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Hi Jack, Looking superb!!! Kind regards, Garth "Measure twice, cut once!!!"
Finished!!! HMS Victory,
Current build: Black Pearl.
On hold: Bismarck, Golden Hind, Flying Scotsman, Victory Cross Section, SOTS, Tiger 1.
Wish list: USS Constitution.
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Wednesday 2 October 2019Yesterday afternoon, with the friend and fellow model maker Antonio, we lathed the famous 12mm. rod destined to become the main mast. For this event, I had the opportunity to use a simply monstrous lathe, more or less 2-2.5 meters long, with which a pole could have been turned. A heartfelt thanks for the unexpected help. Today, in my workshop, I proceeded to complete the mast with its accessories and below I show you the model with all the components of the masting positioned, obviously excluding spars and beams. Sincerely, Jack. 01 Ragusian Carrack/02102019/IMG_20191002_160815.jpg  02 Ragusian Carrack/02102019/IMG_20191002_160825.jpg  03 Ragusian Carrack/02102019/IMG_20191002_160830.jpg  04 Ragusian Carrack/02102019/IMG_20191002_160836.jpg 
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Thursday 3 October 2019While some activities on masting are still continuing with bland rhythms, I started preparing the chain plates with their deadeyes. Unlike those adopted on more recent sailing ships, such as those of my Soleil Royal (which gave me quite a bit to do), on this carrack they are relatively simple to build. For today I have finished preparing those of the starboard side, in the next days I will also finish the port side. See you soon, Jack.. 01 Ragusian Carrack/02102019/IMG_20191002_173141.jpg  02 Ragusian Carrack/02102019/IMG_20191002_173155.jpg  03 Ragusian Carrack/02102019/IMG_20191002_173228.jpg 
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Saturday 12 October 2019These last 15 days saw me and my wife busy with a cat that got sick and gave us a lot to do to treat it. This fact, which continually created unplanned situations, prevented me from dedicating myself to the usual activities on this model and consequently I did nothing really interesting. Using few free moments I managed to finish the chain plates, to paint them and, finally, to install them, by fixing them on the sides of the hull in correspondence with the wales. The result is practically equal to the MarisStella project even if the technique I used is not the same. The first three images show the finished work. 01 Ragusian Carrack/12102019/EFFECTS.jpg  02 Ragusian Carrack/12102019/IMG_20191012_160621.jpg  03 Ragusian Carrack/12102019/IMG_20191012_160634.jpg  Another task, small but truly interesting for the method I used to obtain an acceptable result, is highlighted in the last image, the result of a copy & paste of two images of the lower zone of the foremast and the mizzen mast. These are the four cleats visible at the bottom of the two mast that are very small and difficult to fix properly in their place. This experiment, perfectly successful, is important as there are many others to install and therefore replicable. 04 Ragusian Carrack/12102019/Due&TreResized.jpg  Good-bye, Jack.
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Jack Looking fantastic. Love the work you have done on the masts. The yellow adds a very nice splash of colour to the model. Tony Happy Modelling
BUILDING: Hachette Spitfire Mk 1A, Constructo Mayflower
SUBSCRIPTION COMPLETE (Awaiting building): USS Constitution, Sovereign of the Seas, 1:200 Bismarck (Hachette)
COMPLETED: Porsche 911, E-Type Jaguar, Lam Countach
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birdaj2 wrote:Jack
Looking fantastic.
Love the work you have done on the masts. The yellow adds a very nice splash of colour to the model.
Tony I like to add some small coloured elements in order to interrupt the uniform wood colour. the important is not to exsagerate !!! Anyway, many thanks for your positive comment, Jack.
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Monday 21 October 2019By now the classic activities on the hull are practically almost finished; only some detail activities are remaining (rudder, figurehead, etc.). They can be performed later. For example, the installation of the rudder would make the use of the building slip unpracticable; until now it proved very useful and with exceptional stability. So whoever expects to see the rudder will have to wait again . . . As for the figurehead I have to wait for the coming of some carving inspiration, something that is totally missing at the moment . . So I started thinking about the installation of the masts and then proceeding with the stanging and running rigging. So I started to study the two plans in order to understand how the whole rigging system and sails is structured. Although it is a relatively simple masting, for me this is a real headache. To understand something more and also to memorize as much as possible, I am preparing a document where I try to clarify and write down what to do. Even if it is a document only useful to the undersigned, I attach it to this post just to show the "method". Thanks to the "method" I realized that new details on the decks and tops are needed, and also some changes due to the impractical nature of the proposed solution are required. In any case, I spent a couple of afternoons making and installing the missing details. The photo 01 shows the new elements applied in the poop area: the decorated shields on the external sides, the pinrails added inside the walls, some cleats and the poop lantern . . . 01 Ragusian Carrack/21102019/IMG_20191021_165514.jpg  Also at the bow I am preparing material for the belaying pins . . . 02 Ragusian Carrack/21102019/IMG_20191021_165524.jpg  Finally on the main deck I installed new pinrails applied similarly to those on the poop deck . . . 03 Ragusian Carrack/21102019/IMG_20191021_165536.jpg  In short, many details, even tiny ones, that will be used later for the rigging. I have prepared all these pinrails to replace an almost similar number of cleats. I thought it impossible to fix these cleats seriously because of their small size and almost no surface that could be used to glue them to the sides. Hence a functionally similar solution but which gives me more guarantees of robustness. That's all for today, Jack.
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Giovedì 31 Ottobre 2019I'm working almost exclusively on masts and its rigging. For the moment my strategy is to prepare all the mast individual components in a separate way with all the blocks and other necessary elements. So, as you can see from the following two images, I worked mainly on applying the necessary pieces to each of the yards or masts independently of the rest. In this way all the points in which the running rigging will pass should be ready and in theory they would not need further additions once installed in their place. 01 Ragusian Carrack/31102019/IMG_20191031_173712.jpg  02 Ragusian Carrack/31102019/IMG_20191031_173718.jpg  Then I started putting the pieces together. In the coming days, when I'll be 100% sure, I will definitely fix the three masts with glue and a new cycle of activities will start from there. In the meantime I started doing some experience with bowsprit and anchors. The following three images show the (almost) finished assembly of the anchors and a pair of definitive cables from the tip of the bowsprit to the hull sides. Little stuff compared to what awaits me but it is a good exercise to practice patience, the true virtue of the modeler. However, this is a job that I will have to carry out in the next few weeks together with that of completely emptying my mother-in-law's house, house we recently sold. Incidentally this fact will deprive me of the availability of my much appreciated workshop which (unfortunately) is in the house in object. So at some point I will have to interrupt every activity and park all the contents of the workshop in a temporary warehouse waiting to buy a new home, where surely there will be space for the future, a new facility that, at this point, will exist as long as I practice this hobby. I hope to finish this model just before that time. I should theoretically make it but in the negative case I think I can continue at my house. The remaining activities should be more than feasible even at home . . . apart from the four cats who are my assistants. 03 Ragusian Carrack/31102019/EFFECTS.jpg  04 Ragusian Carrack/31102019/IMG_20191031_173405.jpg  05 Ragusian Carrack/31102019/IMG_20191031_173417.jpg  Sincerely, Jack.
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Very inspiring build Jack. Your building is just perfection and something to aspire too. This looks so good with the added oaintwork on the shields and some of the other small parts. Tony Happy Modelling
BUILDING: Hachette Spitfire Mk 1A, Constructo Mayflower
SUBSCRIPTION COMPLETE (Awaiting building): USS Constitution, Sovereign of the Seas, 1:200 Bismarck (Hachette)
COMPLETED: Porsche 911, E-Type Jaguar, Lam Countach
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Tuesday 5 November 2019I finally started, I fixed the masts and . . . . for now I'm working on standing rigging. It takes a lot of patience. 01 Ragusian Carrack/06112019/IMG_20191105_160027.jpg  02 Ragusian Carrack/06112019/IMG_20191105_160047.jpg  03 Ragusian Carrack/06112019/IMG_20191105_160144.jpg  04 Ragusian Carrack/06112019/IMG_20191105_160042.jpg  05 Ragusian Carrack/06112019/IMG_20191105_160150.jpg 
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Good start on the rigging Jack. Have you made the rope being used ? Tony 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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birdaj2 wrote:Good start on the rigging Jack.
Have you made the rope being used ?
Tony Hi Tony. The answer is no, I've used the ropes and blocks provided by the Marisstella kit. Rgds, Jack.
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Wednesday 6 November 2019 Further small progresses . . . . this time it's up to the mast. For the future I have decided that I will limit myself in posting messages only when significant steps in setting up the rigging are complete, otherwise I think to run the risk of being too much repetitive.So I give you a rendez-vous for other images and comments when I'll finish the installation of all the standing rigging, a milestone that seems to me adequately representative to show and explain. Greetings, Jack.Aubrey. 01 Ragusian Carrack/06112019/IMG_20191106_170332.jpg  02 Ragusian Carrack/06112019/IMG_20191106_170339.jpg  03 Ragusian Carrack/06112019/IMG_20191106_170342.jpg  04 Ragusian Carrack/06112019/IMG_20191106_170401.jpg 
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Monday 18 November 2019Standing rigging is finally over . . . . rat lines obviously were the major, boring effort. 01 Ragusian Carrack/18112019/IMG_20191118_165745.jpg  02 Ragusian Carrack/18112019/IMG_20191118_165759.jpg  03 Ragusian Carrack/18112019/IMG_20191118_165809.jpg  04 Ragusian Carrack/18112019/IMG_20191118_165815.jpg  05 Ragusian Carrack/18112019/IMG_20191118_165818.jpg 
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Friday 29 November 2019I'm working to prepare the sails. In total there are five sails: one on the bowsprit, one on the foremast, two on the mainmast and finally a triangular sail on the mizzen mast. To consider them finished I have to wait for my wife to sew stitches around their perimeter, task I prefer to have her do as I don't feel enough good for it. The first image shows the main mainmast sail. I have greatly reduced the height of this sail because I want to present it curled up the main yard and therefore the task would be easier to manage with less amount of fabric. 01 Ragusian Carrack/28112019/IMG_20191128_155621.jpg  Here the lateen sail of the mizzen mast . . I think I will present it wrapped on the yard. 02 Ragusian Carrack/28112019/IMG_20191128_155613.jpg  Here is the upper sail of the mainmast that will be shown unfolded . . 03 Ragusian Carrack/28112019/IMG_20191128_155601.jpg  The sail of the bowsprit, shown unfolded . . I think to redo some sewing here resulting too coarse. 04 Ragusian Carrack/28112019/IMG_20191128_155548.jpg  The fore sail to be presented wrapped on the foreyard. 05 Ragusian Carrack/28112019/IMG_20191128_155553.jpg  That's all for now, cheers, Jack.
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Sails look very neat Jack. It certainly helps to have someone that is skilled with the sewing machine. Nearly finished now and its going to look brilliant when all of the sails are in place. Tony Happy Modelling
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Monday, December 9th, 2019
In the ten days since my last message I dedicated very little time to modeling: all I managed to do was finishing two of the five sails that would now be ready to be fixed on their respective spars.
Unfortunately the day I have to leave my mother-in-law's house free (I remember that it was sold) is approaching and there are still many activities to do to free all the rooms. So, even if ahead of my original plans, I find myself in the need to dismantle my workshop and move everything inside it to a temporary location (I hope for as little time as possible) +/- by the end of the year.
Consequence is a mandatory stop to the modeling activities related to the Ragusian Carrack for an indefinite period of time. Obviously, when I'll be less busy it should be possible to resume work on the sails and on the final set-up of the rigging, activities that I theoretically could perform at home, but now it's early to have a accurate plan.
I am therefore greeting all those who are following or have followed my log hoping to write and read news soon. In the meantime, I offer all my best wishes for a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, in case we don't have to hear ourselves in the coming weeks.
Best regards, Jack.Aubrey.
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Tuesday, June 7, 2022Two and a half years have passed since my last message, in which I informed all of you that I had to stop my shipmodeling activities. I think that the "WHY" was fully explained in my last message. Finally, after such a long time, I can write that I have now set up a new workshop in a large and comfortable garage right under my new house. In a short time I plan to resume making shipmodeling, starting with finishing this model of Ragusian Carrack . . . all I am missing now is the necessary mental preparation to restart after so much time of inactivity. While I'm reordering my ideas, a warm goodbye . . . see you soon, Jack.Aubrey 01 Miscellanea/07062022/IMG20220607135122.JPG  02 Miscellanea/07062022/IMG20220607135131.JPG  03 Miscellanea/07062022/IMG20220607135139.JPG  04 Miscellanea/07062022/IMG20220607135148.JPG 
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WOW JACK,  Good to see you back and that`s a delightful workshop.  Really looking forward to seeing more of your Ragusian Carrack. Happy modelling restart.  Regards delboy271155 (Derek) COME BACK GUY FAWKES "YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU"
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Workshop? Strewth, that's not a workshop, that's a full sized boatyard! You could build the Carrack full sized in there!  My workshop is an area of about 12ft by 8ft in the attic, minus the loft hatch and the chimney breast which goes up through the middle!  Currently my actual work area (thanks to my ridiculously untidy working methods) is relegated to a single A4 cutting mat surrounded by bits of resin castings and tools (grabbing for the use of)!  Seriously its great to see you back again and looking forward to the continuation of that beautiful ship!  Robin. First wooden ship: The Grimsby 12 Gun 'Frigate' by Constructo Second: Bounty DelPrado Part Works Third: HMS Victory DelPrado Part Works 1/100 scale Diorama of the Battle of the Brandywine from the American Revolutionary War Diorama of the Battle of New Falkland (unfinished sci-fi), Great War Centenary Diorama of the Messines Ridge Assault Index for the Victory diary is on page 1
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