Re: Royal William 1/48 scale
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Awhile ago after I had attached the the beak head bollards I realised that they were probably too high and decided to wait till I had attached the side bollards before correcting the front ones,
This approximately how much I had to lower them,
Sorry about the fuzzy pic, this shows them attached in a nice curving line,
best regards John,
So after reattaching the bollard timbers i decided to continue and build up the rest of the rails and the round houses, this piece of wood is Australian Myrtle, it has a nice tight grain,
I had previously turned up the round houses, so next was to make up the rails that go around the top of them, I turned the Myrtle down to the outside diameter and then drilled a 10mm hole through so i could bore it out,
Boring out to the inside diameter,
I meant to say that before boring out i had sliced two pieces off of the turning these will make the bottom piece that the rail stanchions will go into, then after boring out I sliced another two rings off that will go on the top of the stanchions, the little stanchions I have had for years,
Then i adapted the jig to hold the top ring and the bottom plate for drilling the holes to fix the stanchions into,
This shows the bottom plate with the half circle of stanchions in glued in place and the top ring ready to be glued on the top, but before I glued it in place I used it as a template for drilling the holes in the other pieces,
and a pic showing where they will sit when i get around to gluing them in place, of course the back of the plates will be cut off before doing this, still lots to do yet,
once again thanks for looking in,
best regards john,
Pic of the front of the balcony's,
and the rear, to give an idea of size the the holes for the spindles are .9mm,
Nothing glued yet, just test fitting, got some cutting and adjusting to do,
and the same pic with flash on,
best regards john.
That's looking super, John!
the cross rail assembled and the parts cut out for the Arch that will go above,
the arch glued up, that's all for tonight,
best regards john,
This is where the arch will sit, but it will be behind the railings,
and glued in place, the rail going across the arch has to be cut away,
Just test fitting the focsle beams to make sure they all line up with to the bottom of the arch,
making a template for the ply sub deck,
Just fits nicely, i have approx 3mm I can lower it by if needed,
view from another angle,
Test fitting the cannon, by the looks of it and also where the Cat comes in through by the large Bitt I think that I will have to lower the beams by that 3mm,
These are the extra windows that i bought for replacing some of the transom windows, the top ones are some kind of lasered board they are quite strong and the lower one are injection moulded plastic, not sure yet if I will use them or not, I have to size them against the windows already in place,
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I have also got to decide which boats to use, I started making these one a few years ago, this one and the one below is a 32 foot launch,
the launch shown sitting over the mould,
and this one is a pinnace, has to have the transom fitted yet,
and a view of the bottom,
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Or I can use these ones, they are the Chinese kit ones, I am thinking of going with these as I have already got them finished apart from painting them, these are two launches and one pinnace,
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Hello Neptun, it took a while to go through your construction diary, really impressive work. I'm staying tuned 
Thank you for the nice comments Tobias, I'm pleased to have you aboard,Hello Neptun, it took a while to go through your construction diary, really impressive work. I'm staying tuned
best regards john,
And a big thank you to all for the likes,
best regards John,
best regards John,
Great progress John.
The set of boats fit perfectly.
The set of boats fit perfectly.
next up was making the half round mouldings that go just beneath the top rail, for these I turned up some wood just like for the arch and then I used one of my Amati moulding plates, the design I used is the one in the top left hand corner, I had previously strengthened the plate with a wooden plate on each side,
then I clamped it in the tool post, the one I'm using is the nearest one, due to the bolt nuts on the plate I had to clamp it in the tool post this way, so to turn the moulding I used the lathe in reverse which is a nice feature on the Sherline,
Just lining up the tool post, these moulding plates are a bit thin so you have to take it slowly,
and cutting the rebate,
The rings after parting off, with hind sight I might have made the rebate a bit wider, I still might do it as I have some English Bow Wood that would be suitable also I would make the rings with a slightly less diametre, will see how things go,
and after cutting down, still have to cut the mitre on each end
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Nice bit of turning John and a great resalt,
Cheers,
Stephen.
Cheers,
Stephen.
I realized that something was wrong with the bulk head, and after doing some researching, I found that there are numerous pics of different contemporary models of the Royal William and they all show different layouts of the bulkhead, some show it as really tall and some shorter so i decided to go with the kit layout, so I had to remove some of the timber plank across the front of the bulkhead, The ruler is not level as I want some round up, after cutting back this side I then cut back the other,
I cut some wood for the straight part of the moulding rail, I was tempted to do it the easy way and just sit the archs on top of the straight rail,
This is how they are supposed to be cut, with miters , I wasn't to sure, so I thought about it while I was measuring the height of the round houses,
I placed the round houses in approx position and sat the rails on top of them, the rails will have to bent up to match the round up,
I decided to go with the mitered joints, will probably need a little bit of filler,
This is how I cut the miters with a nice sharp craft knife,
All finished, just a dab of filler here and there,
another view,
and with the rails just sitting in place, not yet glued,
and one head on view,
thanks for watching and all the comments and likes,
Best regards John,
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