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Head figure of Swedish royal yacht Amphion 1778 (3D model , finished )

A set of decor for model HMS Enterprize 1774 ( drawings from SHIPYARD )
Original drawing

Sketch samples
 

 
3D models
 

 

 
Result in wood
 

Classical head figure of Lion. Suitable for sailing ships of 17-18 centuries - England, Holland (last), Spain, Sweden, Denmark and others.


 

A short video for demonstrating manual finishing of decor.
 

Hi Dziadeczek !
 
Thanks for feedback! This lion I painted step by step for about 3 years, gradually bringing to perfection. I was very much helped by advice of friends. I looked at your proposal and agreed with him. It will be better this way. Initially, the lion was correct, but after cutting out groove for stem, his back became lean.
 
I will consider your wish. Thanks again

Today I saw application of my decor. I will not be modest. I like

I got a more high quality photos of this model
 
 

3D model of botik (boat) St.Nicolas ( boat of Tsar Peter 1st) are finished. Accurate reconstruction from dimensional drawings and photos of real botik from Maritime Museum in St. Petersburg. Drawings are ready.

I was asked to make drawings on a scale of 1:20. The full dimensions of the model 370 X 120 X 340 mm were obtained.
Only 8 sheets of A2 format in PDF format for self-printing in copy center. Preview sheets and a full-size drawing fragment for quality assessment is attached.
Who are interested - write in a personal.

Reconstruction of decor and production of elements from wood.
 

Hello dear friends, 
I have finished plenty of new pieces of decoration and tried to create side sculptures, but there was a problem to adapt the shape and apperance to achieve optimal result. So I will have to create new ones. I must say this is realy hard and maybe I will stop the work on Royal Katherine for some time and will study information and suitable sources. Somehow I miss my drive .....
Please enjoy the pics. I also attach a photos where I am along with the model. You can see its real size.
 
 

Dear friends,
your words mean a lot for me and I am very grateful for your support. Thank you for all very much. That is a great honour and motivation for me.
 
 
That is very nice, I appreciate your comment a lot and please give my regards to your wife. 
I like the work with card cause I do not need any special tools. When I was a child, our family was poor and we had no money for many things. So I learned to work with minimal basis and only ordinary materials and basic tools. And this way of creating models has remained to me today, only experience and skills are much better .....  Still try to improve my work and achieve realistic rendering of models as is possible in my abilities.
 
It is possible that my ship models will be offered to the museum in future, because we do not have enough space at home for new ones. Maybe these models will bring pleasure to many other people who visit museums. 
 
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Yesterday I finished another sculpture on the stern, so now the ladies are in a complete set. Enjoy the pics:
 
 

Doris,
congratulations, your artwork is fantastic...., I showed it to my wife today, she is also amazed of such skills in sculpturing...
 
Nils

Almost completed:

 

Hello dear friends,
thank you all for your feedback, praise and "likes", I am pleased reading your words and feeling your great support. I do apprecite it a lot.
I agree with you, the challenge of doing things again and better keeps our work more interesting. I want to improve my abilities and build more realistic ship models and I am sure, that without obstacles it is not possible.
Yesterday I almost finished decoration on the stern - taffrail.
This part of stern ornamentation was the most difficult. On Vale´s  painting I was not able to recognize details on that area, those ornaments are uneven and asymmetric, so I decided to create my own unique desing and using typical patterns and ornamentation from that period - for example cherubies, stylized statues of fish and seahorses....
The decoration was unique on each ship, so my design does not copy any of them.
Please enjoy the pics:
 

 

Hello dear friends, thank you all for your kind words and support. I do appreciate your comments a lot.
Well, after a very short break I continue again, but it was really struggle to create the statues/quarter pieces correctly. I had some problems with their realistic appearance and accurate position, but friends have adviced me, how to do it better. Special thanks belongs to my great advisor and top expert from Czech Modelforum - Kpt.KL, who provides me professional advice and plenty of patience as well.
https://www.modelforum.cz/viewtopic.php?f=177&t=110763&start=435#p2110580
 
Here is the current version of decoration:

 

Current pics:
 

Thanks a lot for comments and likes!
 
Let's make some epoxy mess first:

 
Plane it:

 
Sand it:

 
The result is silky smooth, even before any finish!

 
After two coats of OSMO Polyx finish, I finally connected all wiring and permanently glued the case in place. There is no way back!

 
Oh, I also have a model of a ship, need to show it in the build log every now and then, as is tradition:

 
Now just a bunch of small things are left - install the skirt, carefully plane/sand everything to get rid of any gaps, make holes for light controls, finish sand and refinish everything.
 

Final touches on the display case.
Installing the pear "skirts". They needs to be thinned down a bit, and they are too wide for my thickness planer. So I planed them manually. Was a bit too aggressive, and, whooops!

 
Argh! I do not have any spare wood, did not expected to break a simple flat sheet
Luckily, it broke quite clearly, and it was easy to glue it back together:

 
The crack is barely visible on the finished product.
 
Installing the skirts. They are glued with epoxy, to avoid any cupping / warping due to moisture. It was a breeze, epoxy is so much better for that kind of work!

 
Now I can fine fit all pieces together. A bit of planing:

 
And then a lot of sanding. I love sanding, it turns ugly into smooth and beautiful, hiding all mistakes

 
Now the part that made me nervous - cutting a hole for the LED control knob. There is only one chance to do it right, and no spare wood to cover mistakes.
So I scored the circle to reduce tearout (breaking the wood fibers that could be teared apart by the drill otherwise):

 
And then applied tonns of masking tape and started to drill, slooooooowly. The hole saw is adjusted to the precise diameter with a zip tie  

 
Few nervous minutes later - the hole looks pretty hole-ish! Phew, no screw-up.

 
After a bit of sanding magic:

 
And the final result: 

 
I'm a bit scared to pull all that plastic away, already got used to it  
 

Perfectly! Awesome!

Perfectly! Awesome!

Perfectly! Awesome!

Perfectly! Awesome!

Perfectly! Awesome!

Perfectly! Awesome!