ancre Le Rochefort by No Idea - 1/24th Scale - First POF Build

[Justin P.]

8 hours ago, No Idea said:

Hi Justin P - I'm fortunate that this is sometimes a team build.  I have a book by Adrian Sorolla that explains the entire build of this little ship.  I also have G. Delacroix who actually owns the monograph who is a member on here.  He answers so many questions for me regarding this build which I would otherwise struggle with.  I also have the 1000's of members of this forum that often put me right -  so don't quit go build a ship  

Dont sell yourself short, the craftsmanship is all yours!   Beautiful.

[No Idea]

12 hours ago, Seventynet said:

Such outstanding work!

Thank you 👍

12 hours ago, druxey said:

Photos like that make me smile! Lovely progress.

Thanks druxey - its good to be back building at last

11 hours ago, Hubac's Historian said:

It has been a while since I checked-in, but WOW - Mark, you never disappoint with the fairness of your lines, nor the cleanliness of your craft!

 

It is so gratifying to see her take shape, and I agree that those ship-lapped transom planks are a visual delight.

 

All I can say is BRAVO, and keep on keeping-on!

Hi Marc - good to hear from you and thanks 

[No Idea]

4 hours ago, Justin P. said:

Dont sell yourself short, the craftsmanship is all yours!   Beautiful.

Thanks Justin 👍  Hopefully I'll have another update on the build soon

[Thunder]

Hi,

 

This build is outstanding, i have been catching up on it and it is the kind of work that i would love to be able to achieve. You are an inspiration.

 

I would like to know what the below power tool is:

 

[No Idea]

Hi Thunder and thanks for your comments 👍

That tool is a very old dremel router table. This was one of my very first tools and still use it occasionally. I pretty much stopped using it when I bought a spindle sander which is a lot easier to use than the dremel  - Mark 

[Thunder]

Hi Mark, i put a spindle sander on my christmas list but obviously had not been good enough!!

[No Idea]

A very small update today - I'm back to work on Monday after a very nice week off

 

Firstly the moulding below the stern timbers was made and fitted.  This was my second attempt as the first one moved slightly whilst drying and left a small gap between it and the vault planking.  Now I could have bodged / disguised / turned a bling eye to this but it just needed ripping off and another being made to replace it.

 

What was left of the original moulding - I'm sure that I can make something else from it so it will go into my offcuts box.

Now I'm not sure what this part of a ship is called but moving upwards I needed to make the stern timbers.  The part which has the windows in?

These planks are curved and I wanted to make them off of the model so that I can cut the window holes on the mill.  So what I did was first was to just roughly edge bend some planks on a really simple jig.  I use foil underneath as if the wet Castello touches steel which is the base it turns the wood black.

I then made some vice jaws which matched the curvature on the drawings

I then put all of the planks into a really simple jig and squeezed them all together with glue.

I have ended up with what will hopefully be the planks that I will shape and use.  If not I'll just make another one now that I have the jig.

Thanks for all of the comments and questions - Mark

[SaltyScot]

Sometimes the simplest jigs give the finest results. We don't need to "over engineer" stuff like this do we. Once again, your eye for perfection (this is aimed at your first post in this new lot where you swapped out that piece that was not quite good enough for you), is what is giving this build the quality it has. Thumbs up from me sir.