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Wonderful :-) Daniel -
Dear Robin, thank you for your feedback!!! Thank you, Daniel PS: As it is more quiet here - I am not in summernation yet, here is the little side project, closely linked to this one :-) http://modelshipworld.com/index.php?/topic/1487-by-the-deep-17-by-dafi-royal-navy-17801805-display/page-3
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Bang :-) :-) :-) XXXDAn
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And more tempting as the 1803 chain irons are the 1765 ones: same length but two pieces more! Testing the lengths, carefully remembering that the outer ones are longer. ... homeopathic doses of solder ... ... degreased the wire, first soldering the single rings, then joining them on the central part, the flux with the solder embedded, small touch with the hot iron ... ... and the same game with the dead eye and the triple pack ... ... adjusting over the edge of a blade ... ... and comparison: bottom as cut, then solderd and on top adjusted. Inside length 4 mm :-) A small jack done for thinning the deadeyes ... ... and painting them with casein paint to give a better to scale wood appearance than the original wood ... ... put on place ... ... made the batten to cover the channels ... ... and painted and rusted. And here the comparison :-) Cheers, Daniel
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Oh Mark, I am sooooo sorry ;-) XXXDAn PS: Thanks for referring to my build, this is worth more than an award!
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Hello Brian, look here: #160 down to 165 :-) Plus extras: #136 #146 #150 #156 I do believe that the bulkwards were taken down, as the stanchions in the way had to be removed. The way back to the front was often done by just dragging the messenger over the floor. Daniel
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That skipped my eye :-) I will follow with pleasure! XXXDAn
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Royal William by derebek - 1/72
dafi replied to derebek's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1501 - 1750
Wonderfully done :-) Congratulstions for the results! Daniel -
Wonderful and lovely job :-) XXXDAn
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HMS Victory by EdT - FINISHED - 1:96 - POB
dafi replied to EdT's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1751 - 1800
As always: Big thanks for showing the how-to-do :-) Always an inspiration! Daniel -
Love it :-) Daniel
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Thanks Brian, Paul and Mark, as always, I do not know yet what this is for, just a small nagging voice inside my head told me to do so ... XXXDAn
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ancre LE BONHOMME RICHARD by Jeronimo - FINISHED
dafi replied to Jeronimo's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1751 - 1800
Wonderful as always!!! Daniel- 662 replies
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But still the question: Is it the same result on the guns as the contemporary paints? So we are having three different types of guns: brass, iron and steel. Each different in the upkeeping :-) Daniel
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And the weekend show, some quantum leaps - means very small and little :-) fitted the last lid ... ... and fitted with lanyards. The holes in the brass fittings were deepend into the plastic by means of a hot needle ... ... so the brass is not damaged like with a drill and the deep is automatically fixed by the cones of the needle tip and the size of the hole in the fitting ... ... and it looks like this. Grüßle, Daniel
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Hello Jürgen, nice to see you here! All the best, Daniel
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Thank you both Garward and Maurice! @ Garward: It is always a treat to see your wonderful and precise models! Thanks for linking to the blackenig of your wonderful barrals! If I got it wright, this are the means of blackening the model parts. I also look very much onto who the original guns appeared when being blackened. Do you have any sources of that too? @ Maurice: As always, you pull exactely the source that was in my mind! Bruzelius´great collection of original sources. I edited the titel of the thread to make more precise: How was it done in the old days and especially, how did it look like? Cheers, Daniel
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If my memory serves me well, the "paint" for blackening the guns consisted of turpentine, tar, rust, and other components, cooked and applied hot. But I cant find the recipe any more, but I recall it being out of a contemporary source. Any clues where to find that? And coming with that: Any clue how the painted barrels looked like? Glossy brownish shining appearance? Thanks for any enlightenment, Daniel EDIT: Precised Titel
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Here both versions side by side, same ship, only 40 years of difference in between ... ... fascinating, as a good friend of mine would say ;-) Got the gun carriages messed and gave a brownisch oil coat to the barrels as some of the ingredients - rust and tar - suggest ... ... and the tompions plain without color, sticking out and not todays fancy thread in the middle, as the artifacts in NMM and museums suggest. Just one try with a line that goes around, but it does not look to convincing. The shoe for the anchor was fixed in the appropriate place and that is the thing for the moment :-) Cheers, Daniel
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Sooooooo after some time finally managed to do some new bricotage ... ... fitted the deadeyes ... ... used the revolutionairy Double-Twin-Super-Drive-Technology for grinding the needle heads ... ... put the batten ... ... and it looks even neater than the bits on my Vic :-) Too take this back added some paint and rust ... ... and tomorrow once the paint is well dried, I can take it back a tad and do the finetuning :-) Lieber Gruß, Daniel
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... and not to forget the fancy picture of this french 74 ... http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Achille_mp3h9307.jpg Enjoy, Daniel
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Hammock plan of the Bedford 1775, around 1790, ZAZ6793 http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/86584.html Some of my shots of the Vic: Open and rolled hammocs This one looks rather tiny, is this something else?? In the cable tier The better standard of the sickbay ... ... also to be found in the cabins under the poop. Cheers, Daniel
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Somewhere here on the board already posted by someone else, but I do not find the original source, here a copy from the document how the Royal Navy was doing the hammocks (thanks to the original poster!!!) http://files.homepagemodules.de/b564537/f129t1616p17024n2.pdf Two drawings out of Brays Album from NMM PAJ1992 http://collections.rmg.co.uk/mediaLib/400/media-400304/large.jpg PAJ1989 http://collections.rmg.co.uk/mediaLib/676/media-676424/large.jpg This is what Nares, Commander R.N. wrote in 1868 http://archive.org/stream/seamanship00acadgoog#page/n222/mode/2upPage 85 And here the US Navy in 1915 doing it still the same way http://www.filmpreservation.org/preserved-films/screening-room/u-s-navy-documentary-1915 see 8:40 Here 2 stills Gruß, Daniel
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Great work, and save trip, looking forward to see you again! Cheers, Daniel
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