You continually impress me! Wonderfully done. Very nice pictures as well. If not for the background (not a complaint by the way) a couple of them could have passed for the real ship.
HMS Victory Mantua 1:78 (first build) by Grant Tyler
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Good morning. Thank you @dockattner ,@Daniel20 ,@Heinrich ,@Dean62 ,@Jeff T ,@Robertd ,@fj3131030 for you comments. Apologies for the late reply I have forgotten to look at my own log for a while
. Cheers Grant
. Cheers Grant
……..I have forgotten to look at my own log for a while
I go away for a few days, come back and find your log jumped forward by four pages, then I relax because I read you missed your log too
Truly excellent work Grant, it’s such a pleasure to follow your log. The rigging is a feast for the eyes and those little boats are very well done.
Good morning Roger- Thanks you. Cheers GrantI go away for a few days, come back and find your log jumped forward by four pages, then I relax because I read you missed your log too
Truly excellent work Grant, it’s such a pleasure to follow your log. The rigging is a feast for the eyes and those little boats are very well done.
Good Mark. Thanks. Hey I don’t know which rope to pull.Great work on the bowsprit Grant
With the complexity of the rigging you have to wonder how the sailors knew which rope to pull
. I often wonder with 800 crew and marines jammed into this small space how they even got these ships sailing. Some serious organization and discipline for sure. Cheers Grant
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Good morning. Had a break from rigging so made some studding booms. I had to use some kebab sticks (had a chicken kebab braai during one of our power failures so had some dowels to play with as I have no more resource left). The dowels are tapered down 3/4.
The studding sail booms are stowed to the main channel while not in use. Blue arrow.
Port fitting and the control block. This block runs to another block fitted on the wales(still to do).
At the stern of the boom there is another block for the line from the studding sail
Excuse the broken gun port lid....reminder of my cats exploits....to be repaired.
Courtesy of google: how these booms function :
There are two on the fore channel as well, however I am concerned how these will mess with my anchors, so I will wait before making the decision to add them or not.
Cheers Grant
The studding sail booms are stowed to the main channel while not in use. Blue arrow.
Port fitting and the control block. This block runs to another block fitted on the wales(still to do).
At the stern of the boom there is another block for the line from the studding sail
Excuse the broken gun port lid....reminder of my cats exploits....to be repaired.
Courtesy of google: how these booms function :
There are two on the fore channel as well, however I am concerned how these will mess with my anchors, so I will wait before making the decision to add them or not.
Cheers Grant
Added some more hammocks- as discussed in previous post these are laid inaccurately however aesthetically they look better. I really like the “look and feel” of these. When all the nettingS are full it is going to look cool
. They also cover up my sad netting job.
Cheers Grant
. They also cover up my sad netting job.Cheers Grant
Hi Grant. Looks lovely, but... As I know - the hammocks were positioned vertically. You've got another information?
Good morning Vladimir. Yes you are correct. The common thought was that they where stored vertically and folded in half. However I could not get these looking good. I went for the horizontal storage as it just looks way better. Cheers Grant
Man-O-Man, that bowsprit
…. It’s good to know you have build it up step by step. Otherwise it’s good for a lot of headach. But you show the easy way of rigging a bowsprit …….Regard, Peter
Never heard about it
I always thought they had to be rolled up perpendicular to their length, and after that you cannot fold them, as they are only 2 feet wide.
You are correct. Apologies they are not folded on the ship. Many scale models have them folded - These would be tiny to make to scale. Thomas posted good this earlier in my log :Never heard about it
I LOVE the stored boom on the wales. Such a cool detail!
The same on the Russian ships. The angle depended on the ship's rank: 60 degrees for ships and frigates, 45 degr. for briggs and 30 for schooners.
Nice detail with the studding boom storage.
Oh WOW, that's incredible work. I'm fascinated by your attention to detail.
I know also, that the hammocks were vertical or diagonal stored in the nets
Contemporary model of the Belle Poule
Contemporary Painting from Ender from 1817
an english 74-gunner represented in a contemporary model
contemp. model of HMS Phoebe
and also our @dafi made here already once a longer research for his model of the HMS Victory
In my opinion it is also looking more interesting on a model..... but this is off course subjective taste
I think somehow he described once also how he made the hammocks for his 1:100 model
Contemporary model of the Belle Poule
Contemporary Painting from Ender from 1817
an english 74-gunner represented in a contemporary model
contemp. model of HMS Phoebe
and also our @dafi made here already once a longer research for his model of the HMS Victory
In my opinion it is also looking more interesting on a model..... but this is off course subjective taste
I think somehow he described once also how he made the hammocks for his 1:100 model
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Great build, nice to see! Congratulations.
Some remarks for the hammocks: I made my ones out of plastelin. The same stuff that Doris always uses for her wonderful sculptures.
Also a hint for the stun´ sails: There were no stun´ sails on the main course as these sails were not issued any more at the times of Trafalgar. As far as I know the stun´ sail booms on the main channels are actually the ones of the fore course, just stowed there as for the anchors
XXXDAn
Some remarks for the hammocks: I made my ones out of plastelin. The same stuff that Doris always uses for her wonderful sculptures.
Also a hint for the stun´ sails: There were no stun´ sails on the main course as these sails were not issued any more at the times of Trafalgar. As far as I know the stun´ sail booms on the main channels are actually the ones of the fore course, just stowed there as for the anchors
XXXDAn