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Hi Amalio

You mentioned you found the brick material in a previous post in Alamania (Germany?)   Did it come already shaped as small bricks or did you make the bricks with some material that you got from them?   I have made silicone molds then formed bricks made of plaster with some success, but would like to learn more on how you achieved such nice finished pieces.   I suppose wood could work, but the texture you show is superior to wood even at our scales.

 

Thanks

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I think there are several cottage-industry manufacturers in Germany that offer such bricks made from polymer-clay in model-railway scales. I can't put my finger on the company's name, but I seem to remember that there is also one that sells silicone moulds to make them yourself.

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Presumably for a roasting spit. In the Danish Rigsarkivet they have numerous drawings of galleys, not only Danish ones, and some show mechanisms for a mechanical turning of the spits.

 

The galley is a major fire-hazard on a (wooden) ship and seems to have preoccupied significantly the navy responsibles, judging by the numbers of drawings and contemporary models that have survived.

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Thinking about it, and as the lowest hook is actually at the level of the hearth, the hooks may also serve to install/store a 'couvre feu' (curfew), to prevent embers from falling out. These would have been probably just sheets of iron. Amalio will know probably more ...

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Beautiful work as always, Amalio!

 

I like those c-clamps that you are using. Can you tell me who makes them and where you got them?

Bob Garcia

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