HMS Enterprise

[mdesaxe]

You probably should keep people at the museum well away from Robert Gardiner’s seminal three-part article “[English] Frigate Design in the 18th Century” published in Warship 1979 (issues 9, 10, and 12: January, April and October). The Fox involved with Prestonpans was built to the 1733 Establishment, very similar to but slightly smaller than the design for the 1741 Establishment (gardiner figure 1 below), the main visible difference being that the two low gundeck ports were closer to the stern. The frigate Enterprise (and sister ship Fox) were slightly larger versions of the frigates Unicorn and Lyme (gardiner figure 2 below). As you can see, there was quite a difference in external appearance – the Fox of Prestonpans had much greater actual and relative freeboard because it was necessary to avoid flooding through the two low gundeck ports. Both drawings are from Robert Gardiner’s article.

Maurice

[Positive_Rate]

Originally Posted by cardist

Continuing with the hull and moving on to the main deck.

Main deck in place.



The first issue that I've had is with the numbering of the deck knees. These are matched pairs, working from forward to aft. Each part is laminated to 1mm and then joined together. As can be seen with the numbering system, these would not match, so they were changed accordingly. Not a big fuss, but something to be careful of.



The same is also true for the bulwark support ribs. As can be seen, I have changed the colour of the knees to match the bulwark interiors.



These knees will be the main attachment points for the upper-works.



Turning out to be a very pleasant build.

The decking is spot on the way the margin plank and the dowels are arranged. Looks great.

[cardist]

Hello all,
I see that I haven't posted any progress pictures for this for a while. So here we go.

Figurehead is a white metal casting I had lying around. The forward trim parts, catheads etc were easily formed and fitted perfectly. Certainly a lot easier that trying to fabricate these from wood.



The rest of the photos show some of the interior assembly bits and bobs.

Getting there with the deck fittings and trim.





Thanks for stopping by chums.

[wireandpaper]

Your hybrid construction is coming along very well.
Whatever material you need to use to get a nice model (in particular the details).
By the way, what did you use for the guns?

[cardist]

Originally Posted by wireandpaper

Your hybrid construction is coming along very well.
Whatever material you need to use to get a nice model (in particular the details).
By the way, what did you use for the guns?

Thanks Pablo, I bought them online somewhere and I can't find the site now. They are very clean, white-metal castings of just the right size.

[Michael Mash]

Lovely work Bernie.
Mike

[romanmodels]

looking good Bernie.

[catopower]

Bernie, Good luck with your build. It's looking really great!

I've got a Shipyard HMS Mercury in 1/96-scale, that I started quite some time ago, but I took it on mostly as an experiment, and to see what it was like working in paper.

It's still sitting around and I'm expecting I'll get back to it one of these days. If I do, as HMS Mercury is a sister ship to HMS Enterprise, I'll definitely be coming back to your build often for ideas and inspiration.

Please keep posting your progress!

[cardist]

Mike, David and Clare thanks for stopping by. Just about done for this stage of the build, before going to the museum. The masts are from various sizes of birch dowelling, gratings from thick thread, but the rest as supplied in the kit.



The kit supplied parts for such items as rails, ladders and stanchions etc. were used as templates to form the parts from laminated card. these parts were then sealed with c.a. adhesive before carving and filing to shape.



I didn't get a chance to finish the ship's wheel, so it was left off until the next building session. The last picture is as she went to the museum and the curator was very pleased that I could bring her for the opening day of the Jacobite 1745 display. The building will be closing next month for a few months for renovation, so I will be working on the rigging and sails over the winter.



Having a well deserved break for now before the next session starts, so I will be working on my backlog of incomplete ship models for the Edinburgh model show in September.

[Michael Mash]

These are excellent photos of Enterprise.
Superb looking work.
Mike