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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:

 

Current pics:
 

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.
 
 

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:
 
 

Hello dear friends,
I am very pleased, you like my work. Thank you all for your praise and kind comments.
Well, it seems to be a man´s figure, but if I understand well the description of Vale´s painting from NMM, the central figure is a carving of Queen Catherine.
http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/15079.html
 
It depends on the complexity of a particular statuette/decoration, but usually takes me about 2-5 hours. But for example a larger figurehead can take me more than two days....
 
Oh, good question....  We take turns with my husband or mom. Telling the truth, we often do things together, it's better and faster.
 
Thank you very much for your support and good advice.I am glad I have decided to recreate the Queen´s sculpture again and believe, now she looks better.
 
And how you asked about the furnishing of the great cabin - of course I am going to make it in a high level of detail. Maybe I will place there some crew members as well. The decks are not fixes in place yet.
 
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Please enjoy the pics and have a great time.
 



 

And here I have finally created the sculpture of the Queen Catherine. I used her portraits and other sources of suitable information to achieve this appearance.
https://www.google.cz/search?biw=1366&bih=662&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=WbrlWunRM4ymsgH53b2gCQ&q=queen+catherine+of+braganza&oq=queen+catherine+of+braganza+&gs_l=psy-ab.1.0.0i30k1.7973.7973.0.9707.1.1.0.0.0.0.113.113.0j1.1.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..0.1.113....0.0GmofsBz4WU
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_of_Braganza
 
The clothing is in an ancient style similar to the Vale's painting.
https://www.modelforum.cz/viewtopic.php?f=177&t=110763&start=420#p2108444
https://www.modelforum.cz/download/file.php?id=1399865
 


 
 
In the last two photos there is a statue after some minor improvements.
 

 

After placing them on the model....

And here I continue again with decoration and sculpting.....

Model lighting from LED diodes:
 

Hello dear friends,
thank you very much for your feedback and kind words, they are much appreciated.
Well, now in spring I have plenty of duties and hard work around the house and garden and I also spend much time on detailing/perfect appearance of my clients' cars and their professional training, how to take care of the car varnish and other materials correctly. 
I use strips of self-adhesive foils. These foils are purchased separately at specialized shops.I have already mentioned about this on my threads more times. Here you can see more about the products I use:
 
https://www.tapety-folie.cz/drevo/c-2404/
 
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And now what is new on Royal Katherine....
I have purchased the reproduction of Vale´s painting from NMM to get more accurate information about decoration and other details. The image looks beautiful so I will have a great picture at home as well.
 
I finished the ledges and window sills around the stern windows and prepared LED illumination.

Current status
Have a great time and enjoy the pics.

Hello dear friends,
 
I am pleased, you like my sculpting and work on the Royal Katherine. Thank you very much for your comments and kind words.
 

 
Dear Michael, 
I do appreciate your praise, thank you.
The possibility of improvement is very important for me in my life and also in my hobbies. It is a great motivation to search better technologies and progresses or utilization of various methods from other fields. For example I do the "detailing" for many years - this represents a high level of precise care of real cars (especially their paint/varnish) and I use my own technology = a special waxes prepared exactly according to the type and condition of the paint. This allows me to achieve perfect  and durable results in a gentle way, and it si also environmentally friendly, cause I can use only clean water without a shampoo to wash the car. And these waxes I use on my models as well to achieve better finish and more realistic look. For example the wooden part of hull planking on the Royal Katherine model was gently polished by such wax and thanks to that the wooden imitation looks so naturally.
Even while building models, I'm still learning and improving my abilities to make the results worth it.
 
I have finished other pieces of decoration on the stern and QG on starboard. Now I am searching for an optimal location of the decks and floors on stern cabins. I would like to make it according to real English ships from that period but I must admit this is not easy at all.....  I have already received a lot of useful and professional  infromation about this matter from my advisor Kpt.KL. He also describes the position of decks on real 17th-century ships on Czech Modelforum, cause many people there are very interested in realistic building of ship models as well.
 
https://www.modelforum.cz/viewtopic.php?f=177&t=110763&start=375#p2104504
 
 
 
 

Yesterday I created other pieces of decoration on stern according to a model of Saint Michael (1669).

http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/65963.html
The sculptures are more detailed in comparison with decoration on my older ship models.
 
 

And here is the model placed among my other card sailing ships. Probably the Royal Katherine will be exposed together with my currently best card model  - Sovereign of the Seas. 
 
I love this room in our house; we call it a "harbor", cause you can see more than 40 ship models there.
http://modelforum.cz/viewtopic.php?f=177&t=114818&start=75#p2074117
 
Enjoy the pics.
 
Best regards,
Doris
 

Other pics with new leadlights:
 

Hello dear friends, 
I am pleased you rate my work so nicely. Thank you very much for your praise. That is a great honour for me.
 
Hubac'sHistorian: Thank you for your recommendation for an interesting book and comment. Yes, I already know this book from Captain KL, who also recommended it on Czech Modelforum:
http://modelforum.cz/viewtopic.php?f=177&t=110763&start=255#p2091317
 
There is also a beautiful video with 3D reconstruction of the HMS Anne:
 
Well, the stern section on my model is not finished yet and there are no reinforcement inside the hull and stern section. The quarter and poop deck are also only free laid at this time. After finishing the shape/arc in the upper part of stern will be improved to the real appearance.
Your observation is really great and thank you for the notice.
 
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Oh yes, I like sculpting and making high level of details as possible.....
 
Now I had more free time, so I created other decoration on the stern section. 
 
There are already more than fifty pieces of decoration  (mainly caryatideson) on  the model. I suppose, I will need more than 1000 pieces for this ship.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

And others.....
 
Please enjoy the pics, soon I will add new ones.
 
Best regards, 
Doris

There are increasing other sculptures - karyatides. I like this work very much.....
 

And here starts the most favourite part of my work....
Sculpting of course..... 
 
Apart from the Vale's painting, I get inspiration from period models, paintings + drawings and archaeological finds. I would like to create not only beautiful and detailed sculptures but also more realistic.
 
Some inspiration I find also here:
http://modelforum.cz/viewtopic.php?f=177&t=110763&start=210#p2086152
or
http://modelforum.cz/viewtopic.php?f=177&t=110763&start=225#p2087773
 
So how the sculpting started......
 

I have also placed and glued plexiglass (I use a clear CDs) into the windows and created a diagonal grid with the scalpel as you can also see in plenty of historical paintings by artists - mariners and museum models from that period.
 
http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/65964.html
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-T-1885-A-555
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-T-00-408
 
 

Other pics:
 

And here they are finished:
 

And here are the roofs of QG that were relatively complicated to create:
 

I finished roofs on Quarter Galleries and added a bay window (oriel window) on the stern. I use high quality card finished with black foils. The columns and upper parts of the hull (under railing)are wooden.
 

Hello dear friends,
thank you very much for your kind words and comments. I do appreciate them a lot.
I'm finally healthy so I can do my full job at Royal Katherine and enjoy it.
 
To BETAQDAVE: What a lovely parrot you have. My feathered assistants are not very interested in the ship, though one of them loves destroying wooden clothes pegs and cockatiel usually has a rest under the huge ship hull till finally falls asleep.
 
To montañes: Thank you for your praise, Amalio. In actual fact nothing is so difficult as it seems to be. I usually search the the easiest way, how to make various things..... For example here is a video ( I promised some time ago to record a short video, where I am shaping card using steam to achieve better results and perfect final performance):

To popeye the sailor: I suppose there will be a lot of other modifications during the work. I love sailing ships and after finishing Sovereign of the Seas I have finally found another gorgeous ship - Royal Katherine, which I consider to be equally beautiful. I would like to achieve best result and maximally realistic model appearance, as possible and depends also on my abilities of course.  Last week I have started with sculpting and decoration, that is my favourite part of work.