La Couronne by majq - Mantua - 1:98

[majq]

Last 5 photos shows current state of my build. No description is needed, just enjoy.

On P1010322 picture you can see strips placed on hull side for exact fit brass decorations

 

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HERE BACKUP OF MY OLD THREAD ENDS

AND I WILL POST HERE SOME HISTORIC PICTURES

WHICH I FOUND ON MY COMPUTER, WITH FEW COMMENTS.

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photos about how I made galleries

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galleries mounted on the ship

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recasting of parts for turrets, that plywood parts provided in kit were ugly, I re-made them from walnut

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assembilng of turrets for galleries

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roof for turrets. firstly I tried to make a "star" and cover it by strips -> terrible job. then I decided to make it in another way, sand them from one piece of together glued walnut pieces...

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pics:

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making stern galleries

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stem turrets and some work on stem doors :-)

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remake of roof for ship entrance doors, ladder with entrance balcony (very precious, I think) ;-)

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various pictures from 13.3.2011

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March 2011 - entrance to the stern, I made this entrance as per Lusci's plans, I think it is better than a big hole designed by Mantua. Last two pics - hook for alarm bell and catheads. Rollers in catheads are also hand made, it was terrible work

 

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last pictures are from near past. Mantua provided very nice plastic lifeboats in the kit. I did not want to make my ship ugly with

that plastic pieces, so I decided to build lifeboat from scratch.

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I improved lifeboat by rudder, made anchor and place the boat to holders.

 

 

And now please vote, what lifeboat looks better in ship ?

Plastic or wooden one ?

[majq]

I may add, that your deck gratings are a bit over-sized.   But a superb build nonetheless. 

 

Hi Brian, thanks for the first post to my thread and thanks for comments.

Regarding gratings - they do not look oversized to me, I made them in the size as per Mantua plans, I did not ever think that they are oversized.

However I cannot remake them yet now, they must be as they are.

Thanks for compliment, it is my first ship build and I think that it looks OK ;-)

[majq]

Hi Gary,

 

thanks for such kind words, I am very glad. To be honest, the laser cutting technology was not such advantage in my case, as you can see from one image in my posts, some pieces are not in correct size. Moreover, that pre-cutted pieces are from ugly plywood, when you do not paint the ship, you simply cannot use them, because plywood is ugly looked material and there were edges "burned" by laser. I used only parts from kit, which will not be seen, others I had to remake from walnut. To be honest, galleries were also challenge for me ;-)

 

Btw, do you have any photos of your La Couronne ?

 

Thanks for your comnments.

 

Regards,

 

Michal

[Foremast]

Hello Majq!

What's the name of that wonderful child I have seen looking at your log?

Glad to see you and your building in MSW

 

Alex

[majq]

Hi Alex,

 

it is my first son Vojtech (I do not know if there is any English equivalent for this name). He is 4 years old now. I posted his photo on old MSW and I also do it here, so you can imagine where I was with my build a 4 years ago. Since that time, my second son Adam was born. I cannot make girls

 

Michal

[Foremast]

You're doing a truely good model (now I can see here much more details), and you've done a beautiful child.

Regards

Alex

[majq]

Alex, you are Alex whom I know from modellismo.net, aren't you ?

 

I had to rebuild my log here, because it was lost due to HDD failure on server, as moderator said.

 

I believe that I will capture some current photos of La couronne during a weekend and update both posts

here and on modellismo.

 

Michal

[majq]

Hi,

 

as I promised, here are photos of current state of my La Couronne.

Enjoy !

 

Michal

[majq]

next set

[Foremast]

wooooww .....

 

Alex

 

p.s. Yes, I'm the same Alex

[Landlubber Mike]

Wow, gorgeous build!

[Ferit]

Yes... Wow...

Very impressive, very clean...

[rafterrat_2005]

Nice jig, looks even better than one can buy, I will make one too. I am excited to get mine this week 2/9/14. I will follow your build .received our tax's back so I bought 2 models, beside this one I bought Astrolabe and the wife doesn't know. your work looks very well done here. 

[rafterrat_2005]

can I get the measurements for the life boat.

[SawdustDave]

Hi Michael:

Glad I came across your magnificent La Couronne build. She is beautiful. Great work!

This ship has special meaning to me personally as it was my first model ship....scratch built from a set of plans downloaded from the internet.

I'm afraid my work was quite crude at the time compared to your fine work. Nonetheless, I am now on my 10th project after taking a two year break.

Thanks for sharing your work.

Dave

[NMBROOK]

Hi Michal

I remember your log from the previous MSW although I was not a member then.She looks fabulous    Your build has reminded me what a magnificent model she can be built into.I was toying with building her many years ago,but my attention was drawn away with other projects.I may well have to look again at this model in the future as she is what I would describe as an archetypal 'galleon' with many characterful and unusual features. 

Fabulous work!

 

Kind Regards

 

Nigel