Louie da fly
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Hi Miguel, Perhaps the best thing you can do is start a new thread in "Discussions for Ships' Plans and Project Research. General Research on Specific vessels and Ship Types", asking if anyone can help provide plans for your model. Perhaps someone has already made this model and still has the plans, and can supply them to you. Good luck with it.
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As someone already addicted (and currently doing a restoration of a ship I made when I was a teenager) , every time I see one of these I think to myself "A bit of cleaning, some repair - that could look pretty damn good". I find restoring a model very rewarding -changing it from something dirty and damaged to something worthwhile. Start a buildlog and show us what you're doing - it'll give other members the opportunity to give help,advice and guidance on your journey of restoration. If after you've finished you find yourself addicted - well you're not alone
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Hello from the not so sunny Spain.
Louie da fly replied to Jandrus's topic in New member Introductions
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Yep, the buccanner galleon is late 16th to early 17th century, the time of Sir Francis Drake, Hawkins, Raleigh etc. I'm not familiar with the model, but others have commented favourably above. It will take time and you'll hit the occasional problem, but the people here are very helpful and supportive, and with a bit of patience and persistence you should end up with a very attractive and rewarding model. Yes, do start a build log. It's the best way to get feedback, advice and help. (And we do like seeing photos!) Welcome to MSW and to the new adventure!
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If you're really unhappy with the stitching and the permanent marker doesn't do the job, perhaps you should consider making a new suit of sails and sew them with cotton? Sometimes it's better to do over than to live with something you're not happy with. Another idea - get thread that's already the colour you want, and sew the sails after you've dyed the fabric? Good work on the wheel, and I do like your skipper - I always find a figure or two (or in my case over 50!) adds a lot to a ship model. What's he made of? The whole build is looking good. A very atractive model.
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I recently (a few days ago) changed the settings on all the builds I'm following from "An email when new content is posted" to "One email per day with all new content from that day". I was expecting to have far less notifications sent to my email address - just one a day per build instead of a large number each day of which I'd read one and have to delete the rest. But except for one build which I suppose I didn't alter the setting of, I'm now getting no notifications at all. I don't think people have stopped commenting on the builds I follow - I suspect there must be some glitch in the system. Could someone have a look at it and see if there's a problem? Many thanks
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Thanks very much for that, Phil. Unfortunately the wrong size - my figures are 1:50 which makes them about 22mm high. But I appreciate the thought. And thanks for the compliment.
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With many mediaeval pictures of ships you're lucky to have the shrouds shown at all. And usually when they are, the artist doesn't bother to show how they're fixed to the hull. Here are two exceptions: The first is probably early 14th century, the second is probably late 15th. A couple of pictures of cogs show some indication of how the shrouds were attached. A bit minimal, though. Best I can do, I'm afraid. But it looks like they just weren't using deadeyes at the time.
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Hi PhilB, nice to hear from you again. Those 3-hole blocks are called deadeyes (they resemble a skull) in English, or caps de mouton in French. But there's very little evidence they'd been invented in the 14th century. I've chased up the pictorial record on the fixings of shrouds in the middle ages, and deadeyes just don't seem to be shown at this time - they don't seem to come into use until the 15th century. On the other hand, this is for a RPG, so feel free to do whatever you want. By the way, I liked your half-timbered house. Have you seen Ekis's Mediaeval Fortified Village? On the same line, h
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50 Years since Brunel's second great ship, the Great Britain was returned to her homeport of Bristol to be restored to her original glory. https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-bristol-53280875/when-thousands-watched-brunel-s-great-ship-return-to-bristol My wife and travelled to Bristol specifically to see her in 2009. She didn't disappoint. Wonderful memories, but unfortunately my camera chose just that moment to throw a wobbly, so I have hardly any photos.
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Marvellous stuff, and congratulations, you have joined the celebrated ranks of "kit-bashers". Your improvements to the kit are very imaginative - as well as practical - and are definitely making it a better and more impressive model. You've got fine eye and a steady hand. And I learnt a new word - muntins. Never heard of them before. I'll have to start using it from now on to impress people. Keep up the good work.
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Hi Jonathan, Just came across this build and it looks really good. The planking looks good, but could you favour us with a photo of the planking from the bow? That's often the most difficult bit and you mentioned having to bend planks into unnatural positions. Seeing the bow planking before you embark on second planking might allow people to make suggestions to make it easier for you.
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Sounds like a very good idea. Looking forward to seeing the planking complete!
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The "blue" on the viking shields in the link I gave early on in this build is apparently made from wood ash. Perhaps that plus yellow ochre would make a green? Might be a pretty dodgy green, though. On the other hand, it's your model. Depends on how finicky you want to be. But please don't go here :
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Looking very good, Eilelwen. Sorry to hear you're having trouble with bending the planks. My understanding is that it's heat, much more than moisture, that loosens the fibres in the wood to allow it to bend more easily. But you may just have a dud lot of wood, and be better getting some more. Just a point - before cutting gunports make sure that they are in the right location so your cannons (on their carriages) that rest on the upper deck and the false deck actually will fit through the ports. This is an issue that comes up fairly often - the gunport opening is a little too high or too low for the cannon to poke through. If it's dealt with early you can adjust the heights so it doesn't become a problem later.
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Golden Hind 1577 by goemon - 1:150
Louie da fly replied to goemon's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1501 - 1750
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Will do - if they ever let us in with our Victorian number plates . . . A pity, really. I was born in Adelaide, and when we visited a couple of years ago my wife fell in love with the place. (Almost as good as Ballarat!) This is a very nice build. Beautifully crisp work. Pear is a lovely timber. I've been carving with it for years now. Fortunate to have a neighbour with a huge pear tree . . . and the pears are nice, too.
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Umm, that was a mistake. I thought the further guy was going on the other side of the ship - only realised when it was too late that there'd be two together with matching tunics. (But they're wearing different coloured hose, for what it's worth.) I'm trying to get the colours as much a random assortment as possible (like jelly babies, as in Tom Baker's Dr Who.) Hmm, to a jazz rhythm? Could be interesting, but I think they'd be likely to do thmselves a nasty injury . .
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Yes, I was trying to figure out how it might be possible to remedy it without a great deal of success. Isn't it possible to dissolve CA with nail polish remover? Otherwise I suppose the only other option is to put it down to experience. Never having attempted to do clinker planking I'm certainly not in a postion to criticise, and in fact I was rather loath to even bring the subject up. IF it was possible to dissolve the glue just at that second frame it might be possible to free the strakes up, let them assume their "natural" shape (i.e. to follow the rest of the curve) and either cut out that side of the frame and replace it, or put a packer in to increase the width of the frame and then cut out the existing part. Just a thought, and it might be completely impractical, but perhaps worth looking at as an option. Having said that, the unevenness isn't terribly obvious and when everything else is added (especially the shields), it will probably become quite hard to see.
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Horrifying idea! (And yes, I actually have heard of Gene Krupa!) Fortunately, despite what Hollywood tells us, the rhythm for the rowers - at least in Byzantine times - was given not by a drummer but by a flute-player. James Galway, perhaps? And thanks, Mark, for the compliment.
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Thanks, Binho. And thanks everybody for the likes. Moving ahead a bit faster now. Here are the latest additions: Figures B and C are painted and glued in place. Figure D now has his arms glued on and filler added, ready for trimming to final shape. And I've added oars for two new starboard oarsmen, who are temporarily glued to their benches awaiting arms. Later in the same day: Figure D is now painted and glued in place. The new starboard oarsmen (E and F) have their arms temporarily glued on, awaiting bamboo pivot pins to locate them on the bodies so they can then be carved to shape. You can't see it on the photos, but I've also put in some short brass pins alongside the tholes of the oars I'll be adding next. So that's 8 oarsmen completely done, another two in progress, and two more just about to be started.
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I'd try it on scrap first to see if you like it. Personally, I find yellow ochre, red ochre and black and white (all possible with the materials of the day) a very attractive combination. I hadn't thought so until I saw a tv show where someone did a recosntruction of an Ancient British chariot and painted it in the colours above with the materials available nearby. Not sure how you'd make green paint back in the day. But it's your model - do what suits you.
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I used to hit this problem, too. I finally worked out how to fix it. Once you're in "Edit" you have to go down to the bottom of the post and delete the pictures from "uploaded images". Then you have to go back to the post itself, and "cut" the unwanted photos from the bottom of the post - otherwise they'll come back. That will get rid of them permanently. Hope that is explained properly and is of use to you. The ship is looking good by the way and that mast step is particularly nicely done. But I noticed in one of the photos you're about to get rid of (the view from above) there seems to be a small "kink" in the planking on the right near the bottom of the picture (second frame from the bow - or stern - who can tell with these double-ended ships?). Or is that just a fault of the photo?
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non-ship review 1:24 Istanbul diorama - OcCre
Louie da fly replied to James H's topic in Non-ship kit reviews
That's for sure. The other side of the harbour! I visited Taksim Square way back in '93 and got to the covered market but not the Grand Bazaar (ran out of time). Stayed in a little pension at Sultanahmet, with a roof deck that looked over the Marmara Sea and the Straits. Loved the place! Next time I went back (in 2000) the pension was gone and I stayed in another one (not as good) just out the back of the Hippodrome. Wonderful memories. Oh, and I nearly got run over by one of those wonderful trams because, coming from a country where people drive on the left, I looked the wrong way before I crossed the street (Yeniçeriler Cadessi).
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