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Building a 74 gun ship, Montagu of 1779

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jacknastyface2

Wed Sep 09 2020, 02:58pm

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I remember we got the plan of the Lyon and did you ever start a build of her?

Hi Gary, no I did not do a build. I did do a lot of drafting on Lyon but my Cad drafting was elementary at that time (it's not much better today I am afraid) and I like to stay away from it as much as possible. I put some photos of my Warrior 1781 in the "Completed Builds" forum (see home page). I got as far as doing the deck structure for the lower deck but abandoned it, in favour of doing La Belle Poule 1750, a French frigate.

Keith.

garyshipwright

Tue Sep 22 2020, 11:42pm

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Hi Keith. I was looking through some plans the other day and came across the Lyon, which I use for research and saw some of the info that you put on them and thank you for the help on those plans. Forgive me for not getting back sooner. I do remember when you was working on the Leon I believe, think it was first built by Underhill. Correct me if I am wrong. Gary

jacknastyface2

Thu Sep 24 2020, 12:44am

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garyshipwright wrote ...

Hi Keith. I was looking through some plans the other day and came across the Lyon, which I use for research and saw some of the info that you put on them and thank you for the help on those plans. Forgive me for not getting back sooner. I do remember when you was working on the Leon I believe, think it was first built by Underhill. Correct me if I am wrong. Gary

Hi Gary. Harold Underhill wrote two books "Plank on Frame ship models vol. 1 and 2",Vol. 1 was the hull and vol. 2 was masting and rigging (first published in 1956 or thereabouts). As far as I know he must have been one of the first to write about making ship models as POF's. He did Leon himself at a scale of 1:96.

Keith.

garyshipwright

Fri Sep 25 2020, 06:23pm

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Thanks Keith. Probably was a couple of the first books on the hobby that I purchased to help me Any way here is some photo's of Montagu plans and how her bow and stern will look when I get to that point.

garyshipwright

Sun Sep 27 2020, 02:26am

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Keith here is a couple more photo's of Montagu for you to enjoy. Gary

Baggywrinkle

Sun Sep 27 2020, 04:55am

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Hi Gary, still working my way through the builds here, and not finished you log yet, but what I see is very good. Is this at the same stage as shown in another forum?

cheers

Pat

garyshipwright

Sun Sep 27 2020, 04:01pm

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Hi Pat and yes it is. For some its the only way they can see the build and changes going on with her. Thank you for the compliment. Gary

garyshipwright

Mon Sep 28 2020, 01:08am

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Here is some photo's of her rudder and hard ware along with the work on the bowsprit step. The reason for two rudders is because the first one had a knot that fell out while I was finishing it up