HMS Agamemnon by Sjors - FINISHED - Caldercraft/Jotika - 1:64

[Piet]

Great advice and demo from Theo!  Now, if I had a mini sheet metal bending brake that would be my first choice.  As an old 'tin packer" (sheet metal mechanic / aircraft mechanic)  we never, ever scribe any sheet metal.  We only use a 3B pencil.

However, for our purpose this'll work great if it's only one bend.  For all the tiny parts I had to make for the O19 a brake would not have worked anyhow so my thoughts are directed towards doing the bending with my crude method 

Sjors, if you have a brake use it, you'll like it.

 

Cheers,

[Sjors]

I will do that Piet   

 

Sjors

[Cap'n Rat Fink]

SJORS SHE LOOKS JUST FANTASTIC

 

 

MARIO

[Sjors]

He Mario,

 

Thanks !!!!!!

And how are you?

Are you gonna build a new masterpiece soon ????????

 

Sjors

[Adrieke]

Thanks Adrieke !

 

Is this mening that you are totally back in business ?????????

 

Sjors

 

just easing back into it Sjors

[texxn5]

Looks good my friend, hope all is well on your side of the pond.

[Sjors]

Everything is all right on this side     

Thank John !!!!!

 

Sjors

[Redbeard]

Sjors...outstanding coppering.

 

Enjoying your build.

 

John

[Sjors]

Thanks John !

 

She is now on the shelf for a while because I want to finish the Fonz ( San Ildefonso )

But when I look at her, I want to go further......

 

Sjors

[Guest Tim I.]

Phew!

 

I finally got a seat, hope there is some popcorn left. 

 

Sjors, she really is a beauty. Looking forward to watching your build to completion!

 

- Tim

[Sjors]

Thanks Tim,

 

Welcome on board !

And there is enough popcorn....it's a endless story     

 

Sjors

[Patrick Haw]

Catching up on your build Sjors.  Fantastic job on the coppering.  As far as putting the plates on vertically on the rudder post it will hardly show when the rudder is attached, so it shouldn't matter.  On the actual rudder for my Victory I wrapped the plates horizontally around the aft end of the rudder, wasn't too difficult.  Keep up the great work.

 

Patrick 

[Sjors]

Thanks Patrick,

 

I will try that when I put the copperplates on the rudder.

And I see that you paint the pintles copper ?( pintles is a right word for it ? )

May I ask why ?

 

Sjors

[Patrick Haw]

Hi Sjors. 

 

The pintles and gudgeons (rudder hinges) were made of bronze on the actual ship, but can hardly be seen on the model as they're covered by the rudder straps.  The rudder straps and bolts were made of copper or a copper alloy.  When they originally began coppering ships' hulls they used iron straps and quickly found that the iron would corrode and rust very quickly due to the galvanic reaction between copper and iron immersed in sea water, so they stopped using any iron fittings below the waterline.

 

And if that explanation is too scientific, I painted the rudder straps copper because it said to do so in the instruction manual!

 

Cheers,

 

Patrick

[Sjors]

Hi Patrick,

 

Thanks for telling me this .

I love the part when you are saying.....the manuel told me to do so         

I will see what I will do.

 

Sjors

[Sjors]

Little update today.

 

I have placed the transom.....

It was a little tricky because between the planking and the transom bottom there has 3 planks to go with a little curve.

They where to long so I thought I made a mistake.

So right away I send Mobbsie a whats app to see what's going on.

And I make no mistake.

They are longer then necessary so you can trim it the right size  

I have to send it a little more and give it a touch up with the paint.

Painting in the evening is never a good idea !!!!!!

That's it for today

Have a lovely sunday.

 

Sjors 

[texxn5]

Wow, I hadn't checked this log recently as you were working on the San Idelfonso. Very nice Sjors. Your coppering is outstanding.

[dragzz]

wow sjors its looking great thats great craftmenship in the work that u do keep up the great work

[Sjors]

Thanks John and Draggz,

 

@ John,

 

I did 2 things at the time.

Now one is finished I 'm only working on this one.

Maybe she is finished at the end of the year ????  

 

@ Draggz,

 

Craftmenship ?????

I'll do my best, that's all I can do......

But thanks for the good word !

 

Sjors

[popeye the sailor]

I've heard sad tales of folks having a hard time in getting the transom fascia  to fit properly.......glad to see that you hardly had any trouble at all     looking great Sjors!

[Sjors]

Thanks Popeye,

 

I also have to do some modification but at the end it works just fine     

Lucky me !!!!!

 

Sjors

[Beef Wellington]

Looking great Sjors, you can really see clearly through those lower windows.  The officers have no privacy 

[Sjors]

Thanks Jason,

 

That's only de blanco sheet where you looking to.

There are coming frames in front of it and no curtains...

A little light is also nice   

 

Sjors

[Sjors]

After 4 day's of trying to get the copperplates right on the rudder , it is done.

It was a lot of re-do but that's part of something I never done before.

Because I want to make a brick pattern on it and I ended with small pieces.

Lot of cutting and saying bad words when it was not right.....

I'm not fitting the rudder at this time because I have to figure out how the pintles are coming.

So the rudder goes into the complete box till I think that it is time to place it.

 

Sjors

 

 

 

[riverboat]

Good job!! Sjors

Frank

[augie]

Looks nice Sjors.  No rush on attaching it ---- I knocked mine off twice before I put it back in the 'completed box'.

 

Say, did you see the photo on Mobbsie's Aggy log with him standing in front of the completed ship in case?  You just may wish to start house hunting about now.

[gjdale]

Nicely done Sjors. The re-dos were clearly worth it.

[Sjors]

Thanks Frank, Augie and Grant and all who push the like button     

 

@ Augie,

 

I think I will put it on at the time I'll be starting the rigging...so long time in the finish box 

I have take a close look at Mobbsie's case and....I'm happy that I have a lot of room upstairs !

Otherwise I will send it to the White House !

They have plenty of room !!!!!!!!   

 

@ Grant,

 

That's something I learn from a few members....just re-do it till you are satisfied    

 

Sjors

[mtaylor]

That's something I learn from a few members....just re-do it till you are satisfied    

 

Sjors

 

 

Nice work on the rudder and good for you on putting it away for now.   I think you learned a good thing there on re-doing.

[src]

Very nice Sjors!

What did you use for your window glazing?

Sam