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

[jack.aubrey]

Friday November 29th, 2009

Three new images . .

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The last deck is now ready. Here it is only positioned.

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I'm confident to be able to show new things soon, but in this period my priority is the workshop. Cheers, Jack.Aubrey.

 

[jack.aubrey]

Saturday December 5th, 2009

Comparing with my previous message I have 90% finished the installation of the 18pdr (or 12pdr) guns of the upper gun deck. Only some small details are still missing. It may seem a small advancement but there is a lot of work to do around the guns. The remaining was then finished by Sunday afternoon and I spent some time to install the last deck.
Images of this step will come in the next message.
Here below the pictures of saturday status..

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I had the opportunity to test the strength of the mounting of the gun over this deck . . very, very satisfactory.

PS: works for the workshop should be completed next monday. The inauguration is now near, at this point I believe will be done just before Christmas. Thinking positive, Jack.Aubrey

 

[jack.aubrey]

Saturday December 12th, 2009

Finally I reached the roof ......

After eight months of strong working (euphemistic term because honestly I never worked strongly) I finally installed the last deck of my cross section and I built over it the final bulwarks. Shortly, it is the same milestone as during building an house when you reach the roof level. In the images contained in this message you can view the relevant steps achieved in this last week.

The last deck, that will be fully visible, is now in place and the relative sides are finished, with four gunports and, over all, the gunwale. I am very satisfied of the work done during this week. The mast, or better the piece of wood that will become the main mast, is in place to check its proper positioning and it also sounds good.

An overall view of the fore side . . .

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A close view of the quarterdeck . . .

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A couple of images showing all the wales . . here, again, I am very satisfied of the general looking . . .

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Finally an important consideration: until now for this model I haven't used either a milligram of paint or something similar (excluding the guns and their trucks). I used only oil for wood, the same I described in this topic on Friday May 8th, 2009. Additional images will follow. Kind regards, Jack.Aubrey.

 

[jack.aubrey]

Now there are many other elements to apply on the quarterdeck, both on the deck and inside the bulwarks. Regarding the external side there are also new pieces to build and install.

In the latter case there are in particular to build and install the gunport lids.

The kit supplies metal frames where the lids can be fixed, but this is absolutely unrealistic, a genuine invention of the kit manufacturers to simplify the matter; this wasn't the way the gunports and the gunport lids were built.

So I decided since the beginning to avoid this "solution" and to "scratch build" them as they really were. It should not be a huge work, in total there are only 12 gunport lids to build. The quarterdeck has no lids. This is one advantage of a cross section model compared with the complete model . .

Having in mind the future activities, I will install them not so early. I'm defining a plan to put in the right sequence all the tasks needed to finish the hull; may be this job will remember me when I was employed as project manager . . . my preferred software of that period was Microsoft Project !

I take advantage of this message to insert new photos . .

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Cheers. Jack.

 

[jack.aubrey]

Tuesday February 2nd, 2010

It is since half december 2009 that I've interrupted any activity about shipmodeling, fully dedicated to the fitting of my "long awaited workshop".

Now, after having past an afternoon to plan the future activities for the cross section, I started to do something very easy and less demanding in term of diligence. So I started to prepare some pieces such as casks, boxes and packages. Just a couple of hours to restart the wheels.

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That's all for today. See you tomorrow, Jack.Aubrey

 

[ragove]

May 6th, 2009 - further small advancements

First let me speak about the changes I had to do on the basement. This because I discovered it was not possible to remove the model once I installed some pieces of the inside planking.

By difference with other images you can sort out the changes I made: this changes allow me to extract the model when I want.

Now let's see the new things: I have built the woodden block where the main mast will stay, after I started to install the outside planking, starting from the bottom near the keel upwards. At this point there are seven planks installed outside. This task was done with the model extracted from its base.

Last I have finished the planking inside the hull reaching the first deck, the hold.

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See you next time, Jack.Aubrey

Very nice jig.

 

[jack.aubrey]

Wednesday February 3rd, 2010

This was the second day of work spent in my new workshop. Today I worked around other elements: the main channels, or better the part of them that is contained in the cross section, and so on. In building these elements I did not used any kind of material supplied by the kit, its quality was too poor for me.

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Cheers, Jack.Aubrey

 

[jack.aubrey]

Thuesday February 4th and Friday 5th, 2010

Third and fourth consecutive days of work on the ST Cross Section in my new workshop !!

I worked outside the hull to build the boarding steps. According to the instructions this was the right time to build these elements and the method to be followed was to use two strips of sapelli, of different size and shape, glued together. I made a variant by using walnut and ebony.

Here below you can look at the boarding steps already installed, on both sides and with a coat of oil for wood applied outside. The colour of the wood is now darker, expecially over the walnut. It was only a matter of patience to build these steps.

In the background the model of San Juan Nepomuceno, from Artesania Latina, which is resting idle for several time . . someday I will resume it and first I will correct a big error I made (always by following the instructions) to plank the decks with a so dark wood. I have now the right strips, in a lighter wood, that are wonderful.

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In the next images you can see a barricade over the deck. The small pillars were supplied with the kit and are made of boxwood. I painted the handrail in light blue. It is like a personal trademark for my models . .

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Continuation . . Jack.Aubrey

 

[jack.aubrey]

I particularly like these two images. I'm now getting more used with my workshop and its light and I found the best way to shot photos . .

It seems I am close to see the chequered flag but I discover also I have a lot of new pieces to build and install. I'm too much slow . .

And at first, again, there are the guns. Some time ago I decided to build from scratch,for this last deck, the guns and their trucks.
On the real model in this position of the deck there were two different kind of guns: two of them are the traditional long guns I believe of 9 or 12 pounders. The other two were called "obuseros", a kind of carronade made in Spain and derived by the French "obusiers".

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In addition I have also to build the gunport lids, I don't want to use the metal pieces supplied. I have to make some experiments to find the best solution to apply for all of them.

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And then there are the dead eyes and the chain plates. And again the ballast, casks and parcels. The finish line is still so far . .

Cheers, Jack.Aubrey

 

[jack.aubrey]

Saturday May 7th, 2011 - Shipyard reopened

It is more than a year that all the activities about this model were stopped.

The model was in a good point of finishing but, because of a change in my plans, I paused it to begin working again on the Soleil Royal. If you look at its log you will discover I spent this year working near 100% only on it. It is tipical of my way of working . . I normally have two or three model on the yards.

So I decided to resume the Cross Section and to finish it . . sometimes it is necessary to close some projects.

After some planning to define the tasks to perform I started yesterday afternoon to do something.

The task on the top of the list was the installation of the last four guns, on the quarterdeck. This deck will be fully visible, and, for this reason, I decided to build these guns from scratch, at least partially, having in mind to use four barrels, which are right for my needs, that I found in my "spare parts wharehouse". Two barrels serve to simulate the 9pdr long guns and two for the 24pdr "obuseros". The gun trucks, instead, are totally built from scratch: in the traditional shape for the long guns and with a slide for the obuseros.

Here the work done yesterday:

- Blackening of the gun barrels with the "ad hoc" liquid;
- building of the various components of the trucks;
- assembly of the four trucks:
- first coat of red paint for the trucks.

This is only the beginning after a year of "seasoning" . . I'm keep you informed about future news. For now it is not the case to show photos.

Cheers, Jack.Aubrey.

Sunday May 8th, 2011

Saturday and today I resumed this model after a long period of inactivity.

I re-started by building the last four guns for the quarterdeck/waist/forecastle. This fourth deck (the Santisima Trinidad was at its time the only ship with four complete gun decks) received three different kinds of gun, and in the cross section there are two of them. I got these infos from the book "The ships of Trafalgar" from Peter Goodwin: each ship which fighted in that great battle is described in this book.

You can see the barrels, blackened, positioned over their trucks. The trucks are now painted and positioned on the deck. Now I will start to prepare the other details for the guns.

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Here below a more detailed image of the truck for the "obuseros" showing also the pivot where the slide below the truck is fixed to the deck.

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These pieces are now only positioned, the complete installation will follow. I'm spending some time to prepare the remaining details, details that need a lot of time to be completed.

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See you next time. Jack.Aubrey

 

[jack.aubrey]

Wednesday May 11th, 2011 - Quartedeck guns

Yesterday I continued to work around the quarterdeck guns.

I needed 5-6 hours, divided into two sessions, to reach the following result and to 95% finish the installation of the 9pdr long guns. Now I have to work around the obuseros.

To properly install the guns I should have to use some two ways blocks, but they were too big for this scale and I wasn't able to find any of them in the right scale.
So i used the one way blocks, making some changes to the way they were mounted. I made some test to scratch build them but I wasn't completely successful: similar for me to "Mission Impossible II" movie. I know only one person within my modellers circle, able to do this work but it is light years far from me . .

A new set of elements implemented are the belaying pins.
The pins supplied by the kit, again, were very poor so I found something in my "old pieces warehouse". Some adaptations were necessary to adjust the overall pins length: now they should simulate a real pin of 50/55 cm length.
On a marine terms vocabulaty I found that in average a pin was about 30 cm. long but there were two kindsof them: the belaynig pins and the spike, with the second one probably smaller then the first. It is not clear if the definition is for the pins or for the spikes.

Anyway I reproduce them, together with the guns, here below:

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See you next time, Jack.

 

[jack.aubrey]

Monday May 16th, 2011

During these last days I thought a bit on how to complete the model. I have two solutions in mind, the first is to install the complete main mast, the second, considering the height of the mast itself compared with the height of the hull, is to limit the mast to the main top.

Anyway I continued the installation of the "obuseros" and now all the four guns are close to be finished. There is just an element still missing: the recoil rope. Next time also this element will be installed.

Here below three images of the quarterdeck guns, from different viewpoints.

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Then, while I was waiting the glue used for fixing the ropes became dry, I started to install some other details I had available: casks, packages, etc.

Last I started to install definitely the ballast. I have used some small stones. On the paper it may seem a simple task but I soon discovered that it was a long, time consuming work: I needed to individually fix each piece of stone with tweezers, using vinyl glue in the proper quantity and position.
As I said, long but also relaxing and without problems at all. I had only to wait with patience the glue was dry to discover that all the stones are well fixed. Now I think to continue tomorrow with other smaller stones to obtain a more flat bed of ballast.
What is showed here below is just an idea of this unfinished ballast.

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Kind regards. Jack.Aubrey.

 

[jack.aubrey]

Three new images of the cross-section as it was last monday. Three overall viewpoints where it is possible to note that the decks are becoming crowded . .

And it is not yet finished: there are several details still missing that I will add as soon as possible. They are, for example: stepladders between the upper deck and the quarterdeck, shrouds, chain plates, casks, ropes and, more important, the gunport lids.

They are small details in term of dimensions but they need some time and efforts to be built.

In "background" I am also thinking to define a display case for this model. At this point I have 100% decided to finish it with the complete main mast. So the model will be +/- 90 cm high.

I have in mind a dislay case conceived in a way that it can be hanged at a wall as a picture. The model has a relative small depth and I believe this makes possible this kind of presentation. The ideal display case should also be planned making possible to open it in order to change the orientation of the model and show it oriented towards the prow or the poop with minimal efforts.

Kind regards, Jack.Aubrey

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[jack.aubrey]

Sunday May 22nd, 2011

Yesterday I prepared the twelve gunport lids for the first three decks. The fourth deck doesn't need them because its gun ports are always open without the lids. I will explain better in a dedicated message the process of their building.

I have also done new (and few) progresses in spite of the amount of time and work I dedicated. But let's see the new things presented in this message. The first image shows the guns of the quarterdeck finally 100% completed, including the recoil ropes.

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The next three images show the new details I prepared and installed for the hold and the area above the ballast: some great barrels, a couple of packages, boxes, reels of hawser and various kind of ropes.

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I believe it may be of interest the preparation of the reels of hawser. I've used some round pieces of wood, of different sizes, covered with adhesive tape. I have then twisted the rope around them and I kept them in place with diluted vinyl glue. The day after I extracted the rope from their support of wood and, handling them at will, I obtained the wanted shape. Finally I fixed them in their final place using, again, the vinyl glue, but not diluted. Other shapes of reels, not rounded, were obtained by wrapping up the rope around four nails hammered on a woodden tablet and by using the same technique for glueing.

That's all for today, cheers. Jack.Aubrey

 

[jack.aubrey]

. . . continuation . . .

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See all of you next time. Jack.

 

[jack.aubrey]

May 25th, 2011 - ropes and gunport lids

I finished to apply into the "belly" of the ship various reels of hawser. I made a relative positive experience with their preparation, with different sizes and shapes. I don't have images to show because I decided there is no need to bore you with similar, already published, photoes. But the realism, with these new components is becoming greater.

The other work I undertook was the building of the gunport lids. I anticipated my decision to discard the metal frames supplied with the kit and to build them from scratch. And this is what I've done. Now they are ready to be installed in place, but I would like to spend some words to explain how I built them.

The main elements used to build the lids are the following:

• square piece of plywood 13 x 13mm, 1mm thickness
• square piece of plywood 10 x 10mm, 1,5mm thickness; it is glued in the middle of the previous element
• two copper joints, arrow shaped, to fix on the external side of the lid.
• copper ringbolt, 0,75mm diameter for the gunport lid opening/closing
• a small piece of rope starting from the ringbolt and that will be inserted into a bore above the gunport, simulating the rope used to open and close the gunport.

Now I have to decide the proper moment to fix these lids to the hull . . the main concern is to identify the less risky moment to fix them.

As soon as possible I will update this log. Cheers, Jack.

May 26th, 2011 - Ropes and reels

Here below four images showing the reels of hawser installed onto the lowest decks. First two images show the model as visible from the prow and the remaining from the poop . .

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[ziled68]

Hello Jack,
Before I say anything else, "Bravo Maestro"!!! Your Santisima Trinidad looks amazing and it is the first time I've seen this particular model. I do like the way the red pops out against the darker woods. I may one day think about a cross section of this nature at 1:48 scale. Looking forward to see how you handle the gun port lids.

Ray

 

[jack.aubrey]

Hello Jack,
Before I say anything else, "Bravo Maestro"!!! Your Santisima Trinidad looks amazing and it is the first time I've seen this particular model. I do like the way the red pops out against the darker woods. I may one day think about a cross section of this nature at 1:48 scale. Looking forward to see how you handle the gun port lids.

Ray

Thank you very much for your appreciations, Jack.

 

[jack.aubrey]

May 26th, 2011 - Gun port lids

As I wrote yesterday, I built the gun port lids. I explained quite in detail the building process some messages ago. I had only to decide WHEN to apply them to the model and, obviously I had few arguments to think about to quickly decide to install them immediately !!

They are now definitely fixed in place and now there is only to insert the ropes into the holes bored in the hull and fix them with some glue to finish.

Here below some images of these details. First two are from the right side, the other from the left.

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Its useless to write I'm very satisfied of this achievement, being it my first experience to build these elements. It will also be a very useful experience when I will resume another model, the San Juan Nepomuceno.
But they will not be only 12, they are 74 or more !

See you next time, Jack.

 

[jack.aubrey]

May 28th, 2011

Two images of a series of ten I shot recently. Here below in foreground are shown the two stepladders that make in communication the upper gun deck with the quarterdeck

I'd like to enrich these ladders with some additional details, such as handrails, details that 99% were in place on the real ship. I need to identify something useful for this feature.

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Yesterday afternoon I started to prepare the chain plates with their deadeyes. Again I didn't follow the instructions and instead of the brass chains supplied in the kit I used different materials. I will show more in the next messages.

Cheers. jack.Aubrey