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Uwek

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Dear all,
I am happy to find this forum some days ago, and wanted to join this community. Maybe some of you knows myself from several years ago on another forum modelshipworld, where I was very active. Due to changing the location and also getting a daughter, the interests in the last years were not focussed on shipmodeling. In the meantime, I am 53 years old, living in Vienna, Austria. Since some months I am lucky to have a workshop in the basement, so I am intent to restart modelling historical ships. My avatar is the partly from you known Triton cross section built years ago. As you realized english is not my mother language, so please excuse for now and the future my way of writing....I will try to do my best, that you understand myself.
 
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Hi Uwek,
Welcome to the forum.
Mike
 
Hi Uwek,
Welcome aboard I'm sure you will find that this is a fun forum Lots of really good people who are ready to help in any way they can. As far as your English is concerned many of us who were born and raised in this country have trouble with their English.
I have traveled a great deal in my life time but not so much in Europe. My grandmother, however, was born in Austria and raised in Germany. She immigrated to the US as a young woman of 25, lived to be 95 and spoke with an accent all of her life. Even though she stopped speaking German during WWII. Enough rambling on Welcome I look forward to seeing your build logs.
 
Hallo everybody,
many thanks for the warm welcome here on board.
Some of your names are wellknown from the past at MSW, and I guess some of you recognize myself also from this time.
In the past I built some kits, mainly from Caldercraft / Jotika like the Brig Supply, Chatham, Convulsion, Granado. The Agamemnon kit is waiting, also some like the Vasa from Sergal or the Victory fromPanart. They are all in the shelf waiting......But due to the fact, that I started with POF modelling, reading and studying plans of Boudriot and Delacroix, the interest (and energy) of starting one kit of these, is in moment limited.
I am thinking about starting a new POF model, either a kit like the La Salamandre or the HMS Enterprise. Or making the bigger step building a POF directly from the plans......I have to take the time to make this decision, also with the help of modelers like you all, incl. reading logs, searching around. Due to the fact, that my free time for our hobby is limited, the decision will influence a long time in the future with modelling one ship........
I am happy that I found this forum......glad to be here
 
Uwe I too been reading Boudroit at least what english versions I could find which was only 1 and yesterday ordered the english version of the Le Fleuron Monographie. I have the plans but they not very good quality sop I broke down and ordered the book. That will be the one I do when it gets here I love the way the french used all kinds of cool joints and being a woodworker since a young kid many moons ago I just needed to do a french ship[. I may even somethime play around and build an english type ship but use the french technique just so i can make all them cool joints I love joinery
 
Hi Uwe,
once to build a plank on frame model, you will never want to build anything else. cheers mate and welcome aboard.
 
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Uwe I too been reading Boudroit at least what english versions I could find which was only 1 and yesterday ordered the english version of the Le Fleuron Monographie.......
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I can completely agree with your words about the french construction methods, which is very attractive .
A lot of years ago I, I bought the english version of the book "The Art of Ship Modeling" by Bernhard Frölich (Fro(e)lich) which is pubilshed by ancre.

https://ancre.fr/en/ouvrages-de-base-en/16-l-art-du-modelisme-bernard-frolich.html#/langue-anglais

This beautiful book with so much wonderfull photos (more than 600) showing the modeling work on ships like the Requin, La Salamandre, Belle Poule, Jacinthe etc. showed me what is possible and also gives me a wonderfull insight how to do some works.
10 years ago, there were only a smaller number of english versions available, but in the meantime several more were translated. I just checked it on the web-page of ancre:
La Belle, Le Fleuron, La Renomee, Requin, La Salamndre, La Belle Poule, Gros Ventre, Bonhomme Richard, Cerf, La Venus, La Jacinthe and the Hermione, means from a small brig over frigates to big ship of the line..... and from Gerard Delacroix you can get the english monography of the 118 gun ship Commerce de Marseille.
A very good compendium are the four books of the french 74 gun ship written by Jean Boudriot, which is one compendium explaining in detail the complete structure and parts of a ship of the line in 1780. Available also in english.
Sorry for this detailed explanation, but maybe recognize, that I am a big fan of the ancre publications and plans. Therefore with the years I have most of them in my library.

For everybody who would be interested in these books, I can fully recommend to take a look here:

https://ancre.fr/en/
 
Hello Uwe, welcome to this forum.
Uwek said:
...I am thinking about starting a new POF model, either a kit like the La Salamandre or the HMS Enterprise. Or making the bigger step building a POF directly from the plans......I have to take the time to make this decision, also with the help of modelers like you all, incl. reading logs, searching around. Due to the fact, that my free time for our hobby is limited, the decision will influence a long time in the future with modelling one ship....
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Since you already have built several ships, and know what to expect from a kit, why not take that next step now. "...building a POF directly from the plans".
Life is short. Take the adventure. Even if things don't work out, it is working out how to solve the problem which brings the greater satisfaction of creativity.
I say: "Take the risk".
 
Hallo Peter,
from bridge builder to bridge builder ;)

I ordered in the meantime the La Salamandre and the kit should arrive in one week or so, so for the moment the pure building from plans is postponed for one or two years. Hope to be still joung enough ( :D ) to manage afterwards a model directly from some ancre-monographies.....
I hope to get some additional experience with this complex kit, also because the enteriour is also included. I plan is to compare the kit everytime with the originalö Boudriot plans and to adjust, add where possible, necessary or make sense.

But many many thanks for encouraging me (is this correct english?) to do this step ......
 
Uwek said:
...But many many thanks for encouraging me (is this correct english?) to do this step ......
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Don't worry about your English. It is fine. It will naturally improve over time, especially if you mostly reading things in English.

Since five years of age, English has been my second language. I am 63 now, and still learning to improve my grammar. My brain's language default (German) keeps me placing words and phrases in the wrong order (for English), which I have to keep switching around _ even for this post. Another default is to not include unnecessary words, which in English does not flow to well.

However, ever person has phantoms in their language. These are misspelled words, or bits of grammar, that will always come up, no matter how many times it gets corrected.
 
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