HMS Vulture 1776 by Dan Vadas - FINISHED - 1:48 scale - cross-section - from TFFM books

[Greg the peg leg sailor]

G'day Danny

Thanks for your answer! Beautiful and your master craftmanships is showing thought (like always).

I've got another question if you don't mind: I presume that the "anchor stock planking" (picture below) is used to help to "hold" the ship together and to add extra rigidity to the ship. Am I right or wrong?

thanks mate

Greg

[Remcohe]

Looking great Danny, the tennons are a nice detail on the stanchions.

 

Remco

Edited February 26, 2016 by Remco

[Louie da fly]

Lovely work, Danny. It's a pleasure to look at and follow. I'll be happy if I can do half as well when it comes to detail.

 

Steven

[gjdale]

Lovely piece of joinery there Danny.

[albert]

Hi Danny great beautiful work.

[AnobiumPunctatum]

Dan,

 

as allways, very clean and crisp work. I like your idea with the cut outs and think that I will copy this, if I build a section.

[BANYAN]

Excellent joinery Dan- looking very tight!

 

cheers

 

Pat

[Richard Griffith]

Very inspirational Dan~!  

Thanks for taking the time to photo and post so we can enjoy your work.

 

Duff 

[Dan Vadas]

I presume that the "anchor stock planking" (picture below) is used to help to "hold" the ship together and to add extra rigidity to the ship. Am I right or wrong?

 

 

Something like that Greg . It's used where the strains on the planking are greatest, such as the Spirketting and Deck Planking around the Gunports, and the Wales.

 

Thanks to all the others for their comments and Likes .

 

I started the Upper Deck framing the same way as the lower deck by temporarily installing the three Beams. Next I made the Upper Deck Main Mast Partners.

 

You may remember from the full model that these differ significantly from some of the earlier Swan Class ships in that they are angled :

 

 

 

I've also made and (once again temporarily) fitted the Lodging Knees and most of the Carlings, some of which can be seen below marked out for the Ledges. All these pieces will be removed later to cut the various mortices :

 

 

 

 

Last thing for now I've made up the Main Topsail Sheet Bitt Pins :

 

 

 

 

 

This will be the last I can do on my model for a little while as I'm ONCE AGAIN (6th time in 7 years) moving house, having sold my caravan where I've been living for the past couple of years (I just got word that the money has been deposited into my account ) and I'll be moving back into my own house. Ironically, this is where I first built my workshop .

 

See you all in a couple of weeks when I get settled in again.

 

  Danny

[GLakie]

Congratulations Danny! I know what it's like to not sleep in an actual bed for long periods. Hope all goes smoothly! 

[RichardG]

All the best with the move. 

 

Richard.

[BANYAN]

Swee-eet work Danny, looking very good.

 

Great to hear you will be back in your 'office' again mate; must have been a real pain with all that moving.  Impressed that you have been able to achieve what you have given the circumstances. 

 

cheers

 

Pat

[Greg the peg leg sailor]

G'day Danny

Thanks again for your indepth answer, much appreciated.

What can I say about your latest log, which hasn't been said before! Jist brilliant as always.

Thanks heaps mate and havagoodmove.again

Greg

[gjdale]

Hey, great news Danny! Best wishes for a pain-free move.

[druxey]

Hopefully the end of your nomadic period, Dan? Nice looking main mast partners. See you when you return.

[mtaylor]

I hope all goes well on this move with everything undamaged.  Moves are always traumatic no matter how many times you do them.  See you when you're back.  And congrats on selling the caravan.

[cog]

Then one wonders why you left your house and workshop in the first place ... Wouldn't it have been easier to stay put ...???

 

CHeers

[Dan Vadas]

Thanks for the wishes guys .

 

Wouldn't it have been easier to stay put ...???

 

 

That's what happens when "life" throws you a couple of curve-balls Carl .

 

  Danny

[rth385]

Hi Danny,

Fantastic(as usual) so far. Good luck with a damage free move!

Maybe you can rethink rigging her, now that the mast won't poke through the roof!!!!

Look forward to the next post.

Regards,

Russell

[cog]

Have a safe and sound move, Danny.  Looking forward to your updates on the cross-section ...

[Dan Vadas]

Hi all,

 

I've moved house and have my workshop up and running again (in a fashion, lots of unpacking still to do). Work has resumed on the cross-section, but updates will need to wait a few days as my computer didn't survive the move intact. Should get it back from the shop soon.

 

 Danny

[cog]

Dan,

 

Good it was merely your PC and not the cross section!!! Good to hear you 'survived' the move!!! Look forward to your updates ...

 

Cheers

[Greg the peg leg sailor]

"The measure and merit of an individual is not how they handle themselves in times of prosperity and good will, but how they handle themselves in times of turmoil and chaos"

 

G'day Dany

This quote of yours is so true.

Looking forward for your next update with open hands.

Havagooday mate

Greg

[gjdale]

Glad to hear the went well (mostly) Danny. Looking forward to further updates.

[Dan Vadas]

Thanks all for the wishes on my latest (and hopefully FINAL move ) . As I said earlier my computer didn't survive intact, but after a couple of trips to the local Computer Guy I'm finally back on-line .

 

I've been doing a bit of work on the Cross-section in between all the usual unpacking, setting up a (sort of so far) workshop etc. Here's the update to where I am now - although I'm a bit further on that what I'm showing here.

 

I've decided to install the Hammock Battens on this model. I left them off the full model as they would have been all but invisible. First I cut some English Box into the profile sections. Then I sliced off the appropriate widths :

 

 

 

 

Next I rounded off the sections of batten, cut them to length and fitted them into the areas where they would have been :

 

 

 

 

  Danny

[Dan Vadas]

I've also made all the Gratings. Unlike the "store bought" gratings these are to the right scale. The athwartships pieces are a mere 3/4" thick (real size) which translates down to 0.38mm in 1:48 scale. All the pieces were cut and mortised using the Byrnes Table Saw and Micrometer Gauge :

 

 

 

 

I made a Jig to aid in assembly :

 

 

 

 

  Danny

[Jim Lad]

Delightful gratings, Danny.

 

John

[mtaylor]

Sweet work on the details.. the battens and the grates.  Let's hope this is your last move, Danny.  Being a nomad is rough on building ships.

[Mirabell61]

great work on the gratings Danny !

 

Nils

[gjdale]

Nice to see you back at the bench Danny. Great looking hammock battens and gratings too.