Shamrock

I just noticed that the Eskader shop is celebrating their 90:th anniversary and are selling out a lot of old kits. If you are looking for something special it might be of interest (does not know if they ship outside Sweden, but it may be worth to try)

https://www.eskader.se/sv/43-eskader-showcase?page=6 - ships start from this page

Maybe not the part of the world that you are looking for, but the city of Karlskrona in Sweden is a world heritage site with lots of history. It is still a naval port, with modern shipyard, but a lot of the old buildings (one of the earliest dry docks, ropewalk building and so on) are still there - possible to visit with a guide (as I said, naval area - no free roaming around) Naval City of Karlskrona - World Heritage Sweden

The whole city is built for the naval port with wide streets (to parade through)

Take a look att google maps - satellite view.

Made my military service there in the seventies on the island of Kungsholmen - Kungsholms fort - a fortification at the Karlskrona inlet.

Can´t tell you about any brothels though......, but outside of that the city is well worth both some closer studies and maybe a visit

This is an interesting site  - also in english  Start | Världsarvet Örlogsstaden Karlskrona (orlogsstadenkarlskrona.se)

10 hours ago, kpnuts said:

Next update working on the rear wheel this is what pocher would have you use.

So for the horrendously expensive price of £7.50(including postage)I got these.

Money well spent, the eagle eyed among you will notice I even put the yellow paint on the allen bolts to show if they have loosened. They would even have you attach the rear sprocket with Phillip's screws.

 

 

 

Hi, I recently bought this kit together with the detail-up set of screws, but as I understand from this post is that the abovementioned screws are not included? So where did you find them?

Great personal detail-up, I will certainly steal ideas from you!!

//S

Would an early touchdown (before a wire) rip the landing gear off, or are the wires low positioned so that the wheels will roll over? Anyway - very impressive build when seeing the detailing and weathering👏

Really a great idea - I began to wonder a few posts ago why the supports where sideways (have not read all postings) - but now I see. And no need for a shelf........ 👏

Excellent! The blueish colour is new to me, was it used only in the Pacific? A certain period and only on some ships? I have always had the impression that WW2 warships were grey or maybe camouflage pattern (like Bismarck). It looks great, and the rubber marks on the flight deck is also great.

I guess that she will be really impressed....... or am I wrong?

So far it has been with great delight that I have follow your progress - impressive (showed some pictures of PE where you can see the "smallness" - she was impressed but commented " I hope you are not going to build something as big as that"

Shamrock

When drilling several holes in plastic models (motorcycle brake disc vent holes scale 1:12) I have found that using a tool that you can hold like a pencil. Dremel or Proxxon multitool or a simple pin vice (I use Amatis), will put less stress sideways on the drill - thus less drill breakage

Shamrock

Any reviews or experiences on this kit? Bought it second hand from ebay. Looks fine, but quite old, no laser-cutting, have to do it with a scroll saw. Major problem is  - instructions are all in german. Has anyone got an english language instruction??

A beatiful ship!! And the craftmanship looks really great.

No worries mate (about the frame thickness). As you say - when you are ready the overall impression will be great

Shamrock

Your ropes looks great to me.

Is there any tricks or advices you can share if I try one? Or is it just trial and error to getting used to it?

Shamrock

Thanks

Good advice is always listened to

Shamrock

Has anyone tested or read a review on the Amati ropewalk?

It looks very simple and the price seems fair, but does it work properly?

Shamrock

Great job. Nice and clean details - I am in awe!

Shamrock

What a kit! I do not think I can stop myself from getting it - even though I have too much in pipeline right now (three ships, two motorcycles)

For anyone wanting to put som extra effort (and too much money) into this kit, I found this http://shop.autographmodel.com/L-P-1-8-motor-kit-Arno-Hydroplane-Ferrari-Engine

"Only" 900 euro!!! I am lucky that it is not in stock - the Admiral would have me keel-hauled. But what a kit!!! The building instruction is downloadable if you want to torture yourself

Scamrock

Hi

decided to more businesslike coils than the Flemish type. This is how it looks.

From the Royal celebration - King Oscar II 25 years on the throne.

Outside Grand Hotel and a general picture from the Stockholm stream

Oscar - a small freighter that my great grandfather used in Göta kanal to ship bobins for spinning machines to Gothenburg

Some guys in Copenhagen who are ignorant about the use of razors.

Thank you for "die Erklärung" - pity it is long gone - would have been nice to see it when passing through Kiel.

Shamrock

:)I think your assumption might be correct

Shamrock

This picture from 1895 bears the note "Kiel restaurant" - to me it looks like a real ship (except for the entrances)......... or is it a fakebuílt restaurant posing as a ship?

At the same time the next picture was taken "Inauguration of the Kiel channel"

Maybe someone is interested in a few old photos taken by my great grandfather. All of them are taken around 1880-1900

Can not add them in the running text since there seems to be some problems with Windows 8.1 / IE11 on this site.

1 Erato - owned by my great grandfather and used for pleasure and also in his business - he exported wooden bobins for spinning machines used in the British textile industry.

2 Erato in Travemûnde

3 4 5 Marstrand harbour on the Swedish west coast. Marstrand is known for being icefree almost any winter and also because king Oscar II used to spend part of the summer there. The Swedish gentry used to follow behind.

6 Marstrand  - I think it is the Royal Yacht that you can see in the background

Got a couple of pictures outside of these  - e.g. ships crew - if anyone is interested

Shamrock

Hi

thank you for a very complete answer. I feel more relaxed now and will - as you suggest - "see every part as a single model", will certainly make one think before acting wich is what I need to do.

I do not have any photos from the Shamrock build since I started and finished it about 7-8 years ago - long before I found this site. So it is only sails that I am finishing right now, but I will add some photos of the model when I have completed it.

Once again - thanks a lot

Shamrock (name stolen from the model)

Hi Tony

would you say that the difficulty level of your Sherbourne is "Beginner" - as it says on CMBs website? To me it looks quite demanding. Reason for asking is that I am finishing my Amati Shamrock (with resin hull) and thinking that "Beginner" is correct level for me when starting a double planked model, I ordered the Chatham from them. But looking at your model there seems to be a lot of difficulties to overcome. Should I have a nervous breakdown right now?

Shamrock

Good day to you

There has actually been built a fullscale windwagon by som guys here in Sweden. They had a background as volunteers in building the ship "Göteborg" and found some information about a design by Thomas Smith, who built the original in 1853.

When ready they used the wagon named "Astrakan" and sailed through the Nevada desert to the film festíval "Burning man" 2012

Look in youtube - search "windwagon"

Oooops!!

Quite a lot of answers - I followed the idea to make it seaworhty instead of nicelooking flemish coils and got very satisfied with the result. I will post some pictures later on. There is no use to start a thread about building in progress since the model is finished except for the rope coils and the sails.

Thanks to all of you!!!