Revenge 1577 by xodar461 - FINISHED - Amati - Scale 1:64

[md1400cs]

Jeff,

 

Wow!! indeed a beautifully built ship along with your super creative setting for placing this great work. 🏆

[xodar461]

Greetings and thanks for all the kind words!

 

last topic - the flags.  As I stated earlier, what comes with the kit is quite nice however it is much too thick and stiff.  As you can see a post above, the flag is meant to be folded over onto itself (one side is sticky).  This results in a flag that is 0.15 mm thick.  While this seems pretty small, at a scale of 1:64 this represents a flag that is over 8 mm thick!  A 1:1 scale flag I have at home is 0.15 mm.  So I uploaded the flags to Adobe Lightroom, played a bit with the colors and printed them on paper - same problem, too thick.  next up, some leftover silkspan that I used for the sails.  This was .02 mm thick this would be 1.28 mm at full scale which is close enough.  when printing on silkspan with an ink jet printer, the design ends on on both sides.  I cut a piece of the silkspan, used a glue stick to attach it to a standard piece of paper and printed it out.  the results were not bad but the silkspan was too translucent IMO and too white.  So, with the same paint I used for the sails,this was the result (this was actually one of the paper sails but I used it to show the contrast between the stark white of the paper and the off white of the flag)...

Three of the 4 flags had to be treated in this manner to tone down the white and translucency of the silkspan.  Another thing to consider was how the flags would hang.  Having the flags waving as if there were a stiff breeze would not be appropriate as the Revenge is at anchor with calm seas and minimal wind.  so the flags would have to hang limp.  problem is , if you wet the silkspan with water, the colors will run, especially with the blue and red main flag.  After doing some research on this topic I came across Krylon Workable Fixatif.  This is used to fix colors on pencil charcoal and chalk art and has a matte finish.  A few coats and the flags went up - basically tied to the topmasts with 5 evenly spaced ropes to fix it in place.  The flag on the fore topmast was a pennant so i placed a very small block at the top for the pennant to be raised and lowered.  here are 2 flags in place...

Now hoe to get them to hang limp -  rather that water I used 70% alcohol to wet the flags an put a very small clamp at each corner to pull the flag down.  That has yet to be done to the  bonaventure flag.

And finally the main topmast flag

Overall I am pretty happy with the result though it took some time to get it right.  And what would a ship be with out some crew.  If you take a look at the for sale section on this site you will see what I used.  Here they are painted and if you look closely at the many photos above you'll be able to spot some.  The scale is 1:72 which was close enough.

This about wraps it up.  my final post will be with the plexiglass case complete and in it final location at my office.

Thanks to all for following.  Look for my next project in Non-ship/categorised builds.

 

Jeff

[Baker]

Very nice flags and crew.

 

[DARIVS ARCHITECTVS]

Very nice  !  👍

[GrandpaPhil]

Very cool diorama idea!

[xodar461]

Greetings!

 

Seems I forgot to do my last post for this fine kit.  Well, here it is.  Several pics of the completed ship and 2 with it in the case.  The ship was 4 cm too tall to fit in the back of my SUV so I had to rent a panel truck to get it to my office.  

Thanks for following along with my build log and be sure to check out "Foss Landing and the Shipyard at Foss Landing" in the Non-ship build section of shore leave.

Jeff

 

[ccoyle]

That's a really nice presentation, Jeff!

[Marco_van_H]

A great build, Jeff, congrats on finishing it! I'm currently building it myself, so you're providing valuable tips here. I'm also running into the issue of the dibetou wood being rather brittle...

[BobG]

Fantastic model and display! Congratulations, Jeff, it's stunning!