Planset review Machine à curer les ports (port dredging machine) - 1750" - scale 1:36 - by Gerard Delacroix

[Uwek]

The monograph is from now on available only via Ancre web-page:

A Harbor Dredge: 1750 - Ancre

The work consists in a 72-page booklet which contains the description and the operation of the machine as well as commentaries on the ten plates of drawings and on the 55 photos of a model. The plates are at the 1/36 scale and show every piece of the framework. NEW: 10 PLANS au 1/24e available.

ancre.fr

 

[gisel]

Now we need one of our Chinese manufactures to produce a nice kit
Would make some of us happy happy

 

[donfarr]

OH YES IT SURE WOULD. Don

 

[Uwek]

Use the monograph and make a nice scratch build - it is a very good monograph, with no complicate hull (flat bottom).
You need maybe a wood supplier who is preparing the stripes in the necessary sizes, if you can not do this by yourself.
But this can be all organized or ordered, also the limited metal works necessary.
Especially this monograph is a great start for scratch building !!! or even a group build

 

[Jimsky]

Totally agree with Uwe, this monograph is a really nice candidate for scratch build, specifically for the first-time scratch builder.

 

[donfarr]

YES THAT IS ME, had this on my wish list also,i think i am going to order this one at the end of month, i am like NIGEL i need more then one project going by the end of month I should have my frames on the LE ROCHFORT done and will have to take a break for one month so i can set the frames in the slip/jig at my son-in-laws office garage when the weather turns a little warmer. THANKS Don

 

[Kurt Konrath]

Well this sounds like we need to get Gilles to read and translate the basics on the book for Acrne.

I will be ordering a monograph but have a question, where or what did the collection boat look like. I know the dredges pulled up mud and dumped into some other ship to haul if out to deep water to get rid of unneeded waste.

 

[Uwek]

Well this sounds like we need to get Gilles to read and translate the basics on the book for Acrne.

I will be ordering a monograph but have a question, where or what did the collection boat look like. I know the dredges pulled up mud and dumped into some other ship to haul if out to deep water to get rid of unneeded waste.

Take a look at the first post of this topic

Planset review - Machine à curer les ports (port dredging machine) - 1750" - scale 1:36 - by Gerard Delacroix

Planset Review: Machine à curer les ports port dredging machine 1750 scale 1:36 by Gerard Delacroix available directly from Gerard Delacroix http://gerard.delacroix.pagesperso-orange.fr/machine/plaquette.htm available only in french language, but the construction and drawings are...

shipsofscale.com

Such a boat is also described in detail

 

[Uwek]

Now also the English language version is available from ancre

A Harbor Dredge: 1750 - Ancre

The work consists in a 72-page booklet which contains the description and the operation of the machine as well as commentaries on the ten plates of drawings and on the 55 photos of a model. The plates are at the 1/36 scale and show every piece of the framework. NEW: 10 PLANS au 1/24e available.

ancre.fr

you can order the Book in English with the planset for 59 Euro



or only the booklet in english language for only 15 Euros, in case you have already the older french version

 

[Uwek]

Here are now the Look Inside photos of the english version of the booklet available from ancre - many Thanks to Didier Berti from ancre for sending the copy

The translation was done by Dr. Anthony Klouda

Gérard DELACROIX monograph
Service Boats
A PORT DREDGER
from the description by Bernard Forest de Bélidor
built at Toulon about 1745




Contents:

Foreword
The Port Dredgers
Support craft
Description of a port dredger ca 1745
The scoops and their arms
The functioning of the dredger
Commentary on the plans at 1:36
Port dredger, photos of a model at 1:36 (model by B. Rimlinger)

A Harbor Dredge: 1750 - Ancre

The work consists in a 72-page booklet which contains the description and the operation of the machine as well as commentaries on the ten plates of drawings and on the 55 photos of a model. The plates are at the 1/36 scale and show every piece of the framework. NEW: 10 PLANS au 1/24e available.

ancre.fr

 

[Uwek]

As mentioned before, the port dredger is a very interesting project to build a working boat and also very good for everybody starting or to be intermediate in scratch modeling......
.... nevertheless often for beginners it is not so easy to make a jig or to cut correctly the notches in the keel etc.
-> so for everybody thinking about building this model in scratch, it could be helpful to have some assitance in some areas which are tricky

-> Because of this I want to point once more the possible help by our member @SZKUTNIK, who prepared some parts and the jig for Don





take a look at the building log

HARBOR DREDGE/ KRIS SZKUTNIK

OK THIS IS GOING TO BE THE START OF A BUILDING LOG IT IS A SEMI/ SCRATCH KIT THAT I ORDERED FROM KRIS IN POLAND RIGHT NOW ONE OF A KIND BASED ON ANCRE MONOGRAPH WHEN IT ARRIEVES I WILL POST A REVIEW, IN THE MEAN TIME I WILL POST SOME PRLIMINARY IDEAS FOR OPEN DISCUSSION WITH LESSONS LEARNED...

shipsofscale.com

 

[donfarr]

OH HELL YES KRIS DOES AMAZING WORK, WAITING FOR POST OFFICES, BOTH IN POLAND AND USPS IN STATES, THIS ONE IS AMAZING JUST CAN NOT WAIT TO GET STARTED, BTW THE DELAY IS NOT KRIS FAULT MY ANY MEANS, JUST POST OFFICES. GOD BLESS STAY SAFE YOU AND YOURS DON

 

[donfarr]

HI ALL, MY LOST PACKAGE WAS FOUND AND ARRIEVED YESTERDAY, GREAT, GREAT PRODUCT A SEMI SCRATCH/KIT FROM KRIS HARBOR DREDGE, HAVE OPENED THE BOX BUT NOT TAKEN ALL THE PIECES OUT NOT UNTIL I AM BETTER ORGANIZED, THIS IS TO SHOW YOU SOME OF WHAT I WANTED AND IT IS WHAT I WANTED, THERE ARE 2 JIGS ONE FOR THE HARBOR DREDGE AND ONE FOR THE SHIPS BOAT, A MODEL IN ITSELF, I SHOW SOME FRAME, BEAM, FLOOR MATERIALS ALL DONE IN PEAR WOOD CNC MACHINED, REALLY GREAT STUFF FROM KRIS HERE ARE SOME PICTURES WILL ALSO POST ON MY LOG FOR THIS ALSO. GOD BLESS STAY SAFE ALL DON