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

[KORTES]

Dear colleagues Paul and Gary thank you very much.

[KORTES]

Control blade.

[archjofo]

Fantastic detail!

I have a penchant for the French ships of the 19th century.
And the La Jacinthe is a wonderful example of the elegance of these sailing ships.
 

Edited March 16, 2019 by archjofo

[KORTES]

My greetings, Johann. I completely agree with You, french ships of thant period are very beautiful.

[KORTES]

I installed the shroud pads.

[KORTES]

I have finished the nailing of the broadsides. I opted for the brass of 0,6 mm, and tried to make the nail-heads a little dome shaped.

[druxey]

Very elegant, Kortes!

[KORTES]

Thank you very much druxey.

[KORTES]

I installed pin rails.

[KORTES]

Here are some of the deck elements. Aft deckhouse and hatchway.

[KORTES]

I have made the frame of the deckhouse lantern light in two variations - pear tree and hornbeam.

[KORTES]

Assembled . Vitrifaction will be made after oil coating, just before installing in place.

[KORTES]

After oil coating. I just finished

[DORIS]

Spectacular work and sense for detail. Very inspirative!

 

Best regards,

Doris

[KORTES]

Thank you very much Doris.

Your work is also gorgeous and I admire your craftsmanship a lot.

My best regards.

[yvesvidal]

What perfection !!!

 

Yves

[archjofo]

This is a totally clean and great performance.

[KORTES]

My dear colleagues, thank you very much for those kind words and attention to my work. 

Edited March 22, 2019 by KORTES

[KORTES]

I oil-coated it, I decided to coat the hull with linseed oil, hoping it would give a darker color than tung-oil on the deck.

[KORTES]

While the hull is drying, I decided to coat the deck with tung-oil. What can I say  - the tung-oil is thicker than the oilseed oil. I richly coated the deck, the absorptivity is nice. My expectations that the deck would have lighter color weren’t fulfilled, but the aging effect was quite nice. I coated it in one layer, i think i’ll leave it at that, but it would be seen after polishing.

[bruce d]

Magnificent.

 

Bruce

[KORTES]

Thank you very much Bruce.

[KORTES]

While the hull is drying out, I got around to the carving. For quite some time, I have had a feeling I would have troubles in this field. Scale… I started by making the instrument, using broach files, drills, jigsaw saw and big needles.

[KORTES]

I decided to begin with what I considered  the easiest element - the snake . I couldn’t find boxwood. I didn’t use lime tree due to its softness. So I have opted for a peartree, at least I’ll get some practice.I studied this part of work on the forum, of all my colleagues, found lots of useful information, for what I’m very grateful.

[KORTES]

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

[KORTES]

I hope the carving work is done, being a dilettant - it was hard for me to carve at such a scale. Now I´ll have to oil-coat it, afterwards, probably cover it with bituminous varnish and install in place when the hull will have dried out.

[Chuck]

Very nice carving!!😄

[KORTES]

Aft end carving.

It seems it looks ok in a life-size, but when substantially enlarged one can see faults that were made by the “carver”.

[druxey]

I think that you have done a fine job there, Kortes!

[michael mott]

I have to agree with Druxey on this Kortes.

 

Michael