Corsair by teloo - OcCre - scale 1:80 (first build)

[teloo]

Hello to everybody at msw.

 

Last year in september I started with my first wood ship when I had my semester abroad in prague. till today I really enjoyed this kind of hobby very much. here some pictures

[teloo]

sorry for the bad quality of the pictures. they were shot with my tablet. from next week on i will use a canon camera. regards ludger

[DCIronfist]

Looking great thanks for posting the photos :) I will follow along if you'll allow me

 

I see you decided to copper below the waterline.

[DCIronfist]

Did you use beeswax on the string?

[teloo]

Hello David and everyone else who is watching this build. Sure your are allowed to follow! ofcourse you are welcome. I am delighted for every response.

 

I did not use beeswax on the strings because I am not aware of this technique yet. Until yet I rather build the ship very stricked out of the box. last week I bought me a german book about historical modelshipbuilding. I started reading and quick realized that i maid a lot of mistakes. but hey... it is my first wooden ship and it is progress of learning. I also have a little problem that I am not familiar with all these special words which describe all the parts of a ship. in my book there is a picture of a ship in detail with all the names. I think I will translate them into english. it would be good for a better communication here.

 

for my ship I plan also to add some barrels, pirate figures and cannonballs. probably i will remove the cannon to paint them and install some nice rigging.but now some pictures from yesterday.

 

so far, so long, hang on

Edited August 24, 2014 by teloo

[teloo]

and here some pictures of the tools I used for coppering and a closeup. could be better the result, but for me it is ok. I finished it with zapon varnish

[DCIronfist]

I really don't stick to the historically accurate things but there are some who do. You appear to almost finished finished and the ship looks great :)

[teloo]

Hello hello everbody

 

I think I will follow some historical things in the future. but not every detail. This decission has everyone to do for his/herself. At least I have a huge respect to everyone who tries to build a ship from wood. I also have 6 rc cars, two rc helicopters and a model railway in scale 1/160. But this build was really a challenge so far for me and I think it will take at least 100 hours more to finish it. The sails and strings need a lot of time and I want change some things like the rigging of the cannons. For this I ordered some spare parts. I will try to add some more detailed pictures this weekend. best regards ludger

Edited August 29, 2014 by teloo

[teloo]

and david, i need maybe plus three hours more, because I showed my family your ship and they told me, that I have to paint my stern after they saw your stern. but I will use different colours

[teloo]

so some picture with my camera. still working on the optimum size of the picture. you can see my progress on the fore mast and why I am not happy with the rigging of my cannons. I wasn´t working on the ship much over the weekend. On friday I went to the dentist and I had to handle the pain over the weekend :/ best regards ludger

[teloo]

some more, different background. next bigger image size is above two mb. so no better images possible

[DCIronfist]

and david, i need maybe plus three hours more, because I showed my family your ship and they told me, that I have to paint my stern after they saw your stern. but I will use different colours

Sorry for adding time for you...

[teloo]

working on the shrouds. next ship I will try another way

[DCIronfist]

What other way? Just looking for info. Perhaps I can learn :)

[teloo]

hello David! as I learned from your build, my chains are in the wrong angle. but I will not go to change it again. it would take forever. so let us keep it as a secret

 

yeah the shrouds. i just realize, that my way is ok . so forget what I was saying. My book shows me , that I am still on the right way to get the shrouds connect to the fore mast

 

today I received the barrels and cannon balls

[teloo]

So first gun is removed and allready painted. Currently working on the rigging of the cannon. Detailed soultions are limited through the scale and my own skills/ big fingers

[DCIronfist]

That rigging sure looks nice.

[teloo]

thank you david. so first cannon is back in place. the distance between the blocks is to short... and what was supposed to be a joke becomes bitter truth. it is very difficult to reach everything. it took me four hours for one gun and because of the fact that I have to drill additional holes there is the risk to destroy the rigging of the fore mast. anyway. here some pictures. regards ludger

Edited September 3, 2014 by teloo

[teloo]

so here is a new solution which is easier to get it back into place. for the rest cannons I will use this way.

Edited September 4, 2014 by teloo

[DCIronfist]

That looks great....does it take a long time? The more you do the quicker it may get :)

[teloo]

small update. just working on coils

[teloo]

I would say one hour for one cannon David without replacing. But I need additional parts so I have to order them. Currently I am switching around on the ship here and there working on several small details. I bought me a pencil for example, waterproof, to simulate the bolts on the deck.

[teloo]

What do you and everyone else who is reading this, thinking about simulate bolts on the outside planking of the hull ??

[teloo]

picture of simulated bolts on the deck

[DCIronfist]

I did use a pencil for the deck but not for the outer hull. That's outside my skill level perhaps someone else can answer. I know some ppl drill little holes and use toothpicks or fill the holes.

[mtaylor]

Your first ship???      Wonderful work, Ludger.

[teloo]

hello yeah david I am not sure yet. I think I will not do it.

 

thank you mark, now I feel shy because I have seen what you are able to build It is my first wood ship. I only build three other for my modelrailway but from plastic and years ago

 

yesterday it was time to clean up my workingplace. It was important because I was to confused and I was not sure what to do next.

After that I worked on coils for the coffienägel (sorry do not know the english word - is there somewhere an overview for the nautical english terms?????? help please !!! ). Also I read in my book that a ship needs a stove pipe. So I did one by myself. And I build an own rudder because the one from the ship is not realistic. But the rudder is not ready yet. So enjoy the pictures and thanks everyone for following. A nice sunday to everyone. It is time for formula one - Monza

Edited September 7, 2014 by teloo

[teloo]

hallo, so all cannons are removed and painted. I also got some ornaments on ebay which I plan to add here and there. Critical phase for me in the building process for me. I didn´t liked it to remove the cannons. But at least I hope it will fit and looks better in the end.

Edited September 13, 2014 by teloo

[teloo]

so painting weekend. some ornaments added and stern painted. I also plan an additional lifeboat at the stern. nice sunday everyone

[teloo]

good evening So here some pictures of the rope coils I put on the belaying nails. If you enlarge the picture you can see it a bit better in detail

Edited September 18, 2014 by teloo