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Little more progress.
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One of the things that has really struck me from this book is the author saying that on a 3 year cruise, with all the ports of call they made, they only actually got to go to shore once. Imagine spending 3 weeks in Rio and only getting to look from the harbor. Instead boats would come to the ship and sell local fruits and what not, and even that was tightly controlled. The author says that throughout a 3 year cruise, a crewman would only be given about $10 of his pay to spend on those things. The purser would deliberately withhold the rest of the pay so that the crewman had money when he got home from the cruise.
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I've found as I am building the Victory, I often ponder what life must have been like on those ships. One day I set about to google said question and found an interesting book. Man-of-War Life: A Boy's Experience in the United States Navy during a Voyage around the World in a Ship of the Line This may be one some of you have read before but I've never heard of it and amazingly enough there is a free digitized copy online at: https://archive.org/stream/warlifeboysmanof00nordrich#page/n7/mode/2up From what I can tell the digitized copy has had the years replaced(sometime in the mid 1800's is when it's set) and the name of the ship removed(USS Columbus). Even with all that, it makes for a fascinating read, or you could just pay the $6 for the real thing on Amazon.
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Thanks Alde! She's definitely a monster. I've been looking forward to starting on this kit for 7 years now and am can't wait to get to the detail portion. So many ideas running through my head.
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I love the TV tray! I'm trying to convince the admiral that I need a 32" TV to put on the wall in the shipyard. She's not going for it yet. I'll be curious to follow your Wasa build as I'm thinking that might be my next major build. My plan as of right now is to bash the hell out of this Victory kit. Once it's finished I am going to build the cross section and display them together in the same case. After that, I'm thinking the Wasa will be next. Of course by then we may all be living on starships so who knows.
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Pretty slow going at this stage but progress is being made nonetheless.
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Grant, Every time I see your ship I get inspired. Your log is one of the tabs that perpetually stays open on every browser I have. My only complaint is that I have to finish this tedious planking to get to the making it look pretty parts
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It looks(for now at least) that three planks will be about perfect to space it. At 3 planks it lifts the 2nd deck line by right about the same amount as the first deck had to be adjusted so that seems like it would keep the factory proportions in place. Subject to change after researching in Longridge
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I have two main fears with trying to scratch build that many frames. 1) I don't have the material to build them and 2) I think I would struggle building that many consistent frames. I've been pondering that exact question as I work on this first row. The two approaches I'm weighing right now are either to use the existing slots for the bottom two decks since they are already set to follow the curvature of the hull and what not. Or...to use a set number of planks(2 seems to be right) from the bottom of the first gun frames. I would welcome any input in that regard.
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Working on fitting the gun ports for the top deck. As has been noted by others, the precut slots do not at all line up with the deck height. You can see my test fit cannon as I fit each port one at a time.
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Longridge just arrived Got it used on Amazon for under $40. The receipt from when it was purchased in 1991 was still in the book, and I don't think it has been opened since. Looks like an awesome book that should inspire a great deal of kit bashing.
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I only wish I had half the cool tools you do. I'm doing what I can with a dremel and a mini-lathe.
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Changes to the Admiral's guest room must be done incrementally so she doesn't notice too much happening at once. Although there is something to be said for a big comfy throne and ipad for Netflix(err...I mean research). I also have a workbench in the garage with a proper working stool and what not if the build begins to require it.
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So after being brought before the mast by Capt Grant I felt I must restore my honor. Below is the revised shipyard.
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Lol. You've busted me Grant! I've got a table at work I'm planning to "borrow". Just have to take some severs off of it.
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Finally got a picture to attach.
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First planks glued.(having a hard time attaching pictures)
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Nevermind. Can't bring myself to take a break from victory. She's too beautiful of a ship. Time to start fairing the frames.
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Now that I've got my lathe figured out, I'll be taking a break from victory to do the rigging on my San Mateo. I'll also be studying Longridge during that time to get a handle on planking patterns.
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Eric, One thing you might consider...If you acquire McKay's drawings, you can copy the relevant sections on a photocopier and blow up to the correct scale. For example, I believe to go from his 1/190th scale to 1/90 you do a magnification of like 242% or something like that. Anyways, the math could be pretty easily calculated for the 1/78 scale of the Jotika. From there you will have an extremely accurate set of 1:1 drawings to make patterns off of, etc...
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I think I should be able to get the lines roughed in using McKay's book and get started on that. The timing works out pretty well because I think my brother has made me a steamer box for christmas(haven't made it to see that part of the family yet to do christmas with them) so that should help with plank bending. Also ordered Longridge the other day so excited for that new reading material to come in.
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Hmm...well with as fantastic as yours looks, and with the fact that the plans don't seem to specify such, I'd be afraid to just freehand my own and am now considering leaving Rabbet/Bearding out. Thoughts from anyone?
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Grant, Did you do a bearding/rabbet line on yours before planking? The instructions don't mention it anywhere and I'm at the point where I have to start beveling the frames so thought in would ask.
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They give you those ridiculous greenish plastic window molds that look like they came from a snap right car kit. I've been experimenting with the Testors window making glue that I found laying around in my modeling supplies and have had great results with that. Very transparent but with enough distortion to look like very old glass.
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After a couple more rereads of the instructions I realized the stern gallery does indeed have to be built up so started working on that tonight. The red fabric you see is my attempt to color match the curtains in Nelson's cabin and make curtains on my own kit. I'm hoping that once the windows are glazed that you will be able to pick up just a hint of the color and get the effect.
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