To HMS Victory and beyond

[LE BOSCO]

Daniel
Fortunately for the delight of our eyes that madmen of your species are released
always a great job
cheers
Nicoals

[dafi]

Yes,

I dared, the lanyards are secured







XXXDAn

[dafi]

This time started quite easily with a large scale model of a bacteriophage on a 0,5 mm drill ...



... mirrored and streamlined ...



... one side enroled ...



... other side too ...



... and done

That the stream anchor usually was carried on the port side I wished to be excused in this display, but it was too nice a detail to not fiddle it out







... Daniel

[GazzaS]

Staggeringly impressive!

[dafi]

Thank you Gazza, very appreciated!

And before the admiralty kills the buoy believing it is a cockroach with hairy legs I prefered fixing it fast



There it hangs on the shrouds ...



... the ropes in nice turns ...



... under the influence of modelmakers gravity ...



... down to where it is fixed on the anchor.



And lucky too I was, luckily
When I made the buoy I just guessed its size using pictures of the Vic in P. and gave it 1,5 m. Then got panic and searched through the literature which would be the correct size. Took a while until I found in Lee, that it should be a quarter of the shaft�s length. Hastily measured the anchor - 60 mm so my 15 mm are just about fine

Cheers, Daniel

[109]

Keep up your great work!

Bye,

Bernd.

[dafi]

Thank you Bernd

...okokok...

... they got me, better saying my natural laziness

Was hard enough to put the lanyards around the buoy so I used plain rope ...

... even though I knew better that it was meant to be served.

So they got me ...



... but I covered the rope with several coats of diluted white glue and splashed some black paint onto it. Perfect for the scale and thickness of the rope

Still discussing the color of the buoy rope: The Vic in P. shows light rope and also plenty of contemporary models do ...

... but also plenty show dark ropes.

Also in the literature plenty of hints of serving the buoys lanyards, but no mentioning of tarring the buoy rope ...

... but still have luckily the time to research for the big model that�s why I do it

Cheers, Daniel

[dafi]

Some more weekend tinkering.

First a small sweet part, a new tie for my little shipyard worker?



No a small loop for the surplus rope on the clamp behind the shroud



The other ones were left a tad longer. But it was a tough job to place them behind the ratlines.



And here the new lashing of the stream anchor 2.0



If one looks long enough, then suddenly: Lavery�s Arming and Fitting page 55, and this makes much more sense. The stream anchor sits neatly arm on arm, can�t rotate, easy to lash and even clears the gun port





Gr��le, Daniel

[dafi]

So after a couple of weeks I found time for the shipyard ...

*blowingawaythedust*

... what did I find ???



And everything started in such a nice and easy mood ...

*gettingwetmouthbyrememberingallthedeliciousthings*



... but dark clouds started to gather on the horizon!

A certain Monsieur R. V. from A.*** already started to moan about the buoy before the meeting *lookingforthedevilsmily*
(For legal reasons we blended out his face with a red square.)

Buoy ropes should be tarred and not � la nat�re and the buoy slings be smarted ...

... also the lenght of the buoy rope was questioned ...

... and-and-and ...

...

Back at home same procedure as usual ...



... first the buoy rope tarred - not to dark - and about 20 fathoms long and thickness a third of the anchor cable - a heavy tool needed to break free the bower from the ground.

http://modelshipworld.com/index.php/top ... ntry230141

Then tarred the slings with white glue and black paint to make disappear the gaps to look like the right one ...



... but at least the fingers looked spectacular ...



... and then my misinterpretation - the buoy itself � la nat�re and not tarred ...



... and V2 goes down the drains

Then the discussion goes on about the thickness of the slings: Usually the slings and lanyards have half or a third of the superior rope�s diameter.

So new slings done, 1/3 of the anchor cable and 1/3 of the buoy rope ...



... looks ridiculous

Got it, the slings are not to transmit force its just to hold the buoy. Ok, discard V3.

By then Bernd showed a nice version in our german forum http://www.segelschiffsmodellbau.com/t7 ... l#msg44816

... that brought me back to the testing grounds

V4 was another try with slings of white glue, thick black paint and brown casein paint ...

... but realised half way that they represnt much more a rubber duck than a buoy slings ...

... that is why I stopped and ...

... to be continued

[dafi]

The best results I usually got if was as near to the original as posible. So I went to try out the real serving. But as the real thin ropes proved to be to be to thin for the serving mashine I used copper wire.

Took one of my two colored ropes ...



... enjoyed the fancy effects

So another try with two single untwisted threads to get the wanted color effect, the wire was first blackened with Edding ...



... and bingo - here we go

Another comparison in between the fake white glue version and the real served one.



Used V4 and the fancy colored rope to try the fixing of the slings and it proves to work far better than the rubber version seen of the bottom



Made my now famous bacteriophage ...



... looks already creepy ...



... but this full-sucked tick, that will be V5



Placed in its place ...







And what will remain? Only the memory remains ... of V1 up to V4 ...



XXXDAn

[LE BOSCO]

HI Dan

still searching of the perfection and the result is perfect
still fan of your work , and of the approach you make ??of model making
cheers
Nicolas

[blacman]

simply phenomenal

I'll keep watching...

[j.mahieux]

HI Dan,
When I look at your "Victory" and when I look to my Kits, I feel so baaaaad
You are a mad man !

[LE BOSCO]

Jean says true,it's the project the more "mad" that I know
cheers
Nicolas

[dafi]

... apart from certain big submarines

Thank you all

XXXDAn

[dafi]

Alle Jahre wieder (Every year again), also known as "every decade the dafi manages to finish something" ...



... my small slice of in between meal is served ...



... and lives ...



... while you can hear the chant "By the deep 17" ...



... the lieutenant and his midi are listening carefully ...



... and whisper it further with the speaking trumpet.

In the same time the crew ...



... with her own calm ...



... and sangfroid ...



... brings up a new rope.



And as the story was so great, here the whole picture



Now only missing a new passe-partout and some good pictures,

cheers, enjoy and have fun, the dafi

[Stefano Salesi]

chapeaux, Dafi!

can't wait to see the whole thing with the passepartourt!!!! love it!

[LE BOSCO]

Just sublim Dan "every decade the dafi manages to finish something" good productivity my friend
cheers
Nicolas

[dafi]

Thanks you Sirs, very kind!

My small piece of cake found a temporary home in my Trafalgar shrine, beside the tankard displaying the battle lines, the Nelson magnifying glass, the photography of Nelson�s ghost and the the piece of original oak*** of the HMS Victory.




Cheers and shiver in deverence, Daniel

***from ecologically certified dismantling

[dafi]

*blowingoffthedust*

... yep ...

*coff*

... here we go again ...

*wavingthedustcloudsaway*

... starter finished, now back to the main course

Where have we been?



Okokok ...



... alright ...



... heavy partying ...



... with social games

And what to do as reentry to the topic ?!?

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... destruction !!!



I just realised, I never replaced the entry port and the side steps on the larboard side.

Cheers, Daniel