french 64-gunner LE FLEURON in scale 1:48 by Joachim

[El Capi]

Dear Joachim
I have been sitting and reading your blog for about an hour, and I must tell you that it has been a delightful experience to read and see your excellent building abilities especially in a very complex model.
The results you present are simply beautiful and make me continue to follow your work with great interest and curiosity.
Thank you! I have learned and I am sure I will learn a lot from you

agree totally

First of all - looking very good - and good to see your stern structure really during the construction
I like also you very fragile looking windows - how did you make them? Like gratings but with much bigger space in between?


Hallo Rich,
when such a ship of the line was sailing in normal waters, means without "ready for action" the gun port lids were all closed, on every deck and the guns were secured inside the ship.
Only with "ready for action" and shortly before the first shots, the lids were opened and the guns moved out for the shots. Sometimes during action the lowest gun deck was not usable, due to the fact, that the ship was tilted by the wind, so the downwind-side was definitely closed. So , sometimes a twodecker was only effective like a frigate....

you are right Uwe, but everybody- even the dummy guns - loke to see. some -for ventilation in good weather withoutvwawesseq cut open op a few. the one on the lower deck was always closed as it was nearly tough the sea, so only a big wave would rush in with a very fatal ending. Depending on the Wind side coming from one side, one side good nearly at sea level. where the other side was opposite

 

[El Capi]

Now color comes back into the game. The transom of the largest war ships is vermilion, including the Fleuron. I had painted my first wooden ship, the Wasa, in blue. In Stockholm the models of the Wasa episodes are in bright red, I left mine in blue. But don't worry, much of the red will fade into the background behind the lovely boxwood decorations. As you enter, the wood impression comes back and the warm red of the background will highlight the light boxwood beautifully. I won't paint the figures either. (That will certainly be the case in the original.) Two balconies under the own window gallery are also new. The supports are also made of boxwood and swing in all directions, just like war in the baroque era. I'm anxious about your said.

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cannot be much better

 

[El Capi]

Now the coat of arms with wings and crown in the middle of the balcony is done.

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agree. it is a person who is not only like building but has a love affair with the wood, and it treatment

 

[El Capi]

agree. it is a person who is not only like building but has a love affair with the wood, and it treatment

Dear Joachim
I have been sitting and reading your blog for about an hour, and I must tell you that it has been a delightful experience to read and see your excellent building abilities especially in a very complex model.
The results you present are simply beautiful and make me continue to follow your work with great interest and curiosity.
Thank you! I have learned and I am sure I will learn a lot from you thumbs up.
I have copied more than 100 Images -there are others over my level. It is a simple way you use bt cutting, sawing osv of the Wood. In my family, 100 years back nearly until today: 80% ships, seamen, sailors and 20 )un my father's site ) carpenter and timbers S WELL MY LITTLE BROTHER. WE had in 40·Th and 6Th a big WORKSHOP with tools available at that time except for a Lathe-Dreebebk)

 

[Joachim]

Thank you for following the building of my ship. Since I can sharpen all my carving tools properly, carving is more and more fun. I use in the meantime less my Proxxon micro drill with milling heads. The work on both rear side pockets continued this week. You can now better and better guess what they will ultimately look like.

 

[El Capi]

Thank you for following the building of my ship. Since I can sharpen all my carving tools properly, carving is more and more fun. I use in the meantime less my Proxxon micro drill with milling heads. The work on both rear side pockets continued this week. You can now better and better guess what they will ultimately look like.

Excellent work, apart from something which not being seen very often. It is well known, that Southern Germany and Austria are very much into carving wood, although on a bigger scale. With the right tools, they transform a piece of wood into a marvellous fig as the wood is of butter

 

[El Capi]

Excellent work, apart from something which not being seen very often. It is well known, that Southern Germany and Austria are very much into carving wood, although on a bigger scale. With the right tools, they transform a piece of wood into a marvellous fig as the wood is of butter

I will attach a Naked Female fig carved in Wood. Hard to believe if its a carving

 

[Joachim]

It almost looks too good to be real, is it CNC Carving?

Now I have noticed that the small window is not right-angled like the other windows, but "crooked". No problem, when I get the chance, I'll move it a few millimeters towards the stern. Then the next decorations will also fit.

 

[Maarten]

Hi Joachim,

I had some catching up to do in your blog but what a beautifull progress you made. Wonderful work and an inspiration to build this vessel in the future.

 

[Joachim]

I finished the decorations (plants) around the top windows of the two side pockets and on the starboard side there is another fish. I show you the steps of carving the fish. First of all, I exposed the back ridge with carving knives. Then I released the mouth. After that I carved the contours of the eyes with carved tubes. After a lot of fine-tuning and after a half day the fish is fixed at the ship.

 

[dockattner]

I finished the decorations (plants) around the top windows of the two side pockets and on the starboard side there is another fish. I show you the steps of carving the fish. First of all, I exposed the back ridge with carving knives. Then I released the mouth. After that I carved the contours of the eyes with carved tubes. After a lot of fine-tuning and after a half day the fish is fixed at the ship.

Hello Joachim. Your work is amazing. It hurts my brain when I think about the fact that you and I are engaged in the same hobby.

 

[Steef66]

very nice catfish

 

[Joachim]

Some more impressions

 

[shota70]

Some more impressions

it's looks so beautiful

 

[El Capi]

SPITZE, BEUTIFULL. MEGET SMUK

 

[Uwek]

It seems, that the work on the decorations are not ending - but I guess you already the light at the end of the tunnel
Your stern is looking great

 

[Joachim]

Half a year work at the stern since Dec 2020 I didn’t think, that I would need such a long time for the decorations. But there are „hundreds of pieces“

 

[Maarten]

Very nice work again Joachim. Love it.

 

[shota70]

Half a year work at the stern since Dec 2020 I didn’t think, that I would need such a long time for the decorations. But there are „hundreds of pieces“View attachment 238737View attachment 238738

amazing work, well done

 

[Uwek]

Half a year work at the stern since Dec 2020 I didn’t think, that I would need such a long time for the decorations. But there are „hundreds of pieces“

Like I wrote "..... there is light....."
but when we see the result, every day working in this stern was worth to do it