HMS Macedonian 1812 by JerryTodd - 1:36 scale - RADIO

[mtaylor]

On 1/16/2025 at 1:01 PM, JerryTodd said:

How did it get to be so many years so quickly?

Time flies when you're having fun?  Maybe ???

[JerryTodd]

So, I've been printing cannons in between other things and have all the 18 pounder tubes I need, but only 15 carriages so far. and half the carronades with their slides.

[Jsk]

Speaking of time, how many hours of printing is that? They look great.

[JerryTodd]

I can fit 5 carriages on the plate, angled at 45° takes about 2:25 hours
8 tubes at 45° are taller and take just over 3 hours.

7 carronade slides take 2:10 hours, and a dozen carronades are a couple of minutes take 1:56.

"For those watching at home;" print time is based on layers, so the taller something is, the more layers it will have and the longer it takes (that includes the supports).  Otherwise how much in on the plate (the blue box in the pics) has no effect on time; though it obviously effects the amount of resin used.  The parts have to be angled to keep the surface area of each layer to a minimum or the wrong side will win in the tug-of-war between the plate/supports and the bottom of the vat.

Edited January 19 by JerryTodd

[JerryTodd]

Still things to build and print for Macedonian, but the guns (and some extras) are printed, the capstan, and the ship's wheel:

It's still below freezing here, so priming and painting will have to wait.

Some 3D things yet to make? Blocks, hearts, bullseyes, fairleads, dead-eyes, crew figures, stuns'l irons, binnacle, pin-rails, cleats, ship's boats & boat-chocks, decorative carvings (I plan on modeling the entire transom and quarter galleries), and barrels, boxes, & what-not as needed.

The next non-printed thing this model gets is wood padding around all the gunports and ceiling planking from the gun-deck up so the hull can get painted and at least start to look like a boat. 

Edited January 24 by JerryTodd

[JerryTodd]

I looked for data regarding gunport lids all over MSW, the net, and in my books, with no real luck.  Everything is Victory and Constitution, I couldn't even find good images of Trincomalee or Unicorn as references for a frigate's gunport lids.

I did find a drawing at NMM, basically a memo for gunports dated 1811.  Macedonian was launched in 1810, so I don't know how appropriate would be to my model, but I doubt it's too far off.

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So I cobbled a 3D model of one together, and printed a few just to see.  I probably need to make some adjustments before printing a full set, but I think they7 do the job.  They don't need German optics kind of tolerances since I plan to have the guns run-out and all the lids open.

The two gunports most forward are "catting-ports" and get split lids because a lifting lid would be in the way of fishing up the anchor, etc.  Haven't made those yet...

I also stumbled over a lion face door-knocker STL file and though I could use it for the cat-heads.  I tossed some of it's "embellishments," like the knocker, flattened it, a lot, and put a square block behind it.  In my scale it's 1cm square, about the size of someone's pinky finger-nail.

The other item I made are dead-eyes.  There's 6 different sized ones just for the lower shrouds and stays, and I'll have to guess at the top-mast shroud sizes.  I printed a few of the largest ones, I'll save the rest till I need them.

[Jim Lad]

You're doing some amazing work with that printer, Jerry!

 

John

[JerryTodd]

I was going to say something about how well the printer's doing, but I'm afraid I'll jinx it.