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FAIR AMERICA KIT BUILD - moved by moderator
ccoyle replied to cruiseholidays1's topic in Wood ship model kits
Chuck, if you enter "Fair American" in the search window, you will find four build logs currently in progress. Good luck with your model! -
A kit from Russia, or a Russian kit? There are some legitimate Russian kit designs on the market. We had at least one posted on the old site, and it looked very nice. Also some nice kits coming out of Croatia as well.
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I advise NEVER to start a model that doesn't appeal to you -- unless you never intend to finish it. Passion for your subject goes a long way in giving impetus to overcoming challenges during the build. Cheers!
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I hope your son keeps up with the modeling. I tried to get my son to have a go at it, but it didn't take. We have other shared interests, just not ship building. Oh, well! Oh, and I loved building in 1/700 back in the day.
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Robert, your model looks absolutely splendid! It makes a very strong argument in favor of something I wish kit manufacturers would do, namely offer packages that consist of only the hull former set. Your upgrades are a dramatic improvement on the basic kit, and as you said earlier in this thread, had you known about the existence of pre-milled wood, you would have used that for the entire hull. Seems like a simple enough proposition, doesn't it? Cheers!
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A fascinating and moving story, Piet. Thanks for sharing, and good luck with your model. Cheers!
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All the kits you named are good kits. Badger would be a little easier, of course, having only two masts. The difference in price between Pegasus and Fly is that the former kit includes a number of extra details that are not included in the latter (Fly came off the production line first). Those extra bits can be purchased as a separate upgrade kit for Fly. Otherwise the two kits are virtually the same. Cheers!
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We need more non-stick-and-string builds around here. Model on!
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HMS Snake by drtrap - Caldercraft
ccoyle replied to drtrap's topic in - Kit build logs for subjects built from 1751 - 1800
So far, all the Snake builds on the forum look like really nice models. This one appears to continue that record. Cheers! -
Ooh, ooh! There's supposed to be a picture of my HMS Folke in that book! I hope it made the cut!
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Some very interesting craft available there.
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Looking for tips on creating sail seams by pencil
ccoyle replied to bhermann's topic in Masting, rigging and sails
Ditto the comments on using a light hand. At scale viewing distances, seams are nearly invisible. -
The term is furled -- it's a good way to display sails. If the boat's owner is only temporarily tied up, the jib might just be lowered to the deck. If you go for furled sails, you'll only need sails about 2/3 or so of the full size; full-sized sails on models don't roll up as compactly as the real thing.
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Bob, Great start! This was also my very first model; at the time, I was unaware of the resources out there for detailing the kit. Nevertheless, it built up nicely mostly straight out of the box. I love the addition of the cockpit ribs. Looks like you will do a bang-up job in the end. Cheers!
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All looks very nice, B.E.!
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As Mark points out, all the posts linked to above fall under fair use law, at least here in the U.S. The U.S. Copyright Office gives the following criteria for judging fair use: The purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes The nature of the copyrighted work The amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole The effect of the use upon the potential market for, or value of, the copyrighted work. All the pictures linked to above are clearly posted for review purposes and not for commercial use, consist of only a small part of the copyrighted content (in the case of the JoTiKa pictures), and clearly do not detract from the commercial value of the material in question -- in fact, such use actually provides a valuable service to the manufacturers whose images are used. I agree with Chuck -- our staff is pretty good at catching copyright infringement, and the chance of true infringement happening here, as such infringement is defined by law, is remote.
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The last bit I worked on was the ship's boat, which also came with the upgrade kit. The boat includes a cast metal hull and tiller, strip wood for building up the thwarts, and PE oars, boat hooks, and grapple. Not wanting to have to attempt a scratch-built boat at this point in my modeling career, I crossed my fingers and hoped the metal boat would do the job. I think it turned out pretty decent. And that is where my build left off. When I get back to it, I will soon be about the rigging. I have Volume 4 of the Swan-class series to help in that endeavor. Cheers!
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So, here is what the hull looks like as of July, 2012. Expect more updates on the hull on ... gosh, I don't know. Sometime this year. Maybe.
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More recently ('recently' means last summer ), I decided to somewhat imitate the elaborate decorations seen on the stern counter in the Williams & Marshall painting. First, I located some heraldic dolphins on the Internet, scaled them to the appropriate size, and then printed, painted, cut out, and edge-colored them. It took me a couple of tries to find the dolphins and color schemes that I thought looked the best. Here is the final result, with the dolphins swimming in some dappled foam. Of course, since then I've learned that the artwork on Fly was completely different. Oh, well. Please note, that is what eighteenth-century maritime artists thought dolphins looked like - not what I think they look like.
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This shot shows a number of things. First, the careful observer will notice the absence of cast metal fashion pieces. I simply could not get the kit castings to fit the hull properly, so I omitted them - on the Captain's orders. Second, I had to rebate the back sides of the quarterbadges, because they overlap the wales. Third, you can see where it was necessary to paint the lower railing posts to match the colors on the hull - black, yellow, red. Same went for the forecastle posts, except they needed black-yellow-red-yellow again. This was necessary to match the Williams & Marshall painting. Fourth, you can see where I replaced the 1x1 mm hull trim from the kit with Bluejacket double-beaded molding -- much nicer.
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This is the aforementioned forward screen bulkhead, along with a view of the two ladders that had to be built from scratch because the kit didn't include enough ladder material. I also added some detail to the gallows, using a file and some scrap card and wood to add beveling, decorative panels, and cheek blocks.
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It took quite a bit of tweaking to get all the quarterdeck rails in place. For one thing, the dimensions given for the stanchions along the break of the quarter deck (the square posts) were wrong; I believe they were given as 2 mm too tall, but my memory is fuzzy on that one. The stanchions at the entryways were off-the-shelf turnings and were both too tall and too large in diameter, so those had to be cut down. The entryway railings also had to be cut and trimmed to correct the angle of the elbow where those railings join the quarterdeck railing. But in the end, it all worked out. By the way, the lengths for all the breeching ropes and tackles were taken from a table in the Ship Modeler's Shop Notes published by the NRG.
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Another couple of tweaks to the kit. The cleats in the kit are far to large, so I cobbled together some smaller replacements. The kit's binnacle is also very, very basic, so out that went, too. I built a replacement based on some drawings and pics submitted by MSW members. The binnacle lantern is made from a sacrificed CA glue Z-tip, the compass roses are some scaled-down images from the Internet, and the chimney is some part from the scrap bin. The chimney should be black, but I haven't had much success blackening turned brass parts, so I left it shiny. Don't tell anyone.
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