La Créole 1827 by archjofo - Scale 1/48 - French corvette

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Witaj Mirek,
dziękuję za nieustające zainteresowanie i pochwały.
 
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Thank you for your interest and the nice comments,
and thank you all for the LIKES.

Topsail-halyard traveller – Gouvernail de drisse
There was something else, wasn't there?

I have now made the missing 5 topsail-halyard travelers out of brass to complete the set.

To produce the guide rings required for this with a diameter of 1.5 mm (incorrectly indicated in the drawing as 1.2 mm) and with a bore of 0.8 mm, the modifications made (new electric motor with speed control and collets) to my Unimat SL served me very well.
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I am currently sorting out the continuation of the lifts for the lower yards.
See you soon...
 
Hello colleagues,

Today I would like to thank you all for the positive reactions to my last video. Because of my son's house construction, which of course requires a lot of my time as a retired architect, I have hardly had time to do any model building lately. So I at least enjoyed putting together a video.

But things will continue here soon ...
 
Addition of the lifts of the lower yards - Balancines de basse vergue
Usually, as can be read in the specialist literature in the book "Manuel de gréement" by F. A. Coste, Paris 1829, the lifts of the lower yards were secured using tackles, each at the height of the 2nd shroud of the respective lower mast. This is also how J. Boudriot illustrated it in the monograph on La Créole, as shown below.
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Source: Monograph La Créole by Jean Boudriot

On the original Paris model, I identified the lifts as shown in a diagram:
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Source: Musée national de la Marine de Paris - La Créole

However, no tackles can be seen there. The lifts were simply attached to the upper part of the tackle ropes at the height of the 2nd shroud. This easier handling of the lifts could have been due to the size of the ship, or is it a simplification by the contemporary model maker?
We will never be able to find out.
However, I find this type of seamanlike handling of the lifts rather impractical and have therefore decided to use tackles, whose ropes can then be properly secured on the inside.
I wouldn't exactly describe my model as a "pile of evidence" as a dear forum colleague once described his project. However, I have implemented a large number of details on the model that seemed plausible to me after research. I cannot provide 100% proof of this, but solutions that actually existed and generally fit into the temporal and country-specific context of La Créole.
In this respect, I will basically attach the lifts as follows:
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Source: Excerpt from Atlas du Génie Maritime annexe N.1, Pl. 20

However, I will only use a double block at the top and a single block at the bottom for the tackle.
To be continued...
 
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Continuation: throat halyard – Drisse de mat
We continued with the manufacture of the block strops for the throat halyard. The hook was tied into the lower double block with a thimble. The halyard with a diameter of 0.46 mm (ø 2 mm in the original) was attached to the block strop of the upper block using an eye splice.
I then quickly attached the gaff to the finished throat halyard, as can be seen in the following pictures.



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To be continued...
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Johann, what can I say? You must dream ships while you sleep. You have my admiration for your talent. Would you share, please the method you used to adhere the leather to the gaff's collar? It is remarkably clean.
 
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