Jaureguiberry (1897) French Predreadnought

Bluemaxone · Wednesday at 9:50 AM

If you are looking for exotic ship designs, this thread should satisfy you. An extreme design in the French turn-of-the- century floating hotels tradition, the Jaureguiberry features extreme "tumblehome" and multitudes of tiny dormer windows. In fact, it looks like a floating college dormitory!

I started this model some time ago and so will post progress as if current day. Currently the model is in the rigging stage. It is 1:160 scale.

Bluemaxone · Wednesday at 9:57 AM

Figuring out the geometry of the superstructure was a bit tricky. The profile lines of the decks jagged around somewhat. I only had the color drawing from a battleship book and a rudimentary plan to go by.

Bluemaxone · Wednesday at 9:59 AM

I had to carve holes to the dormer windows in the bottom so light would show through. This is a lighted model.

Bluemaxone · Wednesday at 10:06 AM

Basic layout (my favorite step in conceiving a model) and roughing out...

Bluemaxone · Wednesday at 10:13 AM

Change of pace from working the hull...making boats. I use a vacuum forming machine using styrene. It's not ideal but is fast.

richie incident · Wednesday at 10:22 AM

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Bluemaxone · Wednesday at 11:00 AM

Very nice plans. I realize I did have rudimentary plans. Yours are better. How long does it take to receive such plans from the French admiralty? Or is there a downloadable version online?

Roger Pellett · Wednesday at 11:50 AM

Vacuum formed boats: That’s a great way for forming small scale boats. I found that it works better to form a pair of half hulls. The unformed plastic around the edges provides the keel and stem and acts as a little flange for the glue. I also add the transom separately.

An interesting subject, well off the beaten path. Nice work!

Roger

richie incident · Wednesday at 11:58 AM

Bluemaxone said:
Very nice plans. I realize I did have rudimentary plans. Yours are better. How long does it take to receive such plans from the French admiralty? Or is there a downloadable version online?

You can download many French ships here.

Index of /French Warship Plans/Jaureguiberry_1893

Bluemaxone · Wednesday at 12:36 PM

Roger Pellett said:
Vacuum formed boats: That’s a great way for forming small scale boats. I found that it works better to form a pair of half hulls. The unformed plastic around the edges provides the keel and stem and acts as a little flange for the glue. I also add the transom separately.

An interesting subject, well off the beaten path. Nice work!

Roger

Good idea! Thank you, Roger.

Bluemaxone · Wednesday at 1:51 PM

Making up the dormer portholes...

I struggled for a couple of weeks trying to figure out how to make these efficiently. I decided upon making a pattern in wood and then vacuum forming the resulting portholes. Each one has a little dormer roof, in a peak shape. These were very tricky to install because the holes had to be large enough to accept the dormer shape, and they appear in the most extreme part of the tumblehome, and so alignment suffered a little. I don't know how to make it an easier process. As it is, it certainly is unique. I may add tiny roof pieces on the top of the dormers at some future date.

These had to be made out of clear styrene so the lights would show through. Each dormer had to have a hole drilled through the hull so the light could shine through.

The dormers were the hardest problem to solve for this model.

Bluemaxone · Wednesday at 1:59 PM

Getting the base chipped and milled out to decrease hull thickness...for getting light out.

Bluemaxone · Wednesday at 2:06 PM

Adding the superstructure, guns (wood backed vacuum formed), stacks, masts, cranes, and other details...tedious work.

Bluemaxone · Wednesday at 2:12 PM

Historical photos of the ship:

Bluemaxone · Wednesday at 5:07 PM

I plan to resume the build after Thanksgiving. I need to add boats, rails, rigging, firm up the lighting circuit and some other details before she is completed. Please stand by for now.

Kilo66 · Saturday at 11:55 AM

I too love the Gallic quirkiness of the Frankish floating castle pre-dreadnoughts. Here's what I believe may be a rather more substantially sized (and thus easier to work with) presentation of your subject in 3D-P polymer resin. Alas, I am not certain of the identity of the model shipwright / technician responsible but he deserves all the accolades we can muster...as do you, shipmate.

Kilo66 · Saturday at 12:06 PM

For your amusement, here's a charming satirical (but wonderfully accurate) drawing of the French floating castle fleet under way, originally published in a contemporary edition of London's Puck magazine.

Bluemaxone · Saturday at 4:22 PM

Kilo, I thank you for my parity in your eyes as "shipmate." Here we all have a love of ships in common, and I am sure if we crewed a battleship like the one above, we would have her shipshape and ready to go to sea in no time!

It is my first French predreadnought, and although quirky and extreme, there is a lot of functionality to the ship design as I get more into building her. Someone posted a model last year of a Jules Verne fantasy ship, and one can see some similarity with Jauregueberry and other French designs I love the steampunk aspect, but the "real article" has a noble austerity of itself.

The Puck caricature is a lot of fun, thanks for posting it!