Reale de France by Bender - FINISHED - Corel - Scale 1:75

[Bender]

Mark, it is good to be back at it. Thanks for looking in . . . again. 

Sara, the decorative brass pieces are supplied in the kit. I've replaced most of the wood pieces.

 

 

Here are some pictures of the overdeck handrails.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[md1400cs]

Hi,

 

Every-time that I look in on your updates I end up going back, once more, to see some of the earlier work that you have done on this ship. Such a beauty. Your skill set with fine wood detailing is just so nice to look at. This is such a complicated project, so impressive. A real pleasure. Thanks for sharing.

 

Regards,

 

Michael

[Bender]

Thanks very much Michael. 

 

I added the swivel gun supports.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Bender]

Here is the boat rack.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Bender]

Next was the rails on the fore castle.

 

 

 

I added the brass pins for added strength.

 

 

 

 

 

[john46]

Maybe I sound monotoneous, but your doing a great job.

 

Regards,

John

[Børge]

Hi Al

 

You have done a wonderful job on your ship. Exellent planking, and the etched brass details is just great.

 

Børge

[AnobiumPunctatum]

She is looking very imprssive. I like this ship type.

[Bender]

I really appreciate each of your commits. 

 

Here are some pictures of the finished fore castle.

 

 

 

 

 

This piece was build off the ship and then installed.

 

 

 

 

 

This structure will hold the shade canopy.

 

 

[Bender]

Next was the cooking box. This brings up a point. The actual ships of this type had 59 oars, each manned by 7 men. That is 413 men eating a lot of food.  The deck on these ships were low. This allowed the waves to wash over the deck. Think of this as flushing the toilet.

 

I mixed together charcoal and diluted glue, and pressed this into the box. When it was dry I used red fingernail polish to give the appearance of glowing embers. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[md1400cs]

As many of us are sounding very repetitious---  Beautiful !!!! Your work is stunning.

 

Regards,

 

Michael

[slagoon]

Yay I'm not the only one who uses nailpolish!  Really nice work.

[john46]

What a nice detail. Unbelieveable that dinner is cooked this way for over 400 men (as you told for the oars only 413 men needed) and they were lucky of their dinner was not washed away. 

 

Regards,

John

[Bender]

Thanks each of you for you kind words.

 

I added some more of the kit supplied decorations. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[WackoWolf]

Excellent work, I love it. You have done a wonderful job on her. Something to be proud of that is for sure. Keep the pictures coming.

[schiffebastler]

A wonderful model and fantastic work you do with this. It is always a pleasure to follow this log.

 

Regards, Joachim

[Bender]

Here are some pictures of the fore shrouds. I cut off the first three attempts. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Bender]

Starting the main shrouds.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Bender]

More work on the main shrouds.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Bender]

Making the sails.

 

 

 

 

 

This is the tea mixed with wood glue.

 

 

Drip drying a little.

 

 

I used bags of gravel to form the sail into a bellowing shape.

 

 

 

 

Edited April 8, 2014 by Bender

[ZyXuz]

well done, Bender

the shrouds riggings are neat, and I love the way u handle your sails

cheers!

[Bender]

using tea leaves to age the sails is a great idea. 

 

I don't remember from who I pick up the process of using tea to stain sails. But it was from some one here on MSW.

 

Here are the sails after the glue has dried.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Bender]

A little backtracking. Here are some pictures of yard being cut.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Bender]

Here are more pictures as the rigging progressed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Bender]

A few more pictures. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Bender]

Here are some pictures I took outside. The oars are next.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[riverboat]

I love this build......... your work is just outstanding!!!

Frank

[Guido54]

Incredible. It is one of more beautiful model than I have never seen.

 

Just some historic precision to complete this masterpiece :

 

The "brass  stars" along the hull are "fleurs de lys" (Lily flower) the emblem of the French monarchy. In fact, it does not represent a flower but the head of the lances of the francs warriors.

 

Concerning the name, in French we say simply " la réale " without specifying " de France " for two reasons: the first one is that in the French naval tradition, contrary to the English and American traditions, we indicate simply the name of the ship (l'Ambitieux, le Fleuron, le Soleil Royal ...). The second, is that before the french revolution,  we would have said " du Royaume de France" (kingdom of France ), not "de France". 

 

If it can help you, here is the photo of the stern of Reale was exposed in the "Musée National de la Marine" (Naval National Museum) in Paris

 

http://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Poupe-de-la-galere-la-reale.jpg

[Bender]

Incredible. It is one of more beautiful model than I have never seen.

 

Just some historic precision to complete this masterpiece :

 

The "brass  stars" along the hull are "fleurs de lys" (Lily flower) the emblem of the French monarchy. In fact, it does not represent a flower but the head of the lances of the francs warriors.

 

Concerning the name, in French we say simply " la réale " without specifying " de France " for two reasons: the first one is that in the French naval tradition, contrary to the English and American traditions, we indicate simply the name of the ship (l'Ambitieux, le Fleuron, le Soleil Royal ...). The second, is that before the french revolution,  we would have said " du Royaume de France" (kingdom of France ), not "de France". 

 

If it can help you, here is the photo of the stern of Reale was exposed in the "Musée National de la Marine" (Naval National Museum) in Paris

 

http://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:Poupe-de-la-galere-la-reale.jpg

Thank you very much for looking in on this build log and for your kind words. I like hearing the historic information about the ship. Thank you for that too.

[Bender]

The oars came pre-shaped, only needing a little shaping to make each match and give some curve to the blades. I glued the Reinforcement battens to the oars where the oar presses against the oarlocks. 

 

The battens were lashed to the oars. Gluing the battens first made tying the lashing much easer.

 

This is half of the oars. This ship has 59 oars. On the real Reale 6 or 7 men would pull on each oar.

 

The oar itself was too big for the oarsmen to wrap their hand around, so handles were attached. I glued the supplied handles to the oars and held them in place with tape.

 

 

 

 

Here are all the oars sitting across the side rails.

 

 

Here are twenty-eight of the 59 oars. I made left and right oars. By doing this the lashing's knot is on the underside of the oar.

Edited April 8, 2014 by Bender