giampieroricci Posted May 20, 2021 Share #1 Posted May 20, 2021 As I had anticipated, I started a new challenge: the construction of an English frigate, with a carpentry that, until now, I had never approached. Very fascinating architecture, and a model, the Pegasus that struck me immediately, already from the first splendid images seen here on MSW. I am studying a lot, because I would like to be able to come up with a model that is worthy of the great work done by David Antscherl and Greg Herbert and I count a lot on your help and support! Meanwhile, I started setting up the first job: ERS Rich, Saburo, druxey and 23 others 26 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffT Posted May 20, 2021 Share #2 Posted May 20, 2021 Looks like you are off to a great start! mtaylor and FrankWouts 2 Quote 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dvm27 Posted May 20, 2021 Share #3 Posted May 20, 2021 With a tabled scarph joint you've already jumped to the head of the pack! This is a great scale to include every detail and I look forward to your build. druxey, billocrates, FrankWouts and 5 others 7 1 Quote GregwebsiteAdmiralty Modelsmoderator Echo Cross-section buildAdmiralty Models Cross-section BuildFinished buildPegasus, 1776, cross-sectionCurrent buildSpeedwell, 1752 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giampieroricci Posted May 21, 2021 Author Share #4 Posted May 21, 2021 7 hours ago, dvm27 said: With a tabled scarph joint you've already jumped to the head of the pack! This is a great scale to include every detail and I look forward to your build. Thanks Greg! It is an honor for me to know that you will follow my job! I hope you don't deny me your valuable advice and your help in this work that for me is new, and my knowledge is still limited! Ryland Craze, druxey, FrankWouts and 4 others 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giampieroricci Posted May 24, 2021 Author Share #5 Posted May 24, 2021 Axial carpentry: Jack-in-the-Blue, CaptnBirdseye, captain_hook and 22 others 24 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
druxey Posted May 24, 2021 Share #6 Posted May 24, 2021 A really fine beginning, Gianpiero! Not many folk make tabled scarphs as they are completely hidden. Like Greg said: ahead of the pack. mtaylor, FrankWouts, giampieroricci and 5 others 7 1 Quote 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giampieroricci Posted May 25, 2021 Author Share #7 Posted May 25, 2021 Thank you for all likes!!! Today I have made the inner post; nothing is fixed yet, everything is provisional: The rabbet: for now it is only sketchy. It will be completed later, after the hawse pieces have been fixed WalrusGuy, bruce d, dvm27 and 18 others 20 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giampieroricci Posted May 26, 2021 Author Share #8 Posted May 26, 2021 (edited) I fixed the keel to the base - everything seems to be fine! bollard timberheads: Edited May 27, 2021 by giampieroricci mtaylor, druxey, archjofo and 18 others 21 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giampieroricci Posted May 27, 2021 Author Share #9 Posted May 27, 2021 (edited) Some progress; I fixed the bollard timberheads Now comes the hard work! I haven't fixed anything yet, I have to test all the joints first Edited May 27, 2021 by giampieroricci dvm27, popash42, mtaylor and 16 others 19 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giampieroricci Posted May 29, 2021 Author Share #10 Posted May 29, 2021 I started fixing the whole aft part. I have encountered considerable difficulties in getting everything to fit together! captain_hook, druxey, Saburo and 20 others 23 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
albert Posted May 30, 2021 Share #11 Posted May 30, 2021 Great beautiful work Giampiero. FrankWouts and mtaylor 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noel_colledge Posted May 30, 2021 Share #12 Posted May 30, 2021 Mate, you are a monster, you have wasted no time in getting stated. You must spend hours in your shop. I am retired and still can't find the time to work that fast Looking forward to watching your progress on this build as well. Regards bruce d, mtaylor, FrankWouts and 1 other 4 Quote Finished builds are 1/35 Endeavour's Longboat by Artesania Latina 1/36 scratch built Philadelphia Gunboat from the Smithsonian Plans Current build is Scratch build Boudroit's Monograph for La Jacinthe at 1/36 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dvm27 Posted May 30, 2021 Share #13 Posted May 30, 2021 Using tenon joinery for the wing transoms, fashion and filling pieces adds an insane level of difficulty to the build but makes it all the more impressive. I'm really enjoying viewing this build! billocrates, druxey, mtaylor and 2 others 4 1 Quote GregwebsiteAdmiralty Modelsmoderator Echo Cross-section buildAdmiralty Models Cross-section BuildFinished buildPegasus, 1776, cross-sectionCurrent buildSpeedwell, 1752 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giampieroricci Posted June 12, 2021 Author Share #14 Posted June 12, 2021 (edited) The hawse pieces: Of course, everything still needs to be roughed out. I kept myself very abundant! Edited June 12, 2021 by giampieroricci Saburo, popash42, Ryland Craze and 14 others 17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garyshipwright Posted June 12, 2021 Share #15 Posted June 12, 2021 Nice work good sir. Will be following your build with great interest. Gary FrankWouts, giampieroricci, mtaylor and 2 others 5 Quote HMS Montague/Alfred class by Gary B 74 gun ship built in 1779 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giampieroricci Posted June 14, 2021 Author Share #16 Posted June 14, 2021 Thank you, Gary!! I placed a couple of fore cant frames: popash42, bruce d, scrubbyj427 and 15 others 18 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dvm27 Posted June 14, 2021 Share #17 Posted June 14, 2021 If you don't screw up at least one of those mortises over the course of framing the hull...I'm going to hate you. Getting a fair line was the most challenging part of the build for me. mtaylor, herask, billocrates and 5 others 7 1 Quote GregwebsiteAdmiralty Modelsmoderator Echo Cross-section buildAdmiralty Models Cross-section BuildFinished buildPegasus, 1776, cross-sectionCurrent buildSpeedwell, 1752 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giampieroricci Posted June 15, 2021 Author Share #18 Posted June 15, 2021 8 hours ago, dvm27 said: If you don't screw up at least one of those mortises over the course of framing the hull...I'm going to hate you. Getting a fair line was the most challenging part of the build for me. I am undecided whether to continue in this way, as David also suggests in his book, or open the gunboats after fixing all the frames. I wanted to try with the ventilation door ..... Saburo, FrankWouts, druxey and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giampieroricci Posted June 15, 2021 Author Share #19 Posted June 15, 2021 sills: I continue with the fore cant frames: and aft cant frames: woodrat, oneslim, billocrates and 18 others 21 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glbarlow Posted June 15, 2021 Share #20 Posted June 15, 2021 Excellent work, very impressive! FrankWouts, giampieroricci and mtaylor 2 1 Quote Regards, Glenn Current Build: HMS Winchelsea Completed Builds: HM Flirt (paused) HM Cutter Cheerful, Lady Nelson, Amati HMS Vanguard, HMS Pegasus, Fair American, HM Granado, HM Pickle, AVS, Pride of Baltimore, Bluenose Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allanyed Posted June 17, 2021 Share #21 Posted June 17, 2021 BELLO!!!! Cutting the mortises for the gun port sills as you go and having them aligned perfectly is beyond what us mere mortals can achieve. For most of us it is best to raise the frames, then mark out and cut the ports. I am anxious to see if you decide to make them as you go and how these turn out and hopefully we can all say, "see, it CAN be done!" Ciao amico Allan Saburo, mtaylor, FrankWouts and 3 others 5 1 Quote PLEASE take 30 SECONDS and sign up for the epic Nelson/Trafalgar project if you would like to see it made into a TV series. Click on http://trafalgar.tv There is no cost other than the 30 seconds of your time. THANK YOU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giampieroricci Posted June 17, 2021 Author Share #22 Posted June 17, 2021 Thank you, Allan and Glenn, and for all your likes! The work seems to be going well, even for all the measurements that I look at at least three times before operating .... I have finished the arrangement of the fore cant frames. The arrangement of the fore cant frame n. 11 is very particular because it has a cast timber: GrandpaPhil, muratx, Robp1025 and 15 others 18 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dvm27 Posted June 17, 2021 Share #23 Posted June 17, 2021 Beautiful work! For some reason I had a lot of trouble with the foremost full frame (L fore) faying in perfectly with the aft most fore cant 12. I had to remake it several times. I might suggest you temporarily affix the fore cant 12 (two small pinpoints of white glue can easily be dissolved with alcohol later) then seeing how the frame L fore fits on your model. druxey, allanyed, billocrates and 5 others 8 Quote GregwebsiteAdmiralty Modelsmoderator Echo Cross-section buildAdmiralty Models Cross-section BuildFinished buildPegasus, 1776, cross-sectionCurrent buildSpeedwell, 1752 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giampieroricci Posted June 18, 2021 Author Share #24 Posted June 18, 2021 Thanks Greg! I treasure your suggestion! mtaylor, FrankWouts and druxey 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
druxey Posted June 18, 2021 Share #25 Posted June 18, 2021 When building a model like this, I always marvel at how the old-time builders managed to do this at full size. mtaylor, PeteB, billocrates and 3 others 6 Quote 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giampieroricci Posted June 21, 2021 Author Share #26 Posted June 21, 2021 I have finished the installation of the cant frames. I hope I have interpreted well the shape of the rising wood ! Robp1025, scrubbyj427, PeteB and 20 others 23 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
druxey Posted June 23, 2021 Share #27 Posted June 23, 2021 Looks perfect to me. I always think it's a pity that all that accurate cutting work will be hidden later.... FrankWouts, billocrates, giampieroricci and 2 others 4 1 Quote 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giampieroricci Posted July 14, 2021 Author Share #28 Posted July 14, 2021 (edited) I started square frames. These constructions take a long time, each one is different from the other, each component has a different thickness, in short, a real challenge! Edited July 14, 2021 by giampieroricci PeteB, druxey, WalrusGuy and 13 others 16 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dvm27 Posted July 15, 2021 Share #29 Posted July 15, 2021 Wonderful work! Those contrasting chocks really show off your framing skills. Looks like your foremost full frame fays perfectly into the cants. WalrusGuy, Saburo, FrankWouts and 3 others 6 Quote GregwebsiteAdmiralty Modelsmoderator Echo Cross-section buildAdmiralty Models Cross-section BuildFinished buildPegasus, 1776, cross-sectionCurrent buildSpeedwell, 1752 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amalio Posted July 15, 2021 Share #30 Posted July 15, 2021 Very very good. mtaylor and FrankWouts 2 Quote AMALIO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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