Re: Royal William 1/48 scale

neptune said:
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Before I can attach the next deck up I have several things to add to the gun deck, one of them being the Mesenger and the Anchor cables, so i got out my old rope machine, a full size view of the machine, It doesn't make endless rope but the pieces are enough for a 1/48 scale 104 gun ship,


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the head of the machine showing the four whirls,

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The top,set up with the threads going over and around the top, I used six threads on each hook for this rope,


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Showing three ropes made up, the largest I will use for the Anchor cable,

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and a close up,

thank you for visiting,

best regards john.
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Nice progress John,

Lovely rope.
What material did you use?

Cheers,
Stephen.
 
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Messenger installed, up along the port side,

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around the capstan,

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and down the starboard side,

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The anchor cable in place, it wasn't till this stage that i realised I had made a Boo Boo with the anchor cable, it was way to small, it only measured out at approx 6 inch dia scale size, so i made another couple of cables that were approx 9inch dia at scale size,

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showing the difference between the two,

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and another comparison,

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i made the thicker ones with this thread,


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The newer cables in place,


I also added some figures to the lower deck,

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best regards john,
 
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View of the Port side and lower hull,

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one last section of the deck to go in place,

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and a couple of pics through the transom ports, i must get that top rope down on top of the others on the capstan,

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and another view,


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The next lot of carriages ready for final clean up,

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These are the cannon for the next deck,


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and these are for the two decks after this one,

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al carriages and cannon for the next deck have been trimmed to match each other in height, may need some small adjustments when being fitted in place,

once again thanks for looking in,
best regards john,


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For attaching the cannon to the carriages I drilled a hole right through the barrel and a corresponding hole through the carriage, I made a small block on which I sat the cannon,

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and drilled the holes with my Proxxon Mill Drill,


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Pic with the holes drilled,


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Then I glued the barrel to the carriage with a 2.5mm dowell,

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this ia all the cannon attached to the next deck up on the starboard side,

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and port side fore,


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and port side aft,

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and a general overall pic of where i am at the moment,

best regards john,
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neptune said:
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For attaching the cannon to the carriages I drilled a hole right through the barrel and a corresponding hole through the carriage, I made a small block on which I sat the cannon,

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and drilled the holes with my Proxxon Mill Drill,


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Pic with the holes drilled,


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Then I glued the barrel to the carriage with a 2.5mm dowell,

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this ia all the cannon attached to the next deck up on the starboard side,

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and port side fore,


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and port side aft,

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and a general overall pic of where i am at the moment,

best regards john,
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Wonderful progress John, your work is very impressive and the results are beautiful Thumbsup:)
 
Good work with the additional detail with the messenger cable
We can not see both sides of the messenger - and I also do not know, what is at the end realy visible, when your model is finished
Therefore only the question: Did you also connect the nachor cable with the messenger cable with the so called nippers?
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Maybe you dafis plastic Victory
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also very interesting

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Hoisting anchor and stowing the cable | Royal Museums Greenwich

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Uwek said:
Good work with the additional detail with the messenger cable
We can not see both sides of the messenger - and I also do not know, what is at the end realy visible, when your model is finished
Therefore only the question: Did you also connect the nachor cable with the messenger cable with the so called nippers?
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Maybe you dafis plastic Victory
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also very interesting

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Hoisting anchor and stowing the cable | Royal Museums Greenwich

www.rmg.co.uk www.rmg.co.uk
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G'day Uwe, thanks for the question, no I will not have the anchor cable attached to the messenger as i will have the anchor cables set up ready for dropping, i believe they were only attached to the messenger when they were being hoisted aboard, I know that on some smaller ships they used to flake out the anchor cable on the deck before they dropped the anchor but i think the size of these cables prohibited that and they just ran out of the anchor tier, sorry for my late reply,

best regards John,
 
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There will be only the cannon on this deck because you will not be able to see anything else, so the next job was to cut the beams for the next deck up, after cutting them i centralized them and marke a line down the middle of them,

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when i was happy with the camber I then numbered them,

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The deck beams installed,

best regards john,
 
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I've cut the planking for the next deck but before installing i decided to make and fit the gratings on the centre of the deck, to make the gratings I glued a strip of wood the width of the saw blade onto the sled making sure that it was the width of the blade away from the saw blade itself,

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close up view,

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I then glued with CA super glue twelve strip of pear wood to each other at the end for approx 10mm, trimmed them so they were square then I butted them up against the strip of wood and ran the sled over the saw, I then put the resulting groove over the strip of wood and repeated the process along the strips of wood, pic shows the first cut,

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The resulting strips after grooving, and above them the battens that were cut to go in the grooves,

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six sets of gratings waiting to be trimmed to size, the one at the bottom right is sitting in the jig i made to hold everything while they were constructed, the jig was made the way the grooves were cut,

thank you for looking in, any questions just ask,

best regards john,
 
neptune said:
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I've cut the planking for the next deck but before installing i decided to make and fit the gratings on the centre of the deck, to make the gratings I glued a strip of wood the width of the saw blade onto the sled making sure that it was the width of the blade away from the saw blade itself,

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close up view,

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I then glued with CA super glue twelve strip of pear wood to each other at the end for approx 10mm, trimmed them so they were square then I butted them up against the strip of wood and ran the sled over the saw, I then put the resulting groove over the strip of wood and repeated the process along the strips of wood, pic shows the first cut,

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The resulting strips after grooving, and above them the battens that were cut to go in the grooves,

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six sets of gratings waiting to be trimmed to size, the one at the bottom right is sitting in the jig i made to hold everything while they were constructed, the jig was made the way the grooves were cut,

thank you for looking in, any questions just ask,

best regards john,
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Hi John,
Great work as normal.
Where did you get the Pear wood?

Cheers,
Stephen.
 
Stevedownunder said:
Hi John,
Great work as normal.
Where did you get the Pear wood?

Cheers,
Stephen.
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G'day Steve, I bought the Pear Wood from ZHL model's, a couple of years ago, I bought several lots of different sizes, nice and consistent colour, no blemishes, hope this helps, I also went up in the Adelaide Hills to one of the Orchards and the owner gave me several logs of Pear, this was nice wood as well but was more of a fawnie colour and of course I had to dry it for a couple of years before use,
Best regards John,
 
neptune said:
G'day Steve, I bought the Pear Wood from ZHL model's, a couple of years ago, I bought several lots of different sizes, nice and consistent colour, no blemishes, hope this helps, I also went up in the Adelaide Hills to one of the Orchards and the owner gave me several logs of Pear, this was nice wood as well but was more of a fawnie colour and of course I had to dry it for a couple of years before use,
Best regards John,
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Thanks John,
ZHL makes sense and great idea to find an Orchid and get some logs.

Cheers,
Stephen.
 
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Thats all the gratings made for the upper decks, I just have to trim them and add the coamings around them, on the model in the Maritime Museum it shows the gratings all in one length like the after two sets of gratings, but I'm going to do them in sections like the ones on the mid section show,

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close up of the mid section gratings,

thanks for all the likes and comments,

best regards John,

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The main gratings after assembly,

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and where they will sit on the model,

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after adding the section for the main mast, i found some ebony amongst my wood collection and decided to add some around where the mast goes, i will also use it for the gallows and the bitts,

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how it will sit on the model,

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and a close up,

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I will probably make another capstan for the main deck,

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the ebony I used i bought it on ebay for $15 AUD post paid,

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and a couple of close ups after cutting,

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best regards John,
 
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