The Norske Love" by Noël Luc Build log

[Noël Luc]

I like the progress of your assembly, very accurate and neat. However, if you don't mind, I think the gun rigging is slightly off your nice ship. Despite the rigging blocks and rigging ropes are out of scale, you have used the blocks incorrectly. I think rigging a gun, specifically on a small scale, is a challenging task so they look OK. Sometimes, I don't even bother to fully rig the guns, and use the breeching line only. This should be a much better appearance compared to an oversized or incorrect rigging, IMHO

Again, I hope you don't mind the critics, as I understand how much time you've spent rigging those guns.

Hi Jimsky, don't worry that I can't handle criticism!! I don't see this as criticism, I see this as help for making a nice and well made scale model! This is my first ship and I knew in advance that I would make mistakes! Good that there are people who help me prevent or correct these mistakes! Earlier in my build log I mentioned that my wife helped me with the rigging! It won't be pleasant if I tell her that I gave the wrong scale of blocks and ropes (oops)!! She did indeed work on that for days!
The blocks are 7mm long, if I multiply that by the scale of the model 1/75 then I get 525mm this is more than half a meter or about 20.66 inch. I don't know how big the blocks are on a real ship but this seems way too big to me! I should have made this calculation in advance!
Now the question is what I'm going to do. I have already searched on the internet for many pictures of model ships and some of them also had cannons where many blocks and ropes of the cannons were very close to each other and that is indeed not so nice and too much!
When the time comes that I will mount the cannons on the ship I will see how it looks and if that is not ok then I will remove the ropes! I hope with that decision my marriage will still stand! (joke)!
Can you tell me what "breeching" is? and what you want to say with IMHO?

 

[Jimsky]

I am glad you've responded to my post and treated it more as help rather than criticism.

IMHO (In My Humble Opinion)

In the Navy, "breeching ropes" refers to a sturdy rope used to control the recoil of a cannon on a ship by attaching it to the gun's rearmost part (cascabel) and securing it to the ship's structure, essentially preventing the gun from flying backward after firing; essentially acting as a brake against the recoil force during firing on a historic naval vessel.
Key points about breeching ropes:

• Function: To restrain the backward movement of a cannon after firing.
  
  
• Attachment point: The rope is typically wrapped around the "cascabel," the knob at the rear of the cannon barrel.
  
  
• Historical context: Primarily used on sailing ships with large cannons, where managing recoil was crucial.

Check this out:

Question about cannon breeching lines

Hi, New to wooden ships, and currently doing the HMS Fly. Just started detailing the cannons and have a question about the breeching lines. I see photos of cannons with the breech line wrapped around the Cascable and others where the breech line goes through a loop on top of the Cascable. What...

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Here are some photos from the model made by Dan our member @dafi




Hope the provided information will help a bit, and should keep you busy for quite some time reading & learning

 

[Noël Luc]

Thanks Jim for the pictures and additional explanation!
In the meantime I finished the sides with the openings for the 4 cannons on the front deck!

 

[Noël Luc]

Hello everyone, I have started to finish the railings of the ship! That is not so easy! I use a lot of the pictures of Dean62 to see how I would do this best! The pieces I need for that are in the kit but I could not use them. So I went looking for the necessary planks of the right width and thickness myself!
The pictures show how far I am. Hopefully the further construction will also succeed!
Greetings from Belgium

 

[Noël Luc]

Hello, here is an update of my build log! I am working further on the back of the boat. This is not so easy when you do it for the first time!! What I have done so far did not always fit well but I hope that the final result is good enough! First I connected the lights (LEDs) and mounted the lights at the back with the decorative arch! The lights work great and that will be nice when the boat is finished! I also installed and connected lights behind the windows! The next step will be finishing the balcony. Not easy! When this is all done I want to prepare the boat for further staining, I still have a lot of things to think about and how I can do that best! We will see! I hope you like my pictures! Tips and suggestions are always welcome! Greetings from Belgium

 

[Peter Gutterman]

Hello, here is an update of my build log! I am working further on the back of the boat. This is not so easy when you do it for the first time!! What I have done so far did not always fit well but I hope that the final result is good enough! First I connected the lights (LEDs) and mounted the lights at the back with the decorative arch! The lights work great and that will be nice when the boat is finished! I also installed and connected lights behind the windows! The next step will be finishing the balcony. Not easy! When this is all done I want to prepare the boat for further staining, I still have a lot of things to think about and how I can do that best! We will see! I hope you like my pictures! Tips and suggestions are always welcome! Greetings from Belgium

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Adding the interior light makes her especially appealing!

 

[Noël Luc]

Hello everyone! You haven't heard from me for a while, we were in Austria for 14 days with the whole family for a nice holiday!
I also participated together with a colleague boat builder in an exhibition that was organized in three municipalities! Different hobbies such as painters, draftsmen, woodworkers, embroidery, crochet, lace making, many other hobbies and we as model builders could show their work to the visitors in their own workspace! Here are some pictures of the things that I, my wife and my colleague exhibited!