15th Century Latin Caravel by Vivian Galad - FINISHED - Artesania Latina - Scale 1/50

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Your doing a very good job with minimal tooling! Sometimes with those small parts its helpfull to leave them attached to the plank as long as you can. Keeps your priceless fingers from hungry knives and drmel bits.

Your call in the finish, but as lover of wood I would vote for varnish rather than paint. That's just me though. You will do what works best in your eyes.

Sam

[NAZGÛL]

Yeah, your call. Looking really good btw.

 

/Matti

[Jeff-E]

Hi Vivian,

 

Looking very nice, presonally I like the look of clear varnished timber but that is just me.

 

Do you have a vice you could mount your dremel in so that your hands are free? or maybe you use a 'G' clamp and clamp it to your bench

 

Very nice work though, the posts look great as does your windlass, pity that some kits still supply infeior parts like your deadeyes, a good choice to buy some wooden ones

[mtaylor]

Moving right along and going well.    What I meant by taking lots of pictures is to see the parts and things through the camera.  You need not feel pressured to post them.  I take lots of pictures, examine them, see what needs to be fixed and later delete the photos.   I'm not the best builder here.   Far from it.  But it's part of the learning.

[Vivian Galad]

Sam, I think I´m for the wood, too, now. After watching a lot to her, can´t really put that dark color the plans r up to. I´ll darken some details, though.

 

Matty, ty =D

 

Jeff, as I said before, I´m getting my tools while I need them. Next one is a vice for my dremel ;-). Deadeys coming, hope they do not get lost on the travel, lol. Couple of weeks to get here - till there, I work on details.

 

Hey, Mark. I got it about the pictures, and I´m not posting everything I shoot ^^. Rlly helpful tip, though, and already made me change some of my earlier notions. After some shoots, too, decided for another varnish to cover up my hull.

 

 

Ty u all!!! =*

[flying_dutchman2]

Vivian;

Interesting shape of the boat.  I do like the lines and you are doing a great job of putting it all together.

Marc

[Vivian Galad]

Ty Marc, i´ts something I´m doing with immense pleasure.

[Vivian Galad]

Now, some more pictures. Just moved out from home and city in the last few days. Bigger house, lots of space and just that perfect room to put my studio in. Hope some more models come from there ^^.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Please, don´t mind the glue stains, All will be sanded away as the days go by. Put the rails on the aft castle, sanded till masts got a soft conic shape and there they are, ready for the rigging, ropes and sails.

Edited December 17, 2013 by Vivian Galad

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Vivian,

She is coming together! Marc is right about the lines. I am curious about the two "port" holes on each side, cannon? Or?

Sam

[Vivian Galad]

Sam, Canons, yep. Old ones, primitive on comparison to most of the ships I´ve seen so far. It was an exploration ship, from those first steps through the Atlantic, I think that explains the light gunned deck.

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Old, new primitive, exotic, doesnt matter. If they go BOOM ya gotta love em! Well I do at least. 

Sam

[Ulises Victoria]

Vivian: This is my first visit to your build log. You are doing a really good job. I've never seen this kit before and find it very interesting.

Keep working on it and learn from your mistakes as we all had done some time or another. Every building session has some new challenges most of the time.

 

Greetings from Monterrey, México.

[Vivian Galad]

Gracias, Ulises! Estoy a trabajar con entusiasmo!! ^^

[ScottRC]

Vivian,

 

I just linked from the other post you have and am quite impressed with your work with this kit.  We welcome you to MSW and hope that you continue to enlighten us with results of your research of the progression of ship design up to the 15th Century.

 

Scott

[Sailor1234567890]

She's coming together. Let's see what she's like in a few months time.

[Jeff-E]

Hi Vivian,

 

Hope you had a great Christmas and congrats on your move to a new house.

 

Great job on the hand rails around the stern castle, very neat and from what I can see the masts look good.

 

I have a question about the mizzen mast, as it looks to be at the wrong angle in your first photo, shouldn't it be in the same line as the other two masts and have a slight angle towards the stern in stead of leaning forward?  

Edited December 26, 2013 by Jeff-E

[Richard Griffith]

Hola Vivian, your build is looking good!   Jeff is right, the mizzen should not lean forward. 

 

BTW, how do you keep saw dust out of your key board?

 

Congrats on your new home and best wishes for a healthy and productive modeling new year!!

 

Duff

[Vivian Galad]

Jerome, me too. It´s time consuming, passionate and a really satisfying hobby. That´s a hobby I would love to chat with other girls. ^^

 

Scott, I´ve already changed the initial 3 windowed plan so my caravel could get more likely to those from early sails. The 16th century caravels had more ornamentation to them, too. To think most of the crew slept on the deck for the castle had the captain´s cabin is sad, yet, truth. Thanks for visiting ^^

[Vivian Galad]

Jeff, already moved it to a more centralized position. When I glued the mizzen it got that Pizza tower inclination. Today I got back to work on her. Waxed the hull to get an older look, as that of a used thing, varnished the castle rails and painted my canons. Still waiting for wooden deadeys, though.

 

Duff, That´s impossible. Now that I have an appropriate place for my modelling, I´ve cracked open my keyboard and cleaned everything, lol. That´s a lesson I´ve learned, never to sand wood atop my keyboard (again).

 

I´m very happy with your feedback, guys. You´re a lovely and helpfull bunch of friends I never expected to find. =D

 

(Happy with new toys, too. Got a Red Dragon chinese Junk which I´ll try to change into an older junk, like those Marco Polo - if he really existed - should´ve seen in his travels!!)

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Vivian,

Good to see you back at the bench.

There are actually more than a few ladies here, all appear to to be vary friendly, and they are putting out some quality work also.

Looking forward to pictures.

Sam

[Vivian Galad]

Well, let´s talk about tiny pieces and a lot of work. After returning to my ship, I got her waxed with bitumen, as I said before. The general look is like that:

 

 

The hull got a dirtier aspect, which gave some spirit to the caravel. Then, I got to the canons. They came in lead, as those deadeys I hated - painted them in black. The canons base were made of laser cut wood, so I sanded it to give a hand made quality and since the canons are from the 1400´s, I kind of liked the result - shaby, a bit bitten and no one alike.

 

 

As the canon base, the ladder came in laser cut wood. The first impression was of a child´s toy. After a lot of sanding and varnish, it got like that:

 

 

The next images got the same process

 

 

 

 

 

Atm I made some holes on deck´s rail, for water draining. Still working on them. That´s all for now. ^^

Edited December 27, 2013 by Vivian Galad

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Vivian,

Its those tiny details that will set your build apart from othrs. Very nice.

I am far from an expert but I have never seen cannon carriages like that before, unusual.

Sam

[Ulises Victoria]

Vivian. It's coming along really nice. The weathered-dirty look on your hull is just right. Congrats! Keep on it, girl !!!

[Jeff-E]

Hi Vivian,

 

Your deck fittings look fantastic I especially like how  the cannons turned out well done they look 15th century. Are you going to tie them to their carriges?

Your hull looks very nice waxed  

[Vivian Galad]

Hi San, those carriages can be seen today in some museums in Spain and Portugal. They´re from early stages, when canons were still, not a moving thing. The details are giving me some hard time on ocasion, but I love them. ^^

 

Ulises, I´ll keep it sailing! =D

 

Jeff, already tied them. Got a problem, though. I followed the kit instructions on the beggining, trying to do nothing wrong, but turned up to be the worst thing. My canon holes on deck are higher in relation to the floor and the carriages are too low. Think I´ll have to make them fit someway.

[Vivian Galad]

And today´s work.

 

Finished oppening up the deck´s rail. On the original plans the ship got 4 on each side, but after seeing some images, decided to put only 2 on each side, on the lower portion of deck (considering the ship on still waters).

 

 

Fixed my anchor machinery, holder, whatever (don´t know the term in english, yet

 

 

Varnished and gave some glue to my canons. Loved them, by the way.

 

 

After reshaping and painting some fittings, fixed them next to masts. They´ll hold the lanteen sails ropes so they can be maneuvered.

 

 

Then I got some real work. The kit lacked the rudder brackets, which on plans are shown as brass fittings. So, I improvised those things from some nails and stuff to get like that:

 

 

Used the drill to soften the sides and bring them fit to the rudder and got this

 

 

And then fixed the rudder to my ship. My main will was to have a functional rudder, not a still one.

 

 

Got my ladders to the ship, but had to cut out some steps from it.

 

 

 

And that´s all for today. Tomorrow I´ll make ready my sails while I wait for my deadeys (can´t really understand why it gets so long for those to reach me). Well, final picture is my complete set of tools till now. ^^

 

Edited December 28, 2013 by Vivian Galad

[Ulises Victoria]

Oh my! I always thought I have too many tools... and I was right. 

[Captain Al]

Vivian, thanks for posting these pics.  I am learning a lot just from looking at photos.  I need to visualize things before I really get a grasp of what the H someone is talking about.  I wanted to say thanks as well for your recent encouraging reply to my Bounty build.  And also to mention (off the wall) that the gentleman who gifted me this kit lived in Sao Paulo for many years.  In fact his wife was born there.  The world grows smaller every day; despite Mauna Kea's efforts to enlarge it.

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Vivian, you are taking "Sparse" to new levels there. You are doing quite well with such a basic kit.

For you cannons would the real ones be mobile? Could you lash them sideways to the hull? 

Sam

[Schriper32]

Hello Vivian! You simply clear head! Very accurate work!

Yours faithfully Mikhail.