SawdustDave

Completely lost for words my friend.  For your pain, our flags are lowered.....we are a grieving community.

No sadness, and no pain where your loving mother now waits for you to join her one day....like the blinking of an eye. Be happy for them and cherish their memories for now.

Outstanding Chuck.

Molding and casting art is absolutely essential for scratch building.

Anyone who has not tried it will be amazed by what can be achieved with this stuff.

Just knowing someone else, besides me, can do stuff like this is a comfort.... Hahaha

Build it enough times, you will eventually get it right my friend..... Trust me.

Special beyond words to express Remco.

For those who have not had the pleasure of seeing O19 up close and personal, let me say, you have missed something extremely rare in life.... and I am not speaking so much of the amazing model we have seen come together before our eyes right here on MSW. 

The man who crafted this extreme labor of love is a true marvel of a very special class by himself. 

Within minutes after shaking his hand, one realizes this diminutive gentleman, so full of live, is the embodiment of what our unique art represents. 

Mr. Piet...."Pete".... is the real deal! 

Just a great build of a beautiful ship Augie. Well done mate.

Would love to visit and spend time with you in these pubs with the great views.

Some of my mistakes, I can live with. This one was a real doozie.....

The result of being in too much of a hurry....not checking and double checking key points. Lesson learned.

It's really not so bad, since it gives me an opportunity to improve the most important starboard side ("display" side) using what I have learned from doing the port side.

Kinda like starting a new model when you think about it.

Finally, after three days of REVERSE construction, I can begin moving forward again.

Moving twenty four gun ports down after they had been nicely finished and planked in is really quite a messy task.

So I decided this train wreck really needs to be documented at this point. 

Should make an interesting "before / after" posting.....

Given. Choice, I would always go with any of Chuck's models. His instructions are so well done, he is a masterful teacher who will take your modeling skills to another level.

"Huzzah"..... Had to look that one up Mark.  In Carolina's we say Yahooooo! 

A day of "Reverse Building".....

Remember the misaligned gun ports on the entire starboard side?  Spent the morning ripping all that beautiful bamboo planking off.  The lower gun ports will be lowered by about an inch.

Also....

Decided I couldn't live with the shape of the forecastle planking.... just another flaw in the plan sheets. 

So I decided I might as well go ahead and fix that now. 

Not a great modeler George, but I've got a pretty good eye for great modeling. Nothing wrong with setting high standards.... Right?

I know I'll never become a "great" modeler, but I'm damned sure I can be a "better" modeler.

Stay tuned mate.

Thanks Patrick, George, Pete, and everyone else for all the "like" posts.

Please don't take my comments wrong.... It's just that I have such high regard for the incredible beauty of the SOS, I am probably expecting way too much from myself.

Undecided George. As you can see, I used an awful lot of the drawings from the old plan sheets.... and can't say I'm real pleased with the overall image presented. Like I said, the starboard side just might be completely different. Plenty of time to think about it since I'm now going to return to the decks for a while.

It's about time to get on with something else for a while. 

I decided the entire port side is pretty much  "practice" for the starboard side.  Just saying, since I plan to display this ship in a glass case built several years ago,  the port side may never be seen again after she goes into that case. 

For what it's worth, here is the port side ornamentation.

I've not decided what I will create for the top right panel seen here. 

One note about the galleries.... I find some SOS builds with the outer windows left open.  I decided I prefer the open outer windows which allows a view into the inner windows. 

And that is another lesson learned by me from a great master. Thanks Danny.

That's one great looking ship's stove Toni.... Really enjoying this extremely fine build.

First attempted this as a carving in vinyl (seen on the right).... ran into problems with sharpness.

So I went back to Sculpey.   This was taken after removing from the oven and cleaning up the edges preparing for gilding.

These two figures will stand atop the middle roof of the portico....

It appears the male figure on the right is giving some sort of signal to the enemy on behalf of King Charles....

King Chuck was a real hoot.

What a warm and wonderful "family" we are a part of here on MSW. Much more than just a bunch of builders of fine model ships.

Excellent question David. Always assumed vinyl....but just checked with a Google search and found that they are indeed listed as PVC in their spec sheet.

Not really much difference.... actually, PVC and vinyl are technically two different names for essentially the same material.... Polyvinyl chloride.

Spent the morning on this little 5/8th" lion.... again, the Levolor vinyl blind slats have become my choice of carving material, which cuts like butter and has zero grain.  The metallic gold paint adheres perfect and a couple of coats gives this nice smooth finish.

The shape of the body and legs not too bad, but you will have to use a little imagination on the head.

Going through several of the ancient kits, donated by modelers for the exhibition, looking for anything I can bash for the SOS, I came across these strange little pieces.... not sure what they were intended for.

What catches my eye is the small scroll patterns, which I'm sure I can find a use for.