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LUCZORAMA SHIPWRECK SCAVENGER HUNT GIVEAWAY. 4 Weeks of Fun • 1 Legendary Prize ((OcCre’s Fram Ship)) • Global Crew Welcome!
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Good afternoon Peter. Always good to hear from you and have a look at your cross section. I am so sorry to hear about your wife Peter. Tough times my friend and I wish her all the best and may her recovery be swift. As we say in SA - “wees sterk en vol moed ” Peter. Cheers Grant
Thank you Rob, we are going full speed for the Health and Happines for a long time to come, we are doing the best we can, to achiev that.
Yes, you can say that again, we all know that our time will com one day, but it was not the meaning to do that so soon.
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Thanks Grant, for the wishes, en we will be "wees sterk, en vol goede moed " (be strong, and full of courage )
Good afternoon friends,
My admiral is up and about again, and she is doing some smal jobs in the house as well, so i found a couple of hours to spend on the crossection.
She asked me to stop messing around, and to finish it, so the rest of the crossection will be build according to the building instructions.
I finished the gunportlids, and after that, my attention went to the canons, on a special request of my admiral there wil be no more blackening of the brass, so the guns have to age on the model.
The building instruction is saying place the canons on the deck, and attach the ropes to them, but i could not achief that, so i took them of again, i took away the already placed eyebolts, and i did it all out of the crossection and on my bench, here is a picture of them.
After this i placed them on the deck,
On the last picture you can also see the finished portlids
Now it was the time to place the dekbeams, the knights, after which the carlings, and the ledges came on the crossection.
( Off course i forgot to take a picture of this ), and when this was done, i planked the deck of the unplanked side of the model.
The deck got tree nailed, and i wanted to do this a bit more subtle as the lower parts of the ship, so i tried to make a tip of 0,6 millimeter on my treenails.
My drawplate did not work with that kind of tips, so i took a sheet of brass, drilled a hole of 0,6 millimeter, and i made my treenails that way, and it worked excellent after staining, it looks great to me.
See for yourself here is the picture
The drawplate ended in the scrap- iron, i don't want to see that thing again.
To end this update, a picture, just because it is fun to do.
I hope to see you soon again,
Greetings Peter
My admiral is up and about again, and she is doing some smal jobs in the house as well, so i found a couple of hours to spend on the crossection.
She asked me to stop messing around, and to finish it, so the rest of the crossection will be build according to the building instructions.
I finished the gunportlids, and after that, my attention went to the canons, on a special request of my admiral there wil be no more blackening of the brass, so the guns have to age on the model.
The building instruction is saying place the canons on the deck, and attach the ropes to them, but i could not achief that, so i took them of again, i took away the already placed eyebolts, and i did it all out of the crossection and on my bench, here is a picture of them.
After this i placed them on the deck,
On the last picture you can also see the finished portlids
Now it was the time to place the dekbeams, the knights, after which the carlings, and the ledges came on the crossection.
( Off course i forgot to take a picture of this ), and when this was done, i planked the deck of the unplanked side of the model.
The deck got tree nailed, and i wanted to do this a bit more subtle as the lower parts of the ship, so i tried to make a tip of 0,6 millimeter on my treenails.
My drawplate did not work with that kind of tips, so i took a sheet of brass, drilled a hole of 0,6 millimeter, and i made my treenails that way, and it worked excellent after staining, it looks great to me.
See for yourself here is the picture
The drawplate ended in the scrap- iron, i don't want to see that thing again.
To end this update, a picture, just because it is fun to do.
I hope to see you soon again,
Greetings Peter
Very nice, Peter! I have also learned that it is best to rig guns off the ship model. And I think your trunnels turned out perfect: 0.6 mm is not so easy to achieve but your self-made draw plate did the trick.
Good to see you back on the shipyard and it's going better with your Admiral, Peter. It's looks very nice.
Regards, Peter
Hi Peter. Good to hear your admiral is doing better again.
You have made great progress with your build. I especially like the last see through picture. Zooming in on the deck with the canons really brings it to life.
You have made great progress with your build. I especially like the last see through picture. Zooming in on the deck with the canons really brings it to life.
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Hi Peter
Great to hear your Admiral is bk on deck again, and your now bk in the Dockyard. Your build is looking brilliant, just wondering if you are going to make anymore enhancements, maybe added deck details etc..
Apologies if your not, it's probably just me jumping the gun when I get to the insides of the Hull or on deck my imagination just runs away with itself regards to adding more detail.
All the best
Rob.
Great to hear your Admiral is bk on deck again, and your now bk in the Dockyard. Your build is looking brilliant, just wondering if you are going to make anymore enhancements, maybe added deck details etc..
Apologies if your not, it's probably just me jumping the gun when I get to the insides of the Hull or on deck my imagination just runs away with itself regards to adding more detail.
All the best
Rob.
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Thank you for the compliment Paul, and you are right about the trunnels, o.6 millimeters are first reasonable difficult to make , and to get them in a hole which is a bit smaller, that is when the fun begins, because 0,6 millimeter of wood can't stand a lot of pressure before it breaks
Thank you Peter, the most important thing is the admiral, and that is great news. I am glad you like the model
Ah yes Herman, those see through pictures are always great to see.
Thank you Shota, yes that was the best news, and i also think that the model is looking great.
Rob, i would love to enhance it a bit, but for now, i am trying to finish the model, and enhancements might come later, because my admiral asked me to stop messing around and finish it, she wants to see it finished
This is wonderful news Peter. Nice work rigging those cannons, it is a fiddly job. Cheers Grant
Yes Grant, wonderful news, and the cannons were a pain in the *ss.
This were very tiny blocks to handle, but it looks quite reasonable