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Enamle vs Acrylic
popeye2sea replied to Timothy Wood's topic in Painting, finishing and weathering products and techniques
Thanks Russ. And Tim, I apologize for hijacking your thread. -
Enamle vs Acrylic
popeye2sea replied to Timothy Wood's topic in Painting, finishing and weathering products and techniques
I'm on the third coat now and the blue molded plastic is still showing through. Multiple coats are not really a problem because there is no surface detail to hide, but it's just a pain in the a## to have to paint so many coats. -
Enamle vs Acrylic
popeye2sea replied to Timothy Wood's topic in Painting, finishing and weathering products and techniques
I am currently using Testor's Model Master acrylic #4630 Red. I have also tried Model Expo's #MS 4802-B Gun Red. It goes on a bit thicker but still has poor coverage. -
Thanks for the encouragement Ulises.
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Enamle vs Acrylic
popeye2sea replied to Timothy Wood's topic in Painting, finishing and weathering products and techniques
Thanks Chuck. I'll look into Badger paints. I'm currently painting the interior bulwarks of my Soliel Royal. I have three coats on it now and it's nowhere near covering the blue plastic they are molded from. The red paint seems to go on like a wash, unlike any other color I have used. -
You guys are incredible Most of these you are getting these in 15 - 30 min. I am in awe.
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I do not think that preventer chains were generally used prior to 1730 or 1750
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Finally have some new progress to report. Seems like there is never enough time to work on the build. I am working on correcting the deficiencies in the head of the ship. Since no one really knows what this area of the ship looked like I took some artistic license. I was also pointed in the direction of a build log on another site which gave me some good ideas. Here's what I came up with: I filled the space between the cheeks with a billet carved from styrene stock. Then I cast some silicone molds using the decoration on one of the quarter galleries and cast some pieces in resin. Here are the resin pieces mounted and painted Next I carved some head rail timbers from strip styrene And mounted them Then I cast another decoration to ornament the head timbers and mounted them to finish out this project And here is a couple of pics with the head rails and grating temporarily fitted That's all for now. Thanks for looking in on the build. P.S. I'm hoping this is not too horrible a build. No one has commented yet
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S.S. Minnow?
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EG If you are from the New England area you should consider coming to visit us at the Charlestown Navy Yard. We are there on the last Saturday of every month to do demonstrations, cannon and musket firing. We are recruiting You do not have to be military or ex-military. BTW, recruiters in 1812 paid a bounty of 10 dollars for signing up for 6 years. It was payable to your family to compensate for their lost income. The marine received 6 dollars per month, 3 meals a day and one uniform per year.
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It is a gun train tackle on the USS Constitution.
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Here is a picture of a becketed block. The becket is the smaller diameter loop that is made fast on the strop of the block. In construction it is kind of like a large grommet. The standing part of the tackle fall is then hitched through the becket and seized to itself.
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Thanks Mark. Just doing some advance research for my Soleil Royal
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In looking through the various build logs I have noted that the typical cannon is rigged with the breeching rope around the cascabel of the cannon and a single in-haul tackle. On some models of French ships I see breeching ropes passing through the carriage and two in-haul tackles. Is the latter method typical of French ships?
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I believe that the only reason the bell is on the main mast now is because that is the location of the gangway and consequently where the Navy posts the Officer of the Deck. If you notice in the photo there is a small wood cabinet attached below the bell. This houses the emergency alarms and the microphone for the public address system. The watchstander is responsible for sounding the bell for time keeping and for side honors. P.S. A new bell was just installed aboard last August during the bicentennial celebration of the battle with HMS Guerriere . In my opinion the new bell sounds awful.
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Isn't that object a windlass rather then a capstan?
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Do we have a list of kits organized per scale?
popeye2sea replied to yvesvidal's topic in Wood ship model kits
Oops, my bad. After re-reading, that makes much more sense. -
Do we have a list of kits organized per scale?
popeye2sea replied to yvesvidal's topic in Wood ship model kits
You could do a search by tag. For instance a search for the tag 1:64 returns 3 build logs. Of course it only works if the build logs have tags in their titles. -
Why would you assume I was referring to DDG 98? I was referring to DD 931. I served aboard her sister ship USS Blandy DD 943 back in the early 80's. The photo has to be one of the class that did not receive the hurricane bow modification. It also looks like it is in a river so I thought it might be USS Barry being towed for a museum up the Potomac.
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Or USS Barry
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USS Forest Sherman
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I am contemplating how to fix the area around the head of my Heller Soleil Royal. The knee of the head is in two sections (upper and lower) separated by a gap with two cheeks I am thinking of filling in the gap between the cheeks with a piece that I will carve with decorations to match some of the other decoration of the ship. I also want to add in the timbers that are missing that would have held up the head rails and head deck. I am looking for some advise here. As you can see in the photo below if I construct the timbers by having them arise from the top of the upper cheek they will have a nearly horizontal lead out to the lowest head rail. The other options would be to have them arise from the top of the lower cheek or to have them run from the upper cheek to the middle head rail. Any thoughts? Henry
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I am contemplating how to fix the area around the head of the ship. The knee of the head is in two sections (upper and lower) separated by a gap with two cheeks I am thinking of filling in the gap between the cheeks with a piece that I will carve with decorations to match some of the other decoration of the ship. I also want to add in the timbers that are missing that would have held up the head rails and head deck. I am looking for some advise here. As you can see in the photo below if I construct the timbers by having them arise from the top of the upper cheek they will have a nearly horizontal lead out to the lowest head rail. The other options would be to have them arise from the top of the lower cheek or to have them run from the upper cheek to the middle head rail. Any thoughts? Henry
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First parts of the rigging. I decided to rig the ship using as a reference The Rigging of Ships in the Days of the Spritsail Topmast by R.C. Anderson. I chose sizes of rigging thread accordingly. Here you see the wooldings, the gammoning and the Main Stay. The thread is poly/cotton dyed black using Minwax Ebony stain. It took a few attempts to get an eye splice turned in; not so bad on the 0.08 inch diameter Main stay but a real bear on the 0.03 inch Gammoning. I don't think I will be making real eye splices on anything smaller than that. I'm sure simulated ones will look just fine for the smaller rope. The wooldings are 0.02 inch and seized around the masts using the method of taking the required number of turns round the mast and over a bight in the line and heaving the ends taught underneath by pulling the bight down beneath the turns. Not all the wooldings have been put on the Fore Mast yet. You can also see the mast coat I added to the main mast. I will put one on the Fore and Mizzen once the deck level can be determined. I still need to raise a mouse on the Main Stay and seize a treble block in on the lower end. Enjoy, Henry
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Here is the start on some of the brightwork. The unpainted area of the after bulwarks is where the quarter gallery will go. I opened the quarter galleries. Still working on fitting floors for the quarter galleries out of sheet styrene. The ornamentation that was cut out of the openings will be mounted on the bulwarks.
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