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Having at the moment nothing more to show because the next step is to procure the wood I need and start working to cut the hull pieces, inside this post I would like to show some images of paintings of the two previously mentioned brigs CURIEUX and LE MILAN. Good reading, Jack. Figure 01 - Source National Maritime MuseumBrick%20de%2024%20Plans/Curieux-02_zpse18bd0a0.jpg  Title: "Cutting out the 'Curieux' at Martinique, 3 February 1804"The French brig sloop ‘Curieux’ was fitted out at Martinique in order to attack British interests. As she was a threat to British West Indian commerce, the British Commodore Hood gave orders for her capture. Under the command of Lieutenant Robert Carthew Reynolds four boats with 60 seamen and 12 marines set out on a moonlit night from the British ship ‘Centaur’. This meant a 20-mile row to reach the ‘Curieux’ lying under the protection of the guns of Fort Edward.
When Reynolds’s barge came in under the stern of the ‘Curieux’ he found that, providentially, a rope ladder hung down the side. He scaled it and cut a hole in the anti-boarding nets to enable his men to pour on board. Before she was taken the French lost nearly 40 killed and wounded. The British had nine wounded and Reynolds, who was one of them, subsequently died of his wounds. On the right side of the picture the ‘Curieux’ is shown just before her capture. Her anti-boarding netting is clearly visible. The sailors can be seen loosing her sails and cutting her cable, while the guns of Fort Edward are firing. A moon shines between her masts and in the left foreground another battery is in action.
The painting is signed and dated ‘F. Sartoruis 1805’.Figure 02 - Source National Maritime MuseumBrick%20de%2024%20Plans/Curieux-01_zps4eef5ad6.jpg  Title: "HMS Curieux captures the Dame Ernouf, 8 February 1805"'HMS Curieux' captures the 'Dame Ernouf', 8 February 1805' by Francis Sartorius. Signed lower right.Figure 03 - Source National Maritime MuseumBrick%20de%2024%20Plans/Curieux-03_zps26efe957.jpg  Title: View of St John's Harbour, Antigua; the fleet at anchor and the 'Curieux' brig making sail with dispatches for England [12 June 1805]The last, but seventh in order of events, in series of ten drawings (PAF5871–PAF5874, PAF5876, PAF5880–PAF5881 and PAF5883–PAF5885) of mainly lesser-known incidents in Nelson's career, apparently intended for a set of engravings. Pocock's own description of this drawing in a letter of 9 July 1810 calls it 'a view of St Johns Harbour Antigua taken on the spot by myself with the Fleet at Anchor – the "Curieux" Brig (in the foreground) making sail with dispatches for England. Here though there is no fighting I thought the anxiety and promptitude of Lord Nelson wou'd be exemplified, and with a Correct View of Antigua wou'd give the Whole [set] a Variety.' Nelson's 'Victory' is in stern view to the right of 'Curieux', beyond the intervening rowing boat. Pocock's personal knowledge and drawing(s) of Antigua of course dated from his time as a Bristol sea captain, ending about 1778, not that of the incident shown. This was during the pre-Trafalgar chase to the West Indies, in early summer 1805, where Nelson failed to find Villeneuve's Franco-Spanish Fleet, which had already sailed again for Europe. On 12 June he sent home the 'Curieux' from Antigua with dispatches, to update the Admiralty, before his fleet pursued. By chance, 'Curieux' distantly sighted and overtook the enemy near the Azores, realized they were heading for Ferrol in north-western Spain, not Cadiz, and brought that vital news back to Lord Barham at the Admiralty, ahead of Nelson's return. For the rather complex circumstances of the commissioning of these ten drawings, and Pocock's related letters, see 'View of St Eustatius with the '"Boreas"' (PAF5871). Signed by the artist and dated in the lower left. Exhibited: NMM Pocock exhib. (1975), no. 52.Figure 04 - Source National Maritime MuseumBrick%20de%2024%20Plans/LeMilan-01_zpsea137387.jpg  Title: La Corvette Le Milan (de St Malo) pour suivie par la Fregate Angloise, L' EndymionThere are no comments on this painting. It is a hand-colored lithograph by Lemercier Bernard, Perrot Ferdinand Victor and Victor Delarue. Dimensions: 285 mm x 396 mm
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Saturday, August 30, 2014Yesterday afternoon I decided to start to cut out the keel and the bulkheads. For the bulkheads I went, during the morning, in a timber warehouse where I had cut about thirty tablets of poplar plywood (5mm thick and measuring 15 x 20cm). Considering the amount of cuts to perform I setup the power Proxxon jigsaw that I show here below Brick%20de%2024%20Plans/IMG_2280_zps740fa05b.jpg  Before working seriously I printed a couple of bulkheads and pasted them on a 5mm plywood that I already had in the workshop. Why this ? Just to avoid to waste the precious tablets bought in the morning. I had the need to become familiar with the power jigsaw which is a tool that, like as some wild horses, cannot be guided too easily and you need to know him better, otherwise it goes where he wants. . So I cut out a couple of bulkheads, with results not so much satisfactory. Then I repeated a few more tests to improve the result coming to the conclusion that I would have used the power tool for straight and slightly curved cuts but not when it was necessary to cut tight curves or corners. In this latter two cases I prefer to use the manual jigsaw. So I started to cut the three elements that make up the keel, work that I managed quite well and I used, during the refining phases, the bulkheads I cut previously just to evaluate all the joints: some were right since the beginning, others I had to adjust them with a flat file. So happily, I planned to close this first day on this new model at the pub with a nice beer . . when, at the last moment I said, "let's try one of the tablets 15 x 20". And I've had a nice surprise: instead of being 5mm thick the tablets were 6mm !!!!! GOOD START. . HOPE A LUCKY PROJECT . . Briefly all the joints on the keel would be widened, but being the keel made with a 7 layers birch plywood, rather hard, it is not so easy to remove 0.5mm on both sides of each joint, so I cursed the timber warehouse and I went to get my beer, as you can presumably imagine, a little nervous . . In the evening, however, I decided to redo from scratch the keel with the joints of the right width and, since I had already got to realize that all the frames included in the first project version are probably too many for a POB hull, I decided to reduce them in number, while maintaining the same number only fore and aft. This morning I already changed the AutoCAD design and when I'll resume the will to breathe sawdust I'll just make them again. For now, I propose the new version of the keel: Brick%20de%2024%20Plans/V015Brick24Keel_zpsa04a44c3.jpg  See you again soon, Jack.Aubrey.
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Thursday, Sept. 4rd, 2014
Yesterday afternoon I resumed the work, after having prepared a new keel layout as explained in my previous message.
This time my confidence with the scroll saw was better and I obtained probably a much better result than during my first attempt.
The joints seem to be perfect and now I need to put together the three elements of the keel on a "very flat surface". I'll do that this afternoon.
As flat surface I use some plates of glass of 10mm thickness. they are what remains of a acquarium tank I build several years ago when I practiced that hobby. This glass plates are perfect for these usages.
I spent this morning looking for the spray adhesive such as 3M PhotoMount but without success. It seems the best way is to buy on the internet . . in the meantime I have used the alternative solution: the paper adhesive stick. It's probably more time consuming to use but anyway it works perfecly.
I remove the paper, when no more useful, by laying over the piece a wet cloth for some time and the paper comes away easily.
That's all for today. Cheers, Jack.
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Saturday, September 6, 2014Yesterday I assembled the three elements that make up the false keel. To do this I glued the three pieces by placing them over a glass plate I previously described and I let dry for a few hours under the weight of two other glass plates. Then I glued the plywood reinforcements to be applied on both sides of the joint, pressing them with clamps. Then I prepared the side structure for the hollows for the masts, so that they are already usable right now and perfectly aligned to the keel. The cut out for the foremast is vertical, while that for the mainmast is tilted slightly towards the stern. Once assembled these last two items, I begun to prepare the building slip assembly, which will accompany this model from now until I will start to apply the planks on the quickwork. Until then, its main purpose will be to hold the keel aligned during the installation of the bulkheads, the reinforcements for the hull structure, the upper deck and the external planking to the waterline: in short, probably for a few months. Two views of the keel. . 01 Brick%20de%2024%20Plans/P1090952_zps5a275315.jpg  02 Brick%20de%2024%20Plans/P1090953_zps0f4065c1.jpg  A few scattered pieces, more than anything else to become familiar with the scrollsaw. . not to be used on the model because the thickness is not right. 03 Brick%20de%2024%20Plans/P1090951_zps6e0caaf0.jpg  And finally the building slip, finished and waiting for the glue to dry completely . . I've reused the base I built for the 12 Apostles, while I redid the vertical supports. 04 Brick%20de%2024%20Plans/P1090954_zps427eab35.jpg  See you tomorrow, Jack.
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continuation. . Here below the keel inserted into the assembly base, with two small rods inserted into the slots of the two masts, and two "exercise" bulkheads in place just to give the idea that there is something more . . . 01 Brick%20de%2024%20Plans/P1090955_zps5410c7cc.jpg  02 Brick%20de%2024%20Plans/P1090956_zps713f170c.jpg  03 Brick%20de%2024%20Plans/P1090957_zpse540cc02.jpg  04 Brick%20de%2024%20Plans/P1090958_zpse1ace459.jpg  05 Brick%20de%2024%20Plans/P1090959_zpsa0dbedf5.jpg  Tomorrow I'll go for three/four days in Pisa with my daughter, so do not expect news shortly. Sincerely, Jack.
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Jack that is some very lovely building you have underway. Some very produced parts you gave started with her - looking forward to seeing this one cone together. Hope you have a nice few days away in Pisa Happy Modelling
BUILDING: Hachette Spitfire Mk 1A, Constructo Mayflower
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Wednesday, September 17, 2014After a few days of inactivity due to a dental intervention that I cannot define as "simple routine", today I felt able to resume works without taking risks and so I started to cut out the bulkheads of the brig. Usual method: printing of the bulkheads using my computer with AutoCAD, gluing the paper over the plywood and cutout of the piece with the scrollsaw . . except ending the day using the coping saw which I found to need less time overall. Let me better explain: using the scroll saw, which as I already had occasion to write is not a simple tame horse, I'm forced to go rather slowly in order to avoid to do damages, and, always for the same reason, I cut a little generous. As a result I have a lot of work with a file and sanding blocks, making a lot of fine powder very annoying. However at the end the bulkhead is near perfect. But then I realized that, having to work on rather soft poplar plywood, if I use the coping saw, it takes me more or less the same time to cut but the result is 99.5% accurate, and consequently the finishing stage is minimal and I save a lot of time. Moral: I save time with the same result. Now, I do not mean that manually is better than with the powertool, but in this case, thanks to favorable circumstances, it proved to me the best method. So I guess for the remaining bulkheads to proceed manually. Finally here below shown the frames ready, the first six from the bow. They are dry mounted on the keel to make sure everything is well in place. 01 Brick%20de%2024%20Plans/CAM00322_zpsded718c4.jpg  02 Brick%20de%2024%20Plans/CAM00323_zps321a2cd8.jpg  03 Brick%20de%2024%20Plans/CAM00324_zps6edb10ed.jpg  Even the longitudinal reinforcement seem to fit perfectly. . I think I'm on the right way. 04 Brick%20de%2024%20Plans/CAM00326_zpse004032f.jpg  A touch of color and personalization. . 05 Brick%20de%2024%20Plans/CAM00325_zps6918e259.jpg  To the next message . . Jack.
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Thursday, September 18, 2014Today I went out to cut others bulkheads . . now only two aft are missing, and this step will be completed. As I mentioned yesterday, I've been working exclusively manually with a coping saw and the matter was of my complete satisfaction, especially for wood dust in less that I created . . For the rest, nothing new . . tomorrow I hope to finish up the missing bulkheads and start thinking about permanently fix them to the keel. 01 Brick%20de%2024%20Plans/CAM00338_zps7a088da4.jpg  02 Brick%20de%2024%20Plans/CAM00335_zpsabeefbd9.jpg  03 Brick%20de%2024%20Plans/CAM00336_zps3b2f9ed9.jpg  04 Brick%20de%2024%20Plans/CAM00331_zps1aa1c37e.jpg  05 Brick%20de%2024%20Plans/CAM00328_zps858a8bd5.jpg  Cheers, Jack.Aubrey.
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Your patience is certainly paying off Jack regards Paul Building: DelPrado HMS Victory. Building: DeAgostini Sovereign Of The Seas.
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Saturday, September 20, 2014Today I completed to cut the bulkheads, a small job because only few of them were missing. Below the images of the dry test that sounds pretty good, having no problems at all at this time. Then I did other tasks, little stuff, but I'll explain in detail in a future post. Regards, Jack.Aubrey. 01 Brick%20de%2024%20Plans/P1090964_zps101e0520.jpg  02 Brick%20de%2024%20Plans/P1090962_zps10a620cd.jpg  03 Brick%20de%2024%20Plans/P1090960_zps3fd9ec32.jpg  04 Brick%20de%2024%20Plans/P1090965_zps284caef9.jpg  05 Brick%20de%2024%20Plans/P1090963_zpsd56f545f.jpg 
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Saturday, September 20, 2014Yesterday, at the end of the cutting yasks, I started some preparatory activities to fasten the bulkheads to the keel. First I started to draw on the back of each bulkhead, where there is no paper, the reference lines for the assembly, then later I proceeded to remove the paper used as a "template" for cutting. To remove the paper, I used the same method of the keel: I placed a wet multi-fiber cloth over the piece and after a couple of minutes, the paper came off without any problem. So, to allow the wet wood surface to dry without distortions, which is theoretically possible, I immediately placed the bulkhead under the glass plates I had spoken long ago and I'll leave them for one/two days. Now the next time I will resume to work, I will provide the definitive assembly of bulkheads and other reinforcements. Then I will start to think about the next steps, which will be focused on the bow and the stern. Sincerely, Jack. 01 Brick%20de%2024%20Plans/P1090970_zps016ce54e.jpg  02 Brick%20de%2024%20Plans/P1090969_zpsc49eb9f7.jpg  03 Brick%20de%2024%20Plans/P1090968_zpsdc67bacc.jpg  04 Brick%20de%2024%20Plans/P1090961_zps3d1d1241.jpg  05 Brick%20de%2024%20Plans/P1090966_zps24c098dc.jpg 
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Jack Very nice work on this one indeed. Looking forward to seeing the start of the planking. Happy Modelling
BUILDING: Hachette Spitfire Mk 1A, Constructo Mayflower
SUBSCRIPTION COMPLETE (Awaiting building): USS Constitution, Sovereign of the Seas, 1:200 Bismarck (Hachette)
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She's looking good Jack, nice to see a scratch build with all the steps involved.....  .. Following with interest.. Regards Alan
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This is really nice work Jack you should be very proud  I will be watching this very closely. Eugene.
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Monday, September 22, 2014Today I started the final assembly of the pieces so far prepared (keel and bulkhrads). It's a simple job, provided the dry fitting showed no problems, where the only precaution required is to glue the bulkheads so that they are perfectly perpendicular to the keel. There are so many ways to get this perpendicularity in gluing the bulkheads, in this case I found it easier to use the method that can be deduced from the photos that follow here below. The elements are a plank of squared wood the lines which project on the mounting base the location of each bulkhead. By placing the plank on the pencil line and secure it with a clamp you get the support base for a proper mounting. That's all. 01 Brick%20de%2024%20Plans/P1090971_zps391d581b.jpg  02 Brick%20de%2024%20Plans/P1090972_zpse3e57f44.jpg  03 Brick%20de%2024%20Plans/P1090973_zps54cd7277.jpg  04 Brick%20de%2024%20Plans/P1090975_zpsf0002b7f.jpg  05 Brick%20de%2024%20Plans/P1090976_zps5c106ed7.jpg  For the moment that's all, see you soon. Jack.Aubrey.
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Tony, Eugene, Alan,
I appreciate very much your participation, hoping to satisfy you with my work.
Jack.
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Tuesday, September 23, 2014The hull sheleton is now assembled, with in addition a couple of reinforcements installed to keep the assembly right. Nothing more than routine at this stage. 01 Brick%20de%2024%20Plans/P1090981_zpsc4660614.jpg  02 Brick%20de%2024%20Plans/P1090978_zps8fb786a2.jpg  03 Brick%20de%2024%20Plans/P1090983_zps163101a5.jpg  04 Brick%20de%2024%20Plans/P1090984_zps5ba8d6e7.jpg  to be continued at the next message . . . Jack.Aubrey
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Tuesday, September 23th, 2014Another small step forward: I've added new lateral reinforcements close to the toptimbers and the deck. This is probably not strictly necessary to guarantee the hull being crushproof but you must know that I'm obsessed to build strong models. So, this afternoon, I amused myself to reinforce again . . 01 Brick%20de%2024%20Plans/P1090992_zps03457775.jpg  02 Brick%20de%2024%20Plans/P1090994_zps484f9230.jpg  03 Brick%20de%2024%20Plans/P1090989_zpsb02ec9fe.jpg  04 Brick%20de%2024%20Plans/P1090991_zpsedf348aa.jpg  05 Brick%20de%2024%20Plans/P1090993_zps7956957e.jpg  Next it's time to work on the prow and the poop . . It will not be so immediate. Regards, Jack.
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Wednesday, September 24th, 2014 - Some Pictures of "Le Cyclope"In the absence of new material from my model to show, I start to post some messages in which you can understand what kind of sailing ship I'm building and its appearance once finished. I'm starting with some pictures of a model of an unknown author, although I think should be B. Frolich, of one of the 22 bricks de 24 designed by Pestel. It is "Le Cyclope". Le Cyclope was set up in 1804 and launched in 1810 in Genoa. Armed with sixteen 6pdrs guns she was transferred to Italy in June 1810. Good vision, Jack.Aubrey. 01 Le%20Cyclope/dsc_0336_zps99d9a8ea.jpg  02 Le%20Cyclope/dsc_0338_zpsd16f2304.jpg  03 Le%20Cyclope/dsc_0339_zps3651ac8f.jpg  04 Le%20Cyclope/dsc_0340_zps2e72d043.jpg  05 Le%20Cyclope/dsc_0344_zps699eb6e5.jpg  To be continued . .
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Le Cyclope . . ContinuationHere follow five additional images of the brick Le Cyclope. 06 Le%20Cyclope/dsc_0392_zps0bc504a8.jpg  07 Le%20Cyclope/dsc_0361_zps23f1d9fc.jpg  08 Le%20Cyclope/dsc_0352_zps1f439ef9.jpg  09 Le%20Cyclope/dsc_0350_zpsf62d22cc.jpg  10 Le%20Cyclope/dsc_0346_zpsb159620d.jpg  That's all for "Le Cyclope". I apologize for the dust . . Regards, Jack.Aubrey
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