Very good work Joachim - many thanks for sharing with us your "how to do"
Great work sirCarving the portside fish makes some progress The tail of the fish will be attached separately.
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Dear JoachimI carved the decoration between the figurehead and the bowsprit. On occasion, the whole game will ne oiled and the woodwork on the bow is finished.
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Hi, I am using Birchwood for blackening. That works very well. After blackening I put a very thin oil on the canons (Birchwood Barricade).Very good metalworks on the gun carriages.
Are the muzzles already fix on the carriages incl chains etc.?
If Yes: How are you plan to make the blackening? Or will they stay in brass?
I'm sore that I read somewhere that the pillars in Victory where added in Victorian times for extra support.Interesting subject.
First of all - the bars were higher, than the guns, so no conflict directly.
but the outer seaman had problems, than he stpped pushing and moved inwards, after the the hinderance he moved back to the outer place at the bar and restarted pushing together with others (all during permanent moving the capstan
But in principle we have to have in mind, that the capstan was in work usually only during lifting of heavy loads.
f.e. in harbour - the guns near the capstan were secured parallel to the ship wall, so 90° turned and lashed alongside
or f.e. for lifting the anchors, boats or any yard arms - the same
means during the activity of using the capstans, 99,9% there was no action, where they used the guns.
f.e. on the fore jeer capstan of the HMS Victory (where I know about) - they had to remove completely all round pillars and ladders close to the capstan, otherwise it would not be possible to work - as I have in mind there were 120 seaman at one capstan in two floors in the same time working
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I have a very good photo in my copies, made by my friend @dafi showing this activity on his beautiful model of the HMS Victory, where he discussed this detail once. Maybe it is possible for Daniel to explain more in detail
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taken from:
Forum für historischen Schiffsmodellbau und Geschichte
Projektorientierte Quellensammlung und Datenbank für historischen Schiffsmodellbau und Geschichtewww.segelschiffsmodellbau.com
also the Le Fleuron had f.e. removable pillars when using the capstan (red arrows)
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and I guess thy had also to remove the ladder (green arrow)
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Leiber Joaquin, a very well job done. I must admit that I never build the kitchen in my models, as they were all made for seagoing. the kitchen was generally under the forecastle, so when wind and waves were not favorable, a wooden wall was covering the kitchen. anyway, Karl Maltze has built another extraordinary kitchen in hid Prinz Friedrich.In the meantime all canons of the second Canon deck are in place and I find time for other fittings. So I build the oven, so that the sailors can get warm meals and drinks. It has a metal roof with two metallic chimneys (built with the lathe) and a lot of metal things inside.
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