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

[Hubac's Historian]

Very fine!

[dvm27]

Here's some inspiration Siggi.  But after viewing your work I don't think you need it. Well done!

[Siggi52]

Hello and many thanks for your likes, picture and comments

now the second scroll is also ready, but they are at least not installed. There I have to fix something before that.

 

 

[druxey]

As nice as any scrolls I've seen!

[Siggi52]

Hello, thank you for your likes and Druxey for your kind words. I do my very best 😇

today I prepared the next scrolls. That are the larges and most complicated one. A Euro cent has a diameter of 16,25 mm. 

 

 

 

That is my filigree thumb, not that of King Kong!

 

[Dowmer]

Thanks Siggi, I appreciate the step by step pictures illustrating how you carve these wonderful scrolls. 

[Siggi52]

Hello,

Dowmer, here is the second and last lesson: how to carve scrolls 😉

The left is ready and the other prepared for finial carving

 

 

And here they are build in. The varnish and glue are not already dry, so I have to correct may be this and that tomorrow. 

If you look at the yellow part of the hull, it's fascinating how much of the planking you could see, even when there are now 4 layers of paint on it. 

 

[Wintergreen]

Very nice scrolls!

I can only dream of accomplish anything like that.

 

Keep it up!

[Siggi52]

Hakan, not dreaming, trying. 

[Siggi52]

Hello and many thanks for your likes and comments

now the last scrolls are done 😅

You may also notice, that I painted the underwater ship new. The dark areas in the pictures are shadows and noise. So don't worry, it's now mostly white with only a little weathering at the hull and a dirt ring around the ship where is normally the water surface. But at the pictures it looks really dark 😕

 

The next things to do are the steps

 

 

 

 

[Siggi52]

Hello again,

did anybody know how deep the steps at the side of the ship where?

When I calculate with 25 cm, they must be 5,2 mm deep. But at the models they look smaller.

 

The gun port lids to the right would be 18 mm high and 2 mm thick. Then the steps would be only circa 4 mm/20 cm deep

 

  

[druxey]

I believe that they were about 9" wide full size.

[Siggi52]

Thank you Druxey,

and all others for your likes

 

That would be then 22,8 cm, or 4,77 mm in 1:48. Then I was with my guess not so far away from that

Edited March 29, 2021 by Siggi52

[Siggi52]

Hello,

after a short break at the yard, now the steps. I made them 3,5 mm wide and 4 mm high as at the plan. At all models I looked at, they where higher than wide. At least they are at there places. 

 

 

[Siggi52]

Hello,

because all these steps are different, I decided to profile them from above and below.  The fronts of the steps are between 4 and 4,6 mm

 

 

 

So, one profile from above

 

and one from below

 

 

and the result

 

 

 

So, if you hear the next weeks nothing from me, I'm busy  😉

[Siggi52]

Hello and many thanks for your likes,

today the first results, the steps for the port side are ready. That was a harder job then expected.   

 

[Keith Black]

 Sigge, those look so nice, they were worth the effort. 

[Siggi52]

Thank you Keith

[druxey]

Lovely, Siggi. I look forward to seeing those entry steps installed! Just don't mix them up....

[Siggi52]

Thank you Druxey, they are all signed and numbered 😉

[Siggi52]

Hello and thank you all for your likes,

it is done, they are fast. 😓 The next step is, to secure them with wood dowels and paint them. But that is for tomorrow.

 

 

[Siggi52]

Hello

and many thanks for your likes,

because we had last week here three days spring, my garden needed my attention. But I painted the steps and build the hind fenders for both sides.

 

 

 

[druxey]

I see you did that that hard way: placing the fenders over the moldings rather than cutting the moldings to butt the sides of the fenders! The fit looks perfect.

[dvm27]

As Druxey has pointed you you have definitely gone the more difficult route in making those fenders. Cutting the negative shape of the moldings into the fenders is extremely challenging. Excellent work! I wonder which method was used during actual construction of the ship?

[Siggi52]

Thank you Druxey, 

with that I was not really sure how to do it, but at the old models they did it the same way 🙁 So at least I did't know how it was made at the real ships. 

 

Superb

 

Thunderer/Hercules

 

 

[Siggi52]

Thank you Greg,

during I wrote the reply for Druey, your mail arrived here.

 

That is really a question, how did they do it in reality. I think because they had to replace the fenders more often when worn out, they go over the rails. At most models you could't see how it was made, because of the thick layer of lacquer.

[druxey]

The old-time model-makers were as crazy as we are, it seems!

[dvm27]

Well some old time modelers did it that way but this model of Minerve shows the builder took the easier path.

[Hubac's Historian]

Also of interest, here, is that the frieze appears to be painted on paper that is applied to the hull - much like Chuck’s Winchelsea.

[Mic.fr]

Very nice work !