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

[hamilton]

Just read through your log - excellent work - I especially admire the sweeps - really impressive!

hamilton

[Bender]

 

I painted the blades of the oars white.

 

 

 

I coated the oars with satin poly and used a piece of scrap wood to hold all 59.

 

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[hamilton]

WOW!!!

hamilton

[schiffebastler]

Just looked again trough your build log...

Really an outstanding model, wonderful pictures and interesting description. I like it very much!

 

Regards, Joachim

[Bender]

Thank you, Joachim and Hamilton for the kind words, and for the "wow," Hamilton.

[ZyXuz]

another 'wow' from me, Bender..

your work is just outstanding!!

hope to see the oars on soon!

[Bender]

The boat kit that came with the Reale de France was one of the easiest ship's boat to build.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Bender]

The boat rack was made earlier in the build.

 

 

 

 

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[Bender]

Before I attached the oars I needed to mount the ship to its permanent base, and because of all the oars sticking out I decided to build a case. The ship is rather large, and I didn't want the case to be any larger than needed. I attached two oars on each side and started measuring.

 

 

 

 

 

42.375 inches.  (107.6 cm.)  long.

 

 

 

18.875 inches. (47.94 cm.) from oar tip to oar tip.

 

 

 

28.75 inches. (75.57 cm.) to top of main yard and flag.

 

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[Bender]

I used birch plywood for the base and poplar wood for the corners and top edges.

 

 

This picture shows the clearance the oars tip has with the grove for the glass.

 

 

I made three mount that fit the curve of the hull.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Top edge and corner

 

 

Bottom edge and corner

 

 

Just for perspective. This is me.

 

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[Bender]

The oars:

Each oar rests on top or a wear pad, and pivots against a "Thole-pin."  

 

 

To cut the 59 pins I cut brass rod a little longer than needed. I cut a piece of scrap wood to the thickness equal to the length I needed for the pins and drilled 59 holes. I inserted the brass pins into the holes so that a little stuck out on each side. I then used a belt sander to sand off the brass the protruded from the piece of wood. I ended up with 59 brass pins of equal length.

 

 

 

Clamping the wear pads. All of this was dune before any of the rigging.

 

 

Also before the rigging I attached the gun mounts.

 

 

 

 

This caused an unforeseen problem.

 

The wrap of string I used to tie the reforcement battens to the oars would not fit between the bottom rail of the hand rail and the wear pad.

 

 

 

 

 

On some of the oars I could push the oar under the handrail ahead of the wear pad and then slide it backwards in place, but the vertical post for the hand rail was in the way for every-other oars. That was thirty oars that would not slide in place. The gun mounts were in the way of twelve more oars, so only 17 oars slipped into place.

 

 

I ended up needing to remove the wrap of strip on 42 oars. I had used super glue on the knots, but the oars had already been coated with poly. After a bit of wiggling and prying the wrap of string came off and--because of the super glue--help its shaped. After I pushed the oar between the bottom rail of the handrail and the wear pad I was able to slide the wrap of string back into position. 

 

 

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[Bender]

Oars installed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[schiffebastler]

Wonderful, absolutely wonderful!! What an outstanding model, I really like it!

 

Regards, Joachim

[Bender]

Thank you very much, Joachim.

 

As the last pictures show, the ship is finished. I need to take some pictures of the ship in the case now that the case has the glass installed.

[riverboat]

Just now saw your Reale in  the completed build log.... again absolutely gorgeous, well done AL!!

Frank

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[md1400cs]

Again, stunning. I just got a notice of your latest update, and like others, I again went through your build from the beginning. What a complicated super detailed work of art. So beautiful.

 

Regards,    Michael

[hamilton]

Looking really beautiful!

hamilton

[Bender]

I lost the pictures on the last two pages. Put them back in today.

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[janet bode]

Hi Bender

Great workmanship what a stunning model.Now i too have a kit Reale de France but my kit is made by Dusek and is to 1/72 scale

that works out to 79cm length, i have not opened the box that was until i saw your build so i am curiose to see how the contents

compere with the Corel kit.Well at the moment i do not have the skill but perhaps later,anyway well done.

 

Regards janet (

[jiljilia]

It's a ship I someday would like to take on. Incredible job! Outdoor shots bring it to life! Well done!

[jiljilia]

Great job with the oars and making the work in installing them. Awesome!

[jiljilia]

I'm glad you are reposting this build. Very detailed work to be done, but I like it. Becoming more intrigued of buying this kit.

[BRadek]

Hello,

I'm find yours nice ship, on this pages. I'm modeler from Czech, and preparing on building this nice ship from kit Heller. But here are very pad paper flags. I want make new, but need good background for make it. Please, are in kit Corel some good plan og flag, or some other background. And if yes, can you send me it?. Or, can you recommend, where I search this good background for good flags and baldachin for this kit?

I look forward on answer. Thanks, Radek 

[Bender]

Radek,

I will look through my box of plans and see if I can find any prints of the flags.