Dear friends,
I was invited into a hobby club in my neighbourhood with the offer "to bring more men into the sewing and knitting group with their own projects on fridays". So I am the very only man in between some dozend of women every friday!
As there are quite big windows towards a shopping mall I decided to take an eyecatching motif - a pirate ship!
...a real one.
This may attach some kid's or fathers' interest and so this may lead towards an interesting conversation. My idea is a pirate ship is something some people can remember from TV - hopefully. And so I didn't choose a BLACK PEARL but a real Swedish privateer schooner drawn by af Chapman on Plate XL N°11 for my "two hours every friday" project:
As she is quite long I decided to build her in 1/64 so sehe does not look too overwhelming but does show interesting details along her 539mms of hull length:
Here the pair of 6-pounder chase-guns are visible on their galeere-like gliding arrangement, too.
There isn't much preparation to be done in the formers drawings was one line missing:
Here above the result (and I certainly forgot to picture it when done so here a rough reestablishing of the "Green Line") and the drawing's original arrangement for drawing:
The transom is very nice and I did redraw it in 1/32 on frostpaper due to my bad eyesight (and a single drop of tea did send mebback to starting line) and for "marketing":
I did some colouring for fun these days but I am not too shure it will be art-historically correct:
So I do hope for some help from those more involved in Swedish fine taste of the mid XVIIth century - I decided for a red as an eyecatcher.
What I am realy unshure about is the vessel's name: The figure does wear a winged helmet and a Roman/Greek styled armour (both added to the transom in center piled on a club also). So she may have been named ARES or MARS - or I guess the Swedish word for fighter: STRIDSMAN.
I am happy about any further knowledge or suggestions and kindly as you to help with in here.
Here also the main armament of the 3-pounder castiron swivelguns in wooden carriages (?) mounted to a massiv knee.
So this will be a small side project for a bit of hobby marketing in my neighbourhood on friday mornings. I am planing a hull model but as she is a schooner I should really try to mast and rigg her (the sails' I may got sewn by the Ladies arround me).
I did work on the drawings with some cheap Chinese sew rulers - something may be a feature the sewing Ladies may like:
So I'll make my start in five hours as I am awoke early today I wrote here.
I was invited into a hobby club in my neighbourhood with the offer "to bring more men into the sewing and knitting group with their own projects on fridays". So I am the very only man in between some dozend of women every friday!
As there are quite big windows towards a shopping mall I decided to take an eyecatching motif - a pirate ship!
...a real one.
This may attach some kid's or fathers' interest and so this may lead towards an interesting conversation. My idea is a pirate ship is something some people can remember from TV - hopefully. And so I didn't choose a BLACK PEARL but a real Swedish privateer schooner drawn by af Chapman on Plate XL N°11 for my "two hours every friday" project:
As she is quite long I decided to build her in 1/64 so sehe does not look too overwhelming but does show interesting details along her 539mms of hull length:
Here the pair of 6-pounder chase-guns are visible on their galeere-like gliding arrangement, too.
There isn't much preparation to be done in the formers drawings was one line missing:
Here above the result (and I certainly forgot to picture it when done so here a rough reestablishing of the "Green Line") and the drawing's original arrangement for drawing:
The transom is very nice and I did redraw it in 1/32 on frostpaper due to my bad eyesight (and a single drop of tea did send mebback to starting line) and for "marketing":
I did some colouring for fun these days but I am not too shure it will be art-historically correct:
So I do hope for some help from those more involved in Swedish fine taste of the mid XVIIth century - I decided for a red as an eyecatcher.
What I am realy unshure about is the vessel's name: The figure does wear a winged helmet and a Roman/Greek styled armour (both added to the transom in center piled on a club also). So she may have been named ARES or MARS - or I guess the Swedish word for fighter: STRIDSMAN.
I am happy about any further knowledge or suggestions and kindly as you to help with in here.
Here also the main armament of the 3-pounder castiron swivelguns in wooden carriages (?) mounted to a massiv knee.
So this will be a small side project for a bit of hobby marketing in my neighbourhood on friday mornings. I am planing a hull model but as she is a schooner I should really try to mast and rigg her (the sails' I may got sewn by the Ladies arround me).
I did work on the drawings with some cheap Chinese sew rulers - something may be a feature the sewing Ladies may like:
So I'll make my start in five hours as I am awoke early today I wrote here.
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