ancre La Jacinthe by Kortes - FINISHED - 1:42 scale - French schooner

[Keith Black]

Beautiful, simply beautiful. 

[G.L.]

10 hours ago, KORTES said:

After critical remarks of my friends, experts in snakes - I have redone the head.

 

What was wrong with the previous head?

Your carving looks perfect to me.

[KeithAug]

I have t agree that the carving looks excellent.

[KORTES]

 

 

Thank you, my dear colleagues, for the evaluating my work.

Edited March 29, 2019 by KORTES

[KORTES]

Regarding the snake, my friends pointed out several mismatches.

 

"Brother, the eyes are in the front part of the head:) and the are on the sides. It cant look directly ahead. the face doesnt get thiner in the upper and lower part. In general its just a thick triangle triangle. But the mouth is till the neck :D"

 

I had to remake.

 

 

 

Edited March 30, 2019 by KORTES

[KORTES]

[KORTES]

The hull has dried.

I started installing deck elements.

[FriedClams]

Such excellent work Kortes - in every aspect.

 

Gary

[KORTES]

Thank you very much Gary.

 

 

[KORTES]

I finished the hatchway lids. As the size of the elements is small I had to make a pattern out of nail.

[KeithAug]

Kortes - very precise - as always. You nailed it.

[KORTES]

Basically I finished the spars. Material - pear tree and black hornbeam.

[KORTES]

Tops of the masts, bowsprit and the end of the boom were painted with printer ink.

[KORTES]

Here are some more elements, before final fitting and assembling.

Topmast cross-trees and hoop heads, material - black hornbeam.

[KeithAug]

Kortes - you are very quick yet still maintain wonderful quality.

[KORTES]

Thank you Keith.

[KORTES]

I made dead eyes.

I cut them from the pear tree. For the drilling I had to make one simple device.

[KORTES]

In order to make metal pieces of lashing cleat- dead eyes I have made a small rim out of a small -diameter bolt.

[KORTES]

And then I proceed using the technology of the master-classes. I decided to solder at the big diameter, because when the dead-eye is swaged, the deformation in this area is minimal and the probability of damaging the solder is less.

[KORTES]

Before the soldering, the adjacents parts were grinded off.

Afterwards - blackening and assembling.

Edited April 8, 2019 by KORTES

[JOUFF]

Very beautiful work, congratulations !

 

Patrick

[G.L.]

Very nice dead eyes and chain plates!

[archjofo]

@KORTES

 

This is model building at a high level.
Fantastic performance!

[captain_hook]

Fantastic work, very impressive.

[KORTES]

Thank you very much, Colleagues for such a high evaluation of my work.

My best regards. 

 

Alexander

 

[KORTES]

Jack-pins.

I found the technology of making jack-pins  in the report of Uriy Kimborovich (bim), that he  used for his schooner “Izmail”, for what I’m very grateful to him. I made a simple device out of the materials I had.
Material - pear tree. Firstly I prepared the bars of the desired diameter, and so as not to waste too much material (for the support fixture in the collet) I was carving from a long rod, as the length of the coordinate table would allow me.

 

 

 

 

Edited April 11, 2019 by KORTES

[KORTES]

I’ve made a fit check, on a dry. I’ll assemble it later, with the rigging.

[KeithAug]

Hello Kortes - nice utilisation of tools and the end result looks great. Very well done.

[KORTES]

Thank you very much Keith.

My best regards.

[G.L.]

Adequate method for making belaying pins. Thanks for sharing, I have to make pins as well soon for my smack cross section. I think I will use your method.