Originally Posted by RGinCanada

There is the issue! Apparently several cubic metres of work in progress are incompatible with her decorating sensibilities.

Iīm feeling with you!

Originally Posted by disabled

What a surprise for me to read in this forum about a Mr. Lorenz Kaestner with his great rc-model of the "HMS Leopard", as I got a german book about rc-systems for historic modelships which mentions the same man with the same model! It was written by a Mr. Martin Becker and I own this book since 6 or 7 years.

Having read this book actually showed me the way of how I will be able to build the model I allways wanted to build.

I have the Englsh edition - see attached.

Some of the other stuff Iīve designed and built over the past 17 years:

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showt...0#post17798908

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1181184

So far the whole plug overall isnīt/shouldn`t be more than 2 mm off the original linedrawings.
Added some better lights above my workbench.

Time to do some necessary alternations:

Additional 10mm Plywood cut for the sternplate.
Will probably need to cut out gunports and rudder-port (?) before glueing it to the plug.

Keel(s) and Stem(s) prepared, - outside curve(s) roughly sanded.

Is this author also known in UK and USA - english language?

http://cgi.ebay.de/Wolfram-Mondfeld-...item3efa01110f

And how about that one?

http://cgi.ebay.de/Historische-Schif...item588d302908

Or this:

http://cgi.ebay.de/grosse-Piratenbuc...item20b62b0490

I think there may be English versions of these, but I don't have them. I'd like to see Historic Ship Modeling.

Originally Posted by JerryTodd

I think there may be English versions of these, but I don't have them. I'd like to see Historic Ship Modeling.

You should get it.
Even if you canīt get it in English - there are so much technical drawings and references about all these detail dimensions in this book itīs not even necessary to read through.
Helped me a lot - got mine when I was 17 -
- first year of appreticeship as shipwright.

It is basically THE standard book for historic shipmodel building.

like this book the best....at least...for me

On ebay the same book exists with at least 3 different covers - only in German!
And I remember mine originally also had a different cover.

Cut from simple fir - 1.5 cm thick - sanded and glued with "UHU por" which doesnīt "eat up" the foam. It holds quite well/strong now but will come off the foam when its glassed over together with the hull itself.

Have a look here:
Lots of closeup pics of the Neptune ->
http://www.rainerbilek.de/media/Gall...uno/index.html

Plus some nice pics of replica galeons I found here:

http://www.timedesign.de/ship/renaissance.jpg

thanks for that! i'm totally amazed at the fantastic amount of work that was put into the neptune just for a movie...it's fantastic too bad it still doesn't exist..nice lines although the figurehead is a bit much...most of the time a modern sailing vessel is modified to look like a period ship, which of course, bugs me to no end

Why do you believe it doesnīt really exist?

As far as I know, this ship was REALLY built -
not just a incorrect 3D-rendering on some supercomputers!
Read once itīs at Nizza, France - at another time at Genoa, Italy.
Does anybody know more about it?

But you are right - the figurehead is a bit too much.

Received my "new" copy of Wolfram Mondfelds "Historic Shipmodels" today!
Couldnīt wait to start reading/studying.

my favorite photo in book.......this is the marilyn monroe of hulls to me

Originally Posted by yancovitch

my favorite photo in book.......this is the marilyn monroe of hulls to me

Aye, Sir!
I think I can agree to that one too!

As I thought before itīs the same book you have - just another edition.
In my book this pic is on page 149 - they added 16 pages up to that point.
I just try to figure out what the newest editions might have?

As for coincidences - my favorite irish pub here at Vienna is the "Old Oak".

Some questions came to my mind:
Do you know, where to get building plans for this "Royal Oak"?
And where did you get the plans for your "Royal William" from?
Appoximate prize for these plans?
And have they originally been to the scale you wanted/needed them?

It would be great if you could give me these informations.
Thanks!