Hello friends,
I didn't want to include this part of the construction process of Manfred's Victory in the Victory thread here on SoS, because it should only show the pictures of the finished process.
Manfred spent a long time looking for the best, if not perfect, wood for building boats. After years he believed he had found it in rosewood, that is the wood of the rose bush or rose tree. One day his son dug up a dead rose bush and asked his father if he could use the wood for model making. When he had still not looked at the wood after 3 years, his son threatened to throw it away. Then he finally took a look at the wood and found that it was the perfect wood.
Translation (text in the first picture): For a long time I was looking for the right wood to build the boats. It should look like oak in scale. After years of searching, I found it in a dead rose bush. The cross-section showed me the structure I had been looking for for so long.
Translation (text in the third picture): The trunk is first divided in 4 parts (red lines) then you can saw the planks according to the scheme in the first quarter. In this way the planks get standing rings.
Translation (picture on the right): In contrast to oak, the wood is very elastic and flexible. It can be bent easily without water and heat.
Translation (above, pic on the left): I made the pinasse and the barque in 2 copies. 1) The keel is clamped here in the slipway. 2) The frames are partially inserted,
Pictures of the finishing will follow
Greetings, Hartmut
I didn't want to include this part of the construction process of Manfred's Victory in the Victory thread here on SoS, because it should only show the pictures of the finished process.
HMS Victory by Manfred Burkert, Scale 1:57
Hello friends, in this last part of my presentation of Manfred's model I'll concentrate on the crew. Some of the crew members were made after the 40 year's building period of the model and the core crew, that means after 2012. If you have a closer look on them you can see, that each figure has...
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Manfred spent a long time looking for the best, if not perfect, wood for building boats. After years he believed he had found it in rosewood, that is the wood of the rose bush or rose tree. One day his son dug up a dead rose bush and asked his father if he could use the wood for model making. When he had still not looked at the wood after 3 years, his son threatened to throw it away. Then he finally took a look at the wood and found that it was the perfect wood.
Translation (text in the first picture): For a long time I was looking for the right wood to build the boats. It should look like oak in scale. After years of searching, I found it in a dead rose bush. The cross-section showed me the structure I had been looking for for so long.
Translation (text in the third picture): The trunk is first divided in 4 parts (red lines) then you can saw the planks according to the scheme in the first quarter. In this way the planks get standing rings.
Translation (picture on the right): In contrast to oak, the wood is very elastic and flexible. It can be bent easily without water and heat.
Translation (above, pic on the left): I made the pinasse and the barque in 2 copies. 1) The keel is clamped here in the slipway. 2) The frames are partially inserted,
Pictures of the finishing will follow
Greetings, Hartmut
