.  But in a good way.  I hope you can sort out the job situation

Now the Royal Caroline is safe in the showroom among my other ships:
 

 
Best regards
Doris
 

Hello, dear friends!
Thank you very much for your kind words and support. I appreciate all your comments a lot. I have to apologize you, I am writing so late, but I have a lot of problems mainly at work and also many duties, so I did not visit internet almost at all and unfortunately have no time for building models.
I am searching for a new and better job, so it is quite difficult time now for me, cause there are a lot of unemployed people in our country.
I believe, things will go better next months and it will be possible to continue with modelling in winter. I am going to share my work with you and looking forward to continuing.
 
Have a great time and take care
Doris
 
Here are some of last pics from the process, I have made in august.
 

The pins are hand made.
 
 

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binnacle

armchairs bookcases of powder and Captain

shelves

This...
 
 
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First of all my sincerest and heartfelt thanks to the may who visited and clicked the like button.  Thank you all for dropping in.
 
After arriving back home from the doctor's office this morning and a cup of coffee with Gwen I ventured back into the garage and painted the boarding ladder dark grey.  It looks a little better this way all dressed up in a coat of paint.  I also did some touching up on the paint here and there.
 
Next I grabbed the lines drawings for the dingy and put them on my drafting table.  Yup, that means that I have to redraw these to my scale of 1:50 but that should pose no particular problem.
What's daunting in my mind is the size of it and how frail it is at this scale.  It'll be a challenge alright so wish me luck.
 
I have made one photo of the freshly painted boarding ladder for yuns to see.  Hope it carries away with your approval.  I may need to add a pair of stand-off's at the bottom ship side to keep it angled out a little more.  Hey, I have plenty of this dark grey paint left   
 

 
Cheers,

Hi Daniel,
 
very impressive progress in the last month

Hello everyone and thank you all for your comments and the compliments, I really appreciate it very much.
 
Hi Mark, thank you and yes, in all the months that I have been working on the O19 things keep popping into my mind of happy times I had with my mom and dad.  Gwen and I talked a lot about both our fathers during this build.  I am fortunate to have met her father when I was going to the High School in her village.  Captain van Vulpen was a very nice gent and I got to chat with him whenever he was home.   All that is an extra bonus to me, bringing back good memories.
 
Hello Pat, thanks for dropping in.  Yup, not many more details to add but what is left to do will keep be busy for a while yet.  To clarify the dingy, it was actually made from wood, at least that's what it looks like on the photos.  I'll make it also from wood and in this scale it's going to be a challenge because everything has to be rather thin and light.  But so far I have not shied away from a challenge and hope to make a respectable model of it.
 
Hi Omega, good to see you here.  Hmmm, a sound track with sound effects, commands by the CO and responses by the crew.  Love the idea but then I'll have to do it in Dutch and not too many here can then understand it     Besides, when I speak Dutch I have an American accent    Hey, I ca do a pretty good immitation of the dive claxon    No, a log will already be taxing enough but thanks for the thought my friend. 
 
Hello Joe and thank you for your compliments and good thoughts, appreciate them very much.  Yeah, well, seeing that the O19 carried a boarding ladder I figured that it would be appropriate to show it.  It was a rather easy and straight forward modeling job, after I fixed my first try   I'll do my best in modeling a Skulpy figure that resembles my father.  The only photo I have of him in uniform is when he was "bootsman" (boatsman in English)  This was taken somewhere in the Netherlands but I have no idea what year.  I think that a 3D model would look better though but don't know yet where to put it.  At the time He served on the O19 his rank was Schipper, which is a non-com position.  He could very well be supervising the loading of the torpedoes.  Hey, time will tell but the thoughts of all yuns keeps the brain churning.
 

 
Hoi Freek, yes, I'm going to try my hand at modeling figures.  Remco steered me to a nice book on the how-to's.  I'll be using Skulpy for this and try to get a likeness.  I have only two photos of him.  See above for one of them.
 
Hello Popeye, thank you very much for your compliments.  Yup, this is a little different as far as ladders go but I just mimicked the ones I see on the photos I have.  Yeah, I do have some feelings of sadness now that she's almost completed but also a great sense of satisfaction by how she turned out.  There is still a lot of work yet to do when I count the display.  
 
Hi Daniel, so good to see you here as well.  No, I'm still working on her my friend.  Thank you also for your kind remarks.  Yes, I remember the rivet discussion too and now in retrospect I probably could have added them as well.  Could I still do it at this stage?  Yeah, I think so but that would require months of very tedious work that I'm not really up to anymore.  
As far as future builds, I'll continue with the VOC ship Surabaya and perhaps start the VOC Yacht in the lamp.  As mentioned in one of my previous posts I need to make a few paintings of the O19 and finish a painting of a VOC ship I started several years ago.  I also need to finish a few paintings of flowers and wildlife I have also stated.  Sooooh, stay tuned.
 
Hoi Carl en van harte dank!  Yeah, I figured all yuns would get a kick out of my crude wooden jig    Hey, it worked for me and freed up both hands.
 
Cheers, 

Paul! we miss you! Where are you??
 
Hope everything it´s fine and see you and your Scharnhorst soon...
 
Best wishes,
 
 
Daniel.

Congratulations Mark! Defenetly version two looks better than V.1.0. That "1-23c.jpg" looks sharp and true...
 
Best wishes and happy modelling!
 
 
Daniel.

Hello Piet!
 
I thought you and your O19 was almost done or done... But not it does not! When are you going to stop deteiling her??
 
It´s amazing the amount of detail and the sizes you deal with, really admirable. I still remember the discusion about putting or not the rivets and bolts on every single iron plate (hard paper). Way to go Piet!
 
From the "future builds" you have at the bottom of your log, which one is going to be the first?
 
Happy modelling.
 
 
Daniel.

Thank you for all the "likes" and comments. 
 
Hawse timbers... version 4.5 (1 side was replaced once, the other twice).   The hard part (to me) is that lines drawing give no shape to the bow forward of the first cant fram so I'm fumbling with templates and photos.  I think I'm close.  I've filled in most of the low spots and sanded down the highs.  Cherry has this nice feature  that if it ages a bit and darkens, when you sand it the sanded parts become light. This, coupled with a batten and templates gives you a pretty good idea of where one stands in the fairing.
 
They still need more fairing but I need to hold off a bit.  Frankly, I'm getting tired of the sawdust in the air at the moment.     The reality is, I need to put in the gunport sills and fair those in.  And then the interior.  The deck clamp "knees" (actualy just nubs of wood) need to be worked such to give a smooth sheer to the clamps.  I'll have to hold on the clamps though, until the stern is finished.
 
Yes, I'm avoiding the stern like the plague.  Hahn doesn't give you a template on the plans for the transoms so I'm sorting this out.  I have the stern framing showing height and width of the timbers, the side showing the location and depth but no top view showing the shape.  Again, much staring at the prints and Hahn's limited build photos.  This seems to be one of those areas that are "up to the builder" to sort out like the quarter galleries.   Speaking of which I'm also sorting out that area as it's not really defined on the prints as to timbers.  However, I'm putting together a plan, which if it works I'll happy dancing for weeks.
 
So... to the pictures.  The first three show the hawse timbers and cant frames.  None of this will be visible when planked.  The last is kinda' artsy-craftsy looking at the interior so I can get an idea of amount of fairing in there to be done.
 




 
 
As always, feel free to click on any picture to enlarge it to full size.  Oh.. sorry for the sawdust and debris.  I really need to hit this with the shop vac.

Hello everyone and thanks to all who visited and clicked the like button.
 
This rainy morning I made a soldering jig that also functioned as a step rung guide for bending the little lips.  I also made  new rungs for the boarding ladder from 0.4 mm brass shim stock.  Now they are all the same size and fit very snugly in my little jig. 
I just clamped the side braces to the upended parts of the rungs and soldered them nice a tight.  It worked like a charm.
 
Next came the more delicate and trying job in soldering the boarding hooks and the railing holder tube fixtures.  I used a few steel office clamps as heat-sinks and was able to solder these parts on without loosening up the step rungs.  
 
A little cleaning by removing some of the exposed solder, then fitting the railing.  That worked okay as well.  I used some 5 minute epoxy cement to keep the railing rod in place on the stanchions, which make the railing more like one piece.  I can still remove it so the crew can stow the entire boarding ladder away inside the lower part of the con or below decks.
 
The ladder still needs to be cleaned with a cleaning solvent so I can paint it dark grey.  That'll be done tomorrow after I come back from the doctor's office.  (Nothing serious, just a pre-op visit for my next biopsy later in the month).  
 
Okay, here are a few pics of today's work.
 

I took a piece of poplar out of my junkbox and made it 11 mm wide in order to get a 133 mm wide ladder.  I marked the location of the rungs 5 mm apart and sawed slots to a depth of just over 2 mm.  I had to adjust this several times with a 2 mm piece of brass to get the right depth.
Now I could make all 5 of the rungs but after the ends were bend to allow enough solder-hold to the side braces I used my duckbill pliers to make the bends sharp 90 degrees by tapping on the bend with a small hammer.  
 

Here I have inserted all 5 rungs into the jig and clamped a side brace to the jig assembly.  I soldered one side at a time to prevent shifting of the side braces.  This worked real fine.  After both side braces were soldered on I removed the little of the extra solder that usually seeps out or used too much of.
 

This is a close-up of the above picture for more  detail,  You can just see one end of the side brace.
 

Here I have laid out the deck hooks and railing attaching fixtures.  I'm sorry for not having made a few pics of all the steel office clamps that functioned as heat sinks but suffice it to say that it worked great.  Nothing got desoldered and all the parts are nice and square.
Next I assembled the loose parts for the railing and while they are on the boarding ladder, nice and straight, I cemented the railing rod into the stanchion tops.  I used two of the deck railing stanchions for this, waste not want not   
 

This shows the completed boarding ladder on the cutting board looking from the left.  No photo etch here, all hand made 
 

This is looking from the right side.
 

I have made two small holes in the deck for the ladder hooks to fit in and here I have hooked the ladder to the boat.  This is on the starboard side and looking towards the bow.  I still need to make the holes on  the port side.
 

This is looking towards the stern.
 
Cheers,

Hello friends,

I am unfortunately somewhat extremely busy at present.
But the next report is nearly finished

Bye for now