HMS Victory by dafi - Heller - PLASTIC - To Victory and beyond ...

[popeye the sailor]

looks like you had a lot of fun........some very nice eye candy there   thanks for sharing !

[dafi]

No, this is no broadside ...

 

 

... nor fire alarm ...

 

 

... only ...

 

 

... one of the easiest ways to prevent things falling inside of the ship. Cheap, easily placed, easily taken out without danger for paint or flimsy details :-)

 

Cheers, Daniel

[Ferit]

My favorite is SMS Trinkstein (with her story)

[dafi]

... only wanted to do a cast from the figure head ...

 

 

... but after taking down the form, I was wondering about the itzy-bitzy-teeny-weeny letters in the casting form ...

 

...

 

 

...

 

... grrrrrrr...

 

XXXDAn

[gjdale]

Oooh! That can't be good Daniel - but I'm certain you will have a fix in mind!

[dafi]

Thank you all :-)

 

@Dubz

The hooks next generation are already on the way, rest is in preparation :-)

 

Cheers, DAniel

[popeye the sailor]

I wouldn't hit the like button on that with a ten foot pole!  sorry to see that Daniel........if anything came from that,  it show us how little glue you used on them {shrug}.  it does peak my interest as to why your doing the casting........resin parts perhaps?   

[dafi]

That casting was not planned ...

 

The letters where just fixed with clear varnish, that allows good positioning and leaves almost no trace. 

 

As I still opt for the 1920 Vic, I thought it could save me some work, as the figure head was already heavily overworked compared to oob.

 

Cheers, Daniel

[dafi]

Sometimes, yes sometimes I love my employees ...

... they were meant to buy new tea for the office - guess what brand they brought especially for me :-)

 

 

...hihihihihihi...

 

XXXDAn

[mtaylor]

Did anyone play "Rule Britannia" while giving you the tea??? 

[dafi]

 

XXXDAn

[mtaylor]

Aye, Aye, sir! 

[dafi]

Thank you Aussie, very appreciated :-)

 

Hy Lawrence, it is a berry flavor, good for working!

 

Aye Mark, finally one that understands, I think I should change the code book in the office - perhaps the official book of the Cat of nine Tails would work better.

 

XXXDAn

Edited March 29, 2014 by dafi

[amateur]

 

Aye Mark, finally one that understands,

 

Youseem to be strugling for understanding

 

Jan

[dafi]

All the time :-)

 

... to understand the others and for me to be understood ...

 

XXXDAn

[mtaylor]

Some seek understanding.  Some seek illumination.  I seek the Holy Grail:

 

Bridgekeeper: Stop. Who would cross the Bridge of Death must answer me these questions three, ere the other side he see.

Sir Lancelot: Ask me the questions, bridgekeeper. I am not afraid.

Bridgekeeper: What... is your name?

Sir Lancelot: My name is Sir Lancelot of Camelot.

Bridgekeeper: What... is your quest?

Sir Lancelot: To seek the Holy Grail.

Bridgekeeper: What... is your favourite colour?

Sir Lancelot: Blue.

Bridgekeeper: Go on. Off you go.

Sir Lancelot: Oh, thank you. Thank you very much.

Sir Robin: That's easy.

Bridgekeeper: Stop. Who would cross the Bridge of Death must answer me these questions three, ere the other side he see.

Sir Robin: Ask me the questions, bridgekeeper. I'm not afraid.

Bridgekeeper: What... is your name?

Sir Robin: Sir Robin of Camelot.

Bridgekeeper: What... is your quest?

Sir Robin: To seek the Holy Grail.

Bridgekeeper: What... is the capital of Assyria?

[pause]

Sir Robin: I don't know that.

[he is thrown over the edge into the volcano]

Sir Robin: Auuuuuuuugh.

Bridgekeeper: Stop. What... is your name?

Galahad: Sir Galahad of Camelot.

Bridgekeeper: What... is your quest?

Galahad: I seek the Grail.

Bridgekeeper: What... is your favourite colour?

Galahad: Blue. No, yel...

[he is also thrown over the edge]

Galahad: auuuuuuuugh.

Bridgekeeper: Hee hee heh. Stop. What... is your name?

King Arthur: It is 'Arthur', King of the Britons.

Bridgekeeper: What... is your quest?

King Arthur: To seek the Holy Grail.

Bridgekeeper: What... is the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?

King Arthur: What do you mean? An African or European swallow?

Bridgekeeper: Huh? I... I don't know that.

[he is thrown over]

Bridgekeeper: Auuuuuuuugh.

Sir Bedevere: How do know so much about swallows?

King Arthur: Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.

[dafi]

:-) :-) :-)

 

Thank you!

 

XXXDAn

[dafi]

@mtaylor

 

... was this from the DVD or the Blueray?

 

... auuuuuuuugh.

 

:-)

 

XXXDAn

[mtaylor]

Good question... I saw it in the theater when it came out and repeated endlessly on PBS here in the States. 

[popeye the sailor]

I have the DVD..........a classic! 

[dafi]

Finally managed to update the assembly instructions for the resin parts that I provide for the 1:100 Vic:

 

                                          #43                         

 

Cheers, DAniel

[Dennis Terry]

Hi Daniel, I found your build log and have read every post religiously. Most impressed with your build. Your imagination and techniques are unbelieveable.  I am interested in obtaining a set of your photo etched parts for my own build. I live in the U.S. and wondered how to go about it. I have tried to contact you through your site but to no avail. If you could let me know how to proceed I would appreciate it. Keep up the good work.

 

Thanks, Dennis

[dafi]

Hello Dennis,

 

thank you for your kind words.

 

Sorry to hear that your contact did not work, strange but here is the address: webshop@dafinismus.de

 

And yes, it would be a pleasure to provide you with parts :-)

 

I also send you a PM.

 

Cheers and thanks, Daniel

[dafi]

Finally - finally - finally!!!

 

Looks like you sensed the force growing Lawrence, I really found time for my sweety :-)

 

First some hanging trials for the anchor ...

 

 

... just to realised that it is the point and not the fluke resting in the shoe.

 

Then finally some rigging :-) 

 

*enjoy*

 

Prepared some deadeyes this time not using toothpicks but using thin battens from the draw plate ... 

 

 

... drilled and painted. Tried something new for the rigging procedure ...

 

 

... a round stick with the external diameter of the deadeye with a slot ...

 

 

... 4 times round and secured, taking down the ring ...

 

 

... and forced over the deadeye.

 

 

Then prepared a new template ...

 

 

... stuck the deadeye into the hole and clamped it ...

 

 

... and made the two seizings.

 

And what for ?!? Simply for that the last shroud does look good beside topgallant backstay, shifting backstay and royal backstay :-)

 

 

 

And this is how it looks ...

 

 

 

Cheers, Daniel

[popeye the sailor]

wonderful update Daniel.......great idea on rigging!   makes my technique look like a monkey doing the  'mad passionate' to a football!

[dafi]

After some lenghty but fruitful discussion in our german forum about the orientaion of the free end left or right, forth or aft we found that almost all literature shows it the way that it is displayed:

 

- for the cable-laid shrouds - Starboard pointing foreward, larboard aft :-)

- for plain- or hawser-laid shrouds - Starboard pointing aft, larboard foreward :-)

 

The opnly one showing it vica versa is Marquardt in his Eighteenth Century Rigs and Rigging, funnily, his other book Schoner in Nord und Süd shows it the "common" way.

 

Some other information coming the way was incorporated immediately

- Max. distance of the big deadeyes twice diameter

- Tackle about half the diameter of the shroud

- Shroud not too tight around the deadeye

- free end of the tackle passes through the gap of deadeye and shroud

- free end shorter

 

And here we go Mark 2:

 

before:

 

After 

 

Still have to clear and belay the tackles to look less messy :-)

 

XXXDAn

 

Edited May 8, 2014 by dafi

[amateur]

As usual, your 'after' is a great improvement compared to the 'before'

 

Jan

[dafi]

Just added the difference inbetween cable-laid shrouds and plain- or hawser-laid shrouds in the entry upstairs :-)

 

This leads me to some further question:

 

- The top-mast shrouds were plain laid? This means the ends are pointing the other way than on the lower shrouds.

 

- The distance of twice diameter of the deadeye looks good on the lower shrouds lanyards. Is this applicable too for the topmast shrouds? There the distance usually looks much longer in comparison?

 

- When was the batten on top of shrouds introduced to maintain their orientation? Marquardt only makes a small remark in the picture section telling "about 1800".

 

- Was this also introduced for the topmast shrouds?

 

Cheers, Daniel

[mtaylor]

You ask some tough questions, sir.       I'd take your last two posts #637 and #640 and put them in the rigging section to ask the questions.  Might get a different set of eyes.   My simple answer is:  I have no idea.   Do you have Lee's Masting and Rigging book?  The answer might be in there.

[popeye2sea]

Steels, Art of Rigging simply states "Dead-eyes are turned into the lower end of the top mast shrouds, as the lower ones are into to lower shrouds.