Santìsima Trinidad (Cross Section) by Jack.Aubrey - De Agostini Partwork- Scale 1:90

[Galley Slave]

looking damn good Jack.

 

[jack.aubrey]

looking damn good Jack.

Many thanks Tony for your appreciation.
Regards, Jack.

 

[jack.aubrey]

Wednesday July 8th, 2009

I finished the installation of the four guns, this afternoon I want to continue with some other minor pieces to install on this deck, such as stairs and pillars, and to place the beams of the intermediate gun deck.

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See you as soon as I will have new thing to show. Jack.Aubrey

 

[jack.aubrey]

Friday July 10th, 2009

Now that the guns are over, I could restart with the next deck. Here below the two elements of this deck ready to be installed. The image shows the upper and the lower side together, in particular, for the lower side i repeated the "admiralty style" trick. These elements are soaked with oil for wood.

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The next image shows what should become the final base for this model. Onestly I don't like it at all and, at the right time, I will have the problem to "invent" a display case for this model in order to keep it far from dust and other dangers.

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Before installing the new deck I need to complete something on the lower deck, such as installing the pillars and a stairs . .

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This is the last opportunity to look at the guns of the lower deck. When I will install the intermediate deck, it will be more difficult to see them as now . . someone can at this point ask to himself: why this huge work if you can see only a few part of it ? But the importanti thing for a ship modeler's mind is not to see it but to know that it is there . .

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Now I think it is time for summer holidays and I will forget ship modelling for at least two/three weeks. The shipyard will reopen in August (keep in mind that I'm describing something happened 4 years ago, so take care of the date at the bebinning of the message). Cheers, Jack.

 

[jack.aubrey]

Monday August 17th, 2009

I was back from holidays in the first days of August, but there was a very hot weather and it was very difficult to find the will to work. Only in these last three/four days the weather cooled down, in particular during the early hours of the morning, before breakfast, when I decided to restart the shipyard.

So i repeated the similar tasks I made on the lower deck also for this intermediate deck, starting with the structure of the gun ports, painting the guns and the trucks, installing other simple elements and planking the outside bulwarks.

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After I worked inside the hull, preparing the structure for the internal planking . .

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and after the necessary refinements I completed one half of the internal bulwarks, applying red coloured strips 5x2

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I'm still in the process to finish the internal sides, copleted only on the right . . here a whole viewpoint image . .

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Additional images will follow, cheers, Jack.Aubrey

 

[jack.aubrey]

Friday August 21st, 2009

Here follow four new images of the model.
Since last Monday I didn't work on the model because the weather is really impossible. I don't have at home an air-conditioner (my women, wife and daughters, didn't want to install it in 2004, to avoid to pollute) so I found relief going to supermarkets and shopping centers . . where the air conditioning is free, you can eat at low cost, you can make shopping and see people, nice or ugly, . . that probably had my same idea to stay fresh . .

Here below her majesty Reàl Armada Navio "Nuestra Senora De La Santìsima Trinidad":

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See you soon. Jack.Aubrey

 

[jack.aubrey]

Thurday September 3rd, 2009

The weather is finally less warm and it is now possible to restart working around the cross section. Here below the main achievements:

a) stairway to connect the lower deck to the intermediate deck. Nothing particularly difficult but I installed it in a reversed order, so the steps are not well right aligned . .

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Beams and pillars of the upper gun deck ready to be installed. In the image these elements are only positioned just to take photos but they are not fixed. Before doing so I have to install the four guns of the intermediate deck.

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Long 24 pdr guns: I have prepared two of them . . here I have planned two tackles instead of one to pull back the gun. I have used barrells and trucks as supplied with the kit. I painted the barrels and the trucks and i bored the truck to install the four blocks for the tackles.

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See you next time, Jack.Aubrey.

 

[jack.aubrey]

Thursday September 4th, 2009

Here are five new images of my cross section model. I continued my work around the remaining guns for this deck and I began to plank the two elements that will become the upper gun deck. They are not immediately usable now, but only after I will have installed the 24pdr guns and finished the intermediate deck.

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Cheers. Jack.Aubrey

 

[jack.aubrey]

Wednesday September 9th, 2009

I have now finished the upper gun deck, with planks above and beams below and now I cannot pospone the installation of the four 24pdr guns before any other task. But I am not much eager to start this task . . so I decided to try a customization not planned within the kit: the copper plating of the quickwork.

I made some test on a piece of unusable wood (it was a mistake while planking a deck) I used for this test the cyan-acrilate glue both in the liquid version and in the gel version. The gel demonstrated better usable, but it is more expensive. I will retain the material from this test to experiment a couple of ageing tecniques suggested me by some people.

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Then, having decided to proceed with copper plating, I bought the coppers plates (+/- 360) required in a modelling shop and started to work on the model. I found plates that have a dimension that should reasonably match the scale of this cross section (1:90). Here below some images of the plates applied on the hull. The work is relatively easy and relaxing. The exceeding part of the plates can be detached the day after with scissors and refined with a sanding block.

It is important to apply the right quantity of glue, the exceeding one must be removed as soon as possible and as well as possible otherwise may interfere with the ageing procedure. The whole task is very repetitive but relaxing, with the help of some good music in the background . . this at least for a cross section, copper plating an entire hull should be surely another thing.

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See you soon, Jack.Aubrey

 

[jack.aubrey]

Monday September 14th, 2009

I spent the weekend to work as a tiler !

Here below the quickwork with the all the copper plates applied. I wrote "all" also if honestly the plates around the keel are missing. But I cannot install them now. The price to pay is a new basement, I imagine you can easily understand why, and I don't want to build another basement now. I prefer to wait until the right moment, so I have stored the remaining plates to finish later to cover the keel.


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And now I cannot walk around my destiny, now I have to take care of the four guns.

I have also decided to leave the copper as it is, without trying any ageing technique for now, just to see what happens with a natural oxidation, I can wait and see without problems for a couple of months or more.

Cheers. Jack.Aubrey.

 

[jack.aubrey]

Monday September 21st, 2009

Closed for now the break with the copper plates, I'm back to show new achievements on the Santisima Trinidad's cross section.

And all the latest news are coming from the installation of the guns. I finally took the will to proceed with them and, after a week of hard work and lot of patience I finished today also this step. I made very few changes to the method used for my previous experience, but this allowed me to work in a more productive way. I also used a different kind of thread that seems to me more realistic.

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The guns are glued to the deck with the cyan-acrilate, gel version. But I am afraid this glue may not be the best glue for this kind of joint. It is the same I used for the lower deck but I have in mind a change for this task that I will use for the incoming upper gun deck.

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I'm thinking to a change that consists of boring the truck and the deck in order to insert a metal nail inside. This nail, while not visible, will fix better the truck to the deck, avoiding that an accidental blow will detach the truck. Another alternative may probably be the use of epoxy glue instead of cyan-acrilate. I think it has to be said: the power of experience . . .

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Another intersting task was the building of the rolls of rope . . it's a long way to explain but the result satisfies me.

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I have also painted the ringbolts with gun metal enamel, much more realistic that leaving them brass coloured. I'm happy of the overall result, but it is possible to do better. Probably in the next deck . .

See you next time, Jack.

 

[jack.aubrey]

Wednesday September 23rd, 2009

Now that the guns of this deck are all definitely positioned, I go further to new tasks. And now there are to install the beams and other elements, including the upper gun deck where the 18pdr guns (or 12pdr, I don't remember exactly) will be positioned.

Until now I have definitely installed the orange pillars and the deck beams, the new thing in the next message.

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See you next time, Jack.Aubrey.

 

[jack.aubrey]

Friday September 25th, 2009

Before starting the Santìsima Trininad's cross section I worked for about a couple of years on the entire model, always from De Agostini. But, when I arrived to finish the hull of this model, the missing things were "only" masting and rigging, I decided, for a crazy idea I had for another project, to sell it. I had quite no difficulties to buy it to another modeler that said to have problems to build the hull (space, location, dust, etc) but was very interested to continue from the point I left it.

Next week this modeler sent me some images of the finished model, completed with masts, sails and rigging and I am happy to share them with you. The model is completed 99%, but I believe the remaining 1% are very few details.

The entire models sounds very well to me, although the images don't allow a complete review of the smallest details. I have only some concerns about the sails that should be presented in a more realistc way. I suggest for this task the book from Lennarth Petersson "Rigging Period Ship Models", Chatham Publishing.

So, my sincere congratulations to Andrea, the ship modeler that cempleted this huge vessel. Cheers, Jack.Aubrey.

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[jack.aubrey]

Friday September 25th, 2009

The two planked ply woods that make up the upper gun deck are now completed and I show them here below only positioned. This just to see/show the look and to understand what will be visible and not on the underlying deck. This look will allow me to eventually adjust something. As I supposed, it is possible to see only a few part of the big efforts I lavished . . but what it really matters is to know that they are there, also if you don't see them . .

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In the next message I will show the deck installed and finished. This work was done during the weekend but I wasn't able to get photos. See you next time, Jack.Aubrey.

 

[jack.aubrey]

Monday October 5th, 2009

As anticipated today I can shoot some images of the section with the upper gun deck definitely applied. These images are not the maximum in terms of creativity, by now they seems all the same. But the model is not too big and the focus of the photocamera embraces totally it, so there is few space for fantasy. Anyway it is only in this repetitive way that I can show the changes happened, changes that often are minimal but in this way recognisable.

The lower side of the deck is finished in the same "admiralty looking" of the others . . nothing new here, if you want to go in deep on this matter please review my older messages.

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In this second image I begin to find a certain flaw that, now that I'm approaching the top of the hull, becomes more visible. I don't point it out but I invite the readers to find it . . and to comment at will.

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Here below it is also possible to see some copper plates, until now not artificially aged at all, that start to change naturally . . some time is passed and I'm curious to see if the natural ageing can become the best solution. If not I will use an ageing technique I was told by some italian ship modelers.

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I have to find some pellets, probably in a shop for weapons, the number supplied with the kit are not enough . .

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Greetings, Jack.Aubrey

 

[jack.aubrey]

The following image shows how the quickwork should appear if aged with winegar and sand. I had this info by a friend and works in the following way: mix up in a glass winegar with sand; then "paint" with this mixture the copper plates and leave to dry. I was suggested to wait 24 hours and then to repeat this application several times until you reach the wanted result. Another method instructs to add some salt . .

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The image was taken Friday September 25th, 2009 at a models exibition near Milan, Italy. Cheers, Jack.Aubrey.

 

[jack.aubrey]

Thursday October 15th, 2009

During these past ten days I did not work too much about ship modeling. I had too many things to do and, on the top of them, there was the planning for setting up a workshop for me. I have found the way to modernise a floor in the house of my mother in law (it is a single-family home/villa on two levels), more precisely the lower level or basement. It is near where I live and I think it is the right solution for my needs. The floor is 100 square meters and my plan is to modernise it and to setup a room of +/- 16-20 quare meters as my workshop.

Anyway, while organizing this major task I found some time to progress a little, by preparing the sides of the upper deck using the same method applied till now. Here some new images of the model as it is now:

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to be continued . . .

 

[jack.aubrey]

Continuation . . .

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That's all for now, see you soon, Jack.Aubrey.

 

[jack.aubrey]

November 22nd, 2009

It is some weeks I have other things to do and I was not able to work of the cross section regularly. So I have nothing to show and write about this model. The main part of the time I didn't spent on shipmodeling was related to the activities to setup my long awaited workshop. Let's say a "WORKSHOP in capital letters: it measures 4,5 x 3,5 meters, with all the comforts needed and not needed such as heating, daylight and artificial light, privacy, space, bath, beer, music and more . . launch planned just before Christmas, fully operational from mid January.

So, I have nothing to show, but I thought to honour a ship modeler friend that has finished some weeks ago this huge spanish vessel starting from the same De Agostini kit.

These images demonstrate that it is possible to build high quality models starting from kits: what is important is to have the right talent and skill, to read up and find the maximum informations about the model and find and implement the right enhancements that may be identified for the model. And this is what has been done with this model, in particular way for masting and rigging, taking documentation from important books such as "Historic Ship Models" by Wolfram zu Mondfeld or "Rigging Period Ship Models" by Lennarth Petersson.

The result is here below, the rigging is particularly highlighted in these images by the dark background.

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[jack.aubrey]

Friday November 27th, 2009

Two months are past since my last message showing some progresses on the cross section. Few things were done since that message. During this period I was deeply involved in the restructuring of my workshop. Here below two images of the status of these works. Images are not the best but it's possible to understand what's happening.

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Anyway something was also done for my Santisima Trinidad section and this few things are worth to be shown.

Here you can see again the guns . . this happens at every deck. This time I used a new method to fix them on the deck. I have bored the trucks and the deck to insert a nail. Then I used the epoxy glue instead of the cyan. The combination of both is powerful.

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See you next time, Jack.Aubrey