Some modelers have been touched with the Magic Wand of Creativity. You are one of those !!!
Thank you for showing how you do those creations!!!
Cheers
Daniel
La Belle - Caf Model 1:48 by Thomas Marocke [COMPLETED BUILD]
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Some modelers have been touched with the Magic Wand of Creativity. You are one of those !!!
Thank you for showing how you do those creations!!!
Cheers
Daniel
Thanks for the likes and comments!
Like many modellers I did not learn a profession for wood and metal working. I come from the printing industry. Model making has always been my relaxation and pleasure since childhood. After the first models on my mother's kitchen table, the first machines followed much later for relief and because of the greater accuracy. I had teach myself how to operate them professionally.
Today, when I make something with machine help, I like to think back to the time when I didn't have any machines. As in the past, I sometimes think for a long time - how can I build it? And then I come up with lots of ideas.
I wish everyone a successful modelling!
With best regards
Thomas
Like many modellers I did not learn a profession for wood and metal working. I come from the printing industry. Model making has always been my relaxation and pleasure since childhood. After the first models on my mother's kitchen table, the first machines followed much later for relief and because of the greater accuracy. I had teach myself how to operate them professionally.
Today, when I make something with machine help, I like to think back to the time when I didn't have any machines. As in the past, I sometimes think for a long time - how can I build it? And then I come up with lots of ideas.
I wish everyone a successful modelling!
With best regards
Thomas
Your pot is looking very good - very good work 
After the pots were ready, the stove had to be build. The first woodwork. As always with spacers and auxiliary woods for the right angles.
On the bottom right you can see the smallest brick I could find. Unfortunately much too big. In Bernard Frolich's book "The art of shipmodeling", page 122, is discribed how he imitates the stones from plaster. I still had plaster repair putty from renovation work.
First make a field with a removable border, 1,5 mm high, and foil.
The plaster is poured and must harden for 24 hours.
Work a little away from it all, because now it's getting a bit sandy. With the fretsaw the parts can now be sawn out and the stones imitated with a scalpel. At the first try there is scrap as shown in the middle of the picture. The successful parts are painted with acrylic paint - sand, sandstone or umbra.
Soldering aid for the ofen grate.
Still attach all fittings.
It may be cooked. And the brass cooking pot does not look so bad.
Building with such thin plaster took nerves, but was also a lot of fun.
With best regards
Thomas
Wow, that is incredible. You have a lot more patience than I do.
Jan
Jan
That's it.
Fantastic work Thomas.
Astonishing workmanship, a pure art.
Hallo Thomas,
very good detail of the oven - very good executed
For everybody interested we have also an excerpt of the Jean Boudriot drawings about this oven..... if you want to take a look:
very good detail of the oven - very good executed
For everybody interested we have also an excerpt of the Jean Boudriot drawings about this oven..... if you want to take a look:
Stove, galley, oven, firehearth, chimney - tech. details and development over time at different navies
Friends, we know a lot about armament of the ships we are building, we can find a lot of information about framing, stern construction and also admirals and royal stores. But there are two subjects were not much information are avaiilable......sanitary and cooking In one of our last posts we...
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New construction and installation of the capstan.
This is what the split deck of the kit looks with the capstan delivered.
Because I build the facilities from pear wood, the capstan had to be rebuilt as well. Unfortunately the bitts don't fit past the carlings
They have to be attached to the deck beams.
The new capstan below is made of pear wood and slightly wider (2 mm = 9,6 cm in the original).
Recess in the deck.
Now, woods are used again to align the bitts exactly. I don't want to rely on my eyes alone.
The bitts are already in place.
Another small deck timber under the bitt of the port side.
And that's it.
I wish everyone a wonderful Christmas season!!!
With best regards
Thomas
This is what the split deck of the kit looks with the capstan delivered.
Because I build the facilities from pear wood, the capstan had to be rebuilt as well. Unfortunately the bitts don't fit past the carlings
They have to be attached to the deck beams.
The new capstan below is made of pear wood and slightly wider (2 mm = 9,6 cm in the original).
Recess in the deck.
Now, woods are used again to align the bitts exactly. I don't want to rely on my eyes alone.
The bitts are already in place.
Another small deck timber under the bitt of the port side.
And that's it.
I wish everyone a wonderful Christmas season!!!
With best regards
Thomas
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At the end of the year I would like to thank "CAF" and "Ancre" for this beautiful kit and the plan documents. And of course to "SOS" and its members and operators for the wonderful reports.
Thomas
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A fine looking model, Merry Christmas
Happy holidays, Thomas! A great way to end the year.
Very good work my friend - very good
Also to you:
Frohe Weihnachten
Also to you:
Frohe Weihnachten