By the Deep 17 by dafi - FINISHED - Royal Navy 1780/1805 diorama

[dafi]

And the weekend show, some quantum leaps -  means very small and little :-)

 

fitted the last lid ...

 

 

... and fitted with lanyards.

 

 

The holes in the brass fittings were deepend into the plastic by means of a hot needle ...

 

 

... so the brass is not damaged like with a drill and the deep is automatically fixed by the cones of the needle tip and the size of the hole in the fitting ...

 

 

... and it looks like this.

 

 

Grüßle, Daniel

Edited May 8, 2013 by dafi

[Paul Salomone]

Hello Daniel,

 

Beautiful - just beautiful.

[mtaylor]

Daniel,

Are you planning or adding all this detail to your Victory build?  Or is this a great exercise in how-to?  Fascinating work even if you don't add it to the build.

[dafi]

Thanks Brian, Paul and Mark,

 

as always, I do not know yet what this is for, just a small nagging voice inside my head told me to do so ...

 

XXXDAn

Edited May 8, 2013 by dafi

[popeye the sailor]

voice of reason?    .........or close encounters?

[dafi]

And more tempting as the 1803 chain irons are the 1765 ones: same length but two pieces more!

Testing the lengths, carefully remembering that the outer ones are longer.



... homeopathic doses of solder ...



... degreased the wire, first soldering the single rings, then joining them on the central part, the flux with the solder embedded, small touch with the hot iron ...



... and the same game with the dead eye and the triple pack ...



... adjusting over the edge of a blade ...



... and comparison: bottom as cut, then solderd and on top adjusted. Inside length 4 mm :-)



A small jack done for thinning the deadeyes ...



... and painting them with casein paint to give a better to scale wood appearance than the original wood ...



... put on place ...



... made the batten to cover the channels ...



... and painted and rusted.





And here the comparison :-)



Cheers, Daniel

Edited May 18, 2013 by dafi

[dafi]

Bang :-) :-) :-)

 

XXXDAn

[Sailcat]

     

 

Pardon me for falling into my youth but ... Dude! That is SO COOL!

 

Keep listening to the little voices in your head - they make take you down unplanned avenues but from what you've shown us, the detour is well worth the effort!

[mtaylor]

Daniel,

I can truly say that I'm speechless. For some reason, your work removes the power of speech.  Wow!

[popeye the sailor]

very cool how you show the changes that a few years makes.   ships are refitted many times in their lifetime......look at the Cutty, for instance.    wonderful work indeed!

[Paul Salomone]

I can only concord with all the others. The application of the weathering is just stunning. You really hit the nail on it's head.

[amateur]

How did I miss this one?

Amazing work, up to the usual Dafi-standards.

 

Jan

[Tarjack]

dafi,

 

you hear voice´s in your head??  hhhmmmmmmmmmmm :D :D :D :D

 

me too

[dafi]

Thank you Dirk, Kats, Mark, Popeye, Paul, Jan and "Bones" :-) :-) :-)

 

I am already wondering, but nobody dares asking about the title of the thread  ;-)

 

... okokok, before I have to wait too long: dafi, what strange thread title you have ?!?

 

Once upon a time, the shout from the channels was to be heard "By the Deep 17" meaning a little more than 17 fathoms of water were measured, roundabout 30 meters.

 

The line used was  ca. 20 to 25 fathoms long (about 36 to 45 meters) and had marks indicating the depth measured. So the shout "By the Mark XX" meant that it was exactely on the mark and "By the Deep XX" meant it to be above the mark. The marks were at  2, 3, 5, 7, 10, 13, 15, 17 und 20 fathoms (after Nares) and had :

2 fathoms leather with 2 stripes, 3 fathoms leather with 3 stripes, 5 fathoms white, 7 fathoms red, 10 fathoms leather with hole 13 fathoms blue, 15 fathoms white, 17 fathoms red und 20 fathoms two knots.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sounding_line

 

 

So hastily made the 20 fathom line, fitted marks and lead ...

 

 

... and the sound of the falling lead could be heard  :-)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"By the Deep ..."

 

XXXDAn

[rdsaplala]

Beautiful weathering Daniel, everything looks so real

I could almost hear Admiral Nelson giving some orders to the crew to scrub away the grim and repaint his ship... I hear he's quite particular about keeping his ships neat and tidy

[realworkingsailor]

I have actually sounded with a leadline... It's not easy from a moving ship. You have to hurl the lead far enough ahead that by the time it reaches the bottom it will be abeam of you... Not an easy thing to judge...

 

A wonderful little (sort of) project

 

Andy

[popeye the sailor]

another bit of nautical information......done in stunning detail........I like it!   great job!

[chris watton]

Fantastic work - you have quite a talent.

[dafi]

Thank you Aldo, Andy, Popeye, Chris and all the others, very appreciated :-)

 

So the next quantum leap, means lot of work for shortest distance possible ;-)

 

Next were the gunport lid topping lifts. A blackened 0,3 mm copper wire wound around a 1 mm needle and cut into rings.

 

 

For the next steps I skipped the tweezers and used fine pliers from the electro department, thus reducing the free flights of the parts enormously !

 

After some tests I did like follow: As the thread was to thin to do a real splice, I held the ring with the pliers ...

 

 

... some CA in the U-turn of the tread and twisted counter clockwise ...

 

 

.. to get a well enough splice imitation.

 

Then positiond the ring, hooked in ...

 

 

... closed with the pliers ...

 

 

... and the lift is in place :-)

 

 

 

The original idea was to imitate the small tube that enters the hull with diluted PVA but now I wanted to try something more tricky.

 

Some time ago I already presented the trick, that heated and pulled sprue keeps the proportion of its section. So I prepared a 4 mm sprue by drilling a center hole of 2 mm, fixed toothpicks on its ends ...

 

 

... and slowly heated it up and pulled to the wanted diameter ...

 

 

... then cut 3 mm pieces and fiddeld them on a 0,1 mm copper wire to avoid unwanted escapes. In the front the test topping lift.

 

Then drilled 0,7 mm holes for the tubes pointing 45° upwards, inserted the tubes, glued them in and cut them to the necessary length ...

 

 

... used a needle to reopen the squeezed holes, put the lift in and glued it by fixing with the needle.

 

And it looks like this:

 

 

 

 

With a little more practice it will for shure look even tidier macro wise, but for the naked eye it already works :-)

 

Cheers, Daniel

[Blue Ensign]

Wonderful stuff Daniel,  how I envy your eyes, dexterity, and talent .

 

M.

[klimi]

very realistic looking model, work on deadeyes is inspirational

[dafi]

Thank you Sirs :-)

 

Big M.: The only thing to envy me are my specs - 3 dioptrine with build in LED for 5€ from the supermarket ;-)

 

 

XXXDAN

[mtaylor]

Excellent work, Daniel...  though that last pic of the builder is one to keep one awake nights.     

[popeye the sailor]

really nice work Daniel........you must be a hoot around Halloween  {if you celebrate it in Germany}

[AnobiumPunctatum]

Halloween Daniel, that's nice

 

Absolut brilliant stuff. On most models in bigger scales, you will not find these details.

[dafi]

I love Halloween, the kids used to run off in panic three blocks away ...

 

... perhaps I should have worn a costume with mask ;-)

 

Thanks for the nice feedbacks, Daniel

[dafi]

After a hint I shortend the lead a tad and it now looks like this :-)









Enjoy, Daniel

Edited May 31, 2013 by dafi

[jaerschen]

Hi Daniel,

 

was that your mien after the work at the gunports?

Great work

[dafi]

No this was still before ...

 

... the camera refused to take pictures afterwards as being believed to be too disturbing ...

 

;-)

 

XXXDAn

Edited May 31, 2013 by dafi

[michael mott]

Looks like you are having way too much fun Daniel!

 

Michael