HMS PEGASUS by giampieroricci - Scale 1:36 - Swan-Class Sloop from plans by David Antscherl & Greg Herbert

[No Idea]

Lovely work and I think using the two different types of wood sets of your work even better. 

[giampieroricci]

Lengthy work on the cannon carriages:

Edited February 21, 2023 by giampieroricci

[albert]

Hi Giampiero great beautiful work.

[druxey]

Lovely as usual. Are you glad that there aren't 74 cannon and carriages to make?

[giampieroricci]

23 hours ago, druxey said:

Lovely as usual. Are you glad that there aren't 74 cannon and carriages to make?

🙂 I started work on the artillery in early December to make 14 complete guns (and I still have to make the hoists for manoeuvres)! I dread to think how long it would have taken me for a 74 guns!!!

[Peanut6]

I have to ask, how did you make the piece shown in pic 1 and 2 of post 302?  I had a very similar part I had to bend for my Jolly Boat and it gave me fits.  I finally quit trying and just went the "Guna' have to be good enough, hope this works" approach.

[giampieroricci]

On 2/25/2023 at 7:31 PM, Peanut6 said:

I have to ask, how did you make the piece shown in pic 1 and 2 of post 302?  I had a very similar part I had to bend for my Jolly Boat and it gave me fits.  I finally quit trying and just went the "Guna' have to be good enough, hope this works" approach.

Excuse me  Kev for only replying to you now!

I made it with this little jeeg selfmade:

[giampieroricci]

I am starting to prepare the support base for the model.
The idea is to make a kind of grating with three columns (probably brass) that will support the model.

 

[giampieroricci]

 

[Peanut6]

The jig you show is nearly identical to how I finally settled on making my piece.  In hindsight I just didn't execute as well as I could have.  At the time I was very limited in material, the shipyard coffers were bare so I didn't have the luxury of a "do-over", and had to settle on how it came out.  The great thing for me is knowing I was thinking down the best path.  Thanks. 

[bdgiantman2]

First time I have seen this idea for the model display base but I like it and your hatches came out great!

[giampieroricci]

little step

[giampieroricci]

little step:

 

[Ainars]

 

Looks cool, and the idea itself is brilliant.

 

Ainars.

 

 

[giampieroricci]

I finished the model base:

[albert]

Hi Giampiero fantastic work.

[KentM]

24 minutes ago, giampieroricci said:

I finished the model base:

Quite unique and perfect. 

[dvm27]

Unique and beautiful Giancarlo. I hope that viewers will appreciate the correct angled half lap joints you have made on the base coamings.

 

 

[Chuck]

Outstanding!!!   Such a beautiful display.

[Seventynet]

Beautiful, stunning model and base!

[Knocklouder]

Very nicely done, and your stand is so cool  😎 

[mtaylor]

I love that model and the stand.  A perfect match.

[druxey]

A 'grate' base! (Someone had to say it.)

[giampieroricci]

In the meantime, I am doing the manoeuvres for fixing the guns:

[giampieroricci]

 

[druxey]

Nicely spliced breeching line! I don't believe that it would have been tarred, though.

[giampieroricci]

47 minutes ago, druxey said:

Nicely spliced breeching line! I don't believe that it would have been tarred, though.

Should I use a lighter colour such as the one in this photo?

Edited March 27, 2023 by giampieroricci

[druxey]

I believe so, Giampiero. Only standing rigging was tarred.

[matiz]

The breeches of the guns were often made from old shrouds, therefore, tarred, the guns in the great chamber had untarred breeches,
 in France, they were also painted with Spanish white

[Gaetan Bordeleau]

 

Why nobody in the books talk about this subject? I think, we highly underestimate the enemy: the aggressiveness of the salt.

Why would a line be tarred and the next one untarred? Inevitably, by cross contamination, both lines would finish tarred.

 

Jean Boudriot wrote a letter about which lines are tarred.

One sentence is interesting: The rope for the ship rudder wheel is not expose to the salt, so tarring this line is unjustified.

Does that mean that the idea is very simple: If a line is expose to the salt, tar the line.