ancre La Jacinthe 1825 by aviaamator - 1:20 - schooner

[aviaamator]

Greetings to all! Gaining more air in the chest, begin with an overview of the ship model "La Jacinte". Exactly one year ago I started this project, pre-assessing their own capabilities and finances. The choice of this prototype is primarily due to the fact that the model is repeatedly built by other modelers, reviewed many aspects of the construction, a simple mast and rigging, a small amount of artillery, and just a beautiful ship! Personally I really like the oblique sailing weapons! And so, to view!

[aviaamator]

Photos in reverse order loaded, alas... Continue photo report:

[aviaamator]

Jung's (my youngest son), as always in the spotlight!

[aviaamator]

Sometimes the work was brought to a halt, and to do other important things, but the schooner is the number One! Especially now...

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A little more...

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This morning I could not sleep..

[albert]

Great work.

[archjofo]

Well done!

The "La Jacinthe" is a wonderful ship.
Therefore, I am very interested in your building report.

Edited June 5, 2016 by archjofo

[Gregor]

Excellent (and huge) work! I will follow you very closely here. How I love these schooners!

All the best,

Gregor

[aviaamator]

I almost fell off my chair when I saw the number of likes that you all have set for my insignificant work! A big thank you to all of you!!!

[tkay11]

I'm also looking forward to this build. It looks great so far. What scale are you using?

 

Tony

[druxey]

It's nice to see your son helping out: your model is progressing very well.

[aviaamator]

Tony! Scale is 1:20.

[tkay11]

That was really funny! It shows that I'll have to learn to read the headers as well as the text!

 

Tony the Dodderer

[Captain Al]

I'm totally enthralled with this build!  I've been wanting to build a ship (any type really) in a real large scale (even 1:48 gives me fits sometime).  I'm trying to figure out how long and wide your model will come out.  I can't find the actual dimensions of La Jacinthe anywhere.  I'm guessing it was about 120 feet long?  So your model will be like 6 feet?  Much like models I saw once on display on the Sydney Harbor quay.  Great work so far. 

[aviaamator]

Captain Al! The real size of the ship is 21 meters long, 5.8 meters in width without an external covering.

[ofencer29350]

if u want to know what about it look like here is a couple of picture from the repliqua  at BREST:

 

http://kordouane.centerblog.net/rub--photos-de-la-recouvrance-voilier-.html

[Captain Al]

Ahh....nowhere near the 120 feet I envisioned.  A relatively small schooner.  The 1:20 makes a great scale then.  No bigger (as a model) then my Bounty at 1:48.  I'll be watching and saving this log for future reference.  Great work.

[aviaamator]

My fingertips on fire! There is still the same.

[Captain Al]

Avi, I have a question regarding the frames in the first several pictures.  It appears that the frames are rabbitted (maybe the term is dado'd?) on their forward side.  Can you tell me to what purpose those rabbits serve?  I thought at first they were for stiffeners that fit between frames, but when I look closely I can only see this rabbit on the forward side of each frame, so there is nowhere for a stiffener to fit into on the next frame.  I hope my question is understood.

[thomaslambo]

I certainly wouldn't call you work "Insignificant"....just beautiful craftsmanship and what a great project  

 

I'll follow this build with great interest     

[aviaamator]

Thank You , Thomas!

[aviaamator]

Captain! I will answer a bit later, now hurry to the circus, children love the circus! Your question I understood, and then tell about another technology of frames. Goodbye for now!

[Moxis]

Beautiful ship and great work Aviaamator! I wonder which wood are you using for hull and deck planking?

[aviaamator]

Matti! Thank you! I use in the construction of ship timber pears in different shades of wood and black hornbeam.

[aviaamator]

Captain Al! The answer to Your question: first I wanted to make the frames from thin strips glued to the block. To do this, made templates of the frames of two halves which are fastened with pins. Using a router made a groove in each half of the pattern. This groove laid thin planks greased with glue, secured with screws. After drying, the glue will get here are half frames. But after much reflection, I abandoned this technology, and used the old tried and tested method of building models which I've used previously. Where shaded black color - must be removed, it turned out symmetrical groove.

[Captain Al]

Thanks Avi.  I think I get the picture.  What you're saying is that the groove resulted from removing the thin strips and it now serves no real purpose but it is not in the way of anything and not visible.  So no need to fill it or make new block frames.  Just one of those curiosities that you put in so you'd get more replies.  I get it.

[aviaamator]

Yeah, I'm just a little saved time and wood.

[Moxis]

Very interesting method to produce frames Aviaamator. And looks to work good too. Why did you abandon the idea and returned back to using bulkheads?

Edited June 11, 2016 by Moxis

[aviaamator]

Matti! I don't now! As they say in the Caucasus - do not change old ways...