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PostPosted: Fri May 06, 2022 8:38 am 
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Thank you Dan!

In parallel, I continued with the periphery of the guns. A first test of the blocks was still a bit too big, but the brown drybrushing did as expected a good job.

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Therefore the whole thing was redaone a little smaller. Surely another 20% smaller is possible. Note the one double block in the "C" of "Cent" :-)

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And then the question, are they also rigable?

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Oh yes we can! Here again the dimensions of the smallest, scale was my thinnest rope in 1:100:

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Thereupon tried some sizes ...

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... and the 3 hottest candidates on the model.

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I then reworked the rigged version with the smallest blocks a bit. Looking at the picture ...

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... and realized, crap, the lanyard is twisted. I did not see that in the original, despite strong magnifying glass.

So the whole thing decuddled and it fits much better.

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PostPosted: Sat May 07, 2022 8:36 am 
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Dan, you get more insane with every post. Those rigging blocks are awesome. BTW, I live just an hour way from Old Ironsides, so if you need any photo's or info from the museum, just ask. Regards Pete in RI


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Thank you for the offer Pete! Very welcome.

All the best, Daniel

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Great job! :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1:

I think 3D-printing is perfect for blocks, hearts and deadeyes.
I did mine the old-fashioned way and had the resin cast, but 3D makes much more sense. You only need a couple of designs that you simply scale to the different sizes, and then print as many as you need. Also in 1/300 it would be much more efficiënt!

I think it would also be a no-brainer commercial 3D product: different sizes of blocks in different scales. :big_grin:


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PostPosted: Tue May 10, 2022 8:55 am 
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Just wait ;-)

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PostPosted: Mon Oct 10, 2022 7:24 am 
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Man´s glitter!

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Well, after almost half a year I finally came back to my man cave and was able to do something. Man did I miss that!

In the meantime I was able to hatch some great ideas, so I dug out a matchbox ...

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... and used it as the basis for a small pre-model.

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As usual, it's about being able to try out a few small things. Esepcially again and again about the use positions of the carronades.

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The guns are also slowly coming into the home stretch. It's always good to be able to keep an eye as a model builder on the programmer. The printing supports have been optimised so that the parts can be removed with as little reworking as possible, and the model construction itself also leads to details being improved in order to make them easier to paint. Here is the 24-pounder.

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Beautiful details like the coin´s handle and the retaining cord of the stool bed are just great to look at, as are the fittings on the underside - just too bad they are mostly hidden.

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Meanwhile, for the carronade, I decided to leave the barrel in one piece with the upper carriage. Because of the height adjustment screw, changing the elevation was difficult to adjust anyway or would have been too fragile. The swivel radius of the skeat around the pivot pin, the sliding way and rotation of the upper carriage were kept.

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And here's a little family picture.

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And then came the man´s glitter :-)

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Welcome back! :wave_1:

Beautiful ordnance! :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1:
I'm looking forward to seeing how that will develop further...


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Thank you Marijn, very appreciated!

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 11, 2022 11:40 am 
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When the little wood hunger strikes ...

... then there it comes, the man´s glitter ...

... or dafi goes stray ;-)

First of all I made a small deck, the size of a matchbox ...

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Then I put a round sander into the stand drill and worked out the frame shape.

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After I had to look for my workpiece 3 (!) times in the hoover bag, a perforated plate was placed in front of the Hoover tube!

Then I glued 4 blanks with double sided tape on top of each other and sanded them as one piece into the frame´s shape.

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A quick check - yup, it fits.

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Made a jig out of polysterol strips so that everything can be glued at right angles ...

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... and after curing the next fitting test.

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Meanwhile, the gun visits its new home.

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The barrel is in the center - yup it fits too :-)

So I glued on the planks on the inside, from bottom to top according to Marquardt: Waterway, then Spirketting, Ceiling, Thick Stuff below Clamp and Clamp.

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And then also closed the planking on the outside

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And yes, here they come, the inevitable: the 1 cent piece and the TicTac ;-)

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Great crossover between plastic and wood modelling! :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1:

How did you do the deck caulking? Thin black paper? Paint? ...


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PostPosted: Thu Oct 13, 2022 11:10 am 
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Lovely work. I love watching the progress.


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PostPosted: Sat Oct 15, 2022 4:33 am 
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Thanks Marijn and Dan!

And on it went in the text, or rather with the man glitter.

First attempt at the substructure of the upper deck. I still changed it afterwards.

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Then the planks were caulked: Glued vertically on a duct tape and brushed with thicker paint, gives exactly the right width for the scale.

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Freshly glued, it looks like newly tarred ...

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... and after holystoning already a bit more "shipshape" :-)

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Adjusting the height of the Carronade ...

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... and fitting test.

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Fits, so close and put the gunwale on :-)

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Enjoy :-)

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And to show the size ...

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... in this sense, all the best, DAniel

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PostPosted: Sun Oct 23, 2022 1:44 pm 
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And I was finally able to do some more woodwork. Got the lathe out and turned some supports.

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Then built the 4 knees. And suddenly the part flew towards the aspiration tube. THAT'S WHY I have the perforated metal grating there on the smoke :-)

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Fitting ...

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... and ready.

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Here you can see the two diagonal knees above the gun.

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And so that I don't mess up when rigging the gun tackles, I made the upper deck removable.

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Now it's going to be small itsbits, looking forward to it,

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Great work Daniel! :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1:

What lathe do you use?


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Lovely work on this, as always!

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I continued a bit over the weekend.

First fixed the bolts and rings in the hull ...

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Then prepared the breech: 0.6 mm, the middle marked by means of black thread. The barrels had no brech ring on the pommelion, so the breech needs an eye splice to prevent it from slipping off. The small parallel piece is glued on first. So that the attachment is not too obvious, it is cut off at an pointed angle ...

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... and glued on.

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Then came a test fit to determine the length.

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Stabilized the cut with super glue ...

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... glued on ...

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... and fits :-)

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A good model building solution in itself, ...

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... but in the original, this splice was additionally dressed to protect against the large stress when guns were fired.

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Then made a template for the length of the breechline. The eyes are bound in the manner of the dead eyes.

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And everything is ready for installation ...

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... and in place. Here in the loading position at the very back, the brooktau tensioned.

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And run out here.

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So slowly it's moving in the right direction.

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Great work Daniel! :thumbs_up_1:

That rope looks excellent BTW!


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Thank you Marijn,

for once not my own one, possibly Morope, got it from a conglomarat of modeling stuff I received from someone. But it is almost identical with my own one.

The lath used is a small proxxon :-)

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Fantastic! Be careful using superglue with thread though; in my experience it can seriously weaken the fibres in the thread.

It would be bad luck indeed if you forgot to check you were standing on the correct side of the breech rope before the gun was fired!

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dafi wrote:
The lath used is a small proxxon :-)

This one (DB 205)?
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