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dafi got a reaction from Wintergreen in HMS Victory by dafi - Heller - PLASTIC - To Victory and beyond ...
Ok trial number 4:
Took a monogram and sank it by half into a poly ...
... broke it out ...
... and took the poly as holder to file down the backsides of the monograms down to half ...
... and bingo :-)
Some other side theaters of war ...
... rolled the wire for the thread rod with the filr to give it some structure ...
... and carved the bearings of the trunnion out of Evergreen.
On the last picture one can see that the sliding part has to slide over the mounts of the wheels, so it means, they have to be flush in the surface.
So marked the position on the circle ...
... and used a dummy for testing. First drilled a basic hole ...
... ground a old scalpel into shape ...
... and formed the drilled hole.
And the trials shows that it fits :-)
So assembled the carriage and barrel, splashed some paint onto it, fitted the appropriate eyebolts and it looks ok ;-)
Old and new side by side ...
... old - once state of the art - ...
... and a bit pimped ...
... and it seems quite ok :-)
XXXDAn -
dafi got a reaction from Martin W in HMS Victory by dafi - Heller - PLASTIC - To Victory and beyond ...
Thank you Frank!
On the last picture one can see something, that I was bothering about since some time.
The monogram appears sitting quite thickly on the barrel. I already used the thinnest material available from my supplier, 0,2 mm equals 2 cm in original. The original monogram is about 5 to 10 mm mm but has much more washed outlines.
Time to tinker a bit and to see what still is possible :-)
Two versions were spooking around my wired minds for some time - lets go for the phantoms :-)
Version 1 sinking the monograms with a soldering iron.
Worked surprisingly well, it was quite easy to sink it evenly ...
... until I saw the bulges of diplaced material all around. Difficult to take out, ok forget it.
Version 2 were thin castings, like those I do successfully for the coat of arms of the entry port.
Took two monograms and hammered them into the poly ...
... casted twice ...
... but missing a good form success was not coming. Some carvings of the form did not help.
Then came version 3, gluing the monograms and filing the edges off.
Looked great without color but with color splashed over ...
... merda ...
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dafi got a reaction from JerryTodd in HMS Victory by dafi - Heller - PLASTIC - To Victory and beyond ...
Ok trial number 4:
Took a monogram and sank it by half into a poly ...
... broke it out ...
... and took the poly as holder to file down the backsides of the monograms down to half ...
... and bingo :-)
Some other side theaters of war ...
... rolled the wire for the thread rod with the filr to give it some structure ...
... and carved the bearings of the trunnion out of Evergreen.
On the last picture one can see that the sliding part has to slide over the mounts of the wheels, so it means, they have to be flush in the surface.
So marked the position on the circle ...
... and used a dummy for testing. First drilled a basic hole ...
... ground a old scalpel into shape ...
... and formed the drilled hole.
And the trials shows that it fits :-)
So assembled the carriage and barrel, splashed some paint onto it, fitted the appropriate eyebolts and it looks ok ;-)
Old and new side by side ...
... old - once state of the art - ...
... and a bit pimped ...
... and it seems quite ok :-)
XXXDAn -
dafi got a reaction from popeye the sailor in HMS Victory by dafi - Heller - PLASTIC - To Victory and beyond ...
Thank you Frank!
On the last picture one can see something, that I was bothering about since some time.
The monogram appears sitting quite thickly on the barrel. I already used the thinnest material available from my supplier, 0,2 mm equals 2 cm in original. The original monogram is about 5 to 10 mm mm but has much more washed outlines.
Time to tinker a bit and to see what still is possible :-)
Two versions were spooking around my wired minds for some time - lets go for the phantoms :-)
Version 1 sinking the monograms with a soldering iron.
Worked surprisingly well, it was quite easy to sink it evenly ...
... until I saw the bulges of diplaced material all around. Difficult to take out, ok forget it.
Version 2 were thin castings, like those I do successfully for the coat of arms of the entry port.
Took two monograms and hammered them into the poly ...
... casted twice ...
... but missing a good form success was not coming. Some carvings of the form did not help.
Then came version 3, gluing the monograms and filing the edges off.
Looked great without color but with color splashed over ...
... merda ...
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dafi got a reaction from Martin W in HMS Victory by dafi - Heller - PLASTIC - To Victory and beyond ...
Ok trial number 4:
Took a monogram and sank it by half into a poly ...
... broke it out ...
... and took the poly as holder to file down the backsides of the monograms down to half ...
... and bingo :-)
Some other side theaters of war ...
... rolled the wire for the thread rod with the filr to give it some structure ...
... and carved the bearings of the trunnion out of Evergreen.
On the last picture one can see that the sliding part has to slide over the mounts of the wheels, so it means, they have to be flush in the surface.
So marked the position on the circle ...
... and used a dummy for testing. First drilled a basic hole ...
... ground a old scalpel into shape ...
... and formed the drilled hole.
And the trials shows that it fits :-)
So assembled the carriage and barrel, splashed some paint onto it, fitted the appropriate eyebolts and it looks ok ;-)
Old and new side by side ...
... old - once state of the art - ...
... and a bit pimped ...
... and it seems quite ok :-)
XXXDAn -
dafi got a reaction from mtaylor in HMS Victory by dafi - Heller - PLASTIC - To Victory and beyond ...
Thank you Frank!
On the last picture one can see something, that I was bothering about since some time.
The monogram appears sitting quite thickly on the barrel. I already used the thinnest material available from my supplier, 0,2 mm equals 2 cm in original. The original monogram is about 5 to 10 mm mm but has much more washed outlines.
Time to tinker a bit and to see what still is possible :-)
Two versions were spooking around my wired minds for some time - lets go for the phantoms :-)
Version 1 sinking the monograms with a soldering iron.
Worked surprisingly well, it was quite easy to sink it evenly ...
... until I saw the bulges of diplaced material all around. Difficult to take out, ok forget it.
Version 2 were thin castings, like those I do successfully for the coat of arms of the entry port.
Took two monograms and hammered them into the poly ...
... casted twice ...
... but missing a good form success was not coming. Some carvings of the form did not help.
Then came version 3, gluing the monograms and filing the edges off.
Looked great without color but with color splashed over ...
... merda ...
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dafi got a reaction from JerryTodd in HMS Victory by dafi - Heller - PLASTIC - To Victory and beyond ...
Looking back in history, February 2010
"... and the carronades with wheels and elevation screw."
For those days a vast improvement towards oob. But since then things went a bit nuts, so time to look for Carronade 2.0.
The basic form fits so far quite well, fitted two more reinforcement rings on the original places, made from my tinnest Evergreen strips, but still sanded thinner and rounded with abrasive sponges. Also the iron sight was replaced and a base for the gun lock created. The bed of the carriage got the slot for the traveling part. The old coin and bearing were removed.
For one of the guns a new sliding part was tinkered ...
... and I enjoyed the detail of putting in the base plate for the elevation screw flush with the surface.
The rolls fitted for the carriage are 1,5 mm poly and comply to my understanding of a decent size of parts: fits into the "C" of a Cent ;-)
Also the gunlocks do justice to this specification ...
... the flaps were bent ...
... and with the monograms we approach version 2.01.
Cheers, Daniel
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dafi got a reaction from Martin W in HMS Victory by dafi - Heller - PLASTIC - To Victory and beyond ...
Looking back in history, February 2010
"... and the carronades with wheels and elevation screw."
For those days a vast improvement towards oob. But since then things went a bit nuts, so time to look for Carronade 2.0.
The basic form fits so far quite well, fitted two more reinforcement rings on the original places, made from my tinnest Evergreen strips, but still sanded thinner and rounded with abrasive sponges. Also the iron sight was replaced and a base for the gun lock created. The bed of the carriage got the slot for the traveling part. The old coin and bearing were removed.
For one of the guns a new sliding part was tinkered ...
... and I enjoyed the detail of putting in the base plate for the elevation screw flush with the surface.
The rolls fitted for the carriage are 1,5 mm poly and comply to my understanding of a decent size of parts: fits into the "C" of a Cent ;-)
Also the gunlocks do justice to this specification ...
... the flaps were bent ...
... and with the monograms we approach version 2.01.
Cheers, Daniel
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dafi got a reaction from JerryTodd in HMS Victory by dafi - Heller - PLASTIC - To Victory and beyond ...
Hyho, small dafi was aloud to tinker some more bits ...
... first the freshly pressed ones ...
... by the way that is the way they looked in their former lifes :-)
And as dafi likes to do messes ...
... but there is nothing better ...
... than a fresh caulked deck!
XXXDAn -
dafi got a reaction from Martin W in HMS Victory by dafi - Heller - PLASTIC - To Victory and beyond ...
Hyho, small dafi was aloud to tinker some more bits ...
... first the freshly pressed ones ...
... by the way that is the way they looked in their former lifes :-)
And as dafi likes to do messes ...
... but there is nothing better ...
... than a fresh caulked deck!
XXXDAn -
dafi got a reaction from popeye the sailor in HMS Victory by dafi - Heller - PLASTIC - To Victory and beyond ...
Looking back in history, February 2010
"... and the carronades with wheels and elevation screw."
For those days a vast improvement towards oob. But since then things went a bit nuts, so time to look for Carronade 2.0.
The basic form fits so far quite well, fitted two more reinforcement rings on the original places, made from my tinnest Evergreen strips, but still sanded thinner and rounded with abrasive sponges. Also the iron sight was replaced and a base for the gun lock created. The bed of the carriage got the slot for the traveling part. The old coin and bearing were removed.
For one of the guns a new sliding part was tinkered ...
... and I enjoyed the detail of putting in the base plate for the elevation screw flush with the surface.
The rolls fitted for the carriage are 1,5 mm poly and comply to my understanding of a decent size of parts: fits into the "C" of a Cent ;-)
Also the gunlocks do justice to this specification ...
... the flaps were bent ...
... and with the monograms we approach version 2.01.
Cheers, Daniel
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dafi reacted to foxy in HMS Victory by dafi - Heller - PLASTIC - To Victory and beyond ...
Very nice Daniel.
It all makes cent's .
Keep it coming.
Frank
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dafi got a reaction from Barbossa in HMS Victory by dafi - Heller - PLASTIC - To Victory and beyond ...
Looking back in history, February 2010
"... and the carronades with wheels and elevation screw."
For those days a vast improvement towards oob. But since then things went a bit nuts, so time to look for Carronade 2.0.
The basic form fits so far quite well, fitted two more reinforcement rings on the original places, made from my tinnest Evergreen strips, but still sanded thinner and rounded with abrasive sponges. Also the iron sight was replaced and a base for the gun lock created. The bed of the carriage got the slot for the traveling part. The old coin and bearing were removed.
For one of the guns a new sliding part was tinkered ...
... and I enjoyed the detail of putting in the base plate for the elevation screw flush with the surface.
The rolls fitted for the carriage are 1,5 mm poly and comply to my understanding of a decent size of parts: fits into the "C" of a Cent ;-)
Also the gunlocks do justice to this specification ...
... the flaps were bent ...
... and with the monograms we approach version 2.01.
Cheers, Daniel
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dafi got a reaction from robin b in HMS Victory by dafi - Heller - PLASTIC - To Victory and beyond ...
Looking back in history, February 2010
"... and the carronades with wheels and elevation screw."
For those days a vast improvement towards oob. But since then things went a bit nuts, so time to look for Carronade 2.0.
The basic form fits so far quite well, fitted two more reinforcement rings on the original places, made from my tinnest Evergreen strips, but still sanded thinner and rounded with abrasive sponges. Also the iron sight was replaced and a base for the gun lock created. The bed of the carriage got the slot for the traveling part. The old coin and bearing were removed.
For one of the guns a new sliding part was tinkered ...
... and I enjoyed the detail of putting in the base plate for the elevation screw flush with the surface.
The rolls fitted for the carriage are 1,5 mm poly and comply to my understanding of a decent size of parts: fits into the "C" of a Cent ;-)
Also the gunlocks do justice to this specification ...
... the flaps were bent ...
... and with the monograms we approach version 2.01.
Cheers, Daniel
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dafi got a reaction from popeye the sailor in HMS Victory by dafi - Heller - PLASTIC - To Victory and beyond ...
Hyho, small dafi was aloud to tinker some more bits ...
... first the freshly pressed ones ...
... by the way that is the way they looked in their former lifes :-)
And as dafi likes to do messes ...
... but there is nothing better ...
... than a fresh caulked deck!
XXXDAn -
dafi got a reaction from Archi in Securing the lanyards of the deadeyes
It is like one of those searching games, one has to know where to look at :-)
Victory
Endeavour
Göthebourg
Constitution: It looks like the seizing is used to secure the free end, but I believe having seen those seizings also on the front side.
XXXDAn
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dafi got a reaction from canoe21 in HMS Victory by dafi - Heller - PLASTIC - To Victory and beyond ...
Hyho, small dafi was aloud to tinker some more bits ...
... first the freshly pressed ones ...
... by the way that is the way they looked in their former lifes :-)
And as dafi likes to do messes ...
... but there is nothing better ...
... than a fresh caulked deck!
XXXDAn -
dafi got a reaction from riverboat in HMS Victory by dafi - Heller - PLASTIC - To Victory and beyond ...
Hyho, small dafi was aloud to tinker some more bits ...
... first the freshly pressed ones ...
... by the way that is the way they looked in their former lifes :-)
And as dafi likes to do messes ...
... but there is nothing better ...
... than a fresh caulked deck!
XXXDAn -
dafi got a reaction from docidle in HMS Victory by dafi - Heller - PLASTIC - To Victory and beyond ...
*blow*...
... waving the dust away ...
... oh really, there is a building report appearing :-0
Lots of work means loads of pennies for the building :-)
The only flaw is that there is little time for the builds, the only time for forums is when hanging in a boring telefone call or while the computer is rendering or saving. But it looks like times are coming back *joy*
And as everybody sayz to start with something small ...
Cheers, Daniel -
dafi got a reaction from JerryTodd in HMS Victory by dafi - Heller - PLASTIC - To Victory and beyond ...
Dafi was a taylor ...
... he shortened my coat and scarved my shirt ...
... he put my head right back in place, ...
... and stuck paper tails on my bum.
...hihihihihihihihihi...
XXXDAn -
dafi got a reaction from hexnut in HMS Victory by dafi - Heller - PLASTIC - To Victory and beyond ...
*blow*...
... waving the dust away ...
... oh really, there is a building report appearing :-0
Lots of work means loads of pennies for the building :-)
The only flaw is that there is little time for the builds, the only time for forums is when hanging in a boring telefone call or while the computer is rendering or saving. But it looks like times are coming back *joy*
And as everybody sayz to start with something small ...
Cheers, Daniel -
dafi reacted to amateur in HMS Victory by dafi - Heller - PLASTIC - To Victory and beyond ...
prins Willem was a kind of replica originally built for a tourist attratction in Japan (by the name of holland village). The ship looked as the prins willem model at the outside. On the inside, however, it was more like a restaurant.
Couple of years ago it was transferred fromjapan to Den Helder in the Netherlands, were it was kind of major attraction in the old navy harbour.
It was open for the public, and you could rent her as a party centre. Due to health and safety (both in japan and the netherlands) there was a sprinkler installation. However, when there was a fire in the hold ( it started in the kitchen) that installation wasn't able to keep the fire down. As the ship was all steel hull, the heat was quite large, and the firebrigade could not enter. Exit ship.
The original builder bought the remains, and transferred them to Harlingen. They planned to rebuild the ship, and turn it ( again) into a tourist attratction. As there wasn't much left, and due to the crisis, money could not be raised. The remains were scrapped and sold to Hoogovens, for recycling.
That was the end of Prins Willem. As it was only outwardly a kind of replica, not much was lost. The touristic centre in Den Helder lost an attraction, although even there, there are much more interesting ship available.
Jan
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dafi got a reaction from popeye the sailor in HMS Victory by dafi - Heller - PLASTIC - To Victory and beyond ...
...hihihihihihihihi...
XXXDAn
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dafi reacted to amateur in HMS Victory by dafi - Heller - PLASTIC - To Victory and beyond ...
That Prins Willem was destroyed by fire didn't harm anyone.
(exept the firm that used it as some kind of disco)
Jan
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dafi reacted to popeye the sailor in HMS Victory by dafi - Heller - PLASTIC - To Victory and beyond ...
oh....oh! a model has many mortal enemies............this is one of them
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