Wow you soon made those, they look excellent well done mate
Le Requin by Zhl - MY FIRST POF MODEL
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I'll make you laugh loud...I found them among the blocks
I was looking among the parts to be assembled, instead they were premade because of the very little dimensions.
AAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAHAAAAH!!!
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While still waiting for ropes to arrive, I began to work on masts.
Here is the initial build of the main mast: material to work on and the first building steps.
It is similar to the construction method in reality, like a puzzle of pieces joined together to form a square, from which must be obtained an octagon and finally a round pole.
I will make the octagon out of it using the bench saw and finally the round pole with the lathe.
However I'm wondering why a trimming of the mast is not foreseen for this ship. Hoping they weren't made as a single piece, right in this case which is the first time I'm building them this way. Thinking out loud, the length in reality was 23 mt., it was not possible to find such a kind of a trunk , but why all the versions of this model do not have the trimming, neither the one by Boudriot?
Here is the initial build of the main mast: material to work on and the first building steps.
It is similar to the construction method in reality, like a puzzle of pieces joined together to form a square, from which must be obtained an octagon and finally a round pole.
I will make the octagon out of it using the bench saw and finally the round pole with the lathe.
However I'm wondering why a trimming of the mast is not foreseen for this ship. Hoping they weren't made as a single piece, right in this case which is the first time I'm building them this way. Thinking out loud, the length in reality was 23 mt., it was not possible to find such a kind of a trunk , but why all the versions of this model do not have the trimming, neither the one by Boudriot?
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The octagon.
I made research about trimming of the mast and spoke with Carlo Cavaletto, a real expert about hystorical wooden ships (b.t.w he made the projects of Sovereign of the Seas for DeA, the most accurate drawings about that ship). So Went to look Boudriot drawings and trimming is absent, he spoke with some great modelers and they said they did not either thought to this detail as they all followed Boudriot's drawings but the issue is real. The main mast was 23 mt. high and had to hold a spar 36 mt. long, so there is no way to make a mast like this other than building it in sections, therefore it needs the trimming too.
SO I decided to make the trimming because it makes sense, it will be the first xebec with trimmed masts in recent history.
I made research about trimming of the mast and spoke with Carlo Cavaletto, a real expert about hystorical wooden ships (b.t.w he made the projects of Sovereign of the Seas for DeA, the most accurate drawings about that ship). So Went to look Boudriot drawings and trimming is absent, he spoke with some great modelers and they said they did not either thought to this detail as they all followed Boudriot's drawings but the issue is real. The main mast was 23 mt. high and had to hold a spar 36 mt. long, so there is no way to make a mast like this other than building it in sections, therefore it needs the trimming too.
SO I decided to make the trimming because it makes sense, it will be the first xebec with trimmed masts in recent history.
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Hello! Some updates:
I've built my own ropewalk machine, this is version 1.0, it already is working well but it's a bit unstable, so there is room for improvements.
Cannons are done and so do are anchors but will put them in place later.
I've built my own ropewalk machine, this is version 1.0, it already is working well but it's a bit unstable, so there is room for improvements.
Cannons are done and so do are anchors but will put them in place later.
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Amazing job! Congrats