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WORK IN PROGRESS
December 20 2017
Reporter: Dave Yotter
HMS Bellona 1760 – Chris Carl
HMS Bellona was a 74-gun Bellona- class third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. Designed by Sir Thomas Slade, she was a prototype for the iconic 74-gun ships of the latter part of the 18th century. “The design of the Bellona class was never repeated precisely, but Slade experimented slightly with the lines, and the Arrogant, Rammillies, Egmont, and Elizabeth classes were almost identical is size, layout and structure, and had only slight variations in the shape of the underwater hull. The Culloden class ship of the line was also similar, but slightly larger. Thus, over forty ships were near-sisters of the Bellona.” Bellona was built at Chatham, starting on 10 May 1758, launched on 19 February 1760 and commissioned three days later. She was the second ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name and saw service in the Seven Years War, American Revolutionary War and the Napoleonic Wars. (Wikipedia).
Class and type: Bellona-class 74-gun ship of the line Tons Burthen: 1615bm Length 168 ft (gundeck), 138 ft (keel) Beam: 46 ft 11 in. Draught: 21 ft 6 in. Depth of hold: 19 ft 9 in. Sail plan: full rigged ship Compliment: 650 officers and men Armament: Lower gundeck: 28 X 32 pounder guns Upper gundeck: 28 X 18 pounder guns QD: 14 X 9 pounder guns Fc: 4 X 9 pounder guns
Chris has started his new model of HMS Bellona. This is being built from a plank-on- bulkhead Corel kit in 1:100 scale. All bulkhead frames are installed on the keel and the main, forecastle and poop decks are in place. Also installed are the decks in the great cabin and head areas. There is some photoetch supplied for the forward bulkhead under the forecastle deck. This has been installed but he is thinking about how this should be painted. After the backbone structure was completed, he discovered that there was a 4-degree twist in the keel. At first, he attempted to correct this by soaking the assembly in water and applying an opposite twist. Having no luck there, the final solution was to sand the area on the frames that mount the poop and forecastle decks. This reduced the apparent twist down to 1-degree, which is unnoticeable. Chris said he does like the instructions supplied with this kit.
Cardstock Yellow Submarine & Ship Sketch – Bob Penikas
Bob writes that he had purchased a new printer (Brother MFC J985DW) and wanted to try it out by seeing how it would do in printing out a cardstock model. Gaining inspiration from Steve Lund’s U-453 he hoped to provide some comic relief by printing a model of the Beatles Yellow Submarine. The model was downloaded from www.papermodelers.com and printed on 57 lb Wausau Exact Vellum Bristol paper. The model received a protective coating of rattle can Krylon clear acrylic prior to the build and then the finished model was coasted with Future Acrylic.
Bob also had a pen and ink sketch done in Dana Point while relaxing at the Blue lantern Inn. The subject is likely the Ocean Institute’s full-size replica of the brig Pilgrim immortalized by Richard Henry Dana, Jr. in his American seafaring classic novel Two Years Before the Mast. The sketch was dated 8-14-97 and the time of day was 4:45 PM.
Dutch Fluyt Derfflinger – Don Dressel
Don brought in his continuing efforts on masting and rigging the Derfflinger. He has managed to complete the fore, main and mizzen masts and is now in the process of installing the shrouds, stays and other associated standing rigging. The time consuming process of “ratteling down” or installing the ratlines has been started. There was some difficulty in the rigging process since the instructions for rigging were “lost”, so a little research had to be completed to determine the size of line, number of shrouds, stay procedure, belaying pin locations, etc. Several books were consulted including Historic Ship Models by Wolfram zu Mondfeld, The Ships of Abel Tasman by Ab Hoving and Cor Emke as well as the book introduced in this newsletter, 17th Century Dutch Merchant Ships by Ab Hoving.
Don also mentioned that he is using a new procedure while installing his ratlines with clove hitches – he is using Elmer’s washable clear glue on the clove hitches once they are tied to make sure they do not move and/or untie, although that is not supposed to happen with clove hitches. He also uses a large needle to help “rove” the clove hitches through the shrouds in order to try and get a little “curve” between each shroud with the ratline. There is nothing worse than a shroud being pulled out of alignment while installing the ratlines. Don does not think that perfectly straight ratlines look good either.
Tuna Boat La Marie Jeanne – Jean-Philippe DalGobbo
Marie Jeanne is a French tuna fishing boat that operated between the French port of Concarneau in Brittany and off the coast of Mauritainia (South of Morocco), typically during the months of June to October. The trips took up to two months as the tuna are typically far off the coast. Due to the long passages and offshore fishing grounds these boats had to be built strong and fast. The boat building industry that developed these vessels started at the Sables d’Olonne shipyard in the Vendee region south of Brittany around the 1890’s and moved to Concarneau and the island of Groix in the early 1900’s.
The boat model is being built from an Artesina Latina kit in 1:50 scale. Jean- Philippe’s model is a boat of around 115 feet in length and carries a crew of twelve. During fishing the whole crew works on deck processing the fish and hanging them to dry on the rack. The hull appears to be largely complete with individually laid deck planking. He tried a method of using thread for deck caulking and using wood filler to simulate trennels. Deck furniture is all in place as far as the kit is concerned but there is no mention of any kind of bilge pump. He found the kit plans to be bad with few instructions and pictures that conflicted.
Mackerel Schooner Smuggler – Jim Ingersoll
Smuggler was an extreme clipper design of 67.92 gross and 64.52 net tonnage built by Daniel Poland, Jr. and Charles C. Woodbury at Gloucester, Mass. in 1887 for Gloucester interests.
Jim is making good progress on his model of the mackerel schooner Smuggler, being built from a 1:48 scale Bluejacket kit. The hull is planked over solid and he has worked to make the hull planking more pronounced compared with the partially completed hull as received. Deck planking is on and painted, as is most of the deck furniture. He has settled on a light grey/dark grey scheme for the deck with white for the bulwarks and deck furniture with the hatch covers and gratings left bright. The hull is antifouling red lead with a green topside with a yellow rub rail. Jim mentioned having trouble striking the waterline and that masking for the deck details was hard to deal with. Masking lets the paint run under where the cracks are.
HMS Bounty 1787 – Brian Stein
HMS Bounty, also known as HM Armed Vessel Bounty, was a small merchant vessel purchased by the Royal Navy for a botanical mission. The ship was sent to the Pacific Ocean under the command of William Bligh to acquire breadfruit plants and transport them to British possessions in the West Indies. That mission was never completed due to a mutiny led by Acting Lieutenant Fletcher Christian. This incident is now popularly known as the Mutiny on the Bounty. The ship was later burned while moored at Pitcairn Island by the mutineers. An American adventurer rediscovered the remains of the Bounty in 1957 and various parts of it have been salvaged since then. Bounty was originally the collier Berthia, built in 1784 at the Blaydes shipyard in Hull, Yorkshire in England. The Royal Navy purchased her for £1,950 on 23 May 1787, refit, and renamed her Bounty. The ship was relatively small at 215 tons, but had three masts and was full-ship rigged. After conversion for the breadfruit expedition, she was equipped with 4 X 4-pounders and ten swivel guns. Her principal dimensions were: Tons burthen: 220 26/04 (bm), Length: 90 ft 10 in., Beam: 24 ft 4 in, Depth of hold: 11 ft 4 in, Compliment: 44 officers and men. (Wikipedia).
Brian is building his model of Bounty in 1:60 scale from an Amati kit. The hull is now complete and the decks have been started. The wales have been a problem as there is conflicting information as to their location and width. The rail tops on the foredeck would have been difficult (if not impossible) to bend and so were cut to the required curve. The kit-supplied planking is almond and has proven to be difficult to bend, tending to crack. Brian’s solution has been to use a steam iron to soften the planks and then pre-bend them over a coffee mug. The pre-bent planks are then applied to the hull.
Blue Stuff – Larry Van Es
Larry has discovered an interesting product for use in making model parts. The product is called Blue Stuff/Oyumaru, a product of Green Stuff World. The Blue Stuff is made easy to shape into a mold by placing it in hot water and then pressing a pattern into it before it returns to room temperature. The molds can be made both single sided and double sided depending on the part you want to make. Once the model is made than parts can be cast. Larry used a two-part epoxy putty. The putty is mixed and then simply pressed into the mold, both sides if a 3-D part is being cast and wait for the epoxy to cure. There have to be lots of uses for a product like this. All of this is way better explained by the man tutorials on the YouTube. Just go to YouTube, type in “blue stuff” and click on the suggestions that appear. The best part is that all kinds of other model making techniques appear as follow-on site suggestions – such as how to do homemade photoetch! You can spend hours exploring this stuff.
HMS Bellona – Chris Carl Yellow Submarine– Bob Penikas Dutch Flute Derfflinger– Don Dressel Tuna Boat La Marie Jeanne - Jean- Philippe DalGobbo
Smuggler – Jim Ingersoll HMS Bounty – Brian St 17th Century DUTCH MERCHANT SHIPS Text, Photos and Plans for the Ship Modeler By A. I. Hoving Plans by C.A. Emke Models by H. Tomesen Graphics by E. Hoving Florence, Oregon – SeaWatchBooks, LLC, 20178 8 ½” X 11” format. 152 pages Full color Case bound with jacket 24 sheets of plans in portfolio ISBN # 978-0-9904041-1-8
There are actually two volumes you obtain when you purchase this combination of book and plans. The book itself is extremely informative in early Dutch ship information and history. Dutch shipbuilding is fully described for the 17th century discussing materials used as well as methods of construction. The book then goes on to describe the various ship types built by the Dutch. This includes three types of sea going ships – the Pinas, the Fluit and the Cat, two types of coastal trade ships, the Boyer and the Galliot, two types of inshore vessels, the Narrow-and Wide ship and the Kaag, and three types of fishermen as traders, the Buss, the Hooker and the Pink. Both the book and the plans supplied in the portfolio will provide a ship modeler with all the information he requires to build a very good ship model of the modeler’s choice. The information supplied in both the book and the plans reflect the very best information on early 17th century Dutch ships with probably the best Dutch authorities alive today. If a ship modeler wants to build a Dutch ship model of the 17th century, when the Dutch were experiencing their “Golden Age”, then this is a must have book and plans set bar none. The book is based on a combination of pictorial and archaeological sources, existing ship models and written works of the period as well as actual ship construction today. Dutch ship building methods are explained fully in the book and all the information for each of the Dutch ships indicated above are fully drawn out in the 24 plans provided in the attached portfolio in 1:48 and 1:96 scales. The book is jam packed with a lot of color pictures of the various ships described as well as a lot of the details. The book and plans were of particular help for your reviewer as he was in the process of rigging a Dutch fluit, the hull of which was built by another modeler who misplaced the rigging plans. I found Ab Hoving’s book provided very fine information on the rigging of a Dutch fluit, although this particular model, the Derrflinger (which started out as a kit) could not have been rigged properly without the aid of the book reviewed here. The book is strongly recommended to all ship model builders who desire to build a Dutch ship of the 17th century. Some of the information provided in the book is shown to the left, the top picture giving details of how they built the stern timbers. The process that the Dutch followed in building ships was not your traditional frame first method – certainly you could not use the Harold Hahn method of building a model if you wanted to follow Dutch practice. This is explained in pictures as well as written material in the book – see the second photo to the left. It would be a lot of fun to try and build a model in this way – I understand that there have been several models built by the authors of this book using this method. A further picture of a Dutch fluit is also shown to the left on the bottom of the page. This book and plan portfolio is very strongly recommended for all ship modelers. 17th Century Dutch Merchant Ships by Ab Hoving and 17th Century Dutch Merchant Ships Plans Set for Modelers by C. A. Emke is available from www.seawatchbooks.com at a cost of $75.00 plus $9.00 for shipping and handling in the US. Having looked at the plans provided, they are VERY complete with lots of extra detail supplied: Pinas Witsen in 1:96 scale, Flute Zeehaen, Langewijk and Roode Leeuw, cat Peacock, Boyer 86 ft., Galliot, Narrow ship, wide ship, Kaag, Buss 1598, a Hooker and a Pink. There are actually 14 ships that you would be able to build using the plans supplied, which should keep any ship modeler quite busy for a LONG time. A must for every ship modeler’s library. SMA Honorary Distant Members Model Efforts By Don Dressel
There are two SMA Honorary members who live too far away to attend any of the SMA meetings on the third Wednesday of the month. One lives in Utah, the other lives in France.
The Utah member is Tony Devroude, who at one time was a local member of the SMA but moved a number of years ago. He is well known to many of the older members of the SMA, particularly as an exceptional wood carver. Tony is much more than just a wood carver, however, as you will see by the photos shown below of his Dauphin Royal. The first photo shows the overall view of the model, the second photo shows the reinforcing futtocks or rider futtocks, the third photo shows filling up the hold below the orlop deck and the last photo shows the side walls with deck beam clamps, ceiling planking, side rings for the cannon and other interior details. You will be able to see this model at the upcoming NRG Conference in Las Vegas this coming October, where Tony will also hopefully give a talk and demonstration on his carving methods.
The second long distance honorary member of the SMA is Michel Mantin, who happens to live in France. He is also a Honorary member of the ROPE in Japan and is one of the main instigators of the upcoming ship model conference in France, which does not conflict with the NRG Conference in Las Vegas as far as dates are concerned.
Michel is working on a LARGE model of the IJN Fuso, a Japanese WWII battleship. A brief history of the ship (from Wikipedia): “Fuso was the lead ship of the two Fuso-class dreadnought battleships built for the Imperial Japanese Navy. Launched in 1914 and commissioned in 1915, she initially patrolled off the coast of China, playing no part in World War I. In 1923, she assisted survivors of the Great Kanto earthquake. Fuso was modernized in 1930-35 and again in 1937-41, with improvements to her armor and machinery and a rebuilt superstructure in the Pagoda mast style. With only 14-inch guns, she was outclassed by other Japanese battleships at the beginning of World War II, and played auxiliary roles for most of the war. Fuso was part of Vice-Admiral Shoji Nishimura’s Southern Force at the Battle of Leyte Gulf. She was sunk in the early hours of 25 October 1944 by torpedoes and naval gunfire during the Battle of Suriago Strait. Some reports claimed that Fuso broke in half and both halves remained afloat and burning for an hour, but according to survivors’ accounts, the ship sank after 40 minutes of flooding. Of the few dozen crewmen who escaped, only 10 survived to return to Japan.”
Inclu ded here are a few pictures of the wonderful scratch building efforts that Michel is realizing in his efforts to scratch build a very difficult ship model, which will include a complete engine room view and a view of the main guns interior. The pictures speak for themselves.
SMA Membership dues are due!
It is that time of year again – the dues are due. For those who do not know, we do have to pay for the meeting location where our monthly meetings are held, so there is a cost involved for the privilege of being able to show our “Works in Progress” and enjoy the ambiance of our fellow SMA members. The regular dues cost for members is $25.00. For those few members who still receive their newsletter by snail mail, the cost is $40.00. For those members who live beyond 100 miles, the cost is $20.00. All checks should be made out to the SMA or you may pay by cash to our treasurer, Larry Van Es. For long distance members, the address is: Ship Modelers Association, 21520 Yorba Linda Blvd., suite G234, Yorba Linda, CA. 92887. International Convention of Model Ship Building
There will be a ship model convention in France this coming October 17 through October 21 in Rochefort, France. More details will be forthcoming in future issues of the SMA Newsletter and a separate “flyer” will be sent to all SMA members and associates at the same time as this newsletter. Stay tuned for more details.
Treasurer’s Report
Larry Van Es reports that there is $4,787.53 in the SMA account for the end of August 2017.
Web Manager’s Report
Doug Tolbert has indicated that all the past SMA Newsletters are on the SMA web page for access to members only. Doug posts the latest SMA Newsletter onto the web page as soon as it is published. If there are any comments concerning the SMA Web page please inform one of the SMA officers.
San Diego Ship Modelers Guild
For those SMA members who may be interested, the San Diego Ship Modelers Guild now has their meetings on the Berkley on the second Tuesday of each month. Your editor and reporter routinely attend the meeting which is usually very informative and enlightening.
Don Dressel’s Sovereign of the Seas, cased, in museum
Donald C. Dressel 908 W. 22nd Street, Upland, CA. 91784-1229
NEXT MEETING WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 7:30 PM, HILLCREST PARK RED CROSS BUILDING