Duke of York 1836, 1/96 scale built by neptune

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Captain Robert Morgan was appointed Master of the Duke of York, owned by the South Australia Company,
The vessel was to take company personnel and settlers to Kangaroo Island, and then go whaling in the Pacific.
Morgan joined the departing Duke of York at Gravesend on 25 February 1836. She brought the first settlers
to Kangaroo Island,


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The model as you can see is carved from a Jelutong, a wood that is easy to carve and shape, these are the
two blocks that I carved her from,


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The inside view of the two blocks cut to shape,



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and the outside view,


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and a couple of views with the plans,

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Carving the hulls to shape, you can see the templates that I made and used to get the correct shape,
also where I marked on the hull the positions for the templates,


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The hull sections after carving and I have added the Stem, Keel and stern post, the top of the bulwarks has to
be shaped yet,


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another view,

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looking down on the deck, the thickness of the bulwarks have been roughly marked in,


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Starting to carve down the the deck level,


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After removing the excess wood I glued and pinned a thin strip of wood to the deck to give the false ply deck
some camber, the sub deck was a piece of .6mm marine plywood,


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view from the stern,



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and with the deck glued in place,

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for a little bit of a change I decided to make the masts etc, with the masts being small I decided to make the
tops for the top masts out of brass for extra strength,


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and after cutting to size,


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a view of them being fitted together, all the masts and yards I turned on my Sherline Lathe,


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masts and bowsprit etc,


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and a view from below,



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and the masts, bowsprit sitting over the plans,

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Turning down a piece of wood to make the windlass, I turned the overall length with a bit in the tool post,



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Then for the rest of the shape I turned it by hand and finished with sand paper,


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the finished shape,


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then I marked the barrel and drilled the holes with a small drill,


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after drilling the holes,


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and the windlass assembled, I used a small cog from a cigarette lighter in the centre, pic shows where it will
sit on the plan,


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and a close up view,

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The ship had only a small bust for a figure head, and as I have said before I am no good at carving, so I had a look
in my slop's chest to see what i could find and I came up with a small figure and I cut off the head,


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I trimmed it square below the head to match the timber it would be glued to, I also drilled right through the head
for it to fit a piece of copper wire that would hold it in place,


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the head attached just have cut the copper wire,


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and after a little bit of a clean up,


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and a couple of views of the figure head and the capping rails in place,


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I had to make three sets of davits, and I choose to laminate three strips of wood to make each one,


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I cut a former out of some pine wood and glued three strips together and clamped them in the former
with some kitchen plastic wrap on the former parts so the davits would not stick to the former,

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the finished davits after cutting to size and drilling the sheave holes, also the front piece of grating
and the ships wheel,


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side view of the attached davits,


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overhead view,


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the back pair of davits,


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Port side view showing both sets of davits in place, I have started to paint the model, I decided to just
paint the underwater hull copper because of the small scale,

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Carving the hulls to shape, you can see the templates that I made and used to get the correct shape,
also where I marked on the hull the positions for the templates,
Oh, John..., you make my day! This reminds me of my childhood, where I went to the shipbuilding club (in school) and made first modells. Those were submarines, and I probably build more than a dozen. The process was exactly using those templates to shape the hull. BTW, she is coming along nicely! Great job!
 
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