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Piet reacted to gjdale in HMS ROYAL KATHERINE 1664 by Doris - 1/55 - CARD
Stunning Doris, just stunning!
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Piet reacted to Mirabell61 in HMS ROYAL KATHERINE 1664 by Doris - 1/55 - CARD
Doris,
congratulations, your artwork is fantastic...., I showed it to my wife today, she is also amazed of such skills in sculpturing...
Nils
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Piet reacted to Tecko in HMS ROYAL KATHERINE 1664 by Doris - 1/55 - CARD
Beautiful. I could look at the artworks on the stern for a long time. I cannot help myself from thinking, "Wow! I hope she never sinks." -
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Piet reacted to DORIS in HMS ROYAL KATHERINE 1664 by Doris - 1/55 - CARD
Hello dear friends,
thank you all for your feedback, praise and "likes", I am pleased reading your words and feeling your great support. I do apprecite it a lot.
I agree with you, the challenge of doing things again and better keeps our work more interesting. I want to improve my abilities and build more realistic ship models and I am sure, that without obstacles it is not possible.
Yesterday I almost finished decoration on the stern - taffrail.
This part of stern ornamentation was the most difficult. On Vale´s painting I was not able to recognize details on that area, those ornaments are uneven and asymmetric, so I decided to create my own unique desing and using typical patterns and ornamentation from that period - for example cherubies, stylized statues of fish and seahorses....
The decoration was unique on each ship, so my design does not copy any of them.
Please enjoy the pics:
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Piet reacted to Tim Curtis in HMS ROYAL KATHERINE 1664 by Doris - 1/55 - CARD
Doris.
Your work is amazing. You set a standard most of us could only dream of.
Just brilliant.
Tim
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Piet reacted to druxey in HMS ROYAL KATHERINE 1664 by Doris - 1/55 - CARD
We all make mistakes and have to make pieces over again. The challenge of "How do I do this?" is what keeps things interesting. You are doing a terrific job, whether you think it or not!
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Piet reacted to md1400cs in HMS ROYAL KATHERINE 1664 by Doris - 1/55 - CARD
Doris,
Always stunning !!
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Piet reacted to NMBROOK in HMS ROYAL KATHERINE 1664 by Doris - 1/55 - CARD
Doris,absolutely fabulous work on a model of a vessel from my favourite period of English naval architecture
Kind Regards
Nigel
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Piet reacted to archjofo in HMS ROYAL KATHERINE 1664 by Doris - 1/55 - CARD
Hello Doris,
your ability to create sculptures and figures is admirable.
Forming the fine details of the hands, faces and clothes is a talent, an amazing gift.
To build a model with all the sculptures in this quality is reserved for very few.
You are one of the few.
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Piet reacted to Tecko in HMS ROYAL KATHERINE 1664 by Doris - 1/55 - CARD
Beautiful work Doris. I cannot imagine your model better than it is, even though you may know ever little microscopic error.
If you got it right the first time, every time, you would quickly lose interest because you would not see any challenges for you. It is the mistakes which brings our challenges to full awareness. It is our drive to conquer them, and when we do, we feel satisfied for our own hard earned improvements. With this in mind, there are no senseless mistakes, but a gift in the disguise of a challenge. Best to embrace a mistake for the new lessons you are about to undertake. In this way, we can actually be grateful for our mistakes.
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Piet reacted to DORIS in HMS ROYAL KATHERINE 1664 by Doris - 1/55 - CARD
Hello,
well, I would prefer brass guns, but I am not sure, if they are suitable for the English ship form 17th century... So maybe I will have to make my own scratch from card.
Thank you for your kind words, I am still trying to improve my skills and technologies to achieve better results. Sometimes it is hard and I feel sad, cause I do not manage to make things correctly at first time (even the second time...) and make senseless mistakes...
Best regards,
Doris
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Piet reacted to DORIS in HMS ROYAL KATHERINE 1664 by Doris - 1/55 - CARD
Hello dear friends, thank you all for your kind words and support. I do appreciate your comments a lot.
Well, after a very short break I continue again, but it was really struggle to create the statues/quarter pieces correctly. I had some problems with their realistic appearance and accurate position, but friends have adviced me, how to do it better. Special thanks belongs to my great advisor and top expert from Czech Modelforum - Kpt.KL, who provides me professional advice and plenty of patience as well.
https://www.modelforum.cz/viewtopic.php?f=177&t=110763&start=435#p2110580
Here is the current version of decoration:
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Piet reacted to popeye the sailor in HMS ROYAL KATHERINE 1664 by Doris - 1/55 - CARD
very nice improvement on the statue..... the garments......even the shape of the hands lend a more life like appearance. while I do agree that your first rendition of the statue could have been better, I think your first one was fine. if you look back at most of the carving that have ever been done on ships {figureheads etc}, they were not carved to resemble like like figures. done freehand, some had a sort of cartoonish approach........some were carved to be intimidating. very seldom, it was a stroke of luck that any held some degree of positive facial recognition. you've certainly shown that you can improve.....your artistry is amazing and so very intricate
the rest of the stern decorations are exquisite! first thing I though of when you wrote you lost your drive.....is it couldn't have gone far I really can't tell from the additions you've added to the stern, that you need to brush up on your research, but I can relate to the way you feel.
it happens to us all from time to time....if you do pause.....I hope it's not long
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Piet reacted to Mirabell61 in HMS ROYAL KATHERINE 1664 by Doris - 1/55 - CARD
Wunderbar Doris !
love your sculpturing art-work, I admire your talent and skill...
Nils
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Piet reacted to archjofo in HMS ROYAL KATHERINE 1664 by Doris - 1/55 - CARD
Hello Doris,
fantastic work!
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Piet reacted to amateur in HMS ROYAL KATHERINE 1664 by Doris - 1/55 - CARD
Every time I see your model, it becomes more and more clear that Katherine is a very elegant ship in her lines and appearance. I like her very much.
Jan
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Piet reacted to Hubac's Historian in HMS ROYAL KATHERINE 1664 by Doris - 1/55 - CARD
Hi Doris,
Will you be making up the gun barrels from scratch with rolled card, as you have in the past, or will you use turned brass guns like the sample one on your quarter deck?
P.S. I hope you get your mojo back soon.
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Piet reacted to druxey in HMS ROYAL KATHERINE 1664 by Doris - 1/55 - CARD
Don't lose your drive now - you are doing so well!!! Beautiful work as usual. Dobri.
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Piet reacted to DORIS in HMS ROYAL KATHERINE 1664 by Doris - 1/55 - CARD
Hello dear friends,
I have finished plenty of new pieces of decoration and tried to create side sculptures, but there was a problem to adapt the shape and apperance to achieve optimal result. So I will have to create new ones. I must say this is realy hard and maybe I will stop the work on Royal Katherine for some time and will study information and suitable sources. Somehow I miss my drive .....
Please enjoy the pics. I also attach a photos where I am along with the model. You can see its real size.
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Piet reacted to Mirabell61 in HMS ROYAL KATHERINE 1664 by Doris - 1/55 - CARD
Thanks Doris,
the golden shine looks like the pure golden objects H. Carter saw after removing the dust, when he first explored Tutenchamun`s grave thomb in Egypt....
Nils
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Piet reacted to DORIS in HMS ROYAL KATHERINE 1664 by Doris - 1/55 - CARD
Hello Nils,
Thank you for your praise. I use acrylic colour (golden leaf) in spray suitable for exteriors/interiors, something like this:
https://www.carid.com/dupli-color/automotive-metallic-paint-mpn-cs101.html
Best regards,
Doris
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Piet reacted to Mirabell61 in HMS ROYAL KATHERINE 1664 by Doris - 1/55 - CARD
fantastic sculpturing Doris,
they are top notch. The gold color is looking so good, (on those excellent handcrafted figures), may I ask what brand paint or bronze are you using ?
Nils
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Piet reacted to DORIS in HMS ROYAL KATHERINE 1664 by Doris - 1/55 - CARD
Dear friends,
your words mean a lot for me and I am very grateful for your support. Thank you for all very much. That is a great honour and motivation for me.
That is very nice, I appreciate your comment a lot and please give my regards to your wife.
I like the work with card cause I do not need any special tools. When I was a child, our family was poor and we had no money for many things. So I learned to work with minimal basis and only ordinary materials and basic tools. And this way of creating models has remained to me today, only experience and skills are much better ..... Still try to improve my work and achieve realistic rendering of models as is possible in my abilities.
It is possible that my ship models will be offered to the museum in future, because we do not have enough space at home for new ones. Maybe these models will bring pleasure to many other people who visit museums.
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Yesterday I finished another sculpture on the stern, so now the ladies are in a complete set. Enjoy the pics:
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