Ahoy!
This is Yama, currently hailing from Austin, Texas, soon sailing from Franklin, NH.
The project that I'm looking for info, and finding too little of, is large scale, say 1/12, tall ships. Large enough, and purposefully designed to actually be able to put out in one of those, in person. Days ago I did come across one picture of one like that, but haven't been able to find it again.
If you can, 1) point me in the right direction for this kind of projects, much appreciated, and also on 2) where to place within this forum a request for assistance and/or a place to story my adventure of making this happen?
I doubt this model will get completed in 2021, but I expect to have at least a very good momentum this coming year. Oh, I do have much more to tell about this (done a LOT of due diligence. Example: wormed right-hand rope; can make it!), but the "introduce yourself" is not the place for that, right? But, as I said, I don't really know where else in the forum I should share about it.
About myself: fascinated by all things boat and marine since I was a kid, eventually did build fiberglass "canoyaks" of my own design, besides many other one-shot real-life boats, then eventually made it to captain of the Merchant Marine, then eventually life made me a landlubber, in 2014-15 I tried (and failed) at a business making wood kits for plank-on-frame models. I contributed heavily to a French maritime models forum that time, and today I discovered that hundreds of photos, hosted on Google Plus, are gone, sigh.
Nowadays I am an artisan paper maker. Yup, someone that makes paper by hand. My day job remains computers, paper don't pay . I am constantly amazed on how the work at the papermaking vat relies in a lot of "ingrown skills" acquired while floating on water: the innate "feeling" regarding water turbulence, currents, behavior of the liquid.
SO, circumstances are that we will be a bit closer to water soon, when in New Hampshire, and therefore I'll go back to build a few boats for the family, but then I said to myself, assuredly for no good reason, that it would be oh so much fun to make a 1/12 USS Constitution and have it manned by my half-pint nephews and nieces.
The very fact that nobody else seems to be doing this kind of large-scale is worrisome to me, maybe I'm not looking in the right places? I used to not be afraid to go in uncharted waters, I guess age (and beatings) beget wisdom?
It must not be a very good idea, because I don't see many others having tried something similar? I did find this in that French forum, a few minutes ago: https://5500.forumactif.org/t2423-la-belle-1684-au-1-6eme
I don't want to go into many technicals here, as I'd rather have those in a better place in the forum, but an obvious major question is, why am I looking for 1/12? Well, for a Constitution-size ship, that ends up with a 12-foot boat, which is actually a tad large, but not too large to load in a trailer, which is necessary in places where the lakes freeze, which would be my situation in NH. Smaller scale than that, even kids would get entangled in the rigging, and we don't want that. Obviously, if I were to use La Belle as my model, and I know a huge lot about La Belle, I even have two very incomplete manuscripts for books I was writing, somewhere, I would use an even larger scale, like our colleague Stéphane is doing. Also, why the Constitution? Hmm, that one is harder. I probably should choose something simpler for my first project, right? Then, the other side is, there is heaps of documentation for this one, I can tell you it was VERY hard to find useful stuff on La Belle, and I don't want to go that research route again.
Also, Old Ironsides is totally iconic, and why not consider the bottom line, I might be able to sell the thing, even incomplete as a frame hulk if I give up, or for a nice return if I complete it. Perhaps. Or something.
Enough for now, I guess. If and when I find the right place here to start a thread for the project, I'd love to exchange ideas, hear suggestions, advice, and obviously share what I find, and do, I am all for sharing knowledge.
Good sailing!
Yama
This is Yama, currently hailing from Austin, Texas, soon sailing from Franklin, NH.
The project that I'm looking for info, and finding too little of, is large scale, say 1/12, tall ships. Large enough, and purposefully designed to actually be able to put out in one of those, in person. Days ago I did come across one picture of one like that, but haven't been able to find it again.
If you can, 1) point me in the right direction for this kind of projects, much appreciated, and also on 2) where to place within this forum a request for assistance and/or a place to story my adventure of making this happen?
I doubt this model will get completed in 2021, but I expect to have at least a very good momentum this coming year. Oh, I do have much more to tell about this (done a LOT of due diligence. Example: wormed right-hand rope; can make it!), but the "introduce yourself" is not the place for that, right? But, as I said, I don't really know where else in the forum I should share about it.
About myself: fascinated by all things boat and marine since I was a kid, eventually did build fiberglass "canoyaks" of my own design, besides many other one-shot real-life boats, then eventually made it to captain of the Merchant Marine, then eventually life made me a landlubber, in 2014-15 I tried (and failed) at a business making wood kits for plank-on-frame models. I contributed heavily to a French maritime models forum that time, and today I discovered that hundreds of photos, hosted on Google Plus, are gone, sigh.
Nowadays I am an artisan paper maker. Yup, someone that makes paper by hand. My day job remains computers, paper don't pay . I am constantly amazed on how the work at the papermaking vat relies in a lot of "ingrown skills" acquired while floating on water: the innate "feeling" regarding water turbulence, currents, behavior of the liquid.
SO, circumstances are that we will be a bit closer to water soon, when in New Hampshire, and therefore I'll go back to build a few boats for the family, but then I said to myself, assuredly for no good reason, that it would be oh so much fun to make a 1/12 USS Constitution and have it manned by my half-pint nephews and nieces.
The very fact that nobody else seems to be doing this kind of large-scale is worrisome to me, maybe I'm not looking in the right places? I used to not be afraid to go in uncharted waters, I guess age (and beatings) beget wisdom?
It must not be a very good idea, because I don't see many others having tried something similar? I did find this in that French forum, a few minutes ago: https://5500.forumactif.org/t2423-la-belle-1684-au-1-6eme
I don't want to go into many technicals here, as I'd rather have those in a better place in the forum, but an obvious major question is, why am I looking for 1/12? Well, for a Constitution-size ship, that ends up with a 12-foot boat, which is actually a tad large, but not too large to load in a trailer, which is necessary in places where the lakes freeze, which would be my situation in NH. Smaller scale than that, even kids would get entangled in the rigging, and we don't want that. Obviously, if I were to use La Belle as my model, and I know a huge lot about La Belle, I even have two very incomplete manuscripts for books I was writing, somewhere, I would use an even larger scale, like our colleague Stéphane is doing. Also, why the Constitution? Hmm, that one is harder. I probably should choose something simpler for my first project, right? Then, the other side is, there is heaps of documentation for this one, I can tell you it was VERY hard to find useful stuff on La Belle, and I don't want to go that research route again.
Also, Old Ironsides is totally iconic, and why not consider the bottom line, I might be able to sell the thing, even incomplete as a frame hulk if I give up, or for a nice return if I complete it. Perhaps. Or something.
Enough for now, I guess. If and when I find the right place here to start a thread for the project, I'd love to exchange ideas, hear suggestions, advice, and obviously share what I find, and do, I am all for sharing knowledge.
Good sailing!
Yama