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Le Coureur 1776, model 1:48 by Adi
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Wow a beautiful Job Adi, I like your Doors 
Adi, great job. 
Maybe make the door hinge a little smaller? Looks like garage door hinges 
Maybe make the door hinge a little smaller? Looks like garage door hinges 
That's absolutely right, Sascha, to scale the door hinges should be smaller, but these are included in the kit and I'm glad I got them that size.Adi, great job.
Wonderful work Adi, very detailed and of a high level.
Thanks for likes and comments I received. Today I'm going to deal with the captain's cabin. Fitting the wall parts in relation to the deck beams required some patience. Chests and doors again received the hinges supplied in the kit, these are just enough to outfit one half of the ship.
......and now, what is about the nice little oven that is supposed to be in the captain's cabin.
In Boudriot's monograph and in his drawings, this oven is not found. In CAF's construction manual, it appears only at the very end, as if one did not know exactly
whether it existed on the Coureur or not.
The most interesting final discovery was made by Uwe, that the compass box is exactly above the smoke outlet. That would be ahot mess in the truest sense of the word.
My question to you all, should the oven stay there ore not? At least as a nice decoration.
The last major interior task is now then cargo space with cargo. I am preparing crates, barrels an various othe things.
The barrels that you can have from CAF (are not included in the kit) are very large in terms of dimensions. I estimate between 750 and 1000 liters.
I can imagine that such large barrels may have been used for drinking water.
......and now, what is about the nice little oven that is supposed to be in the captain's cabin.
In Boudriot's monograph and in his drawings, this oven is not found. In CAF's construction manual, it appears only at the very end, as if one did not know exactly
whether it existed on the Coureur or not.
The most interesting final discovery was made by Uwe, that the compass box is exactly above the smoke outlet. That would be ahot mess in the truest sense of the word.
My question to you all, should the oven stay there ore not? At least as a nice decoration.
The last major interior task is now then cargo space with cargo. I am preparing crates, barrels an various othe things.
The barrels that you can have from CAF (are not included in the kit) are very large in terms of dimensions. I estimate between 750 and 1000 liters.
I can imagine that such large barrels may have been used for drinking water.
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I think (not completely sure) that the oven was not there as long (or rather as short
) as the ship was French. The Brits made several changes to the original construction of the lugger, not at least in the cabin area, after the ship was captured. I think most of us are ending up between 2 chairs, so to speak, but if you strive for historical correctness it might depend whether you are building Le Coureur (1776) or HMS Coureur (1778)
Looking great Adi
Many thanks for your likes and comments. The filling of the hold has begun. The productionof the large CAF barrels takes quite a lot of time. 2 layers of staves are placed on te sturdy inner frame. I ha dto make the brass barrelhoops out of cardboard, becaues the brass one's did not fit. You can't rally tell the difference.
The barresls are very large they need an extra outlet, which should get a tap in one of the barrels, because at any time water, (beer, wine, rum??) must be taken. So that nothing is lost, there is a bucket underneath.
I make the firewood out of pine roots, as they look roughly realistic to scale.
The barresls are very large they need an extra outlet, which should get a tap in one of the barrels, because at any time water, (beer, wine, rum??) must be taken. So that nothing is lost, there is a bucket underneath.
I make the firewood out of pine roots, as they look roughly realistic to scale.
Nice detail !
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For everybody's sake I hope that the barrel next to the firewood contains water and not rum! And as to the stove in the captain's cabin ... historically correct or not ... if there is no place else, go for it!
And as to the stove in the captain's cabin ... historically correct or not ... if there is no place else, go for it!
Very well presented, perfect.
Wonderful Adi! The detailing is beautifully accomplished. And now the rum can be nicely warmed ...
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Thank you Heinrich, accepted.For everybody's sake I hope that the barrel next to the firewood contains water and not rum!
Did the barrels and bucket come with the kit?
Hallo Vic, unfortunately not. The barrels CAF offers extra and the buckets are from the regular model shop, mine are from the company Krick in Germany.
Really very good details my friend - The idea with the tap and the bucket is very good and a really nice detail.
I understood you in this way, that only one barrel will get a tap.....
Your model is getting step by step to a real very GOOD model
For the final arrangement:
I hope the barrel and the firewood is not fixed and only temporary arranged to show the detail, because you have to add still the ballast.
Either with the covered ballast room like prepared by the kit and the contemporary drawings (british period) or somehow open (french period).
So I think, that the water barrel can not be fitted on top of the keelson.
I understood you in this way, that only one barrel will get a tap.....
Your model is getting step by step to a real very GOOD model
For the final arrangement:
I hope the barrel and the firewood is not fixed and only temporary arranged to show the detail, because you have to add still the ballast.
Either with the covered ballast room like prepared by the kit and the contemporary drawings (british period) or somehow open (french period).
So I think, that the water barrel can not be fitted on top of the keelson.