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| Gene Bodnar |
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  Registered Member #126 Joined: Tue Jul 21 2009, 11:20amPosts: 1782 | Arthur, The partitions around the guns give privacy to several of the Ontario's officers. All partitions are light-weight and easily collapsible, and can be folded up and stored away in a few minutes in case of threat of a battle. However, I did make my partitions permanent. Gene | ||
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| Gene Bodnar |
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| Registered Member #126 Joined: Tue Jul 21 2009, 11:20amPosts: 1782 | HUMAN FIGURES Here are six of the eighty-eight human figures that will appear in various places aboard the HMS Ontario. This particular group represents six of the crew members performing various tasks on the lower deck. Later, in between modeling the ship, I will carve the remaining people, which includes another 24 crew members and officers; 42 men from 3 different regiments being transported; 4 wives and 5 children of the regimental men; 1 ranger; 1 passenger; and 4 Mohawk Indians. I did not display the crewmen barefooted or in dress uniforms. I am portraying the ship as of the morning on the day she sank – October 31, 1780. That morning, it was probably a very cold day, with very strong winds created as a result of a hurricane that developed in the Caribbean a few days earlier. Little did the crew realize that the ship would be caught in one of the severest storms every reported on Lake Ontario. Later that afternoon she would sink, with no survivors.   | ||
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| Larry_D |
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 Registered Member #1573 Joined: Sat Apr 16 2011, 12:23pmPosts: 20 | Gene, I had read somewhere that it is believed that 12 American prisoners were also aboard... not to make you more work. Thank you for sharing your build log with us. Larry Davis | ||
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| aew |
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aew  Registered Member #1929 Joined: Wed Nov 30 2011, 03:05pmPosts: 2906 | You're getting pretty good at carving figures Gene. What I didn't understand about those partitions was that they only seemed to create a room containing a gun and could only be erected with the gun run out. | ||
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| Gene Bodnar |
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| Registered Member #126 Joined: Tue Jul 21 2009, 11:20amPosts: 1782 | Larry, You are correct. There may have been as many as 30 POWs. I haven't decided what to do with those yet. Arthur, I'm not sure I follow you. The guns in the partitioned rooms are run out. Are you speaking of the coils of gun tackle? I chose not to include the train tackle. Gene | ||
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| aew |
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| aew Registered Member #1929 Joined: Wed Nov 30 2011, 03:05pmPosts: 2906 | That's what puzzles me. The partitions would presumably only be erected when the ship was not in action, or expecting action, so the guns wouldn't be run out at that time. As far as your POWs are concerned, lock them up out of sight below deck!  | ||
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| Gene Bodnar |
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| Registered Member #126 Joined: Tue Jul 21 2009, 11:20amPosts: 1782 | Arthur, I understand what you're saying. but then the gun ports would be closed an d little of the interior could be seen. Actually, the plans in the book show her exactly as I've portrayed her. Gene | ||
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| aew |
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| aew Registered Member #1929 Joined: Wed Nov 30 2011, 03:05pmPosts: 2906 | I can understand the plans showing it like that; they need to show how the bulkheads fit and also the locations of the guns. Perhaps the guns weren't actually in those rooms when the bulkheads were in position? Anyway, I can see the case for you showing the arrangement as per the plans. | ||
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| Larry_D |
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| Registered Member #1573 Joined: Sat Apr 16 2011, 12:23pmPosts: 20 | Some of the guns may have been stowed in pieces below, or maybe there were fewer guns actually on the ship than it had ports. There was no American naval presence on Lake Ontario at the time other than small rowboats. So while the ship was designed to carry that many guns, it is possible it did not carry it's full compliment. Larry Davis | ||
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| Gene Bodnar |
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| Registered Member #126 Joined: Tue Jul 21 2009, 11:20amPosts: 1782 | Hello folks, I have done absolutely no work on my model since October 4th. I spent the last week in a hospital for congestive heart failure -- what a kick in the teeth! The prognosis for a full recovery is good as long as I stick to a strict low-salt and low-sugar diet and continue to take more medication for the duration. As a result of this event, I have decided to make a few changes in my goals for the HMS Ontario. I will not be modeling all 88 figures, as I originally intended. Life is too short. However, I will still model about 30 of the crew members involved in various activities throughout the ship. And I still expect to fully rig the model with mostly furled sails. Today will be the first day of my return to modeling, and I am definitely looking forward to it. Gene | ||
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