Le Saint Philippe 1693 after Jean-Claude Lemineur (Ancre) in scale 1:48

[Herman]

I finally join the watching crowd and will happily accept a standing place. Lately there seems to be no time to sit down anyway as I am busy renovating an apartment for our youngest daughter. Almost 2 months since I was in my own little shipyard.
I have enjoyed reading your latest adventures and climbing the steep learning curves. The outcome is spectacular as was to be expected based on your earlier builds.
BTW. I love the Kattner Sanding Center, a great place to take a rest.

 

[dockattner]

I finally join the watching crowd and will happily accept a standing place. Lately there seems to be no time to sit down anyway as I am busy renovating an apartment for our youngest daughter. Almost 2 months since I was in my own little shipyard.
I have enjoyed reading your latest adventures and climbing the steep learning curves. The outcome is spectacular as was to be expected based on your earlier builds.
BTW. I love the Kattner Sanding Center, a great place to take a rest.

Thanks for finding me over here, Herman. Indeed, a little girl always needs her daddy - even when she is a grown up. The gift of your time (and I suspect your money) trumps whatever you would have accomplished sitting in your model ship yard.

The Kattner Sanding Center is pretty special - especially when it is used for things other than sanding . I recall that you also like to retreat to your backyard.

 

[Herman]

(and I suspect your money)

The Kattner Sanding Center is pretty special - especially when it is used for things other than sanding . I recall that you also like to retreat to your backyard.

Yes, I am the cheapest hobby construction contractor she could find (let's call it a hobby). But most ideas for improvement came from me, so I have myself to blame. You want them to have a nice home, don't you?

You are right, when the weather is right I prefer working on the model in my backyard. Sometimes I can spend a long time filing a piece of wood in the garden, while I have a sander and further instruments standing in my shipyard.

 

[oldflyer]

Paul,

Your work has been - and praising now by using only superlative appellations. Deservedly BTW

I don't have the working vocabulary to add to what's already been written by others.

MJD

 

[dockattner]

Thanks, John. Making progress...

 

[GrantTyler]

Hello Friends,

Over the past two days I have managed to make actual progress on the stern of the ship. With several failures in my wake, I was starting to have a pretty good idea of how to fabricate the top timbers of the fashion pieces.

As it turns out there was less 'curvature' than I had envisioned. I would love to blame Mr. Lemineur for the previous failures, but at the end of the day I think it would be better to own my own mess rather than blame someone who has forgotten more about ship construction than I will ever know.

Unexpectedly, Nigel has now offered to move to the US to guide me during the balance of this build, so that is comforting...

Everything is loose fit and prior to fairing...

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I wish I had more excess for the fairing process, but at this point I think it will be acceptable. Keep in mind that the exterior of this stern section model will be planked - everything you see will only be visible from the inside, and the particular shortcomings will almost certainly be lost in the overall experience of taking in the build out of the interior.

The learning curve has been steep...but I hope it will pay dividends in the future...

Good morning Paul. It would appear that you have got those fashion pieces (why they called this I have no idea) just right. Lovely photos but those counter timbers and fashion pieces look frightfully fragile. I know you have plenty finesse in your building however my thoughts are with you not to break these at a point. Well done fashioning those fashion pieces . Cheers Grant

 

[Corporal Smith]

Splendour in wood! This is why American teeth are so impressive.

 

[dockattner]

Good morning Paul. It would appear that you have got those fashion pieces (why they called this I have no idea) just right. Lovely photos but those counter timbers and fashion pieces look frightfully fragile. I know you have plenty finesse in your building however my thoughts are with you not to break these at a point. Well done fashioning those fashion pieces . Cheers Grant

Splendour in wood! This is why American teeth are so impressive.

Thanks for the nice posts, guys!

 

[dockattner]

Hello Friends,

Once you start fabricating and fitting the counter timbers you can't really stop. The whole stern facade is little more than a house of cards so there is no other option than to press on to final fitting and glueing up. I spent a full day doing that very thing - and then another full day fairing (is it faring?) the counter timbers and the new top timbers.

Oh, and I also roughed out three of the aft deck beams and installed one of them to provide some lateral support for the upper counter timbers:





And here is the current state of affairs (the horizontal piece across the top of the counter timbers is temporary support):

















The entire assembly is still pretty fragile so I think I'll figure out where a few deck clamps go and install them. I'll also install a few of the other aft deck beams. The combination of those two elements should add some much-needed structural integrity.

You are kind to take time away from your own work to see what I have been up to!

 

[OlivierF]

I can’t say I know anything about art (I couldn’t identify a Picasso vs a Monet if my life depended on it) but what I see in your photos is art to my eye! Great work and wonderful pictures!

 

[rtwpsom2]

 

[dockattner]

I can’t say I know anything about art (I couldn’t identify a Picasso vs a Monet if my life depended on it) but what I see in your photos is art to my eye! Great work and wonderful pictures!

Thanks, Oliver. She is quite a shapely ship.

 

[AnobiumPunctatum]

I hope you don‘t have to much ventilation in your room. I am afraid that then the construction crashes. It’s looking really fragile. Very well done

 

[Peter Voogt]

Hello Friends,

Once you start fabricating and fitting the counter timbers you can't really stop. The whole stern facade is little more than a house of cards so there is no other option than to press on to final fitting and glueing up. I spent a full day doing that very thing - and then another full day fairing (is it faring?) the counter timbers and the new top timbers.

Oh, and I also roughed out three of the aft deck beams and installed one of them to provide some lateral support for the upper counter timbers:

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And here is the current state of affairs (the horizontal piece across the top of the counter timbers is temporary support):

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The entire assembly is still pretty fragile so I think I'll figure out where a few deck clamps go and install them. I'll also install a few of the other aft deck beams. The combination of those two elements should add some much-needed structural integrity.

You are kind to take time away from your own work to see what I have been up to!

That’s looking very stable and nice, Paul. A relief to get sone stability.
Regards, Peter

 

[CLB]

Looks great Paul - way to go with your persistence on this very difficult assembly.
Chris

 

[dockattner]

I hope you don‘t have to much ventilation in your room. I am afraid that then the construction crashes. It’s looking really fragile. Very well done

I'll keep the windows closed ...

 

[dockattner]

That’s looking very stable and nice, Paul. A relief to get sone stability.
Regards, Peter

Thanks, Peter. I'll feel better with a bit more longitudinal support but at least it's not just balancing there anymore.

 

[dockattner]

Looks great Paul - way to go with your persistence on this very difficult assembly.
Chris

Thanks, Chris. I feel better about my future with this model than I did a month ago. I have a pretty low level of confidence that I have everything right - but I'm in the ballpark.

Apart from the two POF models built in conjunction with the development of the monograph (and for which there are no sequential build reports) what you are looking at might be the only SP stern section in existence (apart from an abandoned model on the French Arsenal website). I find this extraordinarily odd. Any thoughts?

 

[shota70]

Hello Friends,

Once you start fabricating and fitting the counter timbers you can't really stop. The whole stern facade is little more than a house of cards so there is no other option than to press on to final fitting and glueing up. I spent a full day doing that very thing - and then another full day fairing (is it faring?) the counter timbers and the new top timbers.

Oh, and I also roughed out three of the aft deck beams and installed one of them to provide some lateral support for the upper counter timbers:

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And here is the current state of affairs (the horizontal piece across the top of the counter timbers is temporary support):

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The entire assembly is still pretty fragile so I think I'll figure out where a few deck clamps go and install them. I'll also install a few of the other aft deck beams. The combination of those two elements should add some much-needed structural integrity.

You are kind to take time away from your own work to see what I have been up to!

My dear friend Paul
your work is truly perfection

 

[Peter Gutterman]

what Shota said