HMS Royal Caroline kit ZHL 1/30

Maarten said:
By is the way vasa is not allowed onboard but the museum is fantastic.
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oh, I thought that they started to allow visitors to get on board...
Yes, the museum is great. But I had big troubles with them as they had great audio stories recorded, but did not want to put on my free audio guide platform (which is 15 minutes of work). Instead they kept them on the web site and suggested visitors to download and play them as MP3 files. Sometimes museums drive you crazy.
 
Last week I finished my work on the securing of the anchor cables. All stoppers are finished and fitted, 12 in total.
The hawser holes for the anchors not in service were clogged to avoid additional water on deck.
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To simulate this I prepared small pieces of viscose cloth, rolled up with PVA glue.
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And tied around the anchor cable with rope followed by fitting them into the hawser holes.
To water tighten them I smeared them with stockholm tar dilluted with Turpentine and a droplet of siccative to dry the stockholmer tar.
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The beautiful thing of the use stockholmer tar is that your model also smells like a real ship of the time, except of course the smell of the 17th century crew, luckily.

In my layout the PS Bower anchor is ready to drop, it is belayed on the bitt and fitted to the bitt stoppers with some 12 mtrs of anchor cable slack on the side. The SB best bower is fitted to the messenger cable and hauled by the capstan.
The two smaller anchors will be fixed at the channels with the cable fitted and the hawser holes plugged. The cables are fixed to the deck stoppers.
See below the finished cables fitted to their stopper and the messenger.
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Next time back to wood working
 
Maarten said:
Hi Alex, in the kit they are all te same size but this is incorrect. I will modify 3 of them.

By is the way vasa is not allowed onboard but the museum is fantastic.
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G'day again Maarten, do you have any link to any information about how many anchors the Royal Caroline had, and how they were rigged, I'm getting conflicting references,

best regards John.
 
neptune said:
G'day again Maarten, do you have any link to any information about how many anchors the Royal Caroline had, and how they were rigged, I'm getting conflicting references,

best regards John.
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Hi John,

Most of my sources are 17th century. What I could find on the Royal Caroline is that all 4 anchors were the same or two different sizes.
See below text about the anchors in the aots book.
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In the drawing of the aots book they draw two different size anchors a one ton anchor and a 3/4 ton anchor. See the drawing below.
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This is the road I take, two different size of anchors.
On the place of the anchors there is also a lot of contradiction to find. In the aots book the say the lighter anchors were stored on the cat head with the bowers on the gun wales. Other sources tell the bowers were always ready to use with the lighter anchors on the gun wales. The latter is the approuch I will follow.
 
Maarten said:
Hi John,

Most of my sources are 17th century. What I could find on the Royal Caroline is that all 4 anchors were the same or two different sizes.
See below text about the anchors in the aots book.
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In the drawing of the aots book they draw two different size anchors a one ton anchor and a 3/4 ton anchor. See the drawing below.
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This is the road I take, two different size of anchors.
On the place of the anchors there is also a lot of contradiction to find. In the aots book the say the lighter anchors were stored on the cat head with the bowers on the gun wales. Other sources tell the bowers were always ready to use with the lighter anchors on the gun wales. The latter is the approuch I will follow.
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Thank you Maarten, for the quick reply, I think that I will keep all four the same size, I know when I built the HMS Investigator she had two of the largest anchors ready for use and another two slightly smaller lashed to the channels, and also a much smaller one lashed to the main channels, I will rig the cables to the two at the cat heads, but leave the others without there cables, makes it easier for me and members can see two different ways,
Best regards John,
 
Thx gents for your comments.
I am still working on the focsle to finalize everything there so I can fit the beams, bullwark and deck planking.
So this evening I made the mast step in the main deck for the forward and main mast.
In the kit lasered rings are supplied. I turned these on the lathe to give them a smaller outside diameter and some tapering on top.
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To simulate the individual pieces I first draw a template on a piece of wood and with 2 droplets of ca glued it on top.
With a knive I then cut the lines following the template to simulate the individual blocks.
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The cuts I fill with pencil before sanding it with steel wool and oil it.
Below all 3 stages together with the double blocks for the gun carriage.
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And fitted the fwd mast ring in place
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Some time ago I already prepared the windlass booms
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To store these I made some brackets of 0.8 mm brass wire, bend and hammered into shape followed by burnishing them black.
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The brackets I fitted into the deck beams, identical on the ps and sb side.
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Just to store the booms properly when finished working with the windlass.
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A view over the deck into the focksle.
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And with the windlass booms in storage place.
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The finishing around the bowsprit will be fitted when placing the bowsprit in a later stage.
 
Maarten said:
Thx gents for your comments.
I am still working on the focsle to finalize everything there so I can fit the beams, bullwark and deck planking.
So this evening I made the mast step in the main deck for the forward and main mast.
In the kit lasered rings are supplied. I turned these on the lathe to give them a smaller outside diameter and some tapering on top.
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To simulate the individual pieces I first draw a template on a piece of wood and with 2 droplets of ca glued it on top.
With a knive I then cut the lines following the template to simulate the individual blocks.
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The cuts I fill with pencil before sanding it with steel wool and oil it.
Below all 3 stages together with the double blocks for the gun carriage.
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And fitted the fwd mast ring in place
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Some time ago I already prepared the windlass booms
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To store these I made some brackets of 0.8 mm brass wire, bend and hammered into shape followed by burnishing them black.
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The brackets I fitted into the deck beams, identical on the ps and sb side.
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Just to store the booms properly when finished working with the windlass.
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A view over the deck into the focksle.
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And with the windlass booms in storage place.
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The finishing around the bowsprit will be fitted when placing the bowsprit in a later stage.
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Fantastic details Maarten, you are an inspiration and an incredible modeller,

Best regards John,

PS I can't wait to see all these details on my PC,
 
Incredible work Maarten. The mast step is such a small little detail, but the effect once installed, is big! Great lesson to take your time and do what you do perfectly. Beautiful!
 
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