HMS Euryalus 1803 by rlb - 1:48 scale

[scrubbyj427]

Nicely done Ron! I see some sanding in your near future.

[Michel Bénard]

Nice Ron, you can be proud of your work. 😉

[Koopyetz]

On 2/23/2024 at 5:54 PM, rlb said:

Thanks so much Allan.  

 

Incremental progress.   I'm now trying to put together the transoms and fashion pieces.  So far I've had to cut new transom pieces.  I had shortened them too much when fitting them to the sternpost earlier.  I cut a mortice in the fashion timbers, and tenons on the first transom, and here I have the lowest transom dry fit with the two aft fashion timbers resting in place--

 

 

The correct angle of the fashion timbers is verified with the squares--

 

I milled and chiseled out the next couple mortices in the timbers--

 

And am starting to fit the second transom--

 

This is all very slow going.   I've had to recut the third transom also.  It has a complex shape that needs to match the round up of the deck that it supports.  Though none of these pieces (transoms and fashion timbers) have been faired at all, that third transom needs a lot of shaping to get it to transition from the slot on the sternpost down to the mortices on the fashion timbers, which should be about five scale inches down.   All this seems to be going okay so far (apart from having to re-cut all the previously done transoms); hopefully I won't discover some egregious error that makes me start over, as with the bow timbers.

 

Ron

 

 

 

When I see you conquering complex connections like this I’m reminded that your field of endeavour has given you the ability to visualize many dimensions all at once.

 

 

Edited March 4 by Koopyetz