Artesania Latina Anatomy of Lord Nelson’s HMS Victory Trafalgar 1805

[AlanOES]

Video 6 - Complete (Part 2)
More work on the hold items.

I decided to add to the items in the hold, so I scratch built a few boxes and crates and filled some with rope.

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I read that there would have been timber for the carpenter to do repairs so I added a small amount just to add some more interest

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The support posts have now been added. I ignored the instructions stating the length of each individual post and used the beams as a guide to measure how high each post needed to be. I didn't trust that my fitting of the internal planking and the rooms etc would be 100% accurate. So starting at one end of the ship I gradually added the beams measuring the length each post needed to be.

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A dry fit of the Orlop deck confirmed the extra work was worth it.

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Thanks for looking
T
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Lovely work again Tony and some nice additions

 

[TonyJ]

Nice work Tony, glad my tip has come in useful. Good shout on the flour sacks

Great work Tony, glad my tip has come in useful. Good shout on the flour sacks but to be honest, that area of the hold I’d barely visible once the orlop deck is in place. Saying that, I still might do a couple using your method and get them in there with long tweezers or use them elsewhere on the ship

Thanks Alan. Ooooooo lights next

 

[GIG1810]

Hey Tony,

fantastic, keep it up. The tuning of the barrels and crates is really great.
The wood would probably not be so clever, as heavy wooden edges always have to come up, especially as there is a risk of moisture and the wood can then rot. But still a nice idea.

Cheers
Günther

 

[AlanOES]

Thanks Alan. Ooooooo lights next

Good luck with the lighting
Don’t forget to try to double up on each beam to cut down on the number of cables coming back. I found I had to cut a deeper groove than they suggest to accommodate the 4 wires as in the video

 

[TonyJ]

Lovely work again Tony and some nice additions

Good luck with the lighting
Don’t forget to try to double up on each beam to cut down on the number of cables coming back. I found I had to cut a deeper groove than they suggest to accommodate the 4 wires as in the video

Thanks Alan, as we talked about a while ago I never really understood why they did this with the hold, I think they said because they had the room. I will heed your advice. and connect two lights in parallel to have only one set of wires. Talking about the grooves, did you have any trouble applying pressure to the beams as they are bowed. I'm hoping the wood is softer than the two planks either side of the top of the keel which were a challenge for for tp scrape cleanly.
Regards
Tony

 

[TonyJ]

Hey Tony,

fantastic, keep it up. The tuning of the barrels and crates is really great.
The wood would probably not be so clever, as heavy wooden edges always have to come up, especially as there is a risk of moisture and the wood can then rot. But still a nice idea.

Cheers
Günther

Thanks Günther. Yep the wood was just an afterthought to add a bit more in there. I can live with that.

 

[AlanOES]

Thanks Alan, as we talked about a while ago I never really understood why they did this with the hold, I think they said because they had the room. I will heed your advice. and connect two lights in parallel to have only one set of wires. Talking about the grooves, did you have any trouble applying pressure to the beams as they are bowed. I'm hoping the wood is softer than the two planks either side of the top of the keel which were a challenge for for tp scrape cleanly.
Regards
Tony

Hi Tony
The beams do spring back to shape once you’ve put pressure on them
I didn’t find it a problem
Regards
Alan

 

[TonyJ]

Hi Alan
OK great I though they would snap.
Cheers
T

 

[TonyJ]

IMG_3171 by Tony Johnson, on Flickr

 

[AlanOES]

IMG_3171 by Tony Johnson, on Flickr

Hi Tony
Have you tried grooving them out yet?

 

[TonyJ]

Hi Alan
I posted this by mistake. I am currently trying to change my current hosting site to Flickr and accidentally posted this pic. Yes I have grooved the hold beams and went in with a folded piece of sandpaper to just enlarge the groove a bit more. I intend NOT to follow the instructions and wire each lamp individually but wire one set of wires in series which should be easier. Now just got to nail this soldering task. I've studied the videos a few times and have come the the conclusion because there are 6 switches, each deck will terminate to a single pair of wires and possibly a single set of wires for the 3 aft lanterns. Or something along those lines. Guests are here another 3 weeks then I can start again!.
Regards
Tony

 

[AlanOES]

Hi Alan
I posted this by mistake. I am currently trying to change my current hosting site to Flickr and accidentally posted this pic. Yes I have grooved the hold beams and went in with a folded piece of sandpaper to just enlarge the groove a bit more. I intend NOT to follow the instructions and wire each lamp individually but wire one set of wires in series which should be easier. Now just got to nail this soldering task. I've studied the videos a few times and have come the the conclusion because there are 6 switches, each deck will terminate to a single pair of wires and possibly a single set of wires for the 3 aft lanterns. Or something along those lines. Guests are here another 3 weeks then I can start again!.
Regards
Tony

Ok, is the hosting site for something else? ( I don’t use a hosting site to upload my photos to this site). You’re right about the lighting, I currently have 6 pairs of cables protruding at the base of the hull, they will switch individually the hold,orlop, lower middle and upper gun decks plus the quarter deck and rear lanterns. There is also the Admiral”s landing on the main mast fighting top that has its own battery and switch.
What is it your having trouble with on the soldering? perhaps I can offer some advice
I’m taking several days off from the build as I am trying to put together a comprehensive list of all my model railway locomotives and rolling stock ( there’s a lot) for possible sale to one of these companies that buy up your whole collection. I will be sad to see it go but with the Victory project I’m not doing much on the layout now and after my brother died suddenly I thought, if that happened to me, my kids and grandkids aren’t interested in it and it would probably get thrown out as they would not be aware of it’s true value
We”ll see as I have a figure in mind
Regards
Alan

 

[TonyJ]

I wasn't aware you could simply import pics straight from my hard drive. Thought you had to use a host, how dumb of me!
With the soldering I have watched more how to do videos and now think I have a better handle on how its done. Best of luck with the selling of the railway stuff.
This video seems the way to go. I was simply touching the wire to the lamp terminal and trying to flood the joint with solder WRONG!!! I see that tinning the tip of the iron is correct. I will give it a go.

 

[AlanOES]

I wasn't aware you could simply import pics straight from my hard drive. Thought you had to use a host, how dumb of me!
With the soldering I have watched more how to do videos and now think I have a better handle on how its done. Best of luck with the selling of the railway stuff.
This video seems the way to go. I was simply touching the wire to the lamp terminal and trying to flood the joint with solder WRONG!!! I see that tinning the tip of the iron is correct. I will give it a go.

Yeah tinning is the way to do it
A thin layer of solder on the led tabs ( once you’ve pushed through the holes in the beam and bent over slightly) and on the stripped wire, hold them together and touch the iron on them and they will flow together like magic
Being a spark I already knew that as I’ve been soldering thing for years, but as they say, it’s only easy if you know how. I also use a digital soldering iron that keeps it a a constant set temperature for different types of jobs

 

[AlanOES]

I wasn't aware you could simply import pics straight from my hard drive. Thought you had to use a host, how dumb of me!
With the soldering I have watched more how to do videos and now think I have a better handle on how its done. Best of luck with the selling of the railway stuff.
This video seems the way to go. I was simply touching the wire to the lamp terminal and trying to flood the joint with solder WRONG!!! I see that tinning the tip of the iron is correct. I will give it a go.

Because I use this site from my iPhone and the videos I take are with my phone this site doesn’t recognise the video format so I can’t upload my videos like I can to the facebook site I put my build on