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Tom,

 

One thing to check = on many warships, the gun ports are parallelograms and not rectangles.  The sides are vertical ( or in the plane of the frames ).  The sill and lentil follows the slope of the deck at its location and not the LWL or horizon.

NRG member 45 years

 

Current:  

HMS Centurion 1732 - 60-gun 4th rate - Navall Timber framing

HMS Beagle 1831 refiit  10-gun brig with a small mizzen - Navall (ish) Timber framing

The U.S. Ex. Ex. 1838-1842
Flying Fish 1838  pilot schooner -  framed - ready for stern timbers
Porpose II  1836  brigantine/brig - framed - ready for hawse and stern timbers
Vincennes  1825  Sloop-of-War  -  timbers assembled, need shaping
Peacock  1828  Sloop-of -War  -  timbers ready for assembly
Sea Gull  1838  pilot schooner -  timbers ready for assembly
Relief  1835  ship - timbers ready for assembly

Other

Portsmouth  1843  Sloop-of-War  -  timbers ready for assembly
Le Commerce de Marseilles  1788   118 cannons - framed

La Renommee 1744 Frigate - framed - ready for hawse and stern timbers

 

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10 hours ago, Jaager said:

Tom,

 

One thing to check = on many warships, the gun ports are parallelograms and not rectangles.  The sides are vertical ( or in the plane of the frames ).  The sill and lentil follows the slope of the deck at its location and not the LWL or horizon.

Yes, especially in the head and tail, it's obviously a parallelogram

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Superb work.   I have considered HMS Fly  As my next wood build   but  not in this scale   I was thinking of 1/72   to complement my  Pearl  build.

 

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Current builds  


28mm  Battle of Waterloo   attack on La Haye Saint   Diorama.

1/700  HMS Hood   Flyhawk   with  PE, Resin  and Wood Decking.

 

 

 

Completed works.

 

Dragon 1/700 HMS Edinburgh type 42 batch 3 Destroyer plastic.

HMS Warspite Academy 1/350 plastic kit and wem parts.

HMS Trafalgar Airfix 1/350 submarine  plastic.

Black Pearl  1/72  Revell   with  pirate crew.

Revell  1/48  Mosquito  B IV

Eduard  1/48  Spitfire IX

ICM    1/48   Seafire Mk.III   Special Conversion

1/48  Kinetic  Sea Harrier  FRS1

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Sailor: the steps are cut into the fore deadwood as the base for the cant frames. If this is a foreign language for you, you should read up about it in a standard text on wooden warship construction like:

 

Longridge, The Anatomy of Nelson's Ships

Goodwin, The Sailing Man of War

 

Both of these books are highly recommended.

Be sure to sign up for an epic Nelson/Trafalgar project if you would like to see it made into a TV series  http://trafalgar.tv

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I wonder if you will offer pear or boxwood upgrades for this kit when it will be offered. I‘ve seen your enterprise kit, very beautiful although it seems somehow simplified and the lower decks are skipped. But cherry isn‘t as beautiful and nice to work with as pear and boxwood (just my opinion), so I decided not to look for it in the future.

Current Build:

HM Brig Badger 1/48 from Caldercraft plans

Le Coureur 1/48 by CAF


Completed Build:

Armed Virginia Sloop 1/48 by Model Shipways / Gallery
HM Cutter Sherbourne 1/64 by Caldercraft / Gallery

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Hello

I agree with you. If you use pear wood or yellow poplar wood, it is the best.

But there is also a major problem is the cost. The price of pear wood and boxwood will be much more expensive than that of cherry wood, especially boxwood. The material utilization rate is very low

The second is processing. The density of pear wood and boxwood is much more expensive than cherry, so they can only be processed by CNC

So that's what I'm thinking about. I hope the price won't be too expensive,

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If I’m not mistaken that is a correctly tabled joint on the rudder. That’s a level of realism that I’ve not seen before on a model. Well done!

Greg

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Very nice!

Toni


Chairman Nautical Research Guild

Member Nautical Research and Model Society

Member Midwest Model Shipwrights

 

Current Builds:     NRG Rigging Project

Completed Builds: Longboat - 1:48 scale       HMS Atalanta-1775 - 1:48 scale       Half Hull Planking Project      Capstan Project     Swallow 1779 - 1:48 scale               Echo Cross Section   

Gallery:  Hannah - 1:36 scale.

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The boxwood parts are great. It would be great if you decide to make a swan class sloop kit like the fly out of boxwood, it is a pity LSS stopped selling their kingfisher kit some years ago. It was sold for about 2000 dollars if I remember correctly and there are still a lot of people out there searching for some available kits. So if you stay in that price area with all the great details you‘ve shown I‘m sure there would be a lot of people interested to buy one. At least you could sell the figure and decorations - there are a lot of swan class POF builders who don‘t want or can‘t do the carvings on their on yet (like me).

Current Build:

HM Brig Badger 1/48 from Caldercraft plans

Le Coureur 1/48 by CAF


Completed Build:

Armed Virginia Sloop 1/48 by Model Shipways / Gallery
HM Cutter Sherbourne 1/64 by Caldercraft / Gallery

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7 hours ago, captain_hook said:

The boxwood parts are great. It would be great if you decide to make a swan class sloop kit like the fly out of boxwood, it is a pity LSS stopped selling their kingfisher kit some years ago. It was sold for about 2000 dollars if I remember correctly and there are still a lot of people out there searching for some available kits. So if you stay in that price area with all the great details you‘ve shown I‘m sure there would be a lot of people interested to buy one. At least you could sell the figure and decorations - there are a lot of swan class POF builders who don‘t want or can‘t do the carvings on their on yet (like me).

I'll make fly later,

I have tested several kinds of wood before. I can use boxwood or pear wood

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Hello 

You're making fly? What size?

I have temporarily stopped making fly, and I will continue to make Fly after I finish Le coureur,

I'm getting ready for the next boat, and it's going to be a whole new design, completely different from the previous one
I think it's going to be fun

Thank you very much.

 

Tom

 

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On 1/19/2020 at 4:58 AM, cafmodel said:

First draft of clay sculpture

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Some of us (non americans) will find the the hand gesture inappropriate- was it really like this?

current build- Swan ,scratch

on shelf,Rattlesnake, Alert semi scratch,Le Coureur,, Fubbs scratch

completed: nostrum mare,victory(Corel), san felipe, sovereign of the seas, sicilian  cargo boat ,royal yacht caroline, armed pinnace, charles morgan whaler, galilee boat, wappen von hamburg, la reale (Dusek), amerigo vespucci, oneida (semi scratch) diane, great harry-elizabethan galleon (semi scratch), agammemnon, hanna (scratch).19th cent. shipyard diorama (Constructo), picket boat, victory bow section

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42 minutes ago, cafmodel said:

Hello 

You're making fly? What size?

I have temporarily stopped making fly, and I will continue to make Fly after I finish Le coureur,

I'm getting ready for the next boat, and it's going to be a whole new design, completely different from the previous one
I think it's going to be fun

Thank you very much.

 

Tom

 

hmmm. what could this be?

Jeff

 

In progress:
Medway Longboat 1742 - Syren Ship Model Company -1/2" scale

USS Constitution - Model Shipways - Scale 1:76

HMS Granado - CAF Model - 1:48

HMS Sphinx - Vanguard

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