HMS ROYAL KATHERINE 1664, 1:55, scratch build

[aansorge]

So good to see your post!


Welcome!

[Mike1158]

Fantastic, wow. Nicely done.

[1mwangarch]

http://www.maritimearchaeology.dk/do...design_web.pdf

[elliott]

It's wonderful to have you post here again Doris. Stunning work - no surprise there!! You're always welcome here, with pictures or without.

[birder]

Your ship is coming along wonderfully, with very clean looking hull and bulwarks..

[abhovi]

So good to see that you are back here. Your work is absolutely inspirational for all of us.

[DORIS]

Thank you very much, dear friends, I am really honored reading your words and comments. I do appreciate them a lot.
I have started making quarter galleries. I have to admit it was quite difficult and it was necessary to adapt some details on the hull and aft to achieve acceptable result. I create the construction mainly according to historical models of Saint Michael and HMS Prince.

St Michael (1669); Warship; 98 guns; 1st rate - National Maritime Museum

Dockyard model HMS Prince, London Science Museum

I am very grateful for a professional help to a top expert from our country - Captain K.L. who helps me with the realistic creating of models.

In H.Vale´s painting there are some differences between side and aft view and the windows in Quarter Gallery seems to be higher. Well, I may adapt them to achieve nicer and maybe also more realistic performance of the model.

[DORIS]

I have almost finished the second quarter gallery and took some pics from process. Soon I will bring a video, how I shape the card usind steam and suitable tools. Steam helps shaping cause the card is more flexible.
At the beginning, I prepare templates from soft paper.Then I redraw them onto a high quality black card coated with a foil with wooden imitation. After shaping I place them onto the right place using tweezers and during drying improve details.

I have made another important change on the model to move it closer to greater historical accuracy. The hull on Vale´s painting and also on other English ships from this period is not so tall, so i decided to reduce its height to the appropriate level. I'm gonna continue on port an prepare other improvements.

Plenty of interesting and useful information is available in my main building log on the Czech forum, where you can also find expert advice and valuable information about real ships from the top expert Kpt.KL., who is my excellent advisor during creation of the Royal Katherine.

https://www.modelforum.cz/viewtopic....0763&start=270

[DORIS]

Many parts of the model will be modificated to achieve better a more realistic appearance. I do not have exact plans of Royal Katherine, so I must "play it by ear".
The hull is after complete cutting down and some colour modifications in the central area of the model are created according the museum models from this period - for example Saint Michael 1669.
I modified other parts on the model, that were not entirely based on appearance of the real ship in Vale´s painting. I reduced other upper parts of the hull and added the black strip between wales. More information is also here:
DiskusnÃ* fórum modelářů • Zobrazit téma - HMS ROYAL KATHERINE 1664, vlastnÃ* projekt, 1:55

My main priority is the maximal historical plausibility as I have already said, so if I detect an inconsistency, or if someone alerts me, I'm trying to fix it. Of course, I cannot fix everything, but if it is at least possible, then I do it.

[DORIS]

I finished roofs on Quarter Galleries and added a bay window (oriel window) on the stern. I use high quality card finished with black foils. The columns and upper parts of the hull (under railing)are wooden.