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HMS AGAMEMNON 1781 from scratch - scale 1/75

William1961 said:
Hi gays,
Thanks for you comments.
Now guns on upper gun decks are 100 % completed. Next step is fixing the quarter decks and starting the construction and installation of guns on it (9 pounders on scale 1/75).
Exciting work !!

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Hello, a beautiful boat so far and fantastic work, looks very nice! I see the Norske Løve among the boats already built. I'm also building this boat; it's the first one I'm building! You can see it in my build log by Noël Luc. Do you perhaps have some photos of your Norske Løve? I could probably learn something from them! I hope to hear from you! Best regards
 
Hi William.
Gorgeous workmanship!

A question, hope you don't mind. There are holes in the rail at the forecastle between the timber heads (I assume for belaying pins) and sheaves in each of the timberheads. I had never seen this before on the forecastle rail and am curious as to which lines would go to the 18 pins and 16 sheaves. I keep looking but cannot find anything like this, so far. It makes sense, but I would love to find more details if you have anything you can share. THANK YOU. :)

A point of interest, and may not apply to Agamemnon. The drawing of her sister ship Ardent 1764 has ladders penciled in the original plans going from the upper deck to the forecastle. I wonder if this would have been added to Agamemnon as well, as she was an Ardent class ship and came later. The inboard profile drawing ZAZ1280 at RMG shows these ladders as well. It is hard to see, but the high resolution version on the Wiki site shows it clearly.

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Hi Allan,
Thanks for your remark / question..
One of my source of documentation are the detailled pictures of a model HMS AGAMEMNON built by Mr Malcolm Darch (Devon, UK). I've contacted him last year asking him to document me as much as possible.
During his research work, that took him 8 months, he met the National Maritim Museum staff, National Archives and Chatham staff. He met also the Archivist of the Buckler's hard Museum.
I want to say that I am confident in his research work. His model is the result.
The picture below shows the belaying pins and sheaves. On other museum's model pictures (Ardent class), I saw quite a lot of ropes coming from the mast to the timber head and belfry rails which makes me say that there are belaying pins...
Do not esitate ...
William

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William1961 said:
One of my source of documentation are the detailled pictures of a model HMS AGAMEMNON built by Mr Malcolm Darch (Devon, UK). I've contacted him last year asking him to document me as much as possible.
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That is a fantastic story on how much we can all learn from researching and discussing with others that have dived into the minutiae. I wish I had known about Mr. Darch while researching Euryalus which was also built at Buckler's Hard. Finding someone that has done the research and is happy to share is a wonderful thing.

Can you give any more details on the painting you posted? The Ardent class has long been of interest to me and I would love to learn more.

THANK YOU for your response, it is greatly appreciated.

Allan
 
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