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

[gil middleton]

Daniel,  As always, love your build log and always learning from it. I thought the following photo was interesting.  Making chain plates for the restoration of the Charles W. Morgan (Whaling Ship) at Mystic Seaport, Conn.

[dafi]

Thank you Lawrence and Gil!

 

I love the "very serious" bending jig :-)

Thank you for posting!

 

 

Here is my "very toyful" jig

 

 

 

Lieber Gruß, Daniel

Edited May 27, 2013 by dafi

[dafi]

After my small sidekick ...

 

http://modelshipworl...-display/page-4

 

... a quick return to my main project as the cap-squares arrived yesterday :-)

 

 

Immediately build the template ...

 

 

... and assembled :-)

 

 

Also the gunlocks ...

 

 

... almost to small to be pictured, but still managed to fix them easily by using the sprue to be inserted in a hole underneath.

 

So mission accomplished, the guns are completed :-)

 

 

 

 

And with ease I managed to triple the number of parts for each gun from 7 to 21 ...

 

Hurray

 

Best regards, sincerily, Daniel

[st george]

Daniel,

 

Amazing amount of detail you've put into those canons, they look great. Can't wait to see what they look like fully rigged.

 

David

[popeye the sailor]

P.E. is great.........nice work Daniel!

[mtaylor]

Gunlocks?  Capsquares?   Incredible.  Just incredible. 

[dafi]

Thank you David, Popeye and Mark, very appreciated!

 

XXXDAn

[popeye the sailor]

they're gonna look great when installed

[amateur]

Gun completed....?

That's what you sais last year, after doing quit a bit of rope;making and rigging,and before you discovered PE....

I'm wondering: what will be the next thing you discover to enhance your already perfect guns....?

casting bronze in scale 1:100? functioning flintlocks?

 

Jan

[dafi]

... functioning flintlocks ...

 

... ?!? ...

 

...hmmmm...

 

When I was in Austria start of this year I had the great honor in meeting with Willi Meischl, wunderful modelmaker and weapon collector. He showed me an english marine trombone with working flints. I did not miss the chance and got a nice shot of it while flashing with both states: Arm back and the small cover protecting the powder closed and arm in front with the cover swung open and the egnition.

 

Fascinating as agood friend of mine would say ;-)

 

 

Thanks Jan and Popeye!, Daniel

 

 

PS: Here is a link to Wiilis page

http://www.schifferlbauer.at/seite64.html

and his York

http://www.schifferlbauer.at/seite16.html

Edited June 3, 2013 by dafi

[dafi]

Here we went on in the lower deck, getting tighter ...

 

...first table dummies ...

 

 

... followed by some real model making ...

 

 

... first sitting trials ...

 

 

... and tight we go.

 

 

 

 

bom apetite! 

 

XXXDAn

[amateur]

'bom apetite"?

 

There's nothing on my plate!!!

Cook has to come yet. I presume?  

 

Jan

Edited June 14, 2013 by amateur

[popeye the sailor]

simply amazing Daniel......you sir,  have quite an imagination,  to compliment your talent.  I enjoy watching how you juggle the two 

[gjdale]

Daniel,

 

The way you add figures to your model brings so much life to it. Amazing and superb work. As Popeye said, the combination of your imagination and your talent is something quite special. But please Sir, may we have a little food on our plates!

[Blue Ensign]

Just love it Daniel,absolutely brilliant.

 

ps. Grant, what do you think this is table service, nominate a messmate to collect the rations from the Galley, or else you'll all go hungry  

 

B.E.

[gjdale]

Oh yeah, I forgot, this isn't the Wardroom!

[chris watton]

Love this thread..

 

Makes my 1:64 scale effort look positively bereft of detail!

[realworkingsailor]

Love this thread..

 

Makes my 1:64 scale effort look positively bereft of detail!

 

But at the same time it shows people what could be done.  Of course at 1:64 it would be a little easier

[amateur]

I suggest that Dafi will also do a 'cleared for action' version of Vic.

Same man but ready for battle.

Next there will be a version 'Vic by night', all men in their hammocks (apart from the men of the watch, that is)

 

Jan

[popeye the sailor]

I see cannonball racks in our future........

[dafi]

... these ones?!?

 

 

...hihihihihi....

 

Thank you Sirs, but cleared for action is the most boring one in my opinion - just guns and their equipment, everything else stripped ...

 

...boooooring ;-)

 

Daniel

[popeye the sailor]

yes.....I know about those Daniel....LOL!   I mean,   would that be a possiblity,  of ball racks between the guns?   what is the quickest reload of a ship's cannon?

[davyboy]

Daniel,

 

It just gets better and better,absolutely brilliant work. I fully expect that you will be making scale Georgian Furniture for the Great Cabin when you get to that part of your build. Keep up the good work

 

Dave

[dafi]

Thank you all :-)

 

@Popeye: I do not know of racks in between the guns as this would interfere with the handling. As far as I know, extra shot was kept in nets/tarpaulins in the ships center line.

 

Daniel

[Kevin]

you are such a clever person and craftsman, brilliant work

[mtaylor]

Why do I have a suspicion that there's some cups of beer, some ship's biscuit, and salt beef in the crew's near future?    As always, Daniel, your research aind investigation into how things worked and looked has paid off well. 

[dafi]

Thanks Kevin and Mark :-)

 

Still trying to replicate the hard tacks in 1:100, a comrade in my german forum already gave me the recipe:

http://www.royalnavalmuseum.org/info_sheet_ship_biscuit.htm

 

But where do I get original lamb for the stew and beef in 1:100 suitable for the needed small portions?!?

 

Fork and spoon? Did the ranks have forks? I would have guessed just knife and wooden spoon in 1805? Any ideas?

 

Daniel

[mtaylor]

Yep, knife and wooden spoon.  Some might have had forks, but I doubt that they were standard issue.

[DCooper]

Thank you Daniel for taking the time and effort to share your knowledge and craftsmanship.  I am always inspired  and invigorated when I read your posts.

 

Bravo!!!

 

Dan 

[dafi]

Thank you Mark, Lawrence and Dan :-)

 

The officers used fork and knive, best example is Nelsons fork-knive, also known from other handicapped Sailors of the times.

http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/63222.html

 

Also an example of normal table wear of 1800

http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/62263.html

 

 

Daniel