Structural Model Works 3 of 4

Built in the U.S. by the British in 1768 as a mail ship for the Royal Navy and used as a liaison ship in the Boston area. During the American Revolutionary War, she was converted into a schooner equipped with large guns and small port side guns. She participated in the fleet that burned the city of Falmore (now Portland) in the early days of the Revolutionary War.

This model was built 11 years ago as a practice for structural modeling. The drawings at that time were not accurate enough, and I remember that it was difficult to build it because it was common to file the inside and outside of the frame, which was the basic structure, after assembling it.

This is a rare structural model kit whose parts are accurately and detailed by CNC cutting. I had planned to complete this kit on the 40th exhibition, but in the end, the final finishing touches remained to be done. However, being able to produce a structural model as a kit is an innovative thing, and if more kits like this become available, structural models will become more accessible to beginners. Recently, I found the possibility that individuals can process parts by laser cutting from frame data produced on a PC, and I would like to try to make those data, including this model.

France joined the American Revolutionary War in 1778. She was a second-rate battleship, one of a fleet of twelve ships that sailed from the port of Toulon to assist in the American immigrant. She was launched at Toulon in 1757 and decommissioned in 1784, according to official records.

This model was built using the laminated frame described in H. Underhill's book. The builder's masterful knife skills and streamlined shipbuilding procedures resulted in many masterpieces, and he is still called "Takegawa Meijin: Meister Takegawa" by his colleagues.

This is a French 100-gun ship from the reign of Louis XIV. The figure on the porthole is probably Louis XIV himself. She was the flagship of Admiral de Tourville and participated in the battles of Beachy Head (Bevessere) and Barifleur against the English, etc. She died on June 2, 1692, on the coast of Cherbourg.

This model was produced based on a drawing from a photograph in the Paris Maritime Museum.

This frigate is known for being one of the first to detect and inform Admiral Nelson of the sailing of the French-Spanish combined fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.

The model has been in the works for two years, scaled down to 1/75 from the 1/60 drawing of "The Naiad Frigate" by Edward J. Tosti. The starboard side is covered with exterior planking, while the port side has the structure visible. I like the contrast between the boxwood and pear-wood on the outer panels, but this is my first attempt at carving figureheads, etc. ----. It will take another year to complete.

After 5 years of wanting to make a structural model since joining in 2013, I have finally decided to make my first structural model as a "Naiad" and have begun its production. I am not aiming to make everything according to the blueprints from the beginning, but I would like to proceed with the project, although I am not sure how many years it will take to reach a certain level of completion. First, I set the front and rear cant frames and the square frames in the middle as our goal for the first year and assembled them in the orthodox upright assembly method. As a point of reflection, I started with the square frames, which are easy to make, and then proceeded to the cant frames at front and rear sections, but it would have been easier to make the front and rear cant frames first and then the square frames later.

A 24-gun frigate built in 1779. During the American Revolutionary War, she served in the North American area. After the peace, she was sent to search for the Bounty mutiny in 1790. In Tahiti, she detained fourteen mutineers and placed them in a cage on deck, which was called Pandora's Box. On the way home, the ship ran aground and sank off the Queensland coast in 1791. 1977, it was discovered on the seabed, and part of it was salvaged and exhibited at the Queensland Museum.

It was made mainly of pearwood and finished with watco oil.

Built in 1779 at Deptford and equipped with twenty-four cannons, the frigate served in North America during the American Revolutionary War.  In 1790, she went in search of the Bounty, which had mutinied and arrested fourteen mutineers, but on her way home, in August 1791, the ship ran aground and sank on the outer edge of the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. In 1977, the wreckage was discovered off Cape York, and part of it was salvaged and exhibited at the Queensland Museum.

This is the first full-scale structural model I have built.