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

[archjofo]

21 hours ago, BETAQDAVE said:

    Put a charge of black powder and one of those canon balls in it, and see if it fires off a round!  It looks like it would work to me. 

Hi Dave,

I'm pretty sure it works …        

[archjofo]

Hi,
the gun deck of the French Corvette - CORVETTE LA CRÈOLE DE 24 BOUCHES A FEU - is now complete.
There are 20 x 30-pounder carronades and 4 x 18-pounder cannons.
Here are a few views:

[Peta_V]

That is So clean and great! Awesome! 😲👏

[vossiewulf]

Johann, it seems like with the gunport lids having a hole in them that this corvette always stowed its guns outboard like that, instead of inboard with the gun muzzle against the bulkheads? When did they start doing that? Also, it seems to me if you're stowing the guns that way, you're putting a lot of faith in the tampions that they won't allow any water in with the muzzle exposed to rain and spray.

 

And the whole thing is extremely perfect. The gundeck would definitely pass the captain's inspection.

[gjdale]

Magnificent!

[cog]

Wunderbar, Johann, sieht ja toll aus

[jimvanlan99]

Johann - simply beautiful!  Inspirational for those of us who love the ship modeling hobby.

 

[wefalck]

A lot of French ships of that time did have half-lid gun-ports and stowed their guns that way on the upper deck. Below is an image of the BELLE POULE (1834) in the Musée de la Marine in Paris that shows the same arrangement (sorry for the pixelated image, but the lighting for conservation reasons was a bit dim):

 

And indeed, the model of the CRÉOLE in the same museum has this arrangement. It is not Johann's invention.

[archjofo]

6 hours ago, vossiewulf said:

Johann, it seems like with the gunport lids having a hole in them that this corvette always stowed its guns outboard like that, instead of inboard with the gun muzzle against the bulkheads? When did they start doing that? Also, it seems to me if you're stowing the guns that way, you're putting a lot of faith in the tampions that they won't allow any water in with the muzzle exposed to rain and spray.

 

And the whole thing is extremely perfect. The gundeck would definitely pass the captain's inspection.

@vossiewulf

Hi,

Wefalck has already answered your question correctly.

Thanks to Eberhard (Wefalk) for the good explanation.

 

 

Edited March 31, 2019 by archjofo

[jose_b]

Outstanding!, I can see perfection everywhere.

[mtaylor]

Beautiful work, Johann.  I am in awe.

[EJ_L]

Simply stunning Johann. You are a true master of the art.

[rwiederrich]

painstaking detail in the extreme.....words cannot describe the emotions induced by your work....

 

Breathless...….

 

Rob

[archjofo]

Thank you for your interest and nice comments.

That pleases me very much.

 

This is how it continues:

For the boomkins I made the shoulder blocks. In the original, these blocks were 27.1 cm long.

Edited April 6, 2019 by archjofo

[KORTES]

Johann your handicraft is truly amazing!

My best regards.

Alexander.

[archjofo]

Thank you Alexander,
for your positive response.

And here it goes on with small steps:

The ropes for the boomkin shrouds were served and the other part prepared.

The first boomkin shroud was set and the shoulder block at the end of the boomkin was attached.

[paulsutcliffe]

As I have mentioned before I think, those are proper hooks, well done beautiful work as usual

Regards

Paul

 

[Ferit]

Hi Johann,

 

May I learn how you tied that knot? ( I cannot see the other side)

Thank you.

 

[archjofo]

Hi Ferit,
I hope that the two pictures show you how it works.

[Ferit]

Mastery and Courtesy...

Thank you Johann...

[archjofo]

 

 

The construction report is continued with the rigging of the bowsprit.
It starts with the jib boom footropes.
The jib boom footropes, usually fitted in pairs. They were secured to the 

bowsprit cap.

Here are some pictures:

[rwiederrich]

Amazing...just amazing.

 

Rob

[archjofo]

Hi Rob,
I wish you a happy Easter and all the others.
Hopefully we all have some relaxing days with nice weather.
 

Here is a quick update to the construction report:

The strop for the preventer bobstay is covered with real leather.

The leather has a thickness of 0,2 mm, self-split.

[vossiewulf]

5 hours ago, archjofo said:

The leather has a thickness of 0,2 mm, self-split with a totally awesome self-made leather splitter

Fixed that sentence for you

 

[cog]

Impeccable,  Johann, couldn't discern it from the real sized one ...

[archjofo]

Hello

thanks in Advance for the nice comments and the LIKES.

 

To be continued:

Other tackle elements for the bowsprit were manufactured and installed. There are then later fixed different stays.

I show step by step how to dress a strop with genuine leather.

First step:

Second step:

Third step:

Fourth step:

[Hubac's Historian]

WOW a your chandlery and rigging skills are just out of this world!  And the model is quite a piece of shipcraft, in itself!  I am humbled and amazed.

[Jeronimo]

Hi Johann.

 

Fantastic work and executed perfectly.

 

Karl

[Erebus and Terror]

Johann, the leather dressing looks excellent. What leather product did you use? 

[archjofo]

@Erebus and Terror

 

Hi, 

thank you for your positive feedback.

It´s real goatskin, which I bougt on the internet.
Since this leather is much too thick for this use, I have split it with a simple device.

You can do that here see: LINK