ChrisLBren
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Thanks man - I'm merely imitating Bernard Frolich's approach - using boxwood, swiss pear and dyed swiss pear to resemble Ebony - all woods sourced from Hobby Mill - which I can not recommend highly enough.- 290 replies
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Thanks guys - next up the head timbers - which should be fun/challenging. I've got plenty of 1/8 costello boxwood! Then its really all down hill from there to finish her up.
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Rail construction continues… And everything is lining up - unbelievable !!!
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Looks gorgeous - I don't have the patience to bend Ebony - nice work !
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Incredible !!!
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Congrats Remco - looks gorgeous !!!
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Beautiful carving Sherry - I would suggest simply using whatever finish you are using on the rest of your model. On my Confederacy build Im using 100 percent Tung Oil, Danish Oil and Sanding Sealer - the Tung finish gives the most glow out of the three.
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Thanks Chuck and Mark ! Trail board is dyed swiss pear and the humanity - thanks to you Chuck - are your resin copies painted to resemble boxwood. Now if one day I can carve as half as good as Chucks sculptures…..
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They arrived today - Volumes 2 and 3….. Now I can become an expert on French Naval Architecture thanks to Mr Boudriot!
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Thanks Bob ! Appreciate you checking in - I've always admired your work - and watching your progress on Essex.
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Thanks Ben - was just editing a better photo when you sent your reply. Honestly i think carving is the most important skill for scratch building - making frames and repetitive assemblies doesn't scare me with a full frame build - its being able to do justice to these gorgeous vessels with sculpture - which is what draws the eye - thats the artistry. Im feeling semi OK with carving rails/filargee - next is being able to carve humanity and not relying on Chucks beautiful resin copies painted to resemble wood.
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Not perfect - but the cheeks are carved and installed...
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Hey Kevin, Enjoying watching this build - I'm horrible at plastic models - in admiration. Growing up every weekend my Dad would take me to the hobby shop to buy a Tamiya or Hasegawa kit that I would trash. Most recently I destroyed a Pocher Monza back in 09. Damn - sticking with wood... Chris
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Hey Ben, Looks great - perfect proof of concept - now the big question is - are you completing Confederacy or jumping to the Pegasus ? Congrats! Chris
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ancre Le Commerce de Marseille by Zbigniew
ChrisLBren replied to Zbigniew's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1751 - 1800
Wow - beautiful work !!! I recently purchased this monograph - I'll be following your log closely, Chris -
http://www.ancre.fr
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Ebony is a bear to work with though - I prefer to dye pear with Fiebings Leather Shoe Dye to imitate it
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Frolichs method is a variation on the Belgian School - which exclusively uses Pear Wood. He uses Ebony for all black areas, Boxwood for Carvings/Moldings, and Maple for deck. He doesn't use stain or dye but relays on the beauty of these finished woods. Its not really painting wood per se - which tends use more colorful woods such as bloodwood for bulwarks and several other exotic species in a build but more of a three tone approach - Dark tone, Mid tone and Light tone - which I personally find very attractive. Heres a link http://modelisme.arsenal.free.fr/artdumodelisme/conf/confgb.pdf
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Thanks Mark and Ben - enjoying this Zin and looking at the 118 Commerce de Marseilles Monograph. Maybe its the Zin talking, Im so tempted to jump to this build in 1/48 after finishing Confederacy vs Le Gros Ventre. Im 44 - this 118 will take a decade at least if not two - maybe I should get started now - or at least next summer when I move to a house with a bigger workshop. Structurally its not much more complicated than LGV - just bigger and more repetitive. Sculptures are about the same in terms difficulty. And as far as I know - no model of her exists as L'Orient here in the US. Hopefully more pics of some nice completed cheeks tomorrow….
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Thanks Anja and Rusty ! Hoping to get some serious time in the shop tomorrow to try to the carve moldings in these cheeks - hoping this batch turns out better than the last rejects….
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Thanks Nigel - given the fact I'm building the 118 Gun L'Orient or the 74 Gun Ship after Le Gros Ventre - one of these might make sense !
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Thanks Nigel - I'm planning my first full frame Ancre build after Confederacy - I hear a lot of modelers on this forum mentioning mills. Frolich makes no mention of them in his book - so appreciate the info.
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What do you guys use these for ? - i think there is a thread somewhere - just being lazy.
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