Hms Alert by Maarten [COMPLETED BUILD]

The next part is the light house for the powder room.
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For the tiny wondows I use clear weld liquid glass.
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Add it to the edges of the window and create a film of this glue with a small tooth pick.
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It dries completely clear creating a nice glass window.
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As the inside is used for a lantern to light up the powder room I cover the walls with copper plating, in this case simulated with copper tape.
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Dry fitting it in place at the head of the powder room to be.
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In this picture you also see the front sides, the wings of the powder room. These are as meant in the kit but they interpretated the drawings wrong. They provide a kind of platform where the powder barrels should be stocked. Just a deck beam high and there fore impossible to stock a powder keg.
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According the aots book this is not a platform but just a plank in the wing, behind which you store the powder barrels. See the drawing compared with the model.
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So I removed the platforms and re use the tops as bulk head between the hold and powder room, which is missing in the kit.

Next are the cartridge racks in the stern.
Giving the the right shape with all this curvature in the stern is a daunting task taking a lot of time.
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Now dry fitting again.
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Next are the lower deck beams and creating a floor for the powder room.
 
Continueing on the powder room.
As promissed first I made some beams to carry the powder room floor, these are not kit parts but scratch build.
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On top of the beams the deck is fitted?
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I leave out one plank to see the construction below.
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The wing platforms are replaced with just a small bulkhead in the wing, functioning as powderroom wall.
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To avoid getting gun powder in any other space then the protected environment of the powder room itself the flooring was covered with lead and the walls with copper.
See below HMS Victory as an example.
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I will create this with aluminium and copper tape.
The floor with aluminium tape which I sanded with fine steel wool before applying to give it a dull apearence.
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I add additional small strips of tape which I pinch with a point to create the rivets between the lead plates.
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The upper part is copper plated.
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The powderroom bulk head gets the same treatment, lead for the lower part, copper for the upper part.
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Dry fitting the parts.
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Baby steps on the powder room.
To get in the powder room there is a small companion way from the upper deck.
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It is locked between two deck beams on which a hatch is fitted in a later stage.
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In the powder room entrance a door is fitted.
In the powder room you won t find iron fittings as these could create sparks, so all metal work is bronze or copper.
For my hinges I used copper wire hammered flat.
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The inside of the door is reinforced.
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And on the outside a brass ring.
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To lock the powder room I made a copper lock with a brass key.
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And dry fitting all into place, here you can also see the bar behind which the powder barrels will be stored.
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Baby steps on the powder room.
To get in the powder room there is a small companion way from the upper deck.
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It is locked between two deck beams on which a hatch is fitted in a later stage.
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In the powder room entrance a door is fitted.
In the powder room you won t find iron fittings as these could create sparks, so all metal work is bronze or copper.
For my hinges I used copper wire hammered flat.
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The inside of the door is reinforced.
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And on the outside a brass ring.
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To lock the powder room I made a copper lock with a brass key.
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And dry fitting all into place, here you can also see the bar behind which the powder barrels will be stored.
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Your modeling skills at this small scale are to be commended. Excellent work. Rich (PT-2)
 
Today I made some gun powder cartridges which will be stored on the shelfs in the rear of the powder room.
As promissed to Uwe @Uwek I ran a test how to make these. He did a test with some cloth and tooth picks.

See here uwe his fantastic blog on le coureur

I used his idea for tooth picks and wanted to use silk as the material for the bags.
However after some thinking came up with te following.
First cut some tooth picks in small pieces.
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As real cartridges are made of parchment I thought of thin paper.

Then I took some toilet paper. From the comfort perspective multi layer :cool:
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Peel off the back layer, this is ultra thin paper.
I cut this into small strips. Lay the tooth pick on top on one side with a very little drop of water dilluted pva.
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Then roll it, rolling the paper around the tooth pick. The color of the pva give a nice creme parchment color to the paper.
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Put again some minor pva on the loose end of the paper so you can shape it like the end of a tied bag.
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Then tie a thin thread around the end, I choose a dark brown thread for this to get some additional contrast. See below the finished product on a piece of toilet paper.
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And an overview.
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I only have to write the charge on it in roman numerals and then they are finished for the powder room.
 
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