Greenwich Hospital barge of 1832 by druxey - FINISHED - 1:48 scale

[druxey]

Ed: The frames are bent in wet, without any heat necessary. They are of such small dimension that this is easily accomplished under slight compression to 'spring' them into place.

[EdT]

As I suspected.  Do you glue them wet/damp, or let them dry in place first?

 

Ed

[druxey]

Glue 'em damp, and clean up any excess glue with a damp brush, Ed.

[druxey]

Aft frames are now in, with some fine adjustment still required. A ruler is included in the photos as requested.

[Louie da fly]

Druxey, the frames for my dromon will be a bit over double the thickness in both dimensions compared with yours. Do you think your 'wet bending' technique would work for them as well, or should I use heat as well?

 

Steven 

Edited February 20, 2016 by Louie da fly

[druxey]

I have no idea, as it will depend on the specie of wood you will be using, Steven. You will need to experiment with both moisture and heat.

[Remcohe]

I totally missed the start of this beautiful build. On the upside I had a lot of catching up to do so Druxey you you made my day extra special

Your choice of subject is great and your execution out of this world. I will stick to workboats as this barge is out of my league

 

Remco

[druxey]

Remo: I've seen your beautiful work and you are under-selling yourself. I'm trying to be in your league!

[dvm27]

Whatever league you and Remco are in, the rest of us are huge fans. You guys hit it out of the park every time (sorry...baseball season is upon us again).

[Mahuna]

Sorry I'm very late to the party.

 

Wonderful work and excellent explanations - thanks for sharing this!

[druxey]

This will be the last update for a few days: the frames have now all been bent in. I'll be back in a week or so. Thank you all for following and liking this log.

[Siggi52]

It looks great Druxey. When I think that I would build something similar next winter, I start shivering. 

 

Regards,

Siggi

[Trussben]

Beautiful work as usual Druxey, a pleasure to watch a master at work.

 

Ben

[cog]

A week ...!!! That will be hard on my patience ... this build takes away the dread for the day ...have been looking forward to it's development ... such a stunning execution of technique ... marvelous result ...

[mtaylor]

I can only repeat what the others have said.   Have a good week and hopefully we can be patient here in the gallery.

[druxey]

Thanks so much, everyone. 

 

A footnote: I fully expected the shell and frames to have spread until the internal members such as thwarts are fitted. This has proved not to be the case so far: the hull is 'on spec', with an overall beam of 6' 1½" (6' 0" moulded, plus 1½" for the planking). We'll see if this is stable when I come back to the model.

[Jim Lad]

She looks delightful, Druxey.

 

John

[Louie da fly]

A beautiful build of a beautiful vessel. What more can I say?

 

Steven

[captainbob]

The hull is a fine piece of art as it is.  Just like a lovely leaf floating on the water.

 

Bob

[cookster]

Wow!  I'm lost for words.  I still can't get over how small this is....  Perfection

[the learner]

All too familiar! Great job. I still have my plug and plan on building 2 more boats in the near future

 

Guy

[Gerhardvienna]

Hi druxey

 

This is a great little ship, thanx for showing! Could be a model to build for me too, I`m following. I love all that gold, and the way you build the hull gives me some advise.

 

Regards

Gerhard

[Erebus and Terror]

This is like sculpture. Amazing. 

[dvm27]

I have had the pleasure of holding and examining this little jewel of a model today and it is even more impressive in person. It is surprisingly small, light and translucent. It's quite perfect! I believe Druxey is building it on spec so perhaps some lucky MSW member will end up with it.

[jbshan]

I have had the pleasure of holding and examining this little jewel of a model today and it is even more impressive in person. It is surprisingly small, light and translucent. It's quite perfect! I believe Druxey is building it on spec so perhaps some lucky MSW member will end up with it.

Druxey talked me through a yawl in 1:64 a few years ago using a similar method.  Even with my unskilled efforts, it is astounding how egg shell-like the hull is.  Of course he finished his four boats he was doing far before I finished my one.  :-)

[Gerhardvienna]

Hi druxey

 

Maybe I did overread this, what measure do the hulls planks have? This looks so incredible thin but strong too.

Great work.

 

Regards

Gerhard

 

[druxey]

Thanks for the comments, gentlemen. Now I'm back, it's time to begin fitting out. The first item will be the footwaling (the floorboards). These were laid athwartships  rather than longitudinally, according to the specifications for a different ceremonial barge of this period (ZAZ7154).

 

Gerhard: the planking is 1/64" thick, or a scale ¾".

[paulsutcliffe]

welcome back, I was looking at the plan for the mayors ceremonial barge and saw it said floors athwartships, I was wondering how you were going to do that

[Gerhardvienna]

Hi Druxey

 

Thank you for this info! Is saved for "further use"

Regards

Gerhard

[druxey]

Paul: I have found a useful photograph of the inside of Prince Frederick's barge (copyright, so cannot show it here) that confirms athwartship boards. These appear to be about 8" to 10" wide and painted red. There are also moveable vertical footboards for the rowers - a detail I've never seen or noticed before in small boat models. I was wondering if there were turned supporting pillars under the thwarts and indeed there are. All these will keep me busy for a while!