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  1. yancovitch
    sheesh!...for a big guy, you've shure got nimble fingers .....needed that extra (h) in sure......
  2. yancovitch
    i have some but they're too small....i keep forgetting how big your ship is......i'm sure you'll work it out....too bad you don't have any of the dental mold impression material...works great....can cast in acrylic....
  3. yancovitch
    how wide were those lions heads?
  4. yancovitch
    haha.........actually i'm in pretty much the same boat
  5. yancovitch
    hmmmm...a micro welder would sure come in handy.....
  6. yancovitch
    came out really nice.............so nice to build a ship where so much info is available......
  7. yancovitch
    i remain totally amazed....out of paper!!!......sheesh!....i couldn't imagine doing that...and looking just like wood......sooooo impressed........thank you for sharing this........
  8. yancovitch
    ok....got most of the main ingredients placed in the mixing bowl, showing where i'm at now.... so........ i'll probably not post any more, till i get the hull all put together and everything glued in place.....cheers.....
  9. yancovitch
    love those drat lines
  10. yancovitch
    ha......attached the more detailed fleur de lis' that i made on the ship.....toooooooo busy!......so i cut off the bottom part....and...whew....it looks ok.....sometimes ya just got to put it together before deciding if it's good or not......think i'll just stop and look for awhile ...........
  11. yancovitch
    thanks....yea the rider may be a challenge....but i don't think i could make one from scratch....
  12. yancovitch
    well that's good enough for now...will look at it over time, and make necessary improvements.....gonna have fun figuring out the lanterns
  13. yancovitch
    ok....i've never carved in wood before so this will have to suffice..i don't have the patience or knowledge to do any more detail.......but i will add feather textures to the head, breast and front legs, with maybe scraped auto filler...and will add a tail with a tuft....have to finish up the paws and claws .....hmmmm. after painting gold, maybe some red beads for the eyes....then again maybe not ..... the civil war toy fella, i'll cover with a short sleave tunic with belt and try to shape parts of the exposed body...hmmmm....and will have to work on the feet-boots-shoes or whatever....................i think it will look better than the one shown on the plans......cheers...........
  14. yancovitch
    ha....and i bet you could train one too
  15. yancovitch
    yea, that's what i was thinking....but i doubt if i'll touch the copper domes, as they were too much work to take a chance on ruining them.....again, this whole ship seems more a fantasy creation, so i won't worry too much about it...although i thought of copper sheeting on the tween roofs, which would be easy....but again, i guess i'll leave off for now, unless i get a better inspiration ...thanks:)
  16. yancovitch
    thanks...ej........will do!
  17. yancovitch
    hmmmm......regarding shingles...i just used paper and white glue, which made the paper soft and easy to deform....i would experiment with some different materials or an oil based glue orthe parts are placed not glued... that dental impression material putty is wonderful ....just thought i'd mention oh...........i just realized that the domes are shingled, but the roof between the two towers are not...but i don't want to shingle them...it might be too much....and painting them copper may be too much.....i may just leave them as is...i don't know yet.....feedback on this may be helpful
  18. yancovitch
    haha.....the gryphon is just rough shape that i can relate to as i carve a wooden one, which will be larger.....will carve the body separate from the wings, then glue them together....a bit of a challenge for me i sure......the wooden one will have long sharp claws at the front, and a lions paws on the rear.....at least hopefully
  19. yancovitch
    carved a couple of tiny fleurs de lis'......will make around 50 copies of each using dental impression material and smooth-cast 305................ roughly shaped a griffon a bit smaller than the larger one i'll have to carve in wood, which will have claws on the front legs......it helps for a 3d reference....got a future civil war male figure to modify who will sit on her......hopefully i'll be able to somehow melt or soften it, to bend the legs...we'll see.....oh....got the railing basically done, but i think i'll thicken the rings with some leather cord i have....all will probably be painted gold......
  20. yancovitch
    best thing i ever did to hold tools.......don't have to worry about which tool goes in which hole...just throw them anywhere...............
  21. yancovitch
    strange....there was another photo of the top before i said oh goodie, which disappeared.....haha...maybe i was seeing things....should i worry?
  22. yancovitch
    oh goodie....now i can easily see how to build mine
  23. yancovitch
    late bloomers .....thanks for sharing.....................
  24. yancovitch
    thanks e.j................i normally tend to be self critical and put myself down.....but even i'm starting to have some respect for myself hahaha....finally after 75 years ..........even becoming very happy with my piano playing too, although to old to do much with it now.......
  25. yancovitch
    some more details roughed out.......oh....i made the stern galleries detachable....safer when moving ship around...

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