To victory and beyond ...

[Rokket]

All of it, superb. Where to start? Th capstan weathering...perfect. The boats, perfect. So well done!

 

[GIG1810]

Hey Daniel,

You don't think of anything bad and who do you meet here? It's great that you're here and I'm really pleased.

I can't wait to see how you get on, and of course I'm also curious to see what your Victory from 1765 will look like, especially as I want to build it too. I'm currently working on my little dinghy for the Athena. I've already used a few of your parts in the dinghy. Great.

Best regards
Günther

 

[dafi]

Waiting for Godot ...

Since the geometry of the boats is highly complex, the printer has to run at the highest resolution, and that takes time ...

That's why I used the time in between to finish a few other things, or rather to give them a final polish.

All the bitts on the upper deck have now been joined by the bitts on the upper battery deck, which hold all the halyards of the main mast. Big strong things with nice rollers in the base.

Here with the swifel pump in between.

You can already admire them in the open heart of my Vic.


The matching deck beam supports. Cheaper by the dozen. A bit of drybrushing here too to modulate the shape.

Plus the small kit of the riding bitts and what you can be done with it.

And I would like to take this opportunity to out myself again: As much as I like and need high-quality tools, but often nothing beats the basics!

https://www.mediaharmonists.de/bilder/Sammler42/Victory_Main_Mast_Bitts_

[img]https://www.mediaharmonists.de/bilder/Sammler42/Sanding_tools_2997.jpg

- A sheet of sandpaper on the table and you can make smooth and even strokes when sanding

- Sandpaper stuck to wooden sticks using double-sided tape allows sanding tools to be cut to the exact width of the workpiece using the width of the sticks. Some of the sticks shown here are exactly the width of the gunports of my Constitution.

- Right-angled blocks facilitate sanding at a 90° angle.

And when the paper is blunt, a new one is put on.


And here is the guessing game of what else I have prepared

Best regards, Daniel

 

[GIG1810]

What a pleasure to meet you here. What have you conjured up again?

I bet it has something to do with an anchor or bilge?

Best regards
Günther

 

[europapete]

When you said waiting for Godot, I though Gal Gadot was arriving at your house! lolol
I have no idea what that new part is.

 

[dafi]

I had finally found the time to finish off a few little things around the stove. It was slowly becoming what I wanted

Here are two colour versions, one with a classic red brick floor and one with the typical southern English yellow-beige floor covering.

And here in the detail shots you can also see the warming trays that could be hung on the handrail of the cooker.

Of course, the stove also includes the kitchen area. I have chosen the wickerwork that can be seen on the contemporary model of the Princess Royal and others.

The whole thing is a cute little kit of 22 parts. The drive chain is twisted copper wire and the rail is bent wire, for which there is a template.

Here are a few more details:

The base plate with catch tray and tube for the fresh air supply from the deck below ...

... the stove body ...

... the holders for the skewers ...

... the distiller with all its attachments ...

... ... and the cowl, all that's missing is the round cover plate against rain and storm.

As usual, the ensemble was finished with a little diluted ink and a white drybrush, and the metal parts with a little graphite.

XXXDAn






PS: And it took me a while before I had the courage to print the warming trays directly and completely. But all the attempts to glue the holders on with holders were just horrible in the result ...

 

[shota70]

excellent work

 

[europapete]

You never fail to amaze Dan! Got the repaired prop fitted back on the old Formula yesterday, so we are back on the water

 

[dafi]

And once again I've made a mistake. This drawing from 1815 shows the loading of the large launch with barrels of drinking water.

And so, of course, I had to know how big the barrels were in order to put them in my launch. These large barrels are so-called Leaguers with the equivalent of 480 liters. So with wood, they weigh over half a ton. And then 14 of them in the boat, making well over 7 tons.

The research was somewhat difficult, as the volumes are often mentioned, but not the exact dimensions. In the meantime, I have researched the sizes of the whole family more or less reliably, so that I was able to start on the models.

Here are the 3 sizes for the model: Leaguer 480 liters, Puncheon 318 liters, Hogshead 200 liters and a small powder keg. Each in three parts, as I don't want the supports to be visible as usual.

Family picture with avatar.

And after priming and inking came the challenge: blackening the hoops.

At the back right was with the brush. On a good day, I get a few hoops, but then it's all over. , that wasn't a particularly good day anyway. So I tried the back left with a felt-tip pen, which was better, but still uneven and above all an unpleasant metallic-reddish sheen.

And in front a completely different approach, because I remembered that the prints are made of black resin. I quickly tried to see if sanding the hoops worked, and lo and behold ...

... it works like a charm!

The powder keg was given its copper hoops and light-colored withy rings and joined the others. No iron hoops on purpose, because they could cause sparks and that would be really stupid. The copper is also nicely embedded between the withy rings so that it doesn't stick out. There are wonderful artifacts showing this, recovered from the HMS Invincible, which sank in 1758.

And that brings us very close to what I wanted

XXXDAn

 

[europapete]

This is just modelling at it's best. Brilliant fix on the barrels to just sand off the rings, and to even find the details that the barrels were there in the first place. Have you tried them in your boats yet? Regards, Pete