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HMS Victory by Paragraf – Shipyard – 1:96 - CARD


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Coppering the hull.

 

Before coppering, using a highly specialized tool:D, I marked the waterline, which is also the upper border for copper plates.

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 Despite of the primitive method, it goes straight.

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 The belt between the waterline and the lower border of the main wale (which will be laid in the future) I’ve painted black.

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Coppering is made from Ventura Tape copper foil, with black adhesive.

 

Before cutting the strips imitating copper plates, I fastened a longer strip of copper (about 135 mm) to the cutting mat using a masking tape. Next step  was to make an imitation of nailing; I used Trumpeter's rivet maker with densely spaced teeth (by Trumpeter marked with letter „A”) for nailing on the edges, and for nailing in the middle with less frequent teeth (marked as No. „D”).

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So prepared copper strips I cut - using a small jig – to plates of the correct length, specifically 13 mm.

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Very interesting build. It's hard to imagine that it is card. Love the nice sharp lines of the coppering. Great job. 

Regards, Scott

 

Current build: 1:75 Friesland, Mamoli

 

Completed builds:

1:64 Rattlesnake, Mamoli  -  1:64 HMS Bounty, Mamoli  -  1:54 Adventure, Amati  -  1:80 King of the Mississippi, AL

1:64 Blue Shadow, Mamoli  -  1:64 Leida Dutch pleasure boat, Corel  -  1:60 HMS President Mantra, Sergal

 

Awaiting construction:

1:89 Hermione La Fayette AL  -  1:48 Perserverance, Modelers shipyard

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Today, the thing is not about the progress in building, but about why sometimes you need to destroy something to make it good.

After gluing the plates I realized that I had started laying the copper cover too close to the stern. The copper strips should run here more or less according to the layout of the planks. In the picture below, I marked the correct layout with violet lines.

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Continuing laying of plates in this way, would cause their improper arrangement on the stern and in the bottom part. In the picture below you can see, that in the central part of the hull there is still enough space for 20 rows of plates, while in the part closer to the stern there is space only for 15 rows of plates. This way of laying would cause, that copper plates in the bottom part, at the keel, would be laid diagonally (lines of navy blue color), despite that they should be parallel (red lines) to keel, like planks.

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Therefore, I removed a large piece of copper plates (something about 200 pieces) and I'm gonna lay them again. Plates, according to a new calculations (I hope this time correct) I will start to lay from the point marked with a red arrow; I also marked the previous point from which I started laying - using a violet arrow.

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To be continued....

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State of works for today.

Copper plates on the port side.DSC_1579.thumb.jpg.26476a96d08ea71c6095c10315d45428.jpg

Copper plates on the sterboard (arranged the upper belt of plates).DSC_1577.thumb.jpg.fa0ff05c08a1a9d94e546861c4ee1ef6.jpg

Bow part of the port side.

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To arrange each rows of copper plates precisely, I marked their identical course on both sides.DSC_1578.thumb.jpg.f2c796c4c8a005f65e1df201b3bb9ee6.jpg

A few stealers need to be laid in the aft part of the ship.

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I've made a kind of "shirt" to protect arranged copper surface.

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To be continued...

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Very very good, it is hard to believe that it is made of card. It makes one want to rush out and buy a kit at the next opportunity. Sadly, like most mortals, l would never be able to reproduce work like this. I can, however, draw inspiration from it and indeed l shall. Thank you for sharing your work with us.

Best wishes as always, 

The Lazy Saint.

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Hello.

I haven't been here for almost two years, but I'm still alive and so is my Victory. As you can see in the photos, I decided to change the concept of the model and make it with the lids closed. I saw a model made in such a way and I liked this „checkerboard pattern” on the the sides so much, that I decided to do it also in my ship. So there will be no visible guns on the two lower decks.

 

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Before painting the model I've made the main, middle and upper wales on the sides.

 

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In Victory the main wale was put on in „anchor stock” planking. Each plank was fashioned with a double taper from the center of one edge, so that the planks laid side by side looked something like the stock of the anchor (see pict. below)

 

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The middle wale was put on in similar, but not the same pattern. One edge of the plank was tapered, but insted of the tapers being equal in length one was quite twice length of the other (see pict. below)

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Some people may notice, that the shape of the planks I've made on the main wale is slightly different than on the other models. In many models, the main and the middle wale are arranged in the same way, as in the second picture. Various sources give different information about the arrangement of these planks. I made them according to the description given in Longridge's book. Interestingly, on the current ship you will not notice the wales arranged in the so-called anchor stock.

 

To be continued...
 

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i also did the same with the shut gunports nice to see you build back

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oooooooooooooops sorry lol

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16 hours ago, Paragraf said:

Hello.

Small update of work in the bow section.

The timbering at bow is not glued yet, because I have to do both main rails first.

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Outstanding work! Is the grating  cut by hand?  It looks so crisp as if laser cut.

Thank you for this phantastic log.

Greetings ,

Rudolf

 

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