Le Saint Philippe 1693 after Jean-Claude Lemineur (Ancre) in scale 1:48

[dockattner]

I understand fully that you don't really have a favorite, but I do. I believe that taking into account that the VASA was your first build, the enormity of what you have achieved as a first build has firmly entrenched her in my mind as my favorite!

Greetings, Heinrich. She welcomes every visitor to our home - at least the ones who come in through the front door.

 

[serikoff]

Beauty in its purest form. While I was busy fiddling with bolts, you managed to do so much here. Wow.

 

[dockattner]

Beauty in its purest form. While I was busy fiddling with bolts, you managed to do so much here. Wow.

Thanks, Sergey! I am fascinated by how much the end shaping changes the look and feel of the knees. The second deck knees appear so much lighter and decorative - but dimensionally they are nearly the same.

 

[Iterum]

Grandbaby #4

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Teach him the love to modelbuilding and he will never have money for drugs!

 

[Maarten]

Just for you guys - here are the freshly installed knees:

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As you can see, the knees on the second deck have decorative ends:

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Including on the vertical elements:

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Carlings and ledges will follow...

Thanks for stopping by!

Perfection Paul,

The only remark is tge thread of the wood across the knee instead in the length of the knee.


But I guess you want us to be critical if you supply this quality of work.

 

[dockattner]

Perfection Paul,

The only remark is tge thread of the wood across the knee instead in the length of the knee.
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But I guess you want us to be critical if you supply this quality of work.

Excellent, Maarten. I confess that this never crossed my mind. My only thought was to get ALL of the knees out of the billet made to the proper thickness. I will try to use more care in the future. My thanks for keeping me on point!

 

[dockattner]

Hello Friends,

I managed to wrap up the second deck today. That's about one month of work which is very similar to the amount of time it took me to fabricate the first deck. It would seem I don't get faster with repetition .

Repetition, however, does apparently come with a lack of attention: I installed the centerline carlings and coamings without cutting in the dovetails for the ledges. Cutting these in situ is not for the faint of heart... it takes a steady hand and careful control of a very sharp chisel. In this case I got away with it, but I'll need to pay more attention going forward.

Anyway, here is where she sits as of this evening:















Thanks for visiting!

 

[CLB]

I am continually blown away by the complexity of this build - and you still lots more to come before the carvings !!! Beautiful work as usual

 

[OlivierF]

Exceptional results to be very proud of! Bravo!

 

[BradNSW]

Superb. Simply Superb!

As always, your work is inspiring. Thanks for sharing.

 

[GrantTyler]

Good morning Paul. What they all say. Exceptional modelling and as for those tiny dovetails……WOW. Cheers Grant