johannesludo5 Posted March 26, 2013 #31 Posted March 26, 2013 HI SIR very nice work on yours model and good pictures thanks JOHN Quote
jack.aubrey Posted March 26, 2013 Author #32 Posted March 26, 2013 HI SIR very nice work . . . . thanks JOHN Hi John, unfortunately i'm not yet knighted, probably next year . . anyway many thanks for your comment. Monday August 17th, 2009 I was back from holidays in the first days of August, but there was a very hot weather and it was very difficult to find the will to work. Only in these last three/four days the weather cooled down, in particular during the early hours of the morning, before breakfast, when I decided to restart the shipyard. So i repeated the similar tasks I made on the lower deck also for this intermediate deck, starting with the structure of the gun ports, painting the guns and the trucks, installing other simple elements and planking the outside bulwarks. After I worked inside the hull, preparing the structure for the internal planking . . and after the necessary refinements I completed one half of the internal bulwarks, applying red coloured strips 5x2 I'm still in the process to finish the internal sides, copleted only on the right . . here a whole viewpoint image . . Additional images will follow, cheers, Jack.Aubrey Quote
jack.aubrey Posted March 26, 2013 Author #33 Posted March 26, 2013 (edited) Friday August 21st, 2009 Here follow four new images of the model. Since last Monday I didn't work on the model because the weather is really impossible. I don't have at home an air-conditioner (my women, wife and daughters, didn't want to install it in 2004, to avoid to pollute) so I found relief going to supermarkets and shopping centers . . where the air conditioning is free, you can eat at low cost, you can make shopping and see people, nice or ugly, . . that probably had my same idea to stay fresh . . Here below her majesty Reàl Armada Navio "Nuestra Senora De La Santìsima Trinidad": 01 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050852.jpg 02 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050853.jpg 03 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050855.jpg 04 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050858.jpg See you soon. Jack.Aubrey Edited September 20, 2017 by jack.aubrey Quote
jack.aubrey Posted March 27, 2013 Author #34 Posted March 27, 2013 (edited) Thurday September 3rd, 2009 The weather is finally less warm and it is now possible to restart working around the cross section. Here below the main achievements: a) stairway to connect the lower deck to the intermediate deck. Nothing particularly difficult but I installed it in a reversed order, so the steps are not well right aligned . . 01 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050866.jpg Beams and pillars of the upper gun deck ready to be installed. In the image these elements are only positioned just to take photos but they are not fixed. Before doing so I have to install the four guns of the intermediate deck. 02 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050868.jpg Long 24 pdr guns: I have prepared two of them . . here I have planned two tackles instead of one to pull back the gun. I have used barrells and trucks as supplied with the kit. I painted the barrels and the trucks and i bored the truck to install the four blocks for the tackles. 03 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad%20640/P1050871.jpg 04 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad%20640/P1050870.jpg See you next time, Jack.Aubrey. Edited September 20, 2017 by jack.aubrey Quote
jack.aubrey Posted March 28, 2013 Author #35 Posted March 28, 2013 (edited) Thursday September 4th, 2009 Here are five new images of my cross section model. I continued my work around the remaining guns for this deck and I began to plank the two elements that will become the upper gun deck. They are not immediately usable now, but only after I will have installed the 24pdr guns and finished the intermediate deck. 01 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050872.jpg 02 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050873.jpg 03 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050867.jpg 04 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050869.jpg 05 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050874.jpg Cheers. Jack.Aubrey Edited September 20, 2017 by jack.aubrey Quote
jack.aubrey Posted March 28, 2013 Author #36 Posted March 28, 2013 (edited) Wednesday September 9th, 2009 I have now finished the upper gun deck, with planks above and beams below and now I cannot pospone the installation of the four 24pdr guns before any other task. But I am not much eager to start this task . . so I decided to try a customization not planned within the kit: the copper plating of the quickwork. I made some test on a piece of unusable wood (it was a mistake while planking a deck) I used for this test the cyan-acrilate glue both in the liquid version and in the gel version. The gel demonstrated better usable, but it is more expensive. I will retain the material from this test to experiment a couple of ageing tecniques suggested me by some people. 01 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050912.jpg Then, having decided to proceed with copper plating, I bought the coppers plates (+/- 360) required in a modelling shop and started to work on the model. I found plates that have a dimension that should reasonably match the scale of this cross section (1:90). Here below some images of the plates applied on the hull. The work is relatively easy and relaxing. The exceeding part of the plates can be detached the day after with scissors and refined with a sanding block. It is important to apply the right quantity of glue, the exceeding one must be removed as soon as possible and as well as possible otherwise may interfere with the ageing procedure. The whole task is very repetitive but relaxing, with the help of some good music in the background . . this at least for a cross section, copper plating an entire hull should be surely another thing. 02 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050913.jpg 03 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050914.jpg 04 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050915.jpg 05 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050916.jpg See you soon, Jack.Aubrey Edited September 20, 2017 by jack.aubrey Quote
jack.aubrey Posted March 28, 2013 Author #37 Posted March 28, 2013 (edited) Monday September 14th, 2009 I spent the weekend to work as a tiler ! Here below the quickwork with the all the copper plates applied. I wrote "all" also if honestly the plates around the keel are missing. But I cannot install them now. The price to pay is a new basement, I imagine you can easily understand why, and I don't want to build another basement now. I prefer to wait until the right moment, so I have stored the remaining plates to finish later to cover the keel. 01 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050917.jpg 02 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050918.jpg 03 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050919.jpg 04 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050920.jpg 05 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050921.jpg And now I cannot walk around my destiny, now I have to take care of the four guns. I have also decided to leave the copper as it is, without trying any ageing technique for now, just to see what happens with a natural oxidation, I can wait and see without problems for a couple of months or more. Cheers. Jack.Aubrey. Edited September 20, 2017 by jack.aubrey Quote
jack.aubrey Posted March 28, 2013 Author #38 Posted March 28, 2013 (edited) Monday September 21st, 2009 Closed for now the break with the copper plates, I'm back to show new achievements on the Santisima Trinidad's cross section. And all the latest news are coming from the installation of the guns. I finally took the will to proceed with them and, after a week of hard work and lot of patience I finished today also this step. I made very few changes to the method used for my previous experience, but this allowed me to work in a more productive way. I also used a different kind of thread that seems to me more realistic. 01 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050925.jpg 02 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050926.jpg The guns are glued to the deck with the cyan-acrilate, gel version. But I am afraid this glue may not be the best glue for this kind of joint. It is the same I used for the lower deck but I have in mind a change for this task that I will use for the incoming upper gun deck. 03 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050927.jpg I'm thinking to a change that consists of boring the truck and the deck in order to insert a metal nail inside. This nail, while not visible, will fix better the truck to the deck, avoiding that an accidental blow will detach the truck. Another alternative may probably be the use of epoxy glue instead of cyan-acrilate. I think it has to be said: the power of experience . . . 04 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050928.jpg Another intersting task was the building of the rolls of rope . . it's a long way to explain but the result satisfies me. 05 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050929.jpg I have also painted the ringbolts with gun metal enamel, much more realistic that leaving them brass coloured. I'm happy of the overall result, but it is possible to do better. Probably in the next deck . . See you next time, Jack. Edited September 20, 2017 by jack.aubrey Quote
jack.aubrey Posted March 30, 2013 Author #39 Posted March 30, 2013 (edited) Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 Now that the guns of this deck are all definitely positioned, I go further to new tasks. And now there are to install the beams and other elements, including the upper gun deck where the 18pdr guns (or 12pdr, I don't remember exactly) will be positioned. Until now I have definitely installed the orange pillars and the deck beams, the new thing in the next message. 01 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050930.jpg 02 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050931.jpg 03 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050932.jpg 04 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050933.jpg See you next time, Jack.Aubrey. Edited September 20, 2017 by jack.aubrey Quote
jack.aubrey Posted March 30, 2013 Author #40 Posted March 30, 2013 (edited) Before starting the Santìsima Trininad's cross section I worked for about a couple of years on the entire model, always from De Agostini. But, when I arrived to finish the hull of this model, the missing things were "only" masting and rigging, I decided, for a crazy idea I had for another project, to sell it. I had quite no difficulties to buy it to another modeler that said to have problems to build the hull (space, location, dust, etc) but was very interested to continue from the point I left it. Next week this modeler sent me some images of the finished model, completed with masts, sails and rigging and I am happy to share them with you. The model is completed 99%, but I believe the remaining 1% are very few details. The entire models sounds very well to me, although the images don't allow a complete review of the smallest details. I have only some concerns about the sails that should be presented in a more realistc way. I suggest for this task the book from Lennarth Petersson "Rigging Period Ship Models", Chatham Publishing. So, my sincere congratulations to Andrea, the ship modeler that cempleted this huge vessel. Cheers, Jack.Aubrey. 01 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/Immagine001.jpg 02 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/Immagine002.jpg 03 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/Immagine003.jpg 04 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/Immagine004.jpg Edited September 20, 2017 by jack.aubrey Quote
jack.aubrey Posted March 30, 2013 Author #41 Posted March 30, 2013 (edited) Friday September 25th, 2009 The two planked ply woods that make up the upper gun deck are now completed and I show them here below only positioned. This just to see/show the look and to understand what will be visible and not on the underlying deck. This look will allow me to eventually adjust something. As I supposed, it is possible to see only a few part of the big efforts I lavished . . but what it really matters is to know that they are there, also if you don't see them . . 01 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050934.jpg 02 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050935.jpg 03 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050936.jpg In the next message I will show the deck installed and finished. This work was done during the weekend but I wasn't able to get photos. See you next time, Jack.Aubrey. Edited September 20, 2017 by jack.aubrey Quote
jack.aubrey Posted March 30, 2013 Author #42 Posted March 30, 2013 (edited) Monday October 5th, 2009 As anticipated today I can shoot some images of the section with the upper gun deck definitely applied. These images are not the maximum in terms of creativity, by now they seems all the same. But the model is not too big and the focus of the photocamera embraces totally it, so there is few space for fantasy. Anyway it is only in this repetitive way that I can show the changes happened, changes that often are minimal but in this way recognisable. The lower side of the deck is finished in the same "admiralty looking" of the others . . nothing new here, if you want to go in deep on this matter please review my older messages. 01 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050952.jpg In this second image I begin to find a certain flaw that, now that I'm approaching the top of the hull, becomes more visible. I don't point it out but I invite the readers to find it . . and to comment at will. 02 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050953.jpg Here below it is also possible to see some copper plates, until now not artificially aged at all, that start to change naturally . . some time is passed and I'm curious to see if the natural ageing can become the best solution. If not I will use an ageing technique I was told by some italian ship modelers. 03 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050954.jpg I have to find some pellets, probably in a shop for weapons, the number supplied with the kit are not enough . . 04 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050955.jpg 05 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050956.jpg Greetings, Jack.Aubrey Edited September 20, 2017 by jack.aubrey Quote
jack.aubrey Posted March 30, 2013 Author #43 Posted March 30, 2013 (edited) The following image shows how the quickwork should appear if aged with winegar and sand. I had this info by a friend and works in the following way: mix up in a glass winegar with sand; then "paint" with this mixture the copper plates and leave to dry. I was suggested to wait 24 hours and then to repeat this application several times until you reach the wanted result. Another method instructs to add some salt . . 01 P1050948.jpg The image was taken Friday September 25th, 2009 at a models exibition near Milan, Italy. Cheers, Jack.Aubrey. Edited September 20, 2017 by jack.aubrey Quote
jack.aubrey Posted March 31, 2013 Author #44 Posted March 31, 2013 (edited) Thursday October 15th, 2009 During these past ten days I did not work too much about ship modeling. I had too many things to do and, on the top of them, there was the planning for setting up a workshop for me. I have found the way to modernise a floor in the house of my mother in law (it is a single-family home/villa on two levels), more precisely the lower level or basement. It is near where I live and I think it is the right solution for my needs. The floor is 100 square meters and my plan is to modernise it and to setup a room of +/- 16-20 quare meters as my workshop. Anyway, while organizing this major task I found some time to progress a little, by preparing the sides of the upper deck using the same method applied till now. Here some new images of the model as it is now: 01 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050957.jpg 02 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050958.jpg 03 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050959.jpg 04 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050960.jpg to be continued . . . Edited September 21, 2017 by jack.aubrey Quote
jack.aubrey Posted March 31, 2013 Author #45 Posted March 31, 2013 (edited) Continuation . . . 01 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050957.jpg 02 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050958.jpg 03 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050959.jpg 04 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050960.jpg That's all for now, see you soon, Jack.Aubrey. Edited September 21, 2017 by jack.aubrey Quote
jack.aubrey Posted April 2, 2013 Author #46 Posted April 2, 2013 (edited) November 22nd, 2009 It is some weeks I have other things to do and I was not able to work of the cross section regularly. So I have nothing to show and write about this model. The main part of the time I didn't spent on shipmodeling was related to the activities to setup my long awaited workshop. Let's say a "WORKSHOP in capital letters: it measures 4,5 x 3,5 meters, with all the comforts needed and not needed such as heating, daylight and artificial light, privacy, space, bath, beer, music and more . . launch planned just before Christmas, fully operational from mid January. So, I have nothing to show, but I thought to honour a ship modeler friend that has finished some weeks ago this huge spanish vessel starting from the same De Agostini kit. These images demonstrate that it is possible to build high quality models starting from kits: what is important is to have the right talent and skill, to read up and find the maximum informations about the model and find and implement the right enhancements that may be identified for the model. And this is what has been done with this model, in particular way for masting and rigging, taking documentation from important books such as "Historic Ship Models" by Wolfram zu Mondfeld or "Rigging Period Ship Models" by Lennarth Petersson. The result is here below, the rigging is particularly highlighted in these images by the dark background. 01 01L.jpg 02 02L.jpg 03 03L.jpg 04 04L.jpg 05 05L.jpg Edited September 21, 2017 by jack.aubrey Quote
jack.aubrey Posted April 2, 2013 Author #47 Posted April 2, 2013 (edited) Five other images of my friend model . . 01 06L.jpg 02 07L.jpg 03 08L.jpg 04 09L.jpg 05 10L.jpg To be continued . . . Jack.Aubrey Edited September 21, 2017 by jack.aubrey Quote
jack.aubrey Posted April 3, 2013 Author #49 Posted April 3, 2013 (edited) I publish here below the last five images of this beautiful model, with some highlights of the pinnace (or longboat) and, in the last image, a detail of the bow. 01 11L.jpg 02 12L.jpg 03 13L.jpg 04 14L.jpg 05 15L.jpg The builder of this model is Andrea Manera, a italian modeler who lives in a city near Milan. I have to admit that Andrea is a GREAT modeler and this work requires a VERY GREAT recognition to its author. Cheers, Jack.Aubrey Edited September 21, 2017 by jack.aubrey Quote
jack.aubrey Posted April 5, 2013 Author #50 Posted April 5, 2013 (edited) Friday November 27th, 2009 Two months are past since my last message showing some progresses on the cross section. Few things were done since that message. During this period I was deeply involved in the restructuring of my workshop. Here below two images of the status of these works. Images are not the best but it's possible to understand what's happening. 01 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050972.jpg 02 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050975.jpg Anyway something was also done for my Santisima Trinidad section and this few things are worth to be shown. Here you can see again the guns . . this happens at every deck. This time I used a new method to fix them on the deck. I have bored the trucks and the deck to insert a nail. Then I used the epoxy glue instead of the cyan. The combination of both is powerful. 03 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050962.jpg 04 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050963.jpg 05 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050964B.jpg See you next time, Jack.Aubrey Edited September 21, 2017 by jack.aubrey Quote
jack.aubrey Posted April 5, 2013 Author #51 Posted April 5, 2013 (edited) Friday November 29th, 2009 Three new images . . 01 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050965.jpg The last deck is now ready. Here it is only positioned. 02 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050966B.jpg 03 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1050968.jpg I'm confident to be able to show new things soon, but in this period my priority is the workshop. Cheers, Jack.Aubrey. Edited September 21, 2017 by jack.aubrey Quote
jack.aubrey Posted April 5, 2013 Author #52 Posted April 5, 2013 (edited) Saturday December 5th, 2009 Comparing with my previous message I have 90% finished the installation of the 18pdr (or 12pdr) guns of the upper gun deck. Only some small details are still missing. It may seem a small advancement but there is a lot of work to do around the guns. The remaining was then finished by Sunday afternoon and I spent some time to install the last deck. Images of this step will come in the next message. Here below the pictures of saturday status.. 01 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1060008.jpg 02 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1060009.jpg 03 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1060010.jpg 04 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1060011.jpg I had the opportunity to test the strength of the mounting of the gun over this deck . . very, very satisfactory. PS: works for the workshop should be completed next monday. The inauguration is now near, at this point I believe will be done just before Christmas. Thinking positive, Jack.Aubrey Edited September 21, 2017 by jack.aubrey Quote
jack.aubrey Posted April 6, 2013 Author #53 Posted April 6, 2013 (edited) Saturday December 12th, 2009 Finally I reached the roof ...... After eight months of strong working (euphemistic term because honestly I never worked strongly) I finally installed the last deck of my cross section and I built over it the final bulwarks. Shortly, it is the same milestone as during building an house when you reach the roof level. In the images contained in this message you can view the relevant steps achieved in this last week. The last deck, that will be fully visible, is now in place and the relative sides are finished, with four gunports and, over all, the gunwale. I am very satisfied of the work done during this week. The mast, or better the piece of wood that will become the main mast, is in place to check its proper positioning and it also sounds good. An overall view of the fore side . . . 01 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1060012.jpg A close view of the quarterdeck . . . 02 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1060013.jpg A couple of images showing all the wales . . here, again, I am very satisfied of the general looking . . . 03 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1060014.jpg 04 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1060015.jpg Finally an important consideration: until now for this model I haven't used either a milligram of paint or something similar (excluding the guns and their trucks). I used only oil for wood, the same I described in this topic on Friday May 8th, 2009. Additional images will follow. Kind regards, Jack.Aubrey. Edited September 21, 2017 by jack.aubrey Quote
jack.aubrey Posted April 6, 2013 Author #54 Posted April 6, 2013 (edited) Now there are many other elements to apply on the quarterdeck, both on the deck and inside of the bulwarks. Regarding the external side there are also new pieces to build and install. In the latter case there are in particular to build and install the gunport lids. The kit supplies metal frames where the lids can be fixed, but this is absolutely unrealistic, a genuine invention of the kit manufacturers to simplify the matter; this wasn't the way the gunports and the gunport lids were built. So I decided since the beginning to avoid this "solution" and to "scratch build" them as they really were. It should not be a huge work, in total there are only 12 gunport lids to build. The quarterdeck has no lids. This is one advantage of a cross section model compared with the complete model . . Having in mind the future activities, I will install them not so early. I'm defining a plan to put in the right sequence all the tasks needed to finish the hull; may be this job will remember me when I was employed as project manager . . . my preferred software of that period was Microsoft Project ! I take advantage of this message to insert new photos . . 01 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1060016.jpg 02 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1060017.jpg 03 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1060018.jpg Cheers. Jack. Edited September 21, 2017 by jack.aubrey Quote
jack.aubrey Posted April 11, 2013 Author #55 Posted April 11, 2013 (edited) Tuesday February 2nd, 2010 It is since half december 2009 that I've interrupted any activity about shipmodeling, fully dedicated to the fitting of my "long awaited workshop". Now, after having past an afternoon to plan the future activities for the cross section, I started to do something very easy and less demanding in term of diligence. So I started to prepare some pieces such as casks, boxes and packages. Just a couple of hours to restart the wheels. 01 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1060055.jpg 02 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1060056.jpg That's all for today. See you tomorrow, Jack.Aubrey Edited September 21, 2017 by jack.aubrey Quote
jack.aubrey Posted April 11, 2013 Author #56 Posted April 11, 2013 (edited) Wednesday February 3rd, 2010 This was the second day of work spent in my new workshop. Today I worked around other elements: the main channels, or better the part of them that is contained in the cross section, and so on. In building these elements I did not used any kind of material supplied by the kit, its quality was too poor for me. 01 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1060057.jpg 02 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1060065.jpg 03 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1060061.jpg 04 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1060063.jpg Cheers, Jack.Aubrey Edited September 21, 2017 by jack.aubrey cristikc 1 Quote
jack.aubrey Posted April 12, 2013 Author #57 Posted April 12, 2013 (edited) Thuesday February 4th and Friday 5th, 2010 Third and fourth consecutive days of work on the ST Cross Section in my new workshop !! I worked outside the hull to build the boarding steps. According to the instructions this was the right time to build these elements and the method to be followed was to use two strips of sapelli, of different size and shape, glued together. I made a variant by using walnut and ebony. Here below you can look at the boarding steps already installed, on both sides and with a coat of oil for wood applied outside. The colour of the wood is now darker, expecially over the walnut. It was only a matter of patience to build these steps. In the background the model of San Juan Nepomuceno, from Artesania Latina, which is resting idle for several time . . someday I will resume it and first I will correct a big error I made (always by following the instructions) to plank the decks with a so dark wood. I have now the right strips, in a lighter wood, that are wonderful. 01 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1060066.jpg 02 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1060067.jpg In the next images you can see a barricade over the deck. The small pillars were supplied with the kit and are made of boxwood. I painted the handrail in light blue. It is like a personal trademark for my models . . 03 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1060068.jpg 04 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1060069.jpg 05 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1060068A.jpg Continuation . . Jack.Aubrey Edited September 21, 2017 by jack.aubrey Quote
jack.aubrey Posted April 12, 2013 Author #58 Posted April 12, 2013 (edited) I particularly like these two images. I'm now getting more used with my workshop and its light and I found the best way to shot photos . . It seems I am close to see the chequered flag but I discover also I have a lot of new pieces to build and install. I'm too much slow . . And at first, again, there are the guns. Some time ago I decided to build from scratch,for this last deck, the guns and their trucks. On the real model in this position of the deck there were two different kind of guns: two of them are the traditional long guns I believe of 9 or 12 pounders. The other two were called "obuseros", a kind of carronade made in Spain and derived by the French "obusiers". 01 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1060070.jpg In addition I have also to build the gunport lids, I don't want to use the metal pieces supplied. I have to make some experiments to find the best solution to apply for all of them. 02 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1060071.jpg And then there are the dead eyes and the chain plates. And again the ballast, casks and parcels. The finish line is still so far . . Cheers, Jack.Aubrey Edited September 21, 2017 by jack.aubrey Quote
jack.aubrey Posted April 13, 2013 Author #59 Posted April 13, 2013 Saturday May 7th, 2011 - Shipyard reopened It is more than a year that all the activities about this model were stopped. The model was in a good point of finishing but, because of a change in my plans, I paused it to begin working again on the Soleil Royal. If you look at its log you will discover I spent this year working near 100% only on it. It is tipical of my way of working . . I normally have two or three model on the yards. So I decided to resume the Cross Section and to finish it . . sometimes it is necessary to close some projects. After some planning to define the tasks to perform I started yesterday afternoon to do something. The task on the top of the list was the installation of the last four guns, on the quarterdeck. This deck will be fully visible, and, for this reason, I decided to build these guns from scratch, at least partially, having in mind to use four barrels, which are right for my needs, that I found in my "spare parts wharehouse". Two barrels serve to simulate the 9pdr long guns and two for the 24pdr "obuseros". The gun trucks, instead, are totally built from scratch: in the traditional shape for the long guns and with a slide for the obuseros. Here the work done yesterday: - Blackening of the gun barrels with the "ad hoc" liquid; - building of the various components of the trucks; - assembly of the four trucks: - first coat of red paint for the trucks. This is only the beginning after a year of "seasoning" . . I'm keep you informed about future news. For now it is not the case to show photos. Cheers, Jack.Aubrey. Quote
jack.aubrey Posted April 13, 2013 Author #60 Posted April 13, 2013 (edited) Sunday May 8th, 2011 Saturday and today I resumed this model after a long period of inactivity. I re-started by building the last four guns for the quarterdeck/waist/forecastle. This fourth deck (the Santisima Trinidad was at its time the only ship with four complete gun decks) received three different kinds of gun, and in the cross section there are two of them. I got these infos from the book "The ships of Trafalgar" from Peter Goodwin: each ship which fighted in that great battle is described in this book. You can see the barrels, blackened, positioned over their trucks. The trucks are now painted and positioned on the deck. Now I will start to prepare the other details for the guns. 01 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1070574.jpg 02 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1070575.jpg Here below a more detailed image of the truck for the "obuseros" showing also the pivot where the slide below the truck is fixed to the deck. 03 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/Obuseros.jpg These pieces are now only positioned, the complete installation will follow. I'm spending some time to prepare the remaining details, details that need a lot of time to be completed. 04 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1070576.jpg 05 Cross%20Section%20Santisima%20Trinidad/P1070577.jpg See you next time. Jack.Aubrey Edited September 21, 2017 by jack.aubrey Quote
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