ancre Le Fleuron by Gaetan Bordeleau - FINISHED - 1:24

[albert]

Beautiful work Gaetan.

[druxey]

Lovely work as ever, Gaetan, but shouldn't the mortar be toned down a little? It looks very bright.

[Gaetan Bordeleau]

Hi Druxey,

 

Darker white will be last. With this stove,  I want brick and mortar but there are  many difficulties. First the colors, could be right by painting as I tried earlier with the bakery oven for the bricks but no mortar. With this stove lines are straight and it should be easier to introduce mortar. Again it would be too soon to paint the mortar because at the end of assembly, sanding will be needed and it would sand a lot of paint. So to retain the color I choose a full color in the wood. The mortar is surely too white, I realize it is also too thick when I look at the pictures, even if I taught the thickness proportion was fine when I cut it. I did it by eye but I should have done calculate some proportions.  The most difficult width to obtain is the top panel with the curve. Ideally I should have done the panel and then do sides and bottom, but I did the contrary and the width does not fit exactly so I had 2 layers of mortar at 2 places. Assembly is not so easy also. horizontal mortar lines are easy but not the vertical lines are difficult because it is difficult to cut to the good lenght and to install. In fact this is exactly for this kind of reasons that I prefer to build at a bigger scale, to have a bigger ease to hold parts and enjoy the construction instead of worrying how to hold the small parts.

 

I do not know what would be the best method yet but it is surely fun to try few ones.

[druxey]

Thanks for the explanation, Gaetan. Bien entendu!

[rtropp]

Gaetan,

Do I understand correctly that when making the grates, you stacked multiple blades on a Byrnes Saw?

 

Richard

[Gaetan Bordeleau]

You are right Richard.

 

To get the correct teeth thickness, 2 blades were used. It is  a lot easier to make every teeth in one pass instead of 2  (when the width is larger tan 1 blade).

[Gaetan Bordeleau]

the oven will be completed only with next upper deck

[Gaetan Bordeleau]

Here are the ''targettes"".

 

    first 3 pictures with different lighting :

 

Off camera flash

Speedlight

Ambient light

 

No flash, no details

 

Without flash, it is difficult and sometimes impossible  to see small parts details.

 

For these pictures, scale is 1/24, which is big, so imagine  at 1/100 without flash!

Edited April 23, 2016 by Gaetan Bordeleau

[druxey]

Terrific detail, Gaetan!

[cog]

What surprised me, Geatan, is the difference between the images, not as much the colour - for that I expected, but for the red glow - however, the focus on the first seems much better than on the other two, which are with lighting oddly enough ...

[Gaetan Bordeleau]

Carl, 

 

-no attention or correction was given to the color, the red  could be  corrected  before and/or after the picture

-attention was given only to  sharpness  

-the difficulty is this image is to see the 2 black straps on a black plate

 

Is the focus in the first image? May be.

Would it have been possible to do as well with the 3 images? probably with more time, it was just a fast comparison 

 

The idea was just to demonstrate:

the importance of lighting which is neglected as much in model building as in photography

and the possibility to see more with a good lighting

[druxey]

Seeing your reference, Gaetan, have you tried melting the end of the brass rod to form the 'bouton'? I've found that by holding the rod or wire vertically (not with my fingers!) and holding the torch at about 45 degrees, the tip of the metal will melt and form a round ball. You could then flatten it if you want.

[Gaetan Bordeleau]

Adding some  little details.

Here are some ideas about the 2 doors aft the second deck to go to the bathrooms.

Door knobs are always installed to the right because most of the peoples are right handed.

The port one open from front to aft.

The starboard one opens from aft to front.

 

Knowing that  deck is  higher aft than fore; 

It is easy to open the starboard one and there would be some space under when open.

The port one was a bit more complicated because the door opening from fore to aft would want to enter in the deck which is impossible.

 

The easy way to solve this is to cut the door from the bottom so that the bottom  does not get stopped by the deck.

In addition reinforcement wood angles are installed in each corner.  The height of these pieces  passes just in front of these doors.

 

May be all of this is false. If We compare with a picture already shown in this forum, there are 2 doors.

On one the door knob is to the right and on the other the door knob is to the left.

But at least we agree on 1 thing the bottom of the door had to be lift  so that the door could be opened.

[albert]

Wonderful work.

[Jeronimo]

Hi Gaetan.

Beautiful work.

Karl

[Gaetan Bordeleau]

4th picture  a tool to turn ropes coils with a coil ejector

[albert]

Very very nice work.

[rtropp]

thanks for the rope coil tip

 

Richard

[MarcM]

Hi Gaetan,

 

I'm interested in the third hand I saw in one of the above pictures, because I'm not very keen in the usual alligator clamps.

Could you tell me where you acquired them and at what price ?

I live in Europe (Belgium).

 

TIA,

Marc

[Mike Y]

The table on the first photo looks very good, like a fullsize slab table

[Gaetan Bordeleau]

The table on the first photo looks very good, like a fullsize slab table

 

Hi Marc

 

http://www.grstools.com/for-jewelry-work/third-hands-and-soldering-stations/third-hand-with-soldering-station.html

 

This tool was acquired from a jewelry tool seller and it is not comparable to the usual alligator clips.

[Gaetan Bordeleau]

Second deck

[paulsutcliffe]

fantastic work and stunning photos gaetan

[GuntherMT]

I was going to say the exact same thing.  Gorgeous, with fantastic photography!

[mtaylor]

No words, Gaetan.  The pictures have stunned my brain cells.

[Gaetan Bordeleau]

The previous set of picture was taken with a small web camera.

[Gaetan Bordeleau]

This tung oil  has not been heated to promote partial polymerization to cure faster. What happens if I open the bottle which lasted a couple of years?

[aviaamator]

And if you do not dry up oil?

[cabrapente]

Gaetan hello. fantastic job. really impressive,

thanks for sharing.

one cabrapente greeting

[Landlocked123]

Hi Gaetan,

 

I've been following your build from the earliest posts. The combination of your build and photographs can only be described as model ship building porn!

 

Best,

John