La Renommee 1/48th Scale

[dockattner]

What's not to love? Outstanding construction, Chris!

Thanks Brad - believe me the crown rail and is mounted solidly to the stern timbers. I just need to be careful not to snag them on anything.

In terms of the wales - the fully planked side of the hull will have black hornbeam wood I bought from Vahur in Estonia. Its supposed to bend easier than ebony - we'll see soon enough. The wales will be Pear on the unplanked side.

I also have some of Vahur's black hornbeam. It is sort of waxy so you might want to test adhesion...

 

[Tobias]

Good morning Chris and Paul, don't worry, the wood from Vahur is great and there are no liability issues.

 

[WojtasS]

Beautifully crafted construction, a sight to behold

 

[Albert Mary]

Good Morning the stern has been installed which was not as difficult as the bow ! The crown rail at the top of the stern timbers will need to be thinned a bit later The rail extends to allow for the quarter gallery structure later. At this point the framing is complete and wale installation is next up.

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Here's another guy from a different league... .

 

[CLB]

Thanks for the comments and likes ! They are appreciated. I have now modified the construction site and added some balsa reinforcements to the interior of the hull in preparation for next steps - either adding the wales or cutting the gunports. My height gauge arrives today to make the necessary markings.

 

[CLB]

Good afternoon - the wales are installed. I bought this height gauge to transfer the lines of the wales from the plans to the model. It has a sharpened blade to make the scribe lines which makes transferring measurements easy and accurate.

Here are the results - I left out the rear sections of the wale where it will intersect the rear gunports - Ill apply those after their are cut and installed.

 

[dockattner]

Beautiful work, Chris. The wales accentuate the sexy lines on this ship.

 

[BradNSW]

Looks awesome!! Love the height gauge. Need to sharpen my tip it, so it scribes like yours. Thanks for the hint!

Did you do a first layer in pear and a second layer in ebony (or stain/dye a second layer)?

I found my Wales were too thick to do (steam/bend) in one layer of ebony. So, I laid one, half-thick-layer of ebony first. Waiting to do the second layer till I work the lower deck interior and frame cutouts.

 

[CLB]

Looks awesome!! Love the height gauge. Need to sharpen my tip it, so it scribes like yours. Thanks for the hint!

Did you do a first layer in pear and a second layer in ebony (or stain/dye a second layer)?

I found my Wales were too thick to do (steam/bend) in one layer of ebony. So, I laid one, half-thick-layer of ebony first. Waiting to do the second layer till I work the lower deck interior and frame cutouts.

Thanks for the comments Brad and Paul and the likes everyone else ! Brad in terms of the wales I did have to laminate - top wale was 2 mm of pear first layer 1.5 mm black hornbeam top layer and the lower wale was 1.5 and 1.5 pear and black hornbeam respectively.

Personally on the next model I will just use dyed pear - the hornbeam wasn't worth the trouble considering I still had to give it a top coat of fiebings black dye to get it to the dark rich color I wanted.

 

[Albert Mary]

That height gauge is amazing and your job is oustanding, altough that's not a piece of news anymore.