HMS Tiger 1747 by Siggi52 - 1:48 - 60 gun ship from NMM plans

[rwiederrich]

Exceptional work Siggi.  you have mastered nearly every aspect of the construction of the cannon...very impressive for sure.  A credit to your craftsmanship and execution.

 

What a pleasure to watch.

 

Rob

[Siggi52]

Hello,

and many thanks for your likes and nice comments. That encourage me a little more to build all these tiny little eye- and ring bolts. 

 

It is done, the gun deck is fitted with cannons. Next I will build all the other cannons more or less ready. Then all cannons could go back into there garage and wait until there permanent installation. 

[archjofo]

Hi Siggi,

 

fantastic work !

[Flamborough]

Hello Siggi,

fantastic work always nice to follow the progress !

 

Greetings  Monty

[English Rebel]

On 2/10/2018 at 12:53 PM, Siggi52 said:

Hello,

today only a small update. I located the positions of the Rails, wales and gun ports at the hull. 

 

Wow, I haven't seen a vernier height gauge since my engineering apprenticeship back in England sixty odd years ago. I used it to mark a steel die-making template covered in engineers blue. I'm going to be following this interesting and quite large build.

Alan

[English Rebel]

Just got up to date and I'm very impressed, not only in your craftsmanship, but in your attention to detail. Making all those cannons was a massive undertaking but your efforts paid off. 

Thanks for sharing.

Alan

[Siggi52]

Hello and many thanks for your likes and comments.

 

today I finished the 12 pdr's. Because the deck is't ready, I can't install there barrels. But the two extra guns are ready for display.

Now only the dozen 6 pdr's are left. 😃 

And that are the carriages for the guns of the ship. That was a lot more work than expected. 

[Siggi52]

Hello and many thanks for your likes,

 

it is done, all cannons are ready! Here they are all together at the gun deck, or at least there carriages.

And that they are

I have one question to an administrator. Did you change there something with the likes? They did't turn up in my notifications. There are now only the comments listed. The last time I have much trouble to open this site, I think because of too much traffic when in the US starts the day now in the Corona time. So some times I shut down this site when it was't open correctly. It takes sometimes up to 10 minutes with a traffic of 1-5 KB/s. 🤨 Many thanks in advance 

[Vladimir_Wairoa]

This is penomenal stuff. Craftsmanship and outcome indeed. Beautiful with capital B. happy to see work like these just to see and learn what can be achieved. thanks for sharing. V. 

[Vladimir_Wairoa]

Im late to this as focusing on late period ships. spectacular carving Siggi. this is out of this world.  thanks for sharing. 

[FriedClams]

Just catching up on your work Siggi - wonderful modeling as always.  Your cannon and carriages are excellent.  It is easy to make one item well, but extremely difficult to make dozens of them identical to each other and each one precisely and flawlessly made.  Very nice.  

 

Gary

[Jeronimo]

Hello Siggi,

why the cannon-tulip in red?

I haven't seen that anywhere else.

 

Weshalb die Kanonen - Tulpe in Rot?

Ich habe das sonst noch nirgendwo gesehen.

 

regards Karl

 

 

[dvm27]

13 minutes ago, Jeronimo said:

Hello Siggi,

why the cannon-tulip in red?

I haven't seen that anywhere else.

 

Weshalb die Kanonen - Tulpe in Rot?

Ich habe das sonst noch nirgendwo gesehen.

 

regards Karl

 

 

I was also somewhat confused by that at first Karl. But since then I have noted a red muzzle and plug on other Navy Board models. Not sure if it a modeler's convention or just decorative but the practice is contemporary to other models of this period.

[Keith Black]

Siggi, Leo is beautiful and amazing. I'm spellbound. 

[SJSoane]

Hi Siggi,

 

I agree, three strakes would not work with Anchor Stock or Top and Butt. And since the wale is the main fore and aft structure resisting tension along its length, it would probably not be simple planks butted together. So that leaves Butt and Hook. And since the Bellona built just 12 years later than the Tiger has Butt and Hook main wales, I would assume that this probably evolved from earlier practices. So not knowing anything else, I would assume this would be the method used by the Tiger.

 

But this is just a guess!

 

Mark

[SJSoane]

Siggi,

 

I realized that I have been missing your posts since they are now in a different date category than mine. I wondered why I was not seeing your work! So, catching up, it is looking great! The carving is spectacular, an inspiration for us all.

 

Best wishes,

 

Mark

[Siggi52]

Hello,

 

and many thanks for the many likes and nice comments. I do my very best to satisfy you. 

 

@Karl, as Greg already mentioned, you could see these red muzzles on many models of that time and also at paintings. Not only at english ships, but also the „Wappen von Hamburg III“ has that future.

 

 Lt. Gabriel Bray

 

 

At least I did't post here for a long time. I got the Corona Bluse, but good luck not the infection. Because the summer here in the northern part of Germany is more or les cold it is much colder in my basement. So I'm fixing this and that at my house and garden, and when the sun is shining I relax in the garden and doing nothing. 😊

 

So, Mark, you did't miss anything.

 

Stay all sound

[druxey]

I suspect that red muzzles were 'Captain's fancy'.

[Louie da fly]

Amazing work, Siggi! 

[captain_hook]

Very nice! Did that ship really had a lion as figurehead or is it some sort of placeholder?

[Siggi52]

Thank you for your kind words, and yes, many nations ships had in those times lions as figureheads. 

[Louie da fly]

And it's a particularly good reproduction of the "Chinoiserie" style of lion fiurehead that was so popular at the time, right down to the expression on its face.

[Mirabell61]

Siggi,

 

Superb figurehead carving, beautiful work !!

 

Nils

[Siggi52]

Hello again,

 

after such a long time, I'm back at the ship yard. The wether outside is dark and rainy, so I did't mis anything in the basement. First I started with the plans. When I was ready drawing the pumps, I thought it would be a good idea just to build them. 

 

Here are the plans, I draw the red lines to mark the hatch ways at each plan. Because the sheer plan is not always identical with the decks plans, I have to stay with the sheer plan. 

 

 

And here are the chain pumps, here in white

 

 

and here fresh painted

 

 

 

The next project would be the elm pumps. 

[Matt D]

It looks like cheating to have that little guy paint your model for you.  He’s doing an amazing job for you.

[mtaylor]

Nicely done, Siggi.  A question and I hate to ask it.  Is the little man with the paint to scale?  If he is, I think the pump housing might be too high as he would have to raise his hands well over his head while using the pumps.  

[Siggi52]

Hello,

and many thanks for your comments and likes.

 

Mark, I think that it's the perspective. These pumps are huge, but not so much. If you look at the drawing, I think it fits. The painter is 1,70m and the carpenter 1.80m (6 feet) high. The axle is at 3f 10in. 

 

 

 

 

 

[MEDDO]

I definitely like seeing figures in the work.  It really helps with seeing the scale

[mtaylor]

Thanks Siggi. I think it was the perspective that made it look off.  

[Siggi52]

Hello,

now I have also the elm-tree pumps ready. I build them after Goodwin's description of the Victory pumps. I think, that these pumps are so old that there is nothing newer in this version than in the middle of the 18. century. It was a little tricky to build these fine parts, but at least it worked.

 

 

 

And here they are in position and ready to pump 😉