Royal Louis 1780 by Ulises Victoria - FINISHED - Mamoli - Scale 1/90 - French 126-gun ship

[NMBROOK]

She is looking good Ulises,great work

 

Kind Regards

 

Nigel

[Keith_W]

She looks fantastic, Ulises! Your wife allows you to put your model on your bed? Mine would scream at me to get that dusty thing off the bed!

[Seventynet]

Beautiful work Ulises. Thanks for sharing.

Best, Ian

[Sjors]

Great Ulises!!!!!!

 

That looks fabulous and give'a a promise when we get started on the Victory together     

And you are now sleeping on the bench??????

 

Sjors

[Ulises Victoria]

She looks fantastic, Ulises! Your wife allows you to put your model on your bed? Mine would scream at me to get that dusty thing off the bed!

 

I am single!!!

My mom is 92. She lives with me. Part of the family issues I mentioned before were because of her health. And that is HER bed.

[BANYAN]

Great progress mate; she looks terrific - you have every right to be proud of your efforts.

 

cheers

 

Pat

[CaptainSteve]

Looking very good indeed, UV !!

[mtaylor]

Sweet work, Ulises.  That is a beautiful ship and you're doing great.

[Ulises Victoria]

Small update. From now on, once the hull is fully planked and work on deck furniture is in progress, I may do updates more often. 

 

Here I am making a wooden door, to substitute the plastic one supplied in the kit.

 

Wooden door placed on cabin, and cabin glued to deck.

 

Here I am gluing some planks side by side, to make the part where the capstan is, according to the drawing below.

The metal chimneys (part No. 100) in the kit are awful. Still don't know what to do with them, or how to make them myself.

 

 

Don't know what's more fun: tying ratlines or assembling these gratings.     

 

Thanks for watching!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Ulises Victoria]

Another update. Told ya' they are coming more often

 

I'm working on two platforms that support the capstan and two chimneys.

 

After gluing the planks side by side I want to square the sides to a 90º. angle.

This tool helps a lot with that. Only drawback is that the sandpaper wears off at the same spot all the time, so it looses it's 'bite' quite soon.

 

This is close enough for me.

 

I was hesitant about making those corner joints at 45º angle, as it supposed more work that just plain 90º, but I took the plunge. They were a bit more difficult than initially thought.

 

This tool again proved an excellent choice for getting those 45º angles right.

 

The 2 platforms already assembled. A bit of cleaning still to do but I will leave that for tomorrow once the glue is totally cured.

I'm happy with the outcome.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[BANYAN]

Looks good Ulises - Have you tried using a spacer of card/paper etc to lift the sanding surface, then filp to expand the sanding area?  Still will only be using a fraction of the surface but better than nothing?

 

cheers

 

Pat

[Ulises Victoria]

Excellent idea, Pat. Thank you!

[Elijah]

Nice rails and deck structures Ulises! I like those 45* angles!

[Sjors]

Yep,

 

They are looking as it suppose to do     

Very nice Ulises !!

 

Sjors

[Greg the peg leg sailor]

G'day Ulises.

Great work mate.

I love your tool! Is it home made or a bought one? I think I'll will tryto make one myself.

Havagooday mate

Greg

[Ulises Victoria]

Thank you all for your responses, likes and encouragement!!!

 

Greg: The tool is bought. You can buy it here.

 

http://www.amazon.com/Fourmost-154-Miter-Sander/dp/B0006O5SIO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1460112640&sr=8-1&keywords=miter+sander

 

Here is another version.

 

http://www.micromark.com/sand-it,9548.html

Edited April 8, 2016 by Ulises Victoria

[Ulises Victoria]

Another quick update:

 

The platform I was working on almost finished. I say almost because it is missing the two chimneys that go on the darker square. The ones in the kit are just awful, so I ordered some replacements. Temporary nails are shown to hold the part while the glue dries.

 

Work on the gratings continues

 

A VERY important and necessary step when making these gratings: a good soak in strong diluted white or (better) wood glue. These parts will be cut to fit in their place. If they are not perfectly glued at every joint, they will fall apart.

 

A good batch of gratings already made. These come from Model Shipways and are perfectly cut. Highly recommended. My experience tells me that the notches in kit supplied gratings are poorly cut, and this makes assembling them a nightmare.

 

On with this next step. This is a 170 x 35 mm frame with a lot of work in the insides.

 

Work on the frame starts. (Look ma', not afraid of 45º angles anymore.    )

It was just a happy and fortunate coincidence that the width of my ruler was exactly the same as the width of the inside frame. 

 

Frame ready and just dry placed on its spot to check for fitting. Perfect fit. 

 

 

 

Thanks for watching guys!

Edited April 8, 2016 by Ulises Victoria

[Ulises Victoria]

Thank you, my friend. Glad to know you found something useful!

[md1400cs]

Ulises,

 

Nice update. Excellent detailing

 

Michael

[BANYAN]

Interesting gluing technique.  Will the glue affect the wood when it comes time to stain/poly them; or, will you sand them back a bit first?  They certainly look good, and stronger for the process.

 

cheers

 

Pat

[Ulises Victoria]

Definitely the dried glue will prevent the stain to penetrate the wood. If it's too important, you may try to stain first and glue later, although the process of staining may disturb the unglued assembling of the gratings, which is the core of the technique.

I may paint my gratings flat black, so it wouldn't matter here.

 

Thanks for your comment!

[Ulises Victoria]

Update April 12 2016. BTW April 10 2014 was the day I started this build log, and April 11 actual work on my ship began. So today is exactly 2 years and one day that I started this ship.

 

Central hatchway (whatever that means ) is completed except for a couple of ladders that go down at the stern side (left in the photos) opening. I don't like the kit supplied ladders so I will substitute them later.

 

 

 

 

I decided to paint the gratings flat black. This may or may not be authentic or historically correct, but I really like how they look.

BTW these gratings had to endure a heavy treatment of sawing and sanding to make them fit. So, the gluing technique I described before, really works.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I painted the top of these bulkheads black to avoid them showing through the gratings.

 

 

Hatchway dry fitted in place to check for correct fitting. All good!

 

 

Thanks for watching, friends!!!

Edited April 13, 2016 by Ulises Victoria

[captgino]

Nicely done Ulises!!

A nice steady pace . I am looking forward to your next post.

[GLakie]

Nice looking gratings Ulises! 

[Sjors]

Gratings are looking good my friend.

Never see them in black but gives a totally different look at the ship !

 

Sjors

[Elijah]

They look great Ulises!

[Ulises Victoria]

Thanks captgino, George, Sjors and Elijah. I'm glad you like the black gratings too!!!

 

[edmay]

Very well done gratings,good progress .Edwin

[Ulises Victoria]

Embarrasing update: (Keep reading)

 

Working this part:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here comes the embarrasing part and asking for advise.

 

 

The opening at the far left should have been next to the grating, not the end of the frame. 

 

Options: Do it all again. Out of the question. I have no more gratings.

 

"Invent" a small grating there and do the opening in the right place.

 

"Invent" a hatch there " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " " "

 

"Cut, rotate and paste" Outer corners won't have a 45º angle of which I am most proud of.     

 

What would you do???

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Ulises

[Keith_W]

Whoopsie. I would cut out the wood next to the gratings and cover up the hole at the end of the frame.