Echo by tlevine - FINISHED - Cross-Section

[tlevine]

Thank you for all the likes,  Michael, I think the notations are a new feature of the forum software.  

[garyshipwright]

Nice job Toni, you done a heck of a job and enjoyed watching you build it. Thanks for sharing. Gary

[druxey]

Very nicely done, Toni! Does this wrap up the project?

[tlevine]

Druxey, there is a lot more to go.  I have just finished the upper works planking and will begin the rest of the hull "extras" next.  I am trying to decide whether to install the gangway.  Of the two sets of plans I have for Echo, one shows her with a gangway (ZAZ4200) and the other does not (ZAZ3837).

[tlevine]

The oar port lid has been installed.  The hinge is flattened copper wire and the knuckle is brass rod.  My metal skills are insufficient to build a functional hinge this tiny, so the lid is glued in place.  Although the plan shows two fenders, I only had room for one.  I must have made a measurement error at the beginning of the build and I refuse to start over!  The outer face of the fender is carved with a scraper and bolted to the hull.  I had to make five scraper shapes for the various fittings seen in the picture.  The steps were made in one long strip which was cut to length and the side curves were made with a U-chisel and files.  Aft of the gunport are the holes for the pins which will attach to the channel.

[tlevine]

The channels were made and installed next.  These were glued and pinned to the hull.  The covering strip is only temporarily installed.  These also have a carved edge, similar but slightly narrower than the sheer rail.

The deadeyes were turned from swiss pear.  The chains are brass,  The middle link was silver soldered and shaped first.  The toe link and deadeye binding were then installed.  These were shaped and the deadeye installed after they were soldered.  The ironwork was then blackened and given a coat of matte finish.  The preventer plate was cut out from sheet brass.

Next up was making the drift rail and hance.  The hance is a section of rail that forms almost a ninety degree bend as it connects the drift rail with the planksheer.  I tried several times to carve it from a single piece of costelo.  I finally gave up and made it from three laminations, heat bent to shape.  This has the same molded edge as the planksheer.  Below the drift rail is the wider drift molding which terminates in a volute just behind the hance.  We are now up to eight molding profiles.

I decided to paint the rails and their extensions onto the hull, the planksheer and the drift rail.  To prevent getting paint on the hull, the undersurface of these would be painted off the model, the rails installed and then the upper surface and edges painted.  The planksheer offered no difficulty.  Because the curvature of the roughtree rail was gentler, I was able to heat bend a strip of costelo to the required shape.  The photo is after a few coats of very thin artist acrylic paint.  It still needs cleaning up and a coat of finish applied.

 

 

[WalrusGuy]

Very inspirational work, Toni. The details are amazing. 

[druxey]

Nice work on the rails, Toni.

[albert]

Great beautiful work Toni

[usedtosail]

Absolutely stunning Toni.

[GrandpaPhil]

Amazing work!

[tlevine]

The last two items to address are the gangway and the ladder going up to it.  The gangway is comprised of a frame of wood, secured to the bulwark with knees (two of them are visible in this cross section).  The frame is then planked.  I initially misinterpreted the drawing in the practicum and installed a stanchion between the deck and gangway.  The location made no sense to me as it would have been in the way of the gun.  The stanchion is actually between the gangway and the rail connecting it with the quarter deck.

The rail was somewhat tricky to make; it is curved in two directions.  There is a "fork" between the rail and the upper quarter deck rail stanchion and a tenon through which the gangway stanchion inserts.  When I made this rail, I thought I was using castelo.  After a coat of finish, it was apparent that this was pear.  After these photos were taken, I removed the rail and made a new one from castelo.  

The last thing to make was the ladder.  Echo is officially finished.  All that remains is to clean her up, and decide how I want to mount her.  

 

 

 

[Chuck]

Lovely model.  That is a wonderful cross section Toni.

 

 

[hollowneck]

1 hour ago, tlevine said:

Echo is officially finished.  All that remains is to clean her up, and decide how I want to mount her. 

Ta-Da! Nice work, Toni.

I'll be interested to see how you present this unique model.

[druxey]

Congratulations Toni! A very nice result. Of courser the question is, what next?

[dvm27]

Fantastic cross section Toni!  Love the coppered bottom.

[WalrusGuy]

Gorgeous model, Toni. Your log will be a great reference for me when I get started on a cross section scratch build. 

[Nirvana]

Very nice Echo.

Toni, you are amazing.

[tlevine]

Thank you to everyone.  Druxey, I have a project I am working on for the Guild and then I need to finish Swallow.  After that...who knows.

[BobG]

Gorgeous model! Nice work, Toni!

[Maury S]

Nicely done!

Maury

[AnobiumPunctatum]

Wonderful model, Toni 

[tlevine]

Thank you, Christian.