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HMS Dragon 1760 by Siggi52 - FINISHED - Scale 1:48 - English 74-Gun ship


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Phenomenal work, Siggi.    I think you're right on storing the tools with some on the beams.  Where there are no beams then wherever the Captain says to put them.

Mark
"The shipwright is slow, but the wood is patient." - me

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Hello,

 

the captains sleeping cabin is now ready. Today I build the chest with drawer for his clothes and the washing table with the washbowl. 

 

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Yesterday I finished the cod. This little pice was really tricky to build. 

 

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Tomorrow I will start with the lobby. When I understand it right, was this room the dining room for the captain and his guests (normally one or two of his lieutenants) and also a conference room. I would build a table for six persons and chairs instead of benches.  :( In one corner I would set a corner cupboard and that should be all. 

 

Did I anything forget, or should I build it in an other way? A large part of this cabin would't be build, because of the open space.

 

Regards,

Siggi

Regards,

Siggi

 

Recent build: HMS Tiger (1747)

Captains Barge ca. 1760, scratch build
HMS Dragon 74 gunner 1760, scratch build

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Hello,

 

with the chairs you must wait a little, Monty. Except you start building them, you have enough windsor chairs as samples  :rolleyes:

This morning the captain told me that I forgot a mirror in his bed room  :( So today I must build a mirror and now he is happy.

 

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At the second picture you could see the problems I had with the door to the masters day cabin. I had to move the cannon some distance away from the door and had great difficulties where to hang up the bed. Now, when the master is't too fat, he will get without problems into his cabin. For that reason I think they changed so often the design of this cabin.

 

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Regards,

Siggi

Regards,

Siggi

 

Recent build: HMS Tiger (1747)

Captains Barge ca. 1760, scratch build
HMS Dragon 74 gunner 1760, scratch build

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Hello,

 

so, the table for the lobby is ready 

 

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and the captain tested how to place him in the cabin. Here he is already tortured to walnut. 

 

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Rum, David if you spend a bottle, sure. 

 

Regards,

Siggi

Regards,

Siggi

 

Recent build: HMS Tiger (1747)

Captains Barge ca. 1760, scratch build
HMS Dragon 74 gunner 1760, scratch build

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Siggi,

 

It is fascinating to see how you fit guns and furniture into the space, discovering how certain arrangements work and others do not. It is a level of detail I had never considered. Good job!

 

Mark

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Hello,

 

today I build the cup board. It was't so easy, but nothing against that what comes the next days, the chairs.  :huh:

 

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Here you could see, that even for only six persons the room is not too large. 

 

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I'm not really sure which kind of chairs I will build. Even the simplest chairs had a lot of turned parts in those times.

 

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Regards,

Siggi

 

P.s.: Sam, see it as a challenge to make it better then I  ;)

Regards,

Siggi

 

Recent build: HMS Tiger (1747)

Captains Barge ca. 1760, scratch build
HMS Dragon 74 gunner 1760, scratch build

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Siggi I just spent a few hours going through your entire build, I think I will go sit in the corner and take up knitting.

 

Beautiful workmanship and wonderful attention to detail, I also admire your strive and search for accuracy and intent.

 

Michael

Current builds  Bristol Pilot Cutter 1:8;      Skipjack 19 foot Launch 1:8;       Herreshoff Buzzards Bay 14 1:8

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I hate to say this Siggi but I might be calling the guys with the white coats.  You are doing a fabulous job.

David B

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Hello,

 

thank you all for your kind words. Last week we had here beautiful sunny fall wether, so I'm mostly out in the garden and doing there this and that. But since yesterday we have again the normal November blues. I took the picture at 11:45 am today and we had only 3°C or 37°F! So I went in the underground again.

 

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But I had made the paperwork for the chairs already Mark. 

 

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Today I started turning the legs. The bevel left and right from the beads I made with a file.

 

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and that is the output

 

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Next came the seats

 

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That was't so hard to do, but assembling the whole was not so easy. But I had help  :huh:

 

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The glue was't really dry and the captain would have a look how they fit to the table. The seats are 9 mm high

 

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Tomorrow comes the hard part, making the back supports. I will see if I find wood that would bend easily, otherwise I make the whole out of copper wire.

The battens between the legs, I think I skip. 

 

Regards,

Siggi

Regards,

Siggi

 

Recent build: HMS Tiger (1747)

Captains Barge ca. 1760, scratch build
HMS Dragon 74 gunner 1760, scratch build

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The battens between the legs, I think I skip.

Are you sure?

 

Michael

Current builds  Bristol Pilot Cutter 1:8;      Skipjack 19 foot Launch 1:8;       Herreshoff Buzzards Bay 14 1:8

Other projects  Pilot Cutter 1:500 ;   Maria, 1:2  Now just a memory    

Future model Gill Smith Catboat Pauline 1:8

Finished projects  A Bassett Lowke steamship Albertic 1:100  

 

Anything you can imagine is possible, when you put your mind to it.

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I understand. Nice work on the chairs so far.

 

michael

Current builds  Bristol Pilot Cutter 1:8;      Skipjack 19 foot Launch 1:8;       Herreshoff Buzzards Bay 14 1:8

Other projects  Pilot Cutter 1:500 ;   Maria, 1:2  Now just a memory    

Future model Gill Smith Catboat Pauline 1:8

Finished projects  A Bassett Lowke steamship Albertic 1:100  

 

Anything you can imagine is possible, when you put your mind to it.

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Hello,

it is done  :champagne:

These battens cost me years of my life, but I'm glad that you have forced me to do it.

 

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Then building the back supports was easy  :rolleyes: My black alder bends wonderful.

 

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The rest was routine

 

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When I saw this picture, I got the brush out again and painted the rest I did't. The color was still wet at that time.

 

Regards,

Siggi

Regards,

Siggi

 

Recent build: HMS Tiger (1747)

Captains Barge ca. 1760, scratch build
HMS Dragon 74 gunner 1760, scratch build

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CaptainSteve shakes his head in amazement ...

"Arrr ..", was all he said.

:cheers:

 

Beautiful work, Siggi !!

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