ancre L'Amarante 1749 by giampieroricci - FINISHED - 1:30 - French Corvette

[giampieroricci]

before continuing with the construction of the interior I thought it would be better to complete the planking of the hull of the starboard side: the side of the left will leave in carpentry.

I drew with a pencil the locations of the strakes

 

 

 

 

I started the laying of the first strips

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Jaekon Lee]

Hi, Giampieroricci. I just find your fantastic building log today. You are so skillful and seem to know everything of model ship building. I can get lots of tips with your log. Please look at my building log and give some advice. Thank you again.

 

Lee

[AnobiumPunctatum]

Hi Giampieroricci,

 

I've take the time to look through your complete build log. It's a real interesting log and a nice representation of the "French shool of shipmodelling".

I'll follow your log next year with great interest

[giampieroricci]

Thank you , friends!

This is my first building of admirality model ship..... I'm trying to do my best!

 

@Lee: where I find your log? Can you send me your link?

Edited December 31, 2014 by giampieroricci

[giampieroricci]

A little progress:

 

 

 

[giampieroricci]

Another little progress

 

 

 

 

 

 

[michael mott]

Nice planking, the ebony work is very nice.

 

Michael

[giampieroricci]

Thank you Michael!

 

A little progress:

 

 

 

 

 

[giampieroricci]

Another little progress:

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Mirabell61]

super build Giampieroricci,

 

the hull, framing and planking  Looks excellent, beautiful lines

 

Nils

[giampieroricci]

thank you very much, Nils!  :)

[druxey]

I've just found your log, Giampiero. That is terrific work, especially the tricky job of matching the run of strakes above and below the waterline. Very, very nice!

[giampieroricci]

almost finished!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[tadheus]

Happy Birthday Giampiero! Best wishes to you!

 

Paul

 

[WBlakeny]

What a beautiful planking job Giampiero! 

 

What are you using to simulate the caulking between the planks?

 

Oh, and a happy birthday of course !

Edited January 31, 2015 by WBlakeny

[giampieroricci]

I have finished the installation of the strakes

 

 

 

 

 

[giampieroricci]

After removing all the nails with the card I started to make a first rough finish with 120 sandpaper to remove excess glue and smoothing the side.
There is still a lot of work, especially in the critical points of the curves more, also I have yet to finish the nailing in the last strakes, remained suspended:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[kees de mol]

Wow it almost shines! Very impressive

[giampieroricci]

While I carry on the long job of nailing the last strakes, I proceeded to make holes of hawses: their axis is parallel to the keel and have a slight downward inclination, to favor maneuvers hawsers:

 

 

 

 

 

 

I also started the construction of the spur;

To give more strength to the union between ebony and peer I thought to use a plug interlocking between the two species:

 

 

[giampieroricci]

Assembly of the spur of the bow:

The gunwale, boxwood, is composed of two superimposed layers and working was performed with a micro-cutter to the microscope;

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[mtaylor]

Just stunning work, Gianpero.  The carving work is magnificent.

[giampieroricci]

Thank you very much, Mark!

 

What a beautiful planking job Giampiero! 

 

What are you using to simulate the caulking between the planks?

 

Oh, and a happy birthday of course !

 

 

I'm desolate!  I read just now your question........ 

 

To simulate the caulking I used a thin piece of black cardboard 0.3mm

Edited February 17, 2015 by giampieroricci

[druxey]

Beautifully done, Giampiero. Congratulations!

[giampieroricci]

I finally finished the long process of nailing the last strakes, and having finely sanded the entire surface of the hull with sandpaper gradually more and more fine (220, 400, 600), here is how it looks:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[giampieroricci]

I started the construction of the dolphins bow; For these details, very mangy and difficult to achieve, I chose boxwood.

They are made in two pieces joined to scull. After the first attempts, miserably failed  trying to figure out how and where to make that scull, I think I've reached a good compromise: I preferred to keep me abundant at the beginning and gradually refine until the right size;

 

 

Bonding:

 

 

 

after a first roughing

 

 

 

tests positioning:

 

 

[giampieroricci]

I built a tool to make the molding to the dolphins:

 

 

 

 

and after a long, patient and very delicate manual work, here is the result:

 

 

 

[Ponto]

All this is simply superb!!!!

 

J

[druxey]

Well done!

[giampieroricci]

I have finished the four dolphins:

 

 

[Fam]

This is really an excellent result, I'm going to print out your sequence and use it as a tutorial for my Brick!!

Ottimo lavoro!

 

Fam