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Learning from Pictures
More than 180 video-clips and more than 3,000 photos and files.
- Ratlines "Express" (video)
- Le Boullongne 1:48 - Ratlines (video)
- Le Boullongne 1:48 - Chainplates (video)
1 - The Box
2 - Plans
3 - Wooden Parts
4 - Brass Parts and Others
5 - Ropes
6 - Glues
7 - Conclusion
1 - The First Assembly
2 - The Keel
3 - Checking Bulkheads
4 - Gluing Stern Parts Square
5 - Three Checkings before Gluing
6 - First Gluing
7 - Final Gluing
1 - Decks
2 - Gun Carriages on the Second Deck
3 - Installing Decks Before Plankings
Introduction
1 - The Example of L'Astrolabe
2 - Checking the Height of the Bulwark
3 - Pattern for the Bulwark Layout
4 - Installing the Bulwark
5 - Inner Planking of the Bulwark
6 - Installing Timberheads
7 - Symmetric Gunports
8 - Do we Have to Cut Timberheads?
9 - S/B - Installation of ceiling planks or ceiling planking
1 - The Choice for Plankings is Huge
2 - Conversions According to Scales
3 - Preparing Strips
4 - Marking Strips
5 - Cutting and Marking Planks
6 - Gluing Strips or Planks
7 - Simplified Caulking 
8 - Finishing Off the Planking
1 - A Word On Treenails
2 - False Treenails
3 - Cutting Real Treenails
4 - How To Stick Treenails
5 - Cutting Treenails
6 - S/B - Case of "Le Boullongne" 1:48
7 - Nails
8 - Brasswires
1 - Verifying Before Cutting
2 - Assembling Ledges of Gratings
3 - Assembling Frames of Gratings
4 - Fitting Gratings on Deck
5 - Angle of Inclination of Ladders
1 - Return To the Past
2 - Layout of a Stern Filler Block
3 - Cutting and Sizing of a Filler Block
4 - Last Control Before Gluing a Filler Block
5 - Defect to be Corrected
6 - S/B - Checks Hull Horizontal Lines
1 - Drawing and Cutting Main-Rails
2 - Cutting Openings of Gun Ports
3 - Installing Cat-Heads, If Needed
4 - Installing / Gluing Main-Rails
5 - Follow Your Common Sense
6 - Other Wooden Gunport Lids
7 - S/B - Styrene Hinges
Introduction
1 - Supports of Dummy Cannons
2 - Locations of Gunports
3 - Cutting Out Gunports
4 - Gunports into Bulkheads
5 - Bulkheads To Be Cut Out
6 - Assembling Metal Gunport Lids
7 - Assembling Wooden Gunport Lids
8 - Follow Your Common Sense
9 - Other Wooden Gunport Lids
1 - Bow and Stern Filler Blocks
2 - Fitting the Edge of Bulkheads
3 - Tools for Fitting Bulkheads
4 - Marking the Location of the First Strake
5 - Now Add the Keel and the Stem
Introduction
1 - Hull with "Double Planking"
2 - Hull with "Single Planking"
1 - Objectives of a Neat Finishing Off
2 - First Evaluation
3 - Tools Needed to Finishing Touches
4 - Filling Disparities Before Sanding
5 - Correcting Important Hollows
6 - Removing or Avoiding Undulations
7 - Final Controls
8 - Finishing Hulls with Simple Planking
1 - Tools
2 - Easy as 2+2 = 4
3 - Calculation of a "Main Strake"
4 - Jigs to Profile Strakes
5 - Layout, Cut and Finish of a Strake
6 - Correcting the Strake Profile
7 - Stealers in the Finishing Planking
Introduction
1 - Tools
2 - Checking Strips
3 - Hull without Wales
4 - Hull with Wales
5 - Reminder of Techniques
6 - Fitting Ends of Strakes
7 - Last Four Strakes
8 - S/B - The "scarf of bending"
9 - Another Method of Planking
1 - Tools for Finishing Off
2 - Sequences for Proceeding
3 - A Good Position for Sanding
4 - Doubling the Keel and the Stem
5 - Caulking
6 - Dyeing
7 - Varnishing
8 - Rudder and Stern Post
9 - Drawing the Waterline
10 - Painting the Hull
Introduction.
1 - Reference Points
2 - Installing the Transom
3 - Preparing the Installation of Sides
4 - Installing Gallery Sides
5 - Installing the Laser-carved Panel
6 - Installing Carved Side Panels
7 - Finishing Mouldings
8 - Glass Windows
9 - Glass Windows With Cross Bars
10 - Front of the Boullongne's Aft-Castle
11 - S/B - Relief Patterns
12 - S/B - Carving the Model Name
13 - S/B - Various Sculptures
14 - S/B - Making a Cast for Repetitive Sculptures
15 - S/B - Glass Windows With Cross Bars
16 - S/B - Other Moulded Sculptures
17 - S/B - Quarter Galleries
Introduction
1 - ZIP Seizings
2 - Series Seizings
3 - Various Seizings
4 - Seizings on Spars
5 - Rope Strops
6 - Iron Strops
7 - Mast Gammonings
8 - Deck Coils
9 - Knots
Introduction
1 - Rounding Blocks
2 - Cutting Small Blocks
3 - Forming 3mm Rings
4 - 1.7mm Ring-Bolts
5 - Cleats
6 - Stays
7 - Blocks on Stays
8 - Symmetrical Installations of Blocks
9 - Tackle Elements
Introduction
1 - Diameter of the Running Rigging
2 - Diameter of the Standing Rigging
3 - Belaying a Line on a Belaying Pin
4 - Coiling a Line on a Deck
Introduction.
1 - Dyeing Wheels and Gun Carriages
2 - Assembling Gun Carriages (kit)
3 - Setting Up and Varnishing Axles and Wheels
4 - Fitting and Finishing Gun Carriages
5 - Axes and Keys of Axles
6 - The Highlight of the End
7 - S/B - Assembling Gun Carriages
1 - Standard Rigging of a Gun
2 - Ring Bolts of Gun Carriages
3 - Breeching
4 - Blocks and Tackles
5 - Anchoring Rear Tackles
6 - Setting a Gun Carriage and its Rigging
7 - Tension of Tackles, Coiling of Lines
8 - General View of the Battery of L'Astrolabe
1 - Two Ways of Blackening Guns
2 - Painting Guns in Black
3 - Darkening Guns with an Oxidizer
4 - Setting Up Axes (Trunnions) of Guns
Introduction
1 - Tools
2 - Quite a Lot of Time
3 - Crossbar and Reinforcement
4 - Last Fitting
5 - Last Fitting
6 - Wall Display Base for Bigger Models
7 - Wall Display Base for Smaller Models
8 - Acrylic Showcase
9 - Mural Showcases
10 - Classic Showcases
11 - Showcases "House of Cards"
Introduction.
1 - Tools
2 - Construction of Channels
3 - Preparation of Deadeyes with Chainplates
4 - Assembling Pin Rails
5 - Drilling and Finishing Pin Rails
6 - Precise Assembling/Gluing
7 - Specifications of the "Musée de la Marine" (Paris)
1 - Tools
2 - "Diamond" Cut
3 - Assembling
4 - Additional Finish
5 - Stain, Varnish and Nails
6 - Installing Racks
Introduction
1 - Length of Lines
2 - Coiling Lines
3 - Placing Coils on Belaying Pins
Introduction
1 - Tools for Fitting 11mm (7/16") Cleats
2 - Cleats of 11mm (7/16")
3 - Tools for Fitting 6mm (1/4") Cleats
4 - Cleats of 6mm (1/4")
5 - Deck Rings
Introduction.
1 - Small Joinings
2 - Scale Errors
3 - Few Deck Structures on L'Astrolabe
4 - S/B - Boats of Le Boullongne (1: 48)
Introduction.
1 - Head Timbers
2 - Gratings Head
3 - Fitting and Setting Head Rails
4 - The Figurehead
5 - Carving a Figurehead: "Lion + Armorial Bearings"
Introduction.
1 - Masts, Identification
2 - Yards and Sails, Identification
3 - Standing Rigging, Identification
4 - Running Rigging, Identification
5 - New Sequence for Stepping Masts
Introduction
1 - Trestletrees and Crosstrees
2 - Planking the Top
3 - Deadeyes
4 - Guardrail and Safety Net
5 - Blocks
6 - S/B - Top
6 - S/B - Top, Blocks and Belaying Pins
1 - Preparation of Components
2 - Mast Caps
3 - Assembling the Topmast and the Topgallant Mast
4 - End of Assembling the "Mast"
5 - S/B - Mast Octagonal Cuts
6 - S/B - Assembling the Parts of a Mast
7 - S/B - Irons of the Mast
1 - Sequence for Stepping Masts
2 - A Plumbline
3 - A Spirit Level
4 - Your Floor and the Masttop
5 - Consolidating a Bad Gluing
Introduction.
1 - Seizings of Shrouds and Backstays
2 - Deadeyes of the Masttop
3 - Tension of Masttop Shrouds
4.1 - Ratlines of the Masttop
4.2 - Ratlines "Express"
5 - Deadeyes on Channels
6 - Tension of Low Mast Shrouds
7 - Chainplates
8 - Ratlines of the Low Mast
9 - Deadeyes and ZIP Seizings
1 - Yard Parts
2 - Tools for Cutting
3 - Forming Studding Sail Boom Irons
4 - Setting up Studding Sail Yards
5 - Setting up Jeer Blocks
6 - How to Hold a Yard
7 - Footropes
8 - Blocks of the Yard Ends
9 - S/B - Cutting the Parts of A Yard
10 - S/B - Irons of A yard (video)
11 - S/B - Assembling A Yard
12 - S/B - Turning A Square Strip
Introduction
1 - Yard Halyards and Jeers
2 - Lifts
3 - Braces
4 - Tacks
1 - Fore Mast Parts
2 - Sequence for Stepping
3 - Stays
4 - Yard Tackles
Warning
1 - The Bowsprit Parts
2 - Blocks and Hearts
3 - The Jib Traveller
4 - False Seizings
5 - Adjusting and Fixing the Bowsprit
6 - Don't Forget
7 - The Spritsail Yard and its Standing Rigging
Introduction.
1 - Parts of the Mizzen Sail
2 - Goose-Necks
3 - The Boom
4 - The Gaff
1 - Why do we need Crow's Feet ?
2 - Same Tension for Arms
3 - Freezing and Finishing Crow's Feet
4 - Many Kinds of Anchorings
Introduction
1 - Pattern
2 - Laying Out the Sail
3 - Sewing Breadths
4 - Laying Out the Hem
5 - Preparing the Hem
6 - Ironing and Basting the Hem
7 - Final Cut of the Hem
8 - Sew Yourselve - Preparing the Fabric
9 - Sew Yourselve - Adjustments of the Sewing Machine
10 - Sew Yourselve - Copying the Plans of the Sails
11 - Sew Yourselve - First tests
12 - Sew Yourselve - Hems and bolt rope
Introduction
1 - Stainless Steel Wire
2 - Making Wind Blown Sails
3 - False Sheet and False Tackle
4 - Reef Lines and Reef Points
5 - Furled Square Sails
6 - Sequence for Installing the Sails
1 - The 3 Points of a Jib
2 - Stays
3 - Preparing a Jib
4 - Installing Jibs
1 - Anchor Parts
2 - Cutting Stocks
3 - Dyeing, Hoops and Finishing the Anchor
4 - Location of Anchors
Introduction.
1 - The Launch of the Astrolabe
2 - The Launches of the Algonquin (First version)
3 - The Launches of the Algonquin (Second version)
Introduction.
1 - Printing and Cutting
2 - Shaping
3 - Tie of a Flag
4 - Tie of a Pennant
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