ZHL Royal Caroline Kit, scale 1/30

[Maarten]

Hi Greg,

From a wise man I have read: The only limitations that are on you, are the ones that you put on yourself.
Of course you can.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

regs Maarten

 

[neptune]

G'day Mike, thanks for dropping in and viewing my build, hope you have a great Christmas and Healthy Prosperous New Year,

best regards John.

 

[neptune]

That is a lot of work to get it to fit right. really nice work.

Hi Gary,thanks for your visit and comments, I hope you have a great Christmas and Healthy Prosperous New Year,

best regards John.

 

[neptune]

fabulous work as usual John.

Thank you Brian, your support and the support of the other members is much appreciated, I must get around to viewing all your build logs as well, been having a bit of a tuff time with my Admiral in Hospital and this hobby helps keep me sane, hope you have a great Christmas and Healthy Prosperous New Year,

best regards John.

 

[neptune]

G'day John
AGAIN mate another in-depth analysis of your GREAT progress. I thank you so much, because you have given me 2 areas to be completely sure of BEFORE I even start my model.
I can see what you mean about 3 planks going to 2 above the top wale. I havta think very hard about that and also extending the hull.
You have given all of the future RC builders your wisdom and your 'if I could do it over again' foresight, freely. This is an example that I will endeavour to do in my own log.
Thank you again my friend.
Hope you talk to you soon.
Havagooday
Greg

G'day Greg, I'm sure you will do fine and probably outshine my RC with all the modifications you plan, its nice to have three Royal Caroline builds going at one time, and all with there own interpretations, will talk later, hope you have a great Christmas and Healthy Prosperous New Year,

best regards John.

 

[neptune]

Hi John,

Good to see in all your projects that the RC is also progressing rapidly, you are leading the way for us.
You mentioned on the carvings that indeed opening have to be opened up, I am in the mean time also working on these on the side, see this picture. I also try to enhance the 3d effect of these by also shaping the reverse side of the carvings of legs, arms etc. It realy takes hours and hours to get the carvings right, but its realy worth the process Boxwood carvings.JPG
I have seen differences in the thickness of the carvings and was thinking the adjust the thickness on my band sander, have you considered this or done this? For the carvings on the lower end of the stern I have done some tests with replacing them with paintings which I printed on decall paper, but this wasn't a succes, so i now have the idea to sand these back to a real thin carving and shape them round on the aft side to nicely fit them on the lower part of the stern. Maybe you already had a look at these also as you're way ahead in the building process.

regs Maarten

G'day Maarten, yes I agree with you that some of the carvings are thicker than some of the others, I used sanding sticks that I made up to reduce some of them, but due to the length you have to be careful that you end up with a flat surface for attaching them to the ships side, I cleaned up the carvings but I have not rounded them off like you are doing, they should look really good, to get the carving that attaches to below the Focsle deck I had to do several light cuts through the back of the carvings to be able to bend them round the front and the carvings I have for the lower transom are quite thick as well, but I do not know if they would survive going through a bandsaw or thicknesser, I am going to glue various grades of sand paper to blocks and try and rub them down that way.
Any way that is part of the fun of our hobby solving all these little problems, you take care and have a Wonderful Christmas and a Healthy, Happy and Prosperous New Year,

best regards John.

 

[neptune]

To-day I finished painting the fore capping rails, see the next pics.

 

[Peglegreg]

G'day John
The black on the fore capping rails really brings its all out so good. It's amazing what colour (I know black is not a colour) can do when it's painted.
Talk to you soon and havagooday my friend.
Greg

 

[neptune]

I have now waxed and attached the port wreaths and carvings between the gun ports, on the Port side of the ship.



Have also attached the carvings on the beak head.


close up view with flash.



And a close up view without flash, you can clearly see the difference in the colours.

 

[Peglegreg]

G'day John
I must say again, a brilliant job as normal. I must sound like s broken record, but what else can I say?
Ome question though, what is the correct colour of the carvings, the rose red or the gold looking one or last photo without flash.
Havagooday tomorrow mate
Greg

 

[Sgtmik]

Hi John,
Really beautiful work on your carvings. They really add to the ship.

 

[neptune]

Thanks Mike and Greg for your nice comments, the colour all depends which light you get her in, the one without flash is more natural,

best regards John.

 

[neptune]

Just a couple of close ups of the carvings, the carvings that are shown in the round or I suppose 3D are milled out of two pieces as these are and then glued together.



These two are milled out of one piece.



And again the Knights heads are milled out of two pieces.

 

[neptune]

Had a little break from the Royal Caroline for about a week, been catching up with one of my Tug builds,







Getting her ready to go on the pond after Christmas.

 

[neptune]

OK so back to the Royal Caroline, to have a change from the carvings I decided to have a go at the ships boat, egged on by Greg the Peg Leg.
There are two sheets of parts for the boat, this is the first, it has all the frames and building board plus the oars and the side decorations.



This is the second board, it has all the finer pieces on it.



The building board laid out



The building board assembled



These are the mould frames for building the planking over, you can see the etched on guide lines to show where the frames have to be beveled.



The frames that needed beveling have been done and all the frames assembled on the Jig



There are four parts that make up the stem stern and keel, and there is also the transom that is planked



The transom has been glued to the stern post



Then this unit is placed over the framing Jig, everything was a great fit.



This is a snapshot of the video showing you where to attach the first plank



First plank attached.



How they supply the planks, there are eleven planks to each side.

 

[neptune]

Two planks each side,



Two planks each side another view




Now four each side


View from the transom end



Full length view



Just over half way with six planks each side.

 

[Sgtmik]

Hi John,
Very nice looking boat. What is the blue tape for?

 

[neptune]

Thanks Mike, the tape is there to hopefully stop any stray glue gluing the planks to the wooden mould underneath, but in case they do stick, they have laser cut through certain sections of the mould frames so it should be easy to break them out. I have attached a pic below which shows the lasered cuts down through the middle of the bulkhead frames and along the bottom of them.



Wishing you a Happy Healthy and Prosperous New Year,

best regards John.

 

[Sgtmik]

Hi John,
That's a good idea with the tape I will give it a go. Thank you for the New Year wish. My bride and I wish you and yours Happiness, Good Luck, Long Life, and Prosperity for the New.
Realy nice work.

 

[neptune]

Every thing was going fine with the planking till I got to the eight plank, then No 8 plank was going all over the place at the transom end, to fix it I had to cut the plank in half, then glue the front part and then plane and sand the after part to fit, see next pic.




No 8 plank after planing and sanding, it could have been a mistake I made on the earlier planks, but I had to do exactly the same on the other side.




Then the No 9 plank went on Ok.





There is supposed to be eleven planks aside but I made it in ten, so I suppose that I must have had them a little bit more apart than I should have, but for the No 10 plank I had to cut a new plank a little bit wider than theirs, just hope I do not get any nasty surprises because of it.




Cutting the No 10 plank, I'm right handed so how did I take the photo and hold the camera and cut the plank, see next pic.




Look Mum no hands.





Thats the last plank on each side, now to remove the hull from the Jig.






This and the next two pics show the hull free from the Jig, it came off quiet easily



upside down view