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Tuesday, July 9th, 2019

 

I've terminated the installation of the stern decorations.

 

The original decorative material supplied in the Marisstella kit consists of raw laser cut pieces on a walnut wood board. These pieces, once separated from their board, must be manually carved. Unfortunately, the wood used (walnut with fairly coarse grain) proved to be absolutely unsuitable to be carved.
So this operation was terminated, in my case, miserably. In my opinion, another type of wood should have been used, such as boxwood or pearwood; perhaps the carving was successful.
 
Taking into account that this model should represent a generic Ragusian Carrack, therefore not a specific, named ship, I felt free to decide and improvise on these details.
 
I therefore resorted to my own reserve of metal decorations (accumulated over many years by building other models) and I prepared the decorations that you can see illustrated in the images that follow this script. Personally I am satisfied with the choice of these decorations, quite in synergy with the decorations in vogue of the late 16th-early 17th century.

 

A cordial goodbye, Jack. Aubrey

 

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Monday, July 15, 2019

 

A couple of days ago I applied a coat of oil for wood, to nourish the wood itself and highlight its colors. So I had to wait a couple of days for the oil to be completely absorbed by the wood and leave dry the model surfaces. Now the model can be manipulated again and I am providing the tree nailing of the wales and vertical reinforcements.

Below is a review of model images taken this morning in natural light. Good vision. Jack.

 

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Always so beautiful ! I like this warm color of the wood and you do a superb job !

Jean-Paul

 

'You are not carving a bear with a chain saw here folks',

Chuck Passaro, ´Queen Anne Style Barge´ manual of instructions

 

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That is one beautiful model, Jack.

Mark
"The shipwright is slow, but the wood is patient." - me

Current Build:                                                                                             
Past Builds:
 La Belle Poule 1765 - French Frigate from ANCRE plans - ON HOLD           Triton Cross-Section   

 NRG Hallf Hull Planking Kit                                                                            HMS Sphinx 1775 - Vanguard Models - 1:64               

 

Non-Ship Model:                                                                                         On hold, maybe forever:           

CH-53 Sikorsky - 1:48 - Revell - Completed                                                   Licorne - 1755 from Hahn Plans (Scratch) Version 2.0 (Abandoned)         

         

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

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Many thanks to all of you for the comments and the likes, Jack.

Wednesday, July 17th, 2019

 

A little work with toothpicks to simulate wood nails on the wales and on the vertical reinforcements . . .

 

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Saturday 20 July 2019

 

In these days with the weather becoming warmer and hot, I worked around some preparatory activitoes to paint the quickwork. The varnish, according to the images of the model shown at the beginning of this log, will be black.

 

In order to apply the black (acrylic) paint it's necessary, however, to mask the border area which must remain wood-colored. A couple of days ago I applied a coat of matt acrylic from the lower wale to the keel, to prepare with a base coat the area to be colored. Before proceeding with the masking and painting I decided to wait a few days to make sure that the initial coat of paint is well dry and perfectly anchored to the wood.

 

So, as alternative task, I started to prepare the two platforms that are positioned almost at the top of the mainmast and foremast.
The material provided by the kit, this time, proved to be really good. All the pieces are laser pre-cut and are of absolute precision. Their assembly, although to be carried out with the utmost care given the fragility of some pieces, did not create any kind of problems.

 

The only aspect to be emphasized is that it's practically impossible, given the fragility of many pieces, to remove the burned wood. a side effect of the laser cut. For this reason the two platforms will be colored instead of left in natural wood color: their nature as pre-cut laser pieces would be too obvious and so on.

 

My only problem (just to speak): the choice of the color.

 

For today there are no images but they will arrive soon. Salutoni, Jack.

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Sunday, July 21st, 2019

 

Here are the images of the work done on the main top and the fore top. After the mounting, yesterday I proceeded to apply a coat of acrylic paint just to highlight that there is a little finishing work to do . . . I will see. However it seems to me that everything is going well.
Cheers, Jack.

 

The main top from different viewpoints . . .
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And the fore top, just few smaller the the other . . .
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Saturday 27 July 2019

 

Session dedicated to painting, after a idle week due to many extra modeling commitments.


I finished coloring the tops and colored the carrack quickwork with a black paint.


The black colored area does not follow the waterline, as logic would like, but a line almost parallel to the lower wale. This is not an invention of mine but an element envisaged in this way in the project and faithfully reproduced in the photos of the finished model, images presented at the beginning of this log.


For its task I used my well tested technique by using a masking tape with the application, on the protection line, of a coat of matt paint. This before applying the final black color. With this method you generally get a perfect line, and so it was.


Now everything is drying upside down. . . .
Goodbye, Jack.

 

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Sunday, July 28th, 2019

 

😀😀😀  Let's put the model in its usual, right asset . . . . 😀😀😀   


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Tuesday 30 July 2019

 

What to do next ?

 

Apart from some secondary activities, anyway postponable, and only one as really prerequisite, from today the "focus" of the important, and no longer delayable tasks, shifts to build the railings (is it the right term?) planned both on the forecastle than on the quarterdeck.
Figure 01 shows, in the area highlighted in red, this detail for the stern area.

 

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As you can easily see, it is a matter of installing 9 vertical 5mm square supports with the base resting on the gunwale of the quarterdeck and the top anchored to the gunwale of the last poop deck. The whole tied and reinforced by two 2x2mm streams embedded in the vertical supports.
In theory, the build of this detail is not complex, even if it requires a good amount of patience and precision, but for me, the real challenge consists in keeping an adequately strong structure, which does not risk falling apart at the first working accident.
So ideas will be needed to make it as robust as I would like.

 

Another matter, even if finalized to the same result, on the forecastle, as shown, in the same way as in figure 01, in figure 02 (side view), 03, 04 and 05 (views from other directions). For the forecastle railings, unlike the poop ones, it is possible to setup a separate assembly followed by the final fixing it only at the end. This would make work more comfortable and more precise.

 

To the next episode, Jack. 

 

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You might try carving "pins" into the ends of the upright supports, with corresponding holes in the gunwale. I tried this and it seems to work -  https://modelshipworld.com/topic/10344-10th-11th-century-byzantine-dromon-by-louie-da-fly-150/page/30/

 

 

Or (if your hand is steady enough) drill holes in the ends of the uprights and insert metal pins, which go into corresponding holes in the gunwale. If you cut sewing pins short they'd probably do the trick as they are hard and tough and won't bend (or break, as one of my wooden ones did).

 

Steven

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If you're going to paint the gunwales, you drill through it and the supports.  Then just sand an paint.  

Mark
"The shipwright is slow, but the wood is patient." - me

Current Build:                                                                                             
Past Builds:
 La Belle Poule 1765 - French Frigate from ANCRE plans - ON HOLD           Triton Cross-Section   

 NRG Hallf Hull Planking Kit                                                                            HMS Sphinx 1775 - Vanguard Models - 1:64               

 

Non-Ship Model:                                                                                         On hold, maybe forever:           

CH-53 Sikorsky - 1:48 - Revell - Completed                                                   Licorne - 1755 from Hahn Plans (Scratch) Version 2.0 (Abandoned)         

         

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

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Thanks Steven and Mark,

I think I'll follow the basic ideas you have proposed in your posts, with some changes because I prefer to avoid painting the gunwales, leaving them as natural wood. My idea is to apply over the top gunwale a strip of veneer  to hide the view of the pins. From another side I'll prefer to drill the vertical supports in order to insert a pin on both ends, using as pins some toothpicks, as I made to simulate the wood nails . . .

At the right moment I'll show what I mean with proper images.

Regards, Jack. 

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Thursday, August 8th, 2019

 

At the end, after a week of work, I managed to complete the railings located in the stern area.
It has been an activity that engaged me in a long planning job to obtain a result from one side enough precise and from the other adeguately strong. In particular this last point made me lose a lot of time to setup joints and pins able to ensure the required strength.
In hindsight I have to say I hit the target, but anyway . . . . it was a tough and complex matter.

 

The images below document the work done, work that further enhances the aesthetics of this model. Now still some details, always located in the stern, are missing but they are easy to implement; and then a similar task will start for the forecastle railings. . . but here, with the experience so far made, I'm no longer worried.

 

Salutoni, Jack.

 

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Saturday, August 10, 2019

 

Additional elements again in the stern area . . 

 

It seems a small achievement but it is absolutely not true; the round decorative elements with a hole in the center were made using a lathe, starting with a rod reduced to the correct diameter, drilled in the center and so on. Nothing magic but a lot of patience.

 

At this point the matter in the stern area is practically closed, some elements are still missing but this is certainly not the right time to install them. Now it's time to focus on the railings on the forecastle. Another challenge of patience and precision, combined with the necessary robustness.

 

See you soon, Jack.

 

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Wednesday, August 14th, 2019

 

I started to build the forecastle railings . . for this task I identified the possibility to build these elements separately and assemble them on the model as final process. This fact has two great advantages: it allows greater precision in the preparation of the pieces and, last but not least, greater ease of execution. Furthermore, the experience gained up until now has played an essential role.
There is still a lot to do before finishing, but it seems to be progressing very well.
See you soon, Jack.

 

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Friday, August 16, 2019 - Railings of the forecastle

 

The building the forecastle railings is still in progress. I decided to glue the two lateral railings built earlier. 
In order to ensure the necessary strength of the bonding, until I'll have also installed the front and the rear railing, I have glued a temporary batten that connects the two sides getting their force thanks to the gluing to the foremast stump. In due course it will be removed with a light touch or twist as the glueing has been done with a point of cyanoacrylate glue.

 

Best regards, Jack.

 

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Tuesday 20 August 2019
 
The installation of the forecastle railings is also finished . . . Now only three smaller, although complex, internal railings still remain to install. They are, positioned to protect the ends of the decks, as shown in the last two images, taken from the model plans.
Their peculiarity is given by the rounded small columns to be prepared with a wood lathe, instead of the square ones.
See you soon, Jack.
 
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Other images of the model taken yesterday, today I would like to start making the railing columns described in the previous post, even if I would like to do them with a slightly different shape. First I'll do some prototypes before deciding.
Salutoni, Jack.

 

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Thursday 22 August 2017

 

Day spent on the lathe to prepare the columns needed to install the railings between the various decks of the carrack. Next step their installation, after which this chapter will also be finished. Dimensions: those of the first picture mm. 16, the others mm. 22.
Salutoni, Jack.

 

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Saturday, August 24th, 2019

 

I've finished also the last railings, using the small columns lathed last thursday . . . now I have to think about and plan the nexts activities.
See you soon, Jack.

 

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Thursday, August 29th, 2019

 

Adding new details. .

 

Having prepared the bowsprit on a lathe, I then fixed it in the correct position.

 

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In addition to the bowsprit in this picture you can also see the cathead, applied also on the other side of the hull.

 

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Here are some details of the base of the bowsprit, including the classic rope binding from the bow to this mast.

 

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A beam has been installed also aft, protruding far beyond the hull.

 

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Finally the last missing detail on the railing between the main deck and the quarterdeck.

 

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Now I will dedicate myself to the guns, task quite long and boring. Luckily, there are only eight.
Greetings, Jack.

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Monday 2 September 2019

 

The challenge to install the guns has began.
As anticipated it's a long and boring task but must be done . . I started with the cannon balls stock . . . at least these are now ready.
See you soon, Jack.

 

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Thursday 12 September 2019

 

During these 10 days since my last update for this model there have been very few news worth to be illustrated: I had to prepare a bunch of raw objects that required lot of patience, anyway very important to allow the implementation of the blocks and finally start to install the guns.

 

The images show the gun carriages definitively fixed on the decks: the fixing takes place through the insertion of a pin that passes through the carriage into the deck floor; it is visible, even if with some difficulty as it was later painted, in the central part of the carriage itself.

 

The images 01 and 02 below show the eight guns that make up the ordnance of this model, partially "wired". Each rope endpoint of the completed tackles is fixed to the deck with a drop of super glue and cut. Later I will prepare the rope curls, as I did for other models in the past, trying to make them better as realism. The curls will be applied over the endpoints so that they look like its natural continuation.
 
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In the next two images (03 and 04) I started fixing the gun barrels on the carriages. The barrels are glued in their position with a small amount of two-component epoxy glue. Now I have to wait sometime to allow this glue to harden and then I will be able to proceed with the subsequent operations. Each gun has its own supply of ammunitions, prepared days ago, fixed to the deck with a drop of superglue.

 

The recoil rope has already been added to all the gun barrels, in the next days this rope, prepared before fixing the barrel to its carriage, will be definitively fixed on the inner side of the bulwark.

 

As you can see, there is still a bit of work to flag this activity as completed, but surely I'm approaching the final tasks.
However, this trick cost a lot of working hours and lot of patience.

 

Cheers, Jack.

 

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Tuesday 17 September 2019

 

The installation of the 6 guns on the main deck is finally complete. Two guns are still missing: the ones of smaller caliber located on the quarterdeck . . . . anyway the most is done.

 

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To diversify the work around the guns, I prepared the four planned fife rails. Here I indulged myself with a pretty showy coloring with the aim of creating some kind of color contrast . . . a bit like the ocher color for the gun carriages.

 

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Another hour of work and even this tedious activity can be said to have ended happily.
Greetings, Jack.

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