Hermione by MESSIS - FINISHED - Artesania Latina - 1/89

[MESSIS]

And another one

[Zarkon]

Wow! 

 

Your Hermione looks great!  Very impressive!  I really like how you have painted it.

 

Jeff

[MESSIS]

Thank you Jeff.

Am following you as you know but you havent any new posts lately... how is it going am anxious to see some more of your good work.

 

Christos

[Zarkon]

Thank you!

 

I have been sick as of late, and my wife's family is staying for the week so not much progress this past week. But I will have much more time starting on Monday when everyone leaves our house. 

 

I'm looking forward to new updates from your build!

Jeff

[MESSIS]

wish all the best.... healthy and happy Jeff.

 

Waitting anxiously your new work

 

Your friend

Christos

[MESSIS]

Standing rigging comming soon to its end and in the meantime more crew members are getting allready on-board... cleaning the deck floor and checking the cannons.

Edited July 25, 2018 by MESSIS

[MESSIS]

Anxious to finish the standing rigging and make the first experiments with sails and GAC400... maybe I get to make sails filled with wind.

 

Standing rigging at its final stage:

[RussR]

Mm

Messis,

I am enjoying your build log. 

I have read that some modelers use hairspray and a fan to get the effect of wind in there sails. I don't have experience with it myself but it sounded good.

RussR

[MESSIS]

I dont know Russ about hairspray, but am going to make an experement before I start Hermione's sails.Am going to try GAC400 on a new sail with which I plan to replace the folded sail of my bireme.

 

If that works Ill go on with Hermione... if not then the folded sail now on my birem will remain in place. I let you know about this project because am going to post pictures.

[MESSIS]

Standing rigging: finished

 

And now the new challenge: running rigging and filling the sails with wind😈

[MESSIS]

After the succesfull  experiment to fill the sail, of my old Bireme build from 2015, with wind, using the GAC400 stiffener of JerseyCity Frankie's* method, I begun forming Hermione's Fore Staysail.

 

*Frankie is an experienced  shipbuilding modeller and old member of our blog, whom I thank very much for his help and good advising.

 

For the experiment I made a new thread:

 

 

here are the results: a sail blowing!!

 

Edited August 14, 2018 by MESSIS

[MESSIS]

So today I went back to Hermione and  have started forming her Fore staysail.

 

Its a new challenge again because I have never before done sails and running rigging of a period ship.

 

But so far I am statisfied with the results and I am enjoying it.

Edited August 14, 2018 by MESSIS

[MESSIS]

And here we go... the first headsail (out of three)  is allready blown by the wind.

 

I dont know guys how bad or good it actualy looks, but I think at least the sail is not hanging dead....

 

Does anyone thinks that the sail is hanging too high? 

 

 

 

Edited August 20, 2018 by MESSIS

[MESSIS]

After all it was too high. As my good friend Mirabell61 advised me I moved the headsail lower and then I went on rigging the next one.

 

My thanks to Nils.

[MESSIS]

And I am sailing.... ⚓

[MESSIS]

Next preparing all the yards. And first riging the spanker which am going to rig furled, in order to enable me to rig a big Burbon flag blowing slightly  in the ship

Edited August 21, 2018 by MESSIS

[MESSIS]

Slow tempo but the work goes on.... gaffdriver inplace and sprityard

[MESSIS]

The Burbon's royal flag is flying on the flagmast. The General  Lafayette as royal envoy, was on board of Hermione, ferried to America. It was in 1780 when Louis XVI  sent General  La Fayette, carrying the "French reinforcements secret news", to George Washington in Boston, during the American Revolutionary war...

 

And a detail 😊: On the drivergaff is flying a small  flag of Cyprus.... Its the courtesy flag of the home port... thats here in my haus, where this model of Hermione, is at the moment visiting!

 

 

 

Edited August 29, 2018 by MESSIS

[MESSIS]

The picture below shows the sail system am aiming. Its called "broad reach" with the wind coming from behind at an angle, the sails over starboard side (picture) and the mizzen's gaff furled. (The flag shows the direction of wind.)

 

In picture below the wind blows over starboard side... am setting my sail system in the same way, but the wind blowing instead over port side.

This is due to the way am going to display the finished model at the end.

Edited August 29, 2018 by MESSIS

[donrobinson]

All is looking real good Messis. That would look incredible if you could simulate those sails.

[MESSIS]

@donrobinson  Thanks.

Am giving it a shot... I hope I ll manage it

[Dutchman]

Oh, you'll manage alright! I have every confidence

 

[MESSIS]

thanks Bouke... and for the help you havr allready gave me for this...

Edited August 29, 2018 by MESSIS

[MESSIS]

Fore course sail taking a lot of wind....  and the wind is blowing over port side.

Edited August 31, 2018 by MESSIS

[MESSIS]

Fore topsail in position. Fore and main topgalant prepairing with "wind blow liquiid".

[JerseyCity Frankie]

Congratulations on your sails and their wind blown appearance! I know that the effort it takes to get the sails to appear full of wind adds a great deal of time and effort to the model, much more time than if you had simply hung cloth from the spars, but I feel it is worth it for the visual effect it gives to the model. 

[Richmond]

Beautiful colours

[MESSIS]

@Frankie

 

Thank you Frankie... but the sails look like the way you teached me to.

 

You have been a great help. Its a great technik,which now I shall keep on using in all my future models.

[MESSIS]

@Richmond

Thank you Sir, am happy you liked the colors because it has been a long way until I came up with these colours and paint work.

 

To that I have to thank a gentleman from Artesania Latina, Mr Juan Suarez, who has send me all the required details concernig the original colours of Hermione.

Edited September 4, 2018 by MESSIS

[Dutchman]

Great job! Very nice!