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[Beckmann]

Hello everybody and a happy new year!!

Thank you all for the likes and comments. In the last days I finished chapter 7. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Matthias

 

 

[glbarlow]

Really nice work, well done!

[Chuck]

Lovely work....those pumps look perfect.  Well done! 😄

[JpR62]

Great job on these pumps. It's beautiful.

[Beckmann]

Hello everybody, I didn't have much progress for a while, In preparation for chapter 8 I just recently finished the mini-kit for the stove.

Here are some pictures, not very sharp, but it is somehow difficult to take good photos of black objects.

I am not shure about the wheathering yet. Maybe I will try to wheather it a bit, maybe I leave it as it is.

Matthias

[Mldixon]

Great photos.

[glbarlow]

Excellent work, your build is very well done. Wunderbar!

[Chuck]

So hows the model coming along?  Any progress?

[Beckmann]

Hi Chuck,

no progress since my last post, but I will continue soon!

I was asked to write a little article about the Winchelsea, and especially the great cabin for the magazin „Logbuch“ of  our Arbeitskreis Historischer Schiffbau. So I was busy doing that. I hope, that is some good promotion for you as well. I put your contact information in the article.

At the moment, I am finishing an old project, wich I startet 10 years ago. It is the HMS Unicorn, a frigate from the 1740’s. Scale 1:72, fully rigged. I had to finish some rigging, now I am working on the display case.

I want to make this as a waterline-model, because the ships hull is not as well built, as I wish it would have been, and I like the idea of a waterline-scenery.

After this is done, Winchelsea will be continued. 
Matthias

 

[Chuck]

That is great news.   The Unicorn looks like a wonderful model.  That shiuld be a fine display.

[Beckmann]

I needed a rest from modelling and painting water, so I continued with Chapter 8 and installed the forecastle fittings, deckbeams etc.

Nothing much to tell about, it was as always perfectly prepared by Chuck and no serious problems occured.

 

 

 

 

 

Next thing will be the front panel, I want to build it from boxwood like I did for the cabin front below the quarterdeck.

 

Matthias

[Rustyj]

That is very nice Matthias!

[Beckmann]

Thank you all for the likes and comment.

I finished chapter 8 with the front panel installed on the model.

Looking forward to all the nice features on the upper decks wich com next!!

Matthias

 

 

 

 

[glbarlow]

Amazing cabinet work on the panel, well done!

[Beckmann]

Today's update is all about the first steps of chapter 9

The caprail was added first. This is a nice step, it changes the overall impression of the model so much.

 

 

 

Continuing with the margin plank wich I joined before gluing it in position.

 

 

 

The planking of the outside bands on the forecastle and quarterdeck is to do next.

I reduced the size of the hooks at the top of the planks a bit, as I have seen on the frigate Jylland at Ebeltoft in Denkmark.

 

For this I made a new forecastle template.

 

And here we got with the result on the model.

 

 

 

The planking is not cleaned yet, that will be the next thing.

 

Matthias

 

 

 

[Chuck]

So nice to see an update.  It looks great.

[Beckmann]

Hello everybody, 

today I want to show the latest progress.

First of all I finished the planking of the forecastle and quarter deck. I know, this does not actually belong into chapter 9, but I wanted to get this done and clean the model, before I add the deck fittings.

 

 

 

The first fitting wich will be added to the forecastle ist the belfry.

Some of you might remember me using the ivory for the captains cabin. Now most of this is hidden unterneath the quarterdeck planking. So I thought about using this material for some of the upper deck fittings as well.

Chuck provided a wonderful mini-kit for the belfry and I follow his way of building it, but replaced a few materials as you can see on the following photos.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Matthias 

[Chuck]

That looks so good.  Superb.  That is the perfect image to start off my day.  Thank You for that.

[Beckmann]

Thanks Chuck!

I made two more belfrys. I think they came out better then the first one. 

One of them is a gift.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Guess what this is!!

 

 

It is a piece of mammut ivory. About 50 mm long. Remember, the last mammut died about 12000 years ago. 

I hope it will be enough for the breastrail columns. 

 

Matthias

 

 

Edited December 30, 2022 by Beckmann

[FrankWouts]

Wonderful and truly amazing work!

Frank.

[Hubac's Historian]

This is an extraordinary build!

[Beckmann]

Thank you for the nice comments and likes.

This weekend I finished the rails on the forecastle and the quarterdeck.

 

 

 

Matthias

[Chuck]

Beautiful…getting close to the finish line now.

[glbarlow]

Excellent work, well done!

[Stuntflyer]

You're ship is looking really nice!

[westwood]

Really beautiful and precise work Matthias 👍

[Beckmann]

Thank you.

I continued with some of the deck fittings.

There are quite a few contemporary models, showing excellent deck fittings, including wheels made from ivory. Of course I had to try my best and make one for my Winchelsea model.

 

 

 

First I cut the strips and made a jig, so I can sand them to a oktogon.

For the red painted parts of the wheel, I used Chucks wonderful mini-kit.

After that they were turned and the profiles were made with sanding sticks and files

 

 

 

 

 

Ivory is a fine material for turning. It can brake if you are not careful, but with some patience one can make nice profiles.

The final assembly. Not perfect, but the little incorrectnesses wont be visible later.

 

 

 

And here the arrangement on the model. It will be glued onto the deck later, I don't want it to be damaged.

 

 

 

 

Matthias

Edited January 26, 2023 by Beckmann

[jfhealey]

Beautiful (and very patient!) turning, Mattthias.

Best wishes

Fred

[Chuck]

Wow that looks so good.  I am loving what you did with this model.  Well done.

[Rustyj]

Wonderful job Matthias!