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  1. Thank you Jan, your compliment is much appreciated,  I'm  following  your amazing  SOS card build as well..stunning.

    John I really appreciate  your gracious compliment,  you have quite an array of completed  builds, are any of them posted on the site?.

     

    Michael  thank you for the kudos, that's  very thoughtful of you, I do keep an eye out on your builds and see improvements with each one, keep up the good work.

     

    Michael D.

  2. Thank you, Ian, means a lot coming from someone with a decerning eye. Knee deep into gilding the port side hull and adding decorations, I always apply a gold base before applying the leaf as any voids are not seen, honestly the gold leaf paint looks pretty good but doesn't quite have the luster I'm after with the leaf. The desert yellow on the hull is just base for the whitewash I'll be applying. Thanks for looking.

     

    Michael D.

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  3. Bill,

    I used a contour gauge, I think the one I had was 10" so I had to do it in a few sections, first attempt gets you real close then you fine tune the next template to where you want it then transfer to the Styrofoam.

    I'm not sure how far up from keel but that doesn't really matter, I used 1" foam basically to carry the weight of the model without flexing. I'd get the contour of the hull right at the bottom of lower wale at midships, mine sits up a little high so that would look about right. Hope that helps Bill.

     

    Michael D.

     

  4. Hey Bill, I too decided to set mine in a waterline after completion, unfortunately all my in-progress pics got lost through Photobucket but I traced the hull profiles in cardboard then transferred to 1" Styrofoam and set into the new base, fairly simple task. A couple of photos (if you don't mind) to show the result, somewhat generic for my only attempt.

     

    Michael D.

     

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  5. I still had quite a bit of work left to do on the hull prior to gluing up so that's been my focus, I'm opening up some of gun ports and thickening the hull in those areas, also finished up putting in the last gunport beneath the gallery. I finished the added decorations, I used artists acrylic and hand painted them in, this left a raised surface to make it easier to gold leaf, I know they are just kind of random in their looks with no rhyme or reason but at this scale I think it looks okay, still need to work the leaf more and some touch up along with installing the window panes. Thank for looking.

     

    Michael D.

     

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  6. Working on the channels and mocking up the chains, option A on the right is 28g brass wire with an eye formed on one end for the 2mm dead eye and fed thru the hull, option B on left using the same 28g wire with an eye formed on the end but flattened and a returned formed on the other end where a nail will be used to secure it to the hull, this option took considerably more time to fabricate and is more accurate but honestly they both look good at this scale, as with my Vasa build all the channels, chains and dead eyes with the exception of the Mizzen will be made up before hand and put away until after the hull is glued up, there is no Mizzen channel as the dead eyes are attached to the side of the hull. 

     

    Michael D.

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  7. It's good to see you're able to find some time to work on your masterpiece Marc. I've never noticed nor read about channels being raked like that, essentially a parallelogram, so I can't help there, it's such a subtle feature though that doesn't smack you in eye as it's only really noticeable from an overhead shot but I do like how you simulated the joints in the channels 👍

     

    Michael D.

  8. Thank you gentlemen, Marc adding another category does seem like a good idea and from I've  seen, there really are a stagering amount of great modelers in each era, so how would one choose? plus the potential  risk of over saturation of categories but certainly  food for thought.

    Ian it's  a pity I do not  remember you  from the Victory website days, were building  yours around that time frame? Happy Modeling!

     

    Michael D

  9. Thank you, Frank and Kirill, the decking for the most part is completed along with the poop deck bulkhead.....whew!!!. The final railings and steps will be added at the Qtr and poop decks once the hull and decks are glued in. Yes, the windows at the Qtr deck bulkhead might be a tad too big but overall in the grand scheme of things will not stand out, using the existing upper Qtr deck bulkhead I fashioned it as close to McKay's plans as possible to include 2 cannons and some artistic license. At this scale there are going to be some compromises. I still need to add a bit more decorations to the prior bulkheads or tone down the bling on the poop deck bulkhead, thanks for looking .

     

    Michael D. 

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