HMS GRANADO - full hull - POF kit by CAF in 1:48 - by Uwe

[tedboat]

Excellent work Uwe!
I'm still installing beam clamps and making the riders - also waiting for the shoe tacks to arrive. Couldn't find any in the UK, have had to order from Slovenia!
Your work is an inspiration for me to keep going.

Ted

 

[Herman]

Beautiful work Uwe.
I like this sturdy vessel.
And with a nice Clou shine over it and beautiful nailing.

 

[AnobiumPunctatum]

I hope you have not glued the parts together until now. On the top of the deck beams you have to cut the round edges from the CNC perpendicular so that the further parts fits correctly. The same thing happend at the bottom (at the top I could not see) of the pillars.

 

[shota70]

Dear Uwek
you are doing amazing work on the ship, the racks with the balls / shells looks great and accurate

 

[Uwek]

I hope you have not glued the parts together until now. On the top of the deck beams you have to cut the round edges from the CNC perpendicular so that the further parts fits correctly. The same thing happend at the bottom (at the top I could not see) of the pillars.

Hallo Christian,
many thanks for the hint and comment
- Yes - the round edges (caused by cnc-milling) have to be made rectangel before the final fixing.
Otherwise it will muach more complicated......
and in the meantime it is done - the photo from yesterday was still dry fitting
The next photos will follow soon

 

[Uwek]

After finishing the shell racks I made dry fit on top of the dry-fitted riders in order to check the height of the mortar bed beams

The fore mortar beams were laying very good on the racks







but on the aft mortar beams I had a gap of 1,5 to 2mm between the racks and the beams -> so the clamps are here slightly to high installed



To adjust this difference I removed some "meat" of 2mm at the clamps to bring the beams down



now it was better

On the top of the deck beams you have to cut the round edges from the CNC perpendicular so that the further parts fits correctly. The same thing happend at the bottom (at the top I could not see) of the pillars.

These are f.e. the small edges which have to make rectangular










Everything is still dry fitted and not fixed

Many Thanks for your interest in my building log .... to be continued .....

 

[AnobiumPunctatum]

Uwe, if you have a a small mill (for example Proxxon) you can remove the small edges and accurate very easy. I find it sometoimes difficult to do this with a chissel.
Your model looks really nice. I hope we can compare our bomb vessels in the future in Augsburg.

 

[Mozartman]

Doing the full kit myself but love the detail. The details representing the bolts for the frames etc look amazing, that may well be above my level. will keep watching everybodys posts to give me the help & hints I am going to need.

 

[Nomad]

After finishing the shell racks I made dry fit on top of the dry-fitted riders in order to check the height of the mortar bed beams
The fore mortar beams were laying very good on the racks
but on the aft mortar beams I had a gap of 1,5 to 2mm between the racks and the beams -> so the clamps are here slightly to high installed
To adjust this difference I removed some "meat" of 2mm at the clamps to bring the beams down
now it was better
These are f.e. the small edges which have to make rectangular
Everything is still dry fitted and not fixed
Many Thanks for your interest in my building log .... to be continued .....

Very nice work Uwe, your build is a joy to follow

 

[Uwek]

Uwe, if you have a a small mill (for example Proxxon) you can remove the small edges and accurate very easy. I find it sometoimes difficult to do this with a chissel.
Your model looks really nice. I hope we can compare our bomb vessels in the future in Augsburg.

I tried this also with the mill, but I realized, that with a sharp scalpel and the use of my Pfeil-needle files it is getting much faster in an acceptable accuracy - moct of them are not visible at the end

 

[Uwek]

...... that may well be above my level

step by step you will add more details - try, and you will see soon, that all these are easily possible - there is only some patience and time necessary

will keep watching everybodys posts to give me the help & hints I am going to need.

because of this we are doing more detailed building logs - we all can learn every day something new, with reading logs made by other modeling friends

 

[Uwek]

some smaller works with the knees (I forgot the correct term for these elements - something with "s")





still not finaly fixed, only dry fitted - I tried to locate the "bolts" on top of the framing



Many Thanks for your interest .... to be continued ....

 

[pianoforte]

Your Kees and the square bolts look really great. Fantastic work.

 

[Jimsky]

some smaller works with the knees (I forgot the correct term for these elements - something with "s")

Hello, mon ami. These knees are called Breast hooks (Russian брештук)
. Breast Hook: 'Bow-shaped' timbers used to strengthen the bows of a ship, positioned horizontally at different heights across the stem. On larger vessels, a breast hook would be located below each deck and the deck planking would be supported by and rabbeted onto this timber.

BTW very good job on those breast hooks. You, Granado, get Uwe's signature as the unique build.

 

[Maarten]

Nice work Uwe. Still have to order some of these Schumacher nails these look beautifull.

 

[Uwek]

Hello, mon ami. These knees are called Breast hooks (Russian брештук)
. Breast Hook: 'Bow-shaped' timbers used to strengthen the bows of a ship, positioned horizontally at different heights across the stem. On larger vessels, a breast hook would be located below each deck and the deck planking would be supported by and rabbeted onto this timber.

BTW very good job on those breast hooks. You, Granado, get Uwe's signature as the unique build.

Yes - correct - and many thanks for the correct term and the definition

Here the excerpt from the Goodwin book showing the longitudinal section



interesting is the fact, that the terms for similar parts at the stern have a different term



the knees on top of the keelson (blue arrow) #74 is named "sternson knee"
and the half bracing beams (green arrows) #45 are called "sleepers"



sternson knee and sleepers are one of the next tasks .....

 

[Kurt Konrath]

So many similar parts all doing the same thing but with different names, how to we remember them all....

 

[Don Case]

It's interesting that now things are more or less named after their function. Back then, not so much. Lord knows how a lot of this stuff was named.

 

[Uwek]

Hallo Don and Kurt - I agree fully, that it is often hard to remember the correct english terms.
One idea would be to start a special topic with sketches and explanation of ship elements - and off course the correct english terms.
Often POF or POB are not known......
=> a task for the future, but I think an important help for all / a lot of members

 

[Uwek]

the next step was the preparation of the "sleepers" and the "sternson knee" (see my post #296)

here you can see on the top left a prepared sleeper, the other parts are still "original kit content"



and the same parts from the other side



and now all elements sanded to the final form






and off course such heavy timber elements were fixed to the frame structure of the ship with (shoemaker)bolts



all element fixed (some rests of glue have to be still removed)



the view along the keelson towards the stern





Many Thanks for your interest .... to be continued