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HMS Enterprise 1774 POF 1:48.

GrantTyler said:
Good morning gentlemen. Plenty of fun with some sketchy outcomes. I thinned down the darker/redder cherry stain and did my inside thin stuff and gunports.

I like the overall effect however my hand drilled treenails into my veneer cover up did not produce the neat results I wanted. Luckily you don’t see most of these……whew.

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I oiled the parts of the gunports I did not want the darker colour first and then applied the stain. The stain doesn’t stick to the oil so I could wipe it off with an earbud. The redder ports look cool. Super cool treenails on outside- dremel and proper wood make for better nails :D .
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……and some more cannon:
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I cannot wait to rig these….so excited ROTF.
Cheers from a chilly Melkbosstrand.
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HI Grant, lovely work, the tone of the wood looks really nice and certainly sets the model off.

Looking forward to seeing all the cannons on the deck (fortunately, you only have to rig the cannons on this model!)

Dom
 
sevish said:
Looking really great Grant , beautiful work!
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DomCee said:
HI Grant, lovely work, the tone of the wood looks really nice and certainly sets the model off.

Looking forward to seeing all the cannons on the deck (fortunately, you only have to rig the cannons on this model!)

Dom
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Thank you Guy and Dom. Dom, I do have to spend many hours with tiny blocks and hooks rigging the cannons. Not my favourite task, however there are many other things to make as I go- so should be fun.
Cheers Grant
 
Very nice, Grant! It also looks like you're cleaning up a few things along the way.

I have some cherry wood splines in my timber frame house - treated only with hard finishing oil - and they do look quite dark after time. In my case it creates a nice contrast with the Douglas Fir beams, but I'm not sure it is complimentary to the framing details of a small model. I'd say: embrace the look and make it the thematic scheme for the rest of the build. Cheers.
 
Just wow on your planking and treenails!

The joints around the grate and mast coamings are superb!

I think you literally "hit the nail on the head" for the amount of space you are leaving unplanked! It really shows off the construction details!!

The contrasting woods are IMHO perfect. Dark aged structural members are highlighted by the freshly scrubbed and holystoned decks!!

Thanks for sharing!
 
Peter Voogt said:
ust like with a dog, a post starts to resemble his master. :rolleyes:ROTF
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True story Peter ROTF .
DomCee said:
That's a lot of tree nails! Lovely work, and yes, just kidding about only having to rig the cannons, I know how time consuming it is to get the ropes just right, a lot of very very fiddly work with tweezers and magnifiers needed.

Dom
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Thank you Dom. I like the deck nails. Subtle but easily seen- looks better with these than camera sections.
dockattner said:
Very nice, Grant! It also looks like you're cleaning up a few things along the way.

I have some cherry wood splines in my timber frame house - treated only with hard finishing oil - and they do look quite dark after time. In my case it creates a nice contrast with the Douglas Fir beams, but I'm not sure it is complimentary to the framing details of a small model. I'd say: embrace the look and make it the thematic scheme for the rest of the build. Cheers.
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Thanks Paul. I’m with you here. My plan is to use the cherry to get a contemporary feel/look…. Well Grants version thereof;). I won’t build another Cherry ship however I’m having fun and feeling good about her now. I am busy cleaning up, sanding and prepping the whole ship now before I continue. I’ve also decided to move away from linseed oil which while brings out the grain and colour more it tends to make it dark. And dust sticks to it madly. Going back to poly to seal . Cheers Grant
 
BradNSW said:
Just wow on your planking and treenails!

The joints around the grate and mast coamings are superb!

I think you literally "hit the nail on the head" for the amount of space you are leaving unplanked! It really shows off the construction details!!

The contrasting woods are IMHO perfect. Dark aged structural members are highlighted by the freshly scrubbed and holystoned decks!!

Thanks for sharing!
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Thank you very much Brad. With ship I have needed plenty encouragement as I have struggled a tad. Having plenty fun tho. As I’m doing the final sanding and cleaning up it is becoming more of the build I wanted to achieve so feeling pretty good at the moment. Cheers Grant
 
AllanKP69 said:
I really like the subtlety of the spike covers/treenails on the deck planking. Less is more in this case, nicely done.
Allan
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Good morning Allan. Thank you for this. I was lucky with the maple spike covers as the crosscut did not darken much. I definitely got the look I wanted. The cherry, not so much as these darken a little too much. Live and learn ROTF. That being said I am very happy how it is starting to come together. Cheers Grant
 
It is great to see the rounded corners of the head ledges and coamings, especially leaving them square at the bottom portion to match up squarely with the deck planks. I have no idea the answer but did the coamings sometimes sit on the head ledges at the openings in the deck? I have only seen the head ledges resting on the coamings, and one contemporary model at Preble Hall with mitered joints (which I think was just the model maker's method, not how they were actually built) This is obviously a minor thing that few would even notice one way or the other, but I am curious to know if there was ever a standard method on how they were constructed. The drawing below is based on information and drawings in Goodwin's The Construction and Fitting of the English Man of War and Antscherl's The Fully Framed Model, volume II.
Allan
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