ancre La Créole 1827 by archjofo - Scale 1/48 - French corvette

[matiz]

Fantastic job 😍

[archjofo]

@matiz

 

Hello Tiziano,

thank you for your nice comment.

I'm particularly pleased to receive such praise from such a fantastic model maker.

Of course I would also like to thank everyone else for the LIKES.

 

Hello fellow model builders,
today I would like to present to you my new video about the yards and spars of the La Créole.
I hope you enjoy it: LINK

 

Edited November 28 by archjofo

[archjofo]

Hello colleagues,

Today I would like to thank you all for the positive reactions to my last video. Because of my son's house construction, which of course requires a lot of my time as a retired architect, I have hardly had time to do any model building lately. So I at least enjoyed putting together a video.

But things will continue here soon...
 

[archjofo]

Addition of the lifts of the lower yards - Balancines de basse vergue
Usually, as can be read in the specialist literature in the book "Manuel de gréement" by F. A. Coste, Paris 1829, the lifts of the lower yards were secured using tackles, each at the height of the 2nd shroud of the respective lower mast. This is also how J. Boudriot illustrated it in the monograph on La Créole, as shown below.

Source: Monograph La Créole by Jean Boudriot

 

On the original Paris model, I identified the lifts as shown in a diagram:

 

Source: Musée national de la Marine de Paris - La Créole

 

However, no tackles can be seen there. The lifts were simply attached to the upper part of the tackle ropes at the height of the 2nd shroud. This easier handling of the lifts could have been due to the size of the ship, or is it a simplification by the contemporary model maker?
We will never be able to find out.
However, I find this type of seamanlike handling of the lifts rather impractical and have therefore decided to use tackles, whose ropes can then be properly secured on the inside.
I wouldn't exactly describe my model as a "pile of evidence" as a dear forum colleague once described his project. However, I have implemented a large number of details on the model that seemed plausible to me after research. I cannot provide 100% proof of this, but solutions that actually existed and generally fit into the temporal and country-specific context of La Créole.
In this respect, I will basically attach the lifts as follows:

Source: Excerpt from Atlas du Génie Maritime annexe N.1, Pl. 20

 

However, I will only use a double block at the top and a single block at the bottom for the tackle.
To be continued...
 

[dvm27]

I believe that is a very workable solution Johann. It is, of course, preferable to use the contemporary model as a primary source but I think sometimes we take these models as gospel. It is possible that the original builder made errors, took time saving shortcuts or omitted details because of any reason you could think of that is just as relevant to us modern builders. Perhaps, being near the end of the rigging process he just wanted to be done and chose this quick and easy method to end the line. I do know that, in 150 years, someone making a model of your model will have the most complete and well researched Creole model ever built.

[archjofo]

@dvm27

 

Hello Greg,

I'm extremely pleased that such a profound and excellent model maker sees it the same way as I do.

In 150 years there probably won't be much left of the silk rigging.
But since I have documented everything in detail, the model could be easily restored ... 😉

[Keith Black]

3 hours ago, archjofo said:

the model could be easily restored

 Only by someone with your modeling and rigging abilities and I dare say it would be anything but easy. 

[archjofo]

@Keith Black

Thank you for your nice comment.

 

Continuation: Addition of the lifts of the lower yards – Balancines de basse vergue
In the last post I described why and how I will carry out the tackles of the lifts from the lower yards. I have drawn a corresponding sketch for this.
First I made a swivel for this, as can be seen in the following picture. It was made in the same way as the swivel hooks for the topsail halyards.
Two opposing notches are filed into a brass disk d = 0.3 mm with a ø 2.3 mm and a bore ø 0.8 mm, which then accommodate the ø 0.4 mm thick brass bow wire for soldering. The eyebolt is secured so that it can rotate freely with a soldered brass sleeve.

Next, the double and single blocks for the tackles have to be made. I will again equip the larger blocks for the lifts of the main and fore yard with real disks.

At this point I would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a good start into the New Year!

 

[Keith Black]

Johann, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours.

[MarcM]

Johann, frohes Weihnachten und alles bestes ins neues jahre 2025