HMS Atalanta 1775 by tlevine - FINISHED - 1:48 scale - from TFFM plans

[Dan Vadas]

Good trick on the Hanging Knee template Toni .

 

Of course, now that I have the hang of things, I am finished with the hanging knees on the lower deck.

 

Ah, but the trick will come in very handy for the Upper Deck, Quarterdeck and Forecastle knees .

 

  Danny

[dvm27]

Well, that's a terrific place to break, Toni. She looks amazing!

[tlevine]

Since I am not taking any modeling projects with me, if the weather is bad I'll finally have time to catch up on everybody's builds.

[druxey]

Enjoy your time off, Toni. I like your hanging knee pattern-making dodge!

[Maury S]

Toni, She looks great!  Good tip on the knees as well.

Maury

[BANYAN]

Toni, that's some terriffic progress, and Atlanta is looking great.  Enjoy the break (and reading)

 

cheers

 

Pat

[dgbot]

Toni, Your joinery is flawless as usual.  I will miss looking at your log.  Have a good time and have fun.

David B

[Long9Ron]

Toni

 

Just looked at your build of the Atlanta. Beautiful work.

[tlevine]

I have finally had a little time to work on Atalanta.  Beam 15 assembly has been installed.  The hardest part of this assembly was keeping the line of ledges straight across the ship.  Slight differences are a lot harder to notice if there is a hatch, mast partner or beam arm visually breaking up the run of ledges.

 

 

[tlevine]

The longboat has been completed so I can concentrate on Atalanta.  Beam 16 set has an opening for a ladder to provide access to the aft platform.  While looking at this I discovered that the bulkhead for access to the magazine was too far forward.  The ladder would either have to be 18" wide or I would have to rebuild part of the aft platform bulkheads.  It was just too big a problem to ignore so I removed everything forward of the pillar for beam 16 and rebuilt them.  Some of the walls could be reused so it was not a total disaster.  I took pictures of all of this but discovered too late that I forgot to put the card back into the camera.

 

The result is not perfect but there is now room for a 24" ladder.

 

[druxey]

Life and  modelmaking is often like that: one step forward, two back.... Good for you to have the courage to do a re-make.

[tlevine]

Thanks, Druxey.  I guarantee those lower deck bulkheads will be measured three times instead of twice!

[tlevine]

I posted this picture of the longboat and Atalanta under the longboat build log.  I am reposting it here for future reference.

 

[druxey]

Ah, yes. measurements. I have a favorite cartoon that goes like this:

 

Manager: "My philosophy is, measure twice, then cut twice, then, uh...."

Underling1: "...give the tape measure a bad performance review?"

Underling 2: "Hee, hee! (Pause) Ooh."

[gjdale]

Nice to see more progress on your lovely Atlanta Toni, even if it did involve some re-work (which, I might add, is actually re-assuring for we lesser mortals ). The side-by-side photo is a terrific one for giving a feel for the sizes.

[Jim Lad]

Jist catching up, Toni.  Nice job on the re-work (says he, the master of understatement)!

 

John

[mtaylor]

Toni,

Good catch and excellent fix.  If you hadn't told us, we wouldn't have known.

[BANYAN]

Very nice work on both Toni, a very complimenting build.

 

cheers

 

Pat

[jaerschen]

Great or small, both models are very well done Toni

[tlevine]

Thanks everyone for your kind comments.  Like so much of what we do, if I had left it alone I would have known it was wrong.  It really makes you sit up and pay attention when you realize that a 6" error on another deck (1/8" in reality) can have such a profound impact on the next deck.

[Dan Vadas]

Hi Toni,

 

I had exactly the same problem with that Companion, but I didn't go back for the "fix"   . I just made the ladder narrower.

 

Speaking of which - there is a similar problem with the alignment between beams on the Upper Deck and Quarterdeck. The TFFM deck framing plan doesn't match up with the NMM plan - the forward bulkhead for the Captain's Cabin doesn't fall on the Upper Deck beam on mine   . It's worth checking before you go much further, although it doesn't significantly impact on anything (no hatches here).

 

  Danny

[tlevine]

Danny, thanks for the head's up.

 

Not much has been accomplished the last week.  The spring here has been particularly cold and cloudy so now that it is a little warmer (50 degrees with a 30 mph wind!) I have been occupied in the gardens.  We finally saw the sun yesterday so I took Atalanta sailing in the lawn.

 

 

 

[druxey]

Nice shots of the model. Nice garden as well!

[michael mott]

Lovely shots of the work so far, we are not so green here yet.

 

Michael

[AnobiumPunctatum]

Wonderful pictures

[tlevine]

A milestone has been achieved.  The lower deck structure has been finished.  I have been applying finish to the underside of the beam sets before installing them.  The gap in front of lodging knee 17 in the fourth photo occurred because the assembly is not glued in yet and it shifted.  The last photo shows it better positioned.  I will not put on any upper surface finish until after the decking is installed.  Now on to the mizzen partner.

 

 

    

 

 

[gjdale]

Congratulations on achieving that milestone Toni - she's looking fantastic.

[dvm27]

Beautiful, Toni!

[tlevine]

Greg and Grant, thank you.  I am pleased with her.  Let's see...22 month so far and how many more to go.

[Jim Lad]

Ahhh!  Something really nice to look at on a slow Sunday morning!

 

John