HMS victory build

Yes, they are to protect the hull and channels from the flukes of the anchor:-

from http://www.all-model.com/pages/Neophyte7.html

Yes the Professor is sadly missed, his posts were always very informative and interesting.  He is a real loss to the forum.  We are fortunate to have experts like dafi around. But still..

Best wishes,

John

That makes sense since the channels and chains were much lower then. May God bless the Prof soul.

Michael D

it might have been a guard , to protect the chain's , michael .?

I really miss the prof.  , he was such , an incredible , fountain of knowledge , as well as being such a humble man .

I think it had something to do with the anchor, but not exactly sure what?

Michael D.

I need someone to tell me what this particular piece does . I just know it is on there .

thank's mike for that , found it very interesting reading . only read page 25 , will get a nice glass of vino tonight and read the rest , cheer's mate .

steve

Steve,

According to this:

http://www.academia.edu/358814/The_Introduction_and_Use_of_Copper_Sheathing_-_A_History

the Victory was first sheathed with copper in 1780.

See page 25 just below the middle of the page with the large paragraph.

thank's ejhammer , michael ,- now I have a couple of option's .

I would like to pester the brotherhood a bit more , 1765 , would have been too early for brass plate's on the hull , right ?

steve5

I use "Birchwood Casey" brand brass black. Works on brass and solder, sometimes even on stainless wire to make it look aged, as well as copper and bronze. They also have one for blackening aluminum. I got mine at a gun dealer store.

 Yes Steve, there were 2 six pounders. I've never used any blackening agent just a black sharpie and a light touch up as needed with black paint.

I did not know that michael , did they have anything in their place ?

steve5

i

Steve I see you're going for a later date using those carronades? 1780 I believe they were in use.

Michael D

could anyone please give me a brand name , for a PE blackening agent please ,I have one that is made by master , but the slightest touch and it flake's off , thank's in advance .

steve5

I thought the carronade's , should have some sort of wheel's under it , so it could slide side to side , so I cut an old connon I had from my soleil royal , and glued them on . I think they came out OK .

thank's dafi , I still have a lot to learn about marine lingo 

I'm sorry dafi could you elaborate please , not sure what you mean ??

Wonderful!!!

XXXDAn

Already one remark for later on: The small scuttles on the lower gun port lids have to be cut off, they were introduced only much later on.

Hey Steve, I love it. You are really banging away this.

this is where I am up to guy's

Looking good Steve, I removed a 1/2" of the deck aft the fore mast. I have a measurement of 11mm from the fore leading of the grate to the center line of the fore mast opening, hope that helps.

Michael D.

had a go michael , turned it around , added some styrene under it to lift it up a shade . just got to work out how far to cut the deck back .

Steve I did switch them around based on what I saw on the McNary model along with painting the channels black and if I remember correctly had I left them i would be cutting some of the grate anyway shortening the deck. My goal is to preserve as much as the plastic as possible using very little wood as possible,IE: Lateen yard, deadeyes and Qtr deck grates.

Keep up the good work Mate!

Michael D.

thank's daniel , I was looking at michael's and wondering , when you sent the pic through ,I also wanted to ask michael , is the grate's on the forecastle deck , around the wrong way ? , you seem to have changed them !!

steve

For the chains, to be correct, it should have 3 links instead of two as in 1803.

But I do not believe that someone will realise apart from "chain-link-counters" like us ;-)

Great work!

Daniel

Hey Steve, nice work sir. Cool project too. You have a lot of patience with all those canons too!

started mucking about with the , repositioning , of the channel's , filled in the heller holes for the lower dead eye's , and I will redrill them ,

michael D

thank's for that , I just went back over what dafi sent me , what I took as back stay's were in fact 2 extra shroud's , sorry about that . 

steve5