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HMS Kingfisher 1770 by Remco - 1/48 - English 14 Gun Sloop - POF


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Thanks all! Greg the squares are 1 cm so a bit larger than you thought.

 

Time to make the cleats that will support the blocks from the mast. For one second I thought of setting up the mill but decided to make the cleats by hand. Glad I did, it's fun to do and there is something about cutting wood with a well honed chisel. A couple of files did the rest.

 

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I made the cleats for both the fore and the main mast the same size, not sure if this is correct.

 

Remco

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Remco,

 

You turn even the simplest of structures into works of art!

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Simple,  yet elegant.  They look great Remco.

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

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Your work is so very clean, it is great to see how you approach each task.

 

michael

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Thanks guys. Druxey, the cleats aren't fixed yet, I'll first make the lashings, but this needs to wait until the stays are in place.  Probably some years from now........I'll make the cleats for the foremast a little smaller, I found them a bit on the large side too. As the masts are now finished to a point I'm going to store them it's time to return to the hull. Remember I started making the mast so I could position the mast partners. What a fun few months of deviation from the path this has been, can't wait to return to the mast. Maybe as a side project somewhere down the road. 

 

Now it's back to deck building. Plenty of challenges here to like this beam with all the mortices.....

 

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Remco

Treat each part as if it is a model on its own, you will finish more models in a day than others do in a lifetime. 

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Niiiiiiiice!  Did you cut the camber in or did you heat-bend it?  I assume the mortices are hand cut instead on your milling attachment.  Just lovely!

 

Cheers,

 

 

 

Piet, The Flying Dutchman.

 

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Lovely work on the deck framing, Remco. Be very careful with those masts when you put them away. We certainly wouldn't want to see anythinfg happen to them.

 

Bob

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Thanks guys. Sure Bob, although I haven't found a safe place yet. .. Piet, the beams are cut on a scroll saw and sanded using a simple jig. I still have some pictures somewhere in my archive. Of course the mortices are hand cut  ;)

 

That said, I had to take out the lathe to make the mast wedge. I used French Box which is a real treat to turn on a lathe. 

 

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The mast step is hold in place with wedges

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Everything was dry fitted, this is becoming a cramped part of the ship and this is even without the cisterns  :huh:

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The holes in the mast partner are cut using chisels and files

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Remco

Treat each part as if it is a model on its own, you will finish more models in a day than others do in a lifetime. 

Current build HMS Kingfisher

 

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Hey Remco,

 

Just marvelous!  It's a joy looking at it.  I showed it to the admiral too and wow.

 

Cheers, 

 

Piet, The Flying Dutchman.

 

"Your greatest asset is not the quantity of your friends , rather the quality of your friends."  (old Chinese proverb)

 

Current Builds: Hr. Ms. Java 1925-1942

                       VOC Ship Surabaya

 

Planned Builds: Young America Diorama - scale 1:3000

 

Future Builds: KPM ship "MS Musi."  Zuiderzee Botter - scale 1:25. VOC Jacht in a 6" lamp,  Buginese fishing Prauw.  Hr. Ms. Java - Royal Navy Netherlands Cruiser.

 

Completed Builds:   Hr. Ms. O16 Submarine

                             Hr. Ms. O19 - Submarine Royal Navy Netherlands

                             Ship Yard Diorama with Topsail schooner -

                             Friendship Sloop Gwenfra

                           Muscongus Bay Lobster Smack    

                             Golden Hind - Cutte Sark (both not in this forum)

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Thanks guys.

 

Now is also the time to dryfit the upper well. I had made this one two years ago.

 

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Actually it didn't fit and some modification was necessarily, it was slightly to high but this was good as I also had forgotten to take the chamber of the deckbeams into account when I made the well. Removing wood is easier than adding ;)

 

Now it looks like this.

 

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I also made another set of hanging knees, nasty bits to make... I still need to get back into the flow of making beam, knee and ledges parts

 

Remco

Treat each part as if it is a model on its own, you will finish more models in a day than others do in a lifetime. 

Current build HMS Kingfisher

 

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Great work Remco - you shouldn't have the alignment problems I had with a few of the pieces like the Upper Well/Lower Well with the way you are going about it  :) .

 

:cheers:  Danny

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Really brilliant. Your model is a masterpiece.

Regards Christian

 

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Thanks guys. Yes Carl time really fly's...

 

I'm working on the main topsail bitt's. The score's for the deckbeam and cross piece were scored on the table saw as well as several scores to mark the thickness of this piece. The rest was removed using files and sanding sticks. I used a special angled sanding tick to add the small sloped face at the bottom edge of the head.

 

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Here they are test fitted next up is adding the shaves and the cheeks  I'm not sure if the bitt's were also bolted to the upper deck beam, I'll will do botls so I can register the bitts with some pins.

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Remco

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