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

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8 minutes ago, JacquesCousteau said:

Excellent work! At 1:24 scale, those 5mm work out to 12cm on the real vessel. I think you can chalk it up to building differences between shipyards. 

Thanks Jacques that really means a lot to me - Since starting Le Rochefort I have bought a few monographs which has made me appreciate just how good the monograph by Gerard really is.  I also have to remember that this is my first POF build too!  My shipyard is obviously on the sketchy side 🤣 but we get things done!

12 minutes ago, ChrisLBren said:

Nice recovery Mark !  Have a great time in Crete

Thanks Chris - We fly out next Sunday for a much needed 2 week holiday in the sun.  

[druxey]

It's nice when earlier attention pays off later in the build, as has happened here. Looking good!

 

Enjoy Crete with your bride!

[dvm27]

I had a similar problem with the decade long build of my Swan class model. My earlier work was not as good as later on and some of those came rookie inaccuracies came back to haunt me as the project progressed.

Have a great holiday. Oh, to be 60 again!

[SaltyScot]

Mark, what impressed me the most about all this (apart from the incredible workmanship) was the fact that you didn't give up! You are right, banging your head against the wall solves nothing, walking away and returning at a later date on the other hand gives one a whole new perspective and this is a prime example of that. Nice save, sir. It would have been a crying shame to see this build shelved because of that. Enjoy Crete and please convey our birthday wishes to your good lady too (my dear wife has her birthday at the beginning of July so not long for me either).

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druxey, dvm27 and SaltyScot - thanks for the comments!  It's nice to know that it's not just me that has had to resolve earlier issues.

 

After I built the quarter deck I was surprised just how much it changes the entire look of the ship.  It just looks so much more complete and solid which was just another piece of encouragement to move forward.

 

Mark

 

 

[Mike Y]

Great repair! 

Interesting gantry, could you please show more of that measurement probe mechanism on top?  

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12 hours ago, Mike Y said:

Great repair! 

Interesting gantry, could you please show more of that measurement probe mechanism on top?  

Hi Mike - it's a trick of the camera!  The gantry is separate from the height gauge in front of the of it.  This is the gauge that I use - I use this to measure so much as my datum for the build is the bottom of the keel.  I didn't have this tool when I began building but I wish that I had.

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Hi all

 

Back from our lovely holiday and straight back onto Le Rochefort

 

I'm now working on the crews quarters below the quarter deck and have started with the bulkhead which has a double entry door.  This is quite a feature on this ship so I want to get it as good as possible.  I started by making the shiplap planks that form the walls which I then glued together to make the actual walls.

Next was to look at the doors themselves - I usually just get a solid piece of wood and then mill out the features to make them look like doors.  In this instance I thought that I would try a new exercise for me and make them from individual parts and include all of the relevant joints as they possibly would have been made originally.    Each frame is made of 5 pieces which then require 4 inserts in each door.

Milling out the rebates to fit the 0.7mm inserts

Sorry I should have taken more pictures but here are how the doors turned out.  Assembling the parts actually proved to be one of the hardest parts.

Next I needed to make the door frame uprights which have 2 rebates cut into them and also the base rebate that the walls slot into.

It all took a little bit of fettling to get all of the parts to fit correctly but I'm just about there now.

I did have one issue and that was with the door frame uprights which stopped the whole assembly from sitting flush with the beam.  This maybe because I miss read the drawings but to get around this issue I cut some rebates into the beam which actually makes the whole thing stronger and more stable

 

It's all still a work in progress but I'm getting there with this particular part of the build.

 

Mark

[JacquesCousteau]

Incredible work! Especially making the shiplap planks, they look great!

[SaltyScot]

That is some fine woodwork, Mark. Very nicely done! You must have had a great sense of accomplishment having competed this as well as you did.