Vivian Galad

I added some small supports around the mast for the tops to rest on, this is not shown in the plans

Joining the fellows in the applause. Great detailing as always, Doris. A masterful skill to astound us all.

Nice progress Marcus. Will you be making curtains (red and white checkered) too?

Welcome Vivian, yes there is still plenty of room. 
 
Finished the bottom plate, foundation wall, frame studs, and the thatch roof templates. 
Cut the lexan for the doors, windows and windows in the thatch roof. 
Added door knobs for the doors and put together the windows that will be installed in the thatch roof. Once dry, sand a bit put primer on, paint all of it Van Dyk green and finalize it with lacquer.
The window shutters will be primed as well and they have a design painted on them. 
Marcus 

Extraordinario.........thank you very much Doris.

And others.....
 
Please enjoy the pics, soon I will add new ones.
 
Best regards, 
Doris

There are increasing other sculptures - karyatides. I like this work very much.....
 

And here starts the most favourite part of my work....
Sculpting of course..... 
 
Apart from the Vale's painting, I get inspiration from period models, paintings + drawings and archaeological finds. I would like to create not only beautiful and detailed sculptures but also more realistic.
 
Some inspiration I find also here:
http://modelforum.cz/viewtopic.php?f=177&t=110763&start=210#p2086152
or
http://modelforum.cz/viewtopic.php?f=177&t=110763&start=225#p2087773
 
So how the sculpting started......
 

I have also placed and glued plexiglass (I use a clear CDs) into the windows and created a diagonal grid with the scalpel as you can also see in plenty of historical paintings by artists - mariners and museum models from that period.
 
http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/65964.html
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-T-1885-A-555
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-T-00-408
 
 

Other pics:
 

And here they are finished:
 

And here are the roofs of QG that were relatively complicated to create:
 

Hello dear friends,
thank you very much for your kind words and comments. I do appreciate them a lot.
I'm finally healthy so I can do my full job at Royal Katherine and enjoy it.
 
To BETAQDAVE: What a lovely parrot you have. My feathered assistants are not very interested in the ship, though one of them loves destroying wooden clothes pegs and cockatiel usually has a rest under the huge ship hull till finally falls asleep.
 
To montañes: Thank you for your praise, Amalio. In actual fact nothing is so difficult as it seems to be. I usually search the the easiest way, how to make various things..... For example here is a video ( I promised some time ago to record a short video, where I am shaping card using steam to achieve better results and perfect final performance):

To popeye the sailor: I suppose there will be a lot of other modifications during the work. I love sailing ships and after finishing Sovereign of the Seas I have finally found another gorgeous ship - Royal Katherine, which I consider to be equally beautiful. I would like to achieve best result and maximally realistic model appearance, as possible and depends also on my abilities of course.  Last week I have started with sculpting and decoration, that is my favourite part of work. 
 

I finished roofs on Quarter Galleries and added a bay window (oriel window) on the stern. I use high quality card finished with black foils. The columns and upper parts of the hull (under railing)are wooden.
 

Wow! That's an interesting project to follow! Will take a seat too! Can I?
 

Hi Mates,
Needed to start this section over – just not “working”. As I had noted in previous update.
Patrick: thanks, yes that would make sense that caulking would not be really needed in a closed section of the ship. I have seen cross section builders have mixed builds in this regard. So I did not know either-way. But your thoughts made the do-over much easier. Thanks for your illustrations as well.
Paul: thanks for you nice comment. And thanks all for dropping by as well.
 
A couple of thoughts – Have not yet determined how many more treenails and or pins to add to the installed lumber.
Once I get the other side installed I will determine how much of the sides will be visible once the rocks, barrels and a side shelf with lumber and ropes are added. Then will add tree….and pins as needed. The floor part will be all covered up with rocks.
 
PS: for the treenails, so far I have found this to be a good substitute. Granted its not a bit darker wood, but it visually works. I drilled .5mm holes slid in a pencil lead and just snapped it off – leaving the lead to fill the hole. Made for very clean and precise holes. The weather and gun decks may not serve too well with this look - (to be determined)
 
And these mixed up lumbers are certainly period incorrect, but they look better IMO than those anemic basswood planks.
 
Cheers,
 

Spanish shipbuilding, 2 centuries earlier.
About the same pricipe. Only  the frames are built differently and there are no ceiling planks on the inside.

After assembling the build board, I began assembling the keel pieces.  In the photo below you see the three elements..The rising wood on top,  the two keel pieces glued together in the center and the false keel below that.  I darkened the seam between the two keel parts so they would really stand out using a soft pencil.  I had my two screws and bolts ready as well.

I used the screws to help align the layers and glue them together.  Note how I left all the laser char in place until after all the keel parts were glued together.  I also darkened the seam between the keel and false keel.
 

Then the rising wood was added but first I needed to glue the two nuts into the laser cut holes provided for them.  I simply placed a nut on the table and positioned the rising wood over the top of it.  Then I pressed down firmly to push the wood over the nut.  This placed the nut perfectly.  I added a drop of glue around the nuts perimeter to secure it flush with the bottom of the rising wood.  I was careful not to get any glue on the threads of the nut.
Then I glued it to the top of the keel.  After applying some titebond I actually screwed it into position to be aligned.  The middle keel was intentionally left a bit wider because now I will remove the laser char.  There is more char on the thicker keel pieces so I left that thicker so it wouldnt be over sanded in the process.  It cleaned up pretty good.  I was careful not to remove too much.  I applied some wipe on poly afterwards.

All cleaned up and test fit with the screws on the work base which you might notice I made a bit wider in this final version...The bottom of the base uses another piece of laser cut wood to make sure the screws dont stick out to far on top of the rising wood.  There are several supplied to use as spacers if need be.  Then I removed the keel to start on the rabbet.


To make the rabbet I used a laser cut scraper tool designed especially for the job.  See below as it is pretty self explanatory.  Brass strip filed to a point and used to make the rabbet.

Several light passes at first working from the center outward.  Then I cleaned up the rabbet with some sand paper and files.

To finish off the keel, I used some 20 pound black fishing line for the bolts.  I realize these would have been copper but I really dont like that look.  But you guys can substitute if you prefer.   I like them blackened as shown instead.  Next up I will detail how to build the frames.
 

Thanks for all the encouragement and likes! 
 
Completed the Main preventer stay, Fore stay and the Fore preventer stay. Same process as the Main stay. I did a much simpler mouse for these and can't visually tell any difference.  It was much easier to do the lanyards on the Fore stays because the location of the hearts. If only the rest of it could be this easy to get to, lol. I couldn't find any illustrations on the proper way to tie off the lanyards so I just did what I could on these.
 
Jesse

Still trying to get caught up with my build log posting. Seems this Lyme is keeping me in sick bay more than the shipyard. Another bad bout with it this week and had to change a starter while sick, no fun.
 
Anyway.....Served and eyed a rope end for the Main Stay. Tried the more elaborate way to make a mouse for it. I have never done this before so I just had to find out how hard it was. Got it done, completed the Mainstay/ lanyards hearts, etc. Even though the heart looks good this way up close under magnification, I just don't see the need for doing it this way at this scale. The next one will be much simpler- winding thread around to proper shape and glue/paint/whatever.
 
Jesse

Rigged the lanyards through the deadeyes. Got all the lower shrouds completed.
 
Jesse

Made brass spacers for the deadeyes. Sorry about some of the pictures not being as clear as others - old damaged camera. 
 

I had to go back and shorten every one of the middle and toe links so that They did not end beyond the wales.  Used a temporary shroud line to line all the chainplate assemblies to the proper angles.. Got them all done and touched up with paint.
 
Jesse

Added the sheer poles fruttock staves and fruttock shrouds. The wood supplied with the kit was too weak for the sheer poles and fruttock staves so I sanded down toothpicks for them, worked much better. Looking at the plans I probably should have the poles about a mm lower but will go with them as they are.
 
(Somehow the pictures loaded in the opposite order that I added them. They should show from the last one to the first)
 
Jesse