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HMS Royal William by KeithW - Euromodel - 1/72
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HMS Bounty Jolly Boat by SighingDutchman (Seb) – FINISHED - Artesania Latina – 1:25
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HMS Diana 1794 by newbee - Caldercraft - 1/64
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Cutty Sark by Richard Dunn - 1/40 scale - scratch built semi-kit prototype
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Friedrich Wilhelm zu Pferde by Lee J H - Euromodel - 1:48
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Re: oarlocks. Take a look at @chris watton's ships boats of various types. I hope he doesn't mind me posting this photo: You can see that different oar locks were in use. This is from AOTS: Bounty The illustration depicts the "same" 23 foot launch used by Bligh. Note the square cutouts. Now take a look at the instructions for Model Shipways Bounty Launch. If you click on "Instructions and Parts List" you will be able to download the instructions. This gives you a very good look at their opinion of what the oarlocks should look like. In reality, ships boats were not standardized, and often changed during the course of duty of the ship. They came from different contractors. Bligh's Launch has not been preserved - if you recall, he sailed to Java and boarded a Dutch ship that took him back to England. Nobody knows what happened to the Launch after that. So in my opinion, do what you like and what you find aesthetically pleasing. Any of the choices you listed are historically plausible, and there is no evidence to suggest one way is more accurate than another. Just don't paint it pink and put Barbie and Ken in it.
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HMS Bounty Jolly Boat by SighingDutchman (Seb) – FINISHED - Artesania Latina – 1:25
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Just goes to show how good I am at hiding mistakes Don't worry, we all make them. But I make a deliberate choice where I am going to place difficult parts of my build. If I know I am going to hide it with paint, I will keep planking neat until it goes under paint. Not everyone on this forum builds like Chuck.
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Don't be too disheartened. When planking any boat, the planks at the top are the easiest to plank since they mostly go on without any taper. The planks near the keel are the most difficult, since by then all the errors from your tapering have compounded and you need some funny shaped planks to fill the holes. You can get around this by only painting below the waterline, leaving the wood above it unpainted to give the illusion that your planking is better than it is As for the view from the inside, what I do with all my models of open boats is to make sure the planking up to the level of the grates is neat. Anything below that level will be hidden by the grates from the inside, and paint on the outside, so it can be a complete dogs breakfast and nobody would be any wiser because it will be hidden with filler and paint. Yeah, you can tell I am not one of the more talented modellers on this forum. But I know how to hide my mistakes!
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Nissan Fairlady 240Z by kpnuts - FINISHED - Tamiya - 1/12
Keith_W replied to kpnuts's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Very good! The car usually rides higher when the engine is removed because the suspension is unsprung. Would you consider adding this? -
Great! That frees you up to choose a kit based on kit quality and not on whether the rigging instructions are adequate or not
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Question about which Bounty kit to get
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Almost all kits have inadequate instructions for rigging. Do you want this book? It has fairly detailed diagrams for the rigging, and it includes a chart of rope diameters which you will need to translate for your required scale. It is $613 on Amazon. I have completed my model and I don't need this book any more. I think $20 + shipping is fair. Inbox me if you want my copy.
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Artesania is definitely out, because it is single planked. The OP said he wanted a double planked kit. The Artesania does produce an interesting model though. It is the only open sided model of the Bounty in existence, perhaps the only open sided wooden ship model on the market. But there are many kit issues to overcome, e.g. exposed plywood beams, single planked, etc.
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Well the fallout from that movie continues. Second week and it's massively losing viewers at the box office. Ridley Scott has told historians to "get a life" because he is feeling the heat from all the historic inaccuracies in the film. A much better movie about Napoleon is Waterloo (1970) starring Rod Steiger as Napoleon, Christopher Plummer as Wellington, and Orson Welles as Louis XVIII. It is free to watch on Youtube!
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Chris Watton and Vanguard Models news and updates Volume 2
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Copper is available, but it is expensive at the moment. What you could do is develop and release the kit without the copper bottom. Sell the coppering kit as an optional extra. If people want to swallow the cost, they can. If they want to save some money and go for an alternative (e.g. paint to simulate copper) they can.
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Chris, you need to press gang your kids to work for you so that you can free up some time to get back to what you are really good at, which is designing models! Are you working on anything new right now?
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Cutty Sark by Richard Dunn - 1/40 scale - scratch built semi-kit prototype
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HMCSS Victoria 1855 by BANYAN - 1:72
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I visited @BANYAN yesterday and I had a good look at this model. It is even more impressive in real life than in photos. Those parts that you see are tiny and perfectly formed. This is even more incredible when you remember that he suffers from essential tremor and his hands shake when he is modelling. My hands are perfectly steady and I can't do that. I guess it comes down to skill and determination. Totally inspiring to overcome a disability like that and produce the results that he does. Oh yes, his modelling room is so clean that you could probably eat out of every surface.- 993 replies
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Masking tape for curves .
Keith_W replied to LEGION 12's topic in Painting, finishing and weathering products and techniques
You can use shellac, but I would not recommend it. You don't know how your paint is going to react to shellac. It is better to use a clear flat base from the same manufacturer as your paint. -
It will be almost impossible to fabricate a moulding out of wood. The grain will be running in different directions, and it would be incredibly fragile. This is what I did when I had to fabricate my own windows: I used a milling machine (Proxxon MF70) to mill a channel in a block of wood, then my Byrnes table saw to take off slices. The moulding was made with strip styrene glued to the curved edge, and the whole thing was painted. If you really want to make the moulding out of wood, you will need to carve it out with a suitable router bit that you may have to fabricate yourself. It will need to be supported by thick wood to stop it from breaking off. I would suggest a Proxxon MF70 with the CNC option but that is a lot of money to invest in only one part.
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I was told that the movie is a hot mess. Apparently they tried to rewrite the story so that it's all about Napoleon's love for Josephine and how she motivated him to conquer most of Europe. Too much screen time devoted to those two and major battles and strategic planning is glossed over or skimmed. Apparently the acting isn't great either, as if everybody "turned up and did the bare minimum to avoid getting fired" and so they all look oddly indifferent. What a way to ruin what could be an interesting movie by injecting a love story that nobody cares about. We turn up to watch Napoleon, not Josephine.
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I believe there are two reasons for wales: 1. It provides additional protection to the side of the ship 2. It strengthens and stiffens the hull And maybe a third reason: 3. It looks nice!
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