Learned more the second time around! I have built my deck canons, and am waiting to see your video on mounting the deck canons. Thanks for sharing. Happy days and model on! 😎🇨🇦
I've started my ACHERON, so I will be back dating all of your boat builds for some serious watching. It won't be as good as yours but I will have done the best I can. Many thanks Harry, your a Whizz 👍👍
Do you need some better cannons in carriages for it? Craig printed me quite a few 3D printed and very detailed sets. The ones in the Archeron kit are awful. Contact me on Facebook with your addy so I can send you a set
Well..fantastic! So many ideas and new skills I can apply to my build Harry. And what is fantastic for me is….I found the same kit on eBay last night from the UK. 1973 in the original white box and brown logo top left. Postage is the killer but just couldn’t pass on it. Excited to add this to Prince and Sovereign to complete the trilogy. Thank you again!
This is coming along beautifully. I find it interesting how you work out your techniques for modeling small details such as these gun ports. You're always searching for the easiest way to make it look good, which is not necessarily the first thing you think of. I use the same philosophy too. I would also love to see you finish up that Wingnut Wings model you started several years ago. That was the first of your videos I ever watched. I've done five of them now and fully understand how and why you were reluctant to close up the fuselage. So please get to it when you can but it is your channel and I enjoy and appreciate seeing whatever you're working on.
I just went through all of the St Louis videos. I must say, that's a lovely watch. And, you gave me the inspiration to finally start working on my 'Le Superbe' model - although it will be heavily converted into the HMS 'Indefatigable' of one cmdr. Andrew Pellew. Anyway, bravo, that's an outstanding work here, cheers!
Nice systematic add on gun ports. The extra Fleur De Lis ⚜️ makes all the difference. Guns look good too. She is becoming a real gem. Can’t wait for the rigging to start 😃 Greetz DutchDave
BOOM 💥 💥 fantastic Harry. Like I said, that was always my favorite part. The guns. From Tripitz to Tigers/Sherman biplane/P-51 it all got its guns as fast as I could put them on. Then the ever popular BOOM 💥 🤣 really looking fantastic Harry. Really enjoying your builds.👍👍
I'm a pretty new subscriber Harry as I'm only just getting back into the hobby after only dabbling in fits and starts over the years. I''m retired now so looking forward to getting stuck in more. Finding I'm getting more and more interested in armour but love ships too of any era. This series of videos makes me really want to have a go at this type of ship. Trouble is there are so many fantastic subjects in this hobby it's like being a kid a toy shop again! Love what you do, best wishes from Liverpool, England.
Great progress with the St Louis Harry, and the cannons and port lids really set it off. I am looking forward to the rigging of this beautiful ship, as I have always wondered how it was done on these small scale sailing vessels. I am also looking forward to the weathering process on the poor old neglected Panther (unless I have missed an upload?). Keep the content coming mate, and cheers for now.
Panther on my list. Next video is my Seydlitz, then the start of the promised Meng RR Armoured Car, and then the Panther, before I return to my next update on the St Louis.
I wonder how long they did keep those structures covering over the main deck? I have read that while the structures were meant to protect the crew on the main deck from boarding activity the problem was that it also trapped the crew on the ship! Also too why is it they never include the rudder on the ships boats on these kits. I have found some really great info online that shows how the rudder should have been.
From my research they dropped the cover towards the end of the 17th century. Yep rudders and tillers always seem to missing on these kits. Easy to scratch, as I did for the Revell Bounty.
If it wasn't for the friendly colours the ship would look menacing with all those guns. Did you speed up the video when drilling or are you so fast with it?
Hi Harry, Great idea for doing the gunport lids and ropes, using the rebate liner. Is that styrene and what is the thickness you used for the lid expansions? Finally, this is not a criticism but I’m wondering about that big lantern sitting in the middle of the poop deck. Is it accurate? I like your style of making attractive models with extra detail and painting schemes that are reasonably accurate and pleasing to look at. Detail but no rivet counting. Carry on Harry.
Yes that absurd Lantern is typical for early 17th century French ships.. you see them in all the paintings from the period. I used 0.5mm thick Evergreen styrene sheet for the blue faces inside the gun port lids, cut to about 5mm square.
it was my Revell Contacta in an old Tamiya bottle. I had already filed the inside of the gun lid hinge free of paint, and scraped some paint off the joining slot on the hull. So there were plastic surfaces to bond with the cement.
For the French, even more so, the excess of decoration in the 17th century and some of the 18th century was absurd. Look at the Swedish Wasa, plus the English Royal Sovereign and Prince as other examples of more gilding than the Sistine Chapel. Spanish ships were not as ornate, and the Dutch tended to be more functional than fanciful. But it was age where bling was the thing. That’s why we like to build models of these ships.
Is you friend selling the stl files for those 3d printed pullies? Been looking for them for a while and was going to design them myself but simpler if someone has already done the work.
Bronze (tin) can be quite brittle so the cannons tended to shatter and explode. Brass (zinc) offered a compromise that was more malleable and less prone to detonation. Even the later black cannons of the English were actually brass covered in black pitch. It was not until the 18th century as better alloys of iron were developed that iron cannons became the norm.
@@HarryHoudiniModels I believe you will find with more research that brass may have been used for small arms in early times, but the term "brass cannon" is a misnomer, since "brass" and "bronze" were interchangeably used two to three hundred years ago. Come bronzes had 2-4 % zinc mixed into copper alloy which already has 8-10% tin, so the primary alloying element was tin. Zinc/copper brass is far too weak for culverin or drakes, much less cannon. Websites often incorrectly use the term brass when in fact the metal is a bronze. I work with bronze, and know it to be an exceptionally useful metal. You can make springs and swords out of it, unlike brass, which is crystalline, brittle, and weak. It also fatigues easily. Search for the term "gun metal" as recently used in cannon in America and you will see that guns called "brass" commonly were actually bronze alloys.
@@HarryHoudiniModels I believe these websites which use "brass" are misleading, owing to the use of brass and bronze interchangeably during the period guns were cast. If you can obtain the alloying percentages, you will probably find that guns termed as brass actually had more tin in them than zinc. Brass can be used in small arms like an arquebuse, however.
never heard of actual brass guns. period writing is a bit foggy on terminology, but i am quite sure, they only used bronze for guns, and later iron. No middle step to brass.
The French and others in the 17th Century used brass cannons, it was harder than bronze, however as a decent iron alloy wasn’t invented yet, it was used until the 18th century. English ships tarred their cannons, so even if they were brass, they looked like the black iron ones. Best do your own research before trying to cannon count.
@@HarryHoudiniModels Very sorry to hear about your loss. Real life takes precedence over our hobbies, no doubt about that. Wishing you and your loved ones strength in these times.
I like the use of that famous universal measurement: the cocktail stick.
Very interesting Harry 👌
If it fits… use it
Nice Work, it is amazing to me how they engineered the models, all before CAD drawings and 3-D printing.
Craftsman had to build a model first from wood, mostly. Then moulds were made from it for the plastic kit.
What you have done rebuilding this used kit is amazing really enjoy watching your videos Keep up the fantastic job!
Thanks, will do Alan
Very professional work! Great progress on St Louis, love the custom adaptations to the model and the appurtenances you've added!
Thanks Mista Pickles… ah a word I was not familiar with… great, will have to sneak appurtenances into my next video
@@HarryHoudiniModels fantastic work mate.
Learned more the second time around! I have built my deck canons, and am waiting to see your video on mounting the deck canons. Thanks for sharing. Happy days and model on! 😎🇨🇦
I did it on the Bounty videos.. same same. add string and glue
I've started my ACHERON, so I will be back dating all of your boat builds for some serious watching. It won't be as good as yours but I will have done the best I can. Many thanks Harry, your a Whizz 👍👍
Do you need some better cannons in carriages for it? Craig printed me quite a few 3D printed and very detailed sets. The ones in the Archeron kit are awful. Contact me on Facebook with your addy so I can send you a set
Pretty clever Harry, just keep learning from you. She really looks sharp.
Thanks matey… 2 weeks to work out how to make some flaps. Did the portside this week in 2 days lol
Thanks!
A big Super Thanks Charles.. much appreciated
Well..fantastic! So many ideas and new skills I can apply to my build Harry. And what is fantastic for me is….I found the same kit on eBay last night from the UK. 1973 in the original white box and brown logo top left. Postage is the killer but just couldn’t pass on it. Excited to add this to Prince and Sovereign to complete the trilogy. Thank you again!
You are welcome Francis… glad you got so much out of my video.
This is coming along beautifully. I find it interesting how you work out your techniques for modeling small details such as these gun ports. You're always searching for the easiest way to make it look good, which is not necessarily the first thing you think of. I use the same philosophy too. I would also love to see you finish up that Wingnut Wings model you started several years ago. That was the first of your videos I ever watched. I've done five of them now and fully understand how and why you were reluctant to close up the fuselage. So please get to it when you can but it is your channel and I enjoy and appreciate seeing whatever you're working on.
I will try to get back to the Hansa Brandenburg… only the painting and rigging left to do now
Love your work!! Genius with the toothpick and gunport rope! Ship is looking stunning
I use what ever is at hand… necessity is the mother of invention
Love this build Harry Thank You!
Glad you like it Richard
I love the 3D printed blocks and it seems to much less expensive than the wooden blocks!
Even more affordable as a gift.
I just went through all of the St Louis videos. I must say, that's a lovely watch. And, you gave me the inspiration to finally start working on my 'Le Superbe' model - although it will be heavily converted into the HMS 'Indefatigable' of one cmdr. Andrew Pellew. Anyway, bravo, that's an outstanding work here, cheers!
Thanks matey… great to know I was an inspiration… good luck with the Indefatigable.
Looking great Harry. Cheers 👍😀
Thanks 👍
Looking good Harry.
Thanks Nick
Yet one more enjoyable video mate, must say I do look forward to seeing them.
Glad you like them Frederick
Just amazing work
Thank you so much 😀
Bonzer build Harry! 👍
Good on you Cobber
Pretty good Harry!
Pretty and good… ok I will take that
Nice systematic add on gun ports. The extra Fleur De Lis ⚜️ makes all the difference. Guns look good too. She is becoming a real gem. Can’t wait for the rigging to start 😃 Greetz DutchDave
Rigging next as I add the channel boards and start on the dead eyes
Great news
Thanks Nikolay
BOOM 💥 💥 fantastic Harry. Like I said, that was always my favorite part. The guns. From Tripitz to Tigers/Sherman biplane/P-51 it all got its guns as fast as I could put them on. Then the ever popular BOOM 💥 🤣 really looking fantastic Harry. Really enjoying your builds.👍👍
Glad you enjoy my aquatic adventures Boom!
That looks really great with the guns in along with the pulleys. The Pimped ship is looking amazing 😘
Thanks Basil… Pimp my Ship!
I'm a pretty new subscriber Harry as I'm only just getting back into the hobby after only dabbling in fits and starts over the years. I''m retired now so looking forward to getting stuck in more. Finding I'm getting more and more interested in armour but love ships too of any era. This series of videos makes me really want to have a go at this type of ship. Trouble is there are so many fantastic subjects in this hobby it's like being a kid a toy shop again! Love what you do, best wishes from Liverpool, England.
Just pace yourself David, plenty of time to build all the subjects that interest you.
Great progress with the St Louis Harry, and the cannons and port lids really set it off. I am looking forward to the rigging of this beautiful ship, as I have always wondered how it was done on these small scale sailing vessels. I am also looking forward to the weathering process on the poor old neglected Panther (unless I have missed an upload?). Keep the content coming mate, and cheers for now.
Panther on my list. Next video is my Seydlitz, then the start of the promised Meng RR Armoured Car, and then the Panther, before I return to my next update on the St Louis.
Hi Harry, that's one of the best painted ship ive ever seen mate , fuck im impressed 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍have a good one mate
Merci bouchée mon amie
@@HarryHoudiniModels mate your a legion, im saving my pennies to get a sailing ship , it will have to be french mate , Vive la France mon amie
c’est manufique Nespar
@@HarryHoudiniModels Tres belle😊
I wonder how long they did keep those structures covering over the main deck? I have read that while the structures were meant to protect the crew on the main deck from boarding activity the problem was that it also trapped the crew on the ship! Also too why is it they never include the rudder on the ships boats on these kits. I have found some really great info online that shows how the rudder should have been.
From my research they dropped the cover towards the end of the 17th century. Yep rudders and tillers always seem to missing on these kits. Easy to scratch, as I did for the Revell Bounty.
If it wasn't for the friendly colours the ship would look menacing with all those guns. Did you speed up the video when drilling or are you so fast with it?
I am incredibly fast.. it was all that training my fingers on the banjo to move quickly…. hehe no of course its speeded up!
She is getting more and more magnificent with each video...... Well yes I am biased: I am French...
C’est manufique!
Hi Harry,
Great idea for doing the gunport lids and ropes, using the rebate liner. Is that styrene and what is the thickness you used for the lid expansions?
Finally, this is not a criticism but I’m wondering about that big lantern sitting in the middle of the poop deck. Is it accurate?
I like your style of making attractive models with extra detail and painting schemes that are reasonably accurate and pleasing to look at. Detail but no rivet counting. Carry on Harry.
Yes that absurd Lantern is typical for early 17th century French ships.. you see them in all the paintings from the period. I used 0.5mm thick Evergreen styrene sheet for the blue faces inside the gun port lids, cut to about 5mm square.
When you were gluing the cannon doors on , what type of glue were you using ? It was the blue cap with the brush . Was it adhering to paint ?
it was my Revell Contacta in an old Tamiya bottle. I had already filed the inside of the gun lid hinge free of paint, and scraped some paint off the joining slot on the hull. So there were plastic surfaces to bond with the cement.
She looks a beaut mate.
Thanks Stephen
I will sit down enjoy and let you go on your merry way as I have my 5 kittens and 2 teenagers ! As of now it will be carnage / demolition
context?
@@HarryHoudiniModels My felines goes first at this point in time so your very self and watching your modelling will be my substitute !
Hey Harry, a question. Were ships of this period really as brightly decorated as your model suggests?
For the French, even more so, the excess of decoration in the 17th century and some of the 18th century was absurd. Look at the Swedish Wasa, plus the English Royal Sovereign and Prince as other examples of more gilding than the Sistine Chapel. Spanish ships were not as ornate, and the Dutch tended to be more functional than fanciful. But it was age where bling was the thing. That’s why we like to build models of these ships.
Is you friend selling the stl files for those 3d printed pullies? Been looking for them for a while and was going to design them myself but simpler if someone has already done the work.
You would have to ask him yourself. www.mousemuffinsdesign.com/
@@HarryHoudiniModels Checked and looks like parts he's selling and stls is a big fat No :D will have to design them myself haha Cheers.
Brass was NEVER used for cannon. "Brass" cannons as the term was used, were actually bronze, a copper/tin alloy.
je ne suis pas d'accord mon ami
www.christinedemerchant.com/brass.html
and more
www.christinedemerchant.com/tall-ship-cannons.html
Bronze (tin) can be quite brittle so the cannons tended to shatter and explode. Brass (zinc) offered a compromise that was more malleable and less prone to detonation. Even the later black cannons of the English were actually brass covered in black pitch. It was not until the 18th century as better alloys of iron were developed that iron cannons became the norm.
@@HarryHoudiniModels I believe you will find with more research that brass may have been used for small arms in early times, but the term "brass cannon" is a misnomer, since "brass" and "bronze" were interchangeably used two to three hundred years ago. Come bronzes had 2-4 % zinc mixed into copper alloy which already has 8-10% tin, so the primary alloying element was tin. Zinc/copper brass is far too weak for culverin or drakes, much less cannon. Websites often incorrectly use the term brass when in fact the metal is a bronze. I work with bronze, and know it to be an exceptionally useful metal. You can make springs and swords out of it, unlike brass, which is crystalline, brittle, and weak. It also fatigues easily. Search for the term "gun metal" as recently used in cannon in America and you will see that guns called "brass" commonly were actually bronze alloys.
@@HarryHoudiniModels I believe these websites which use "brass" are misleading, owing to the use of brass and bronze interchangeably during the period guns were cast. If you can obtain the alloying percentages, you will probably find that guns termed as brass actually had more tin in them than zinc. Brass can be used in small arms like an arquebuse, however.
never heard of actual brass guns. period writing is a bit foggy on terminology, but i am quite sure, they only used bronze for guns, and later iron. No middle step to brass.
The French and others in the 17th Century used brass cannons, it was harder than bronze, however as a decent iron alloy wasn’t invented yet, it was used until the 18th century. English ships tarred their cannons, so even if they were brass, they looked like the black iron ones. Best do your own research before trying to cannon count.
@@HarryHoudiniModels Interesting. Do you have any sources handy you can point me to, on brass guns?
I did the research last year when I started the kit.. I can find it for you, but right now I am burying my father who died yesterday.
@@HarryHoudiniModels Very sorry to hear about your loss. Real life takes precedence over our hobbies, no doubt about that. Wishing you and your loved ones strength in these times.