Gaetan Bordeleau
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Gaetan Bordeleau got a reaction from phebe in Philip Reed style Navy Board models: are there any on MSW?
I did something about 30 years ago at 1/192 scale.
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Gaetan Bordeleau got a reaction from daHeld73 in HMS Bellona 1760 by SJSoane - Scale 1:64 - English 74-gun - as designed
Again , as comparison, french 74 also had false windows, no glass, the wall behind was painted in black. These windows made you believe that is was bigger than what it really was, not only on the sides but in the back also in the back.
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Gaetan Bordeleau got a reaction from daHeld73 in HMS Bellona 1760 by SJSoane - Scale 1:64 - English 74-gun - as designed
For these curves, I use the sanding belt or sometimes the oscillating drum..
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Gaetan Bordeleau got a reaction from daHeld73 in HMS Bellona 1760 by SJSoane - Scale 1:64 - English 74-gun - as designed
size: 2000 X 2000 pixels *
resolution: 240 pixels/ inch
adapted for screen sharpness
* If I remember correctly, MSW allows a generous size for a photo to be 2000 by 2000. Unfortunately, almost nobody presents "large size photo".
When a photo is presented on Facebook, by example, in a "small dimension", It is like showing nothing, because there is insufficient data to appreciate the content.
You can get a $200 camera to photograph with a resolution of 4K. You cannot post a 4K photo, but you can scale it down and show a good detail which is going to be profitable, not only for you, but for every body also.
But like the mystery of the Exacto, even if we tell them that they could use a sharper knife, they continue to use only the Exacto. Of course, there is no need to drive a Ferrari when a Mazda will bring you at the same place.
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Gaetan Bordeleau got a reaction from daHeld73 in HMS Bellona 1760 by SJSoane - Scale 1:64 - English 74-gun - as designed
A medal always has 2 sides. It is true that we see "new" imperfections with magnification and it is very frustrating at the beginning.
The good side of it, if you take picture when you finish a section of the work, you will be able to see what needs to be corrected. We could call this tool "inspection by photography".
After the make the small corrections, you take a second set of photography and you will be satisfy of your work.
I think it is a good tool, to increase of one step, the quality of our work; but with miniature photos, it is impossible to do.
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Gaetan Bordeleau got a reaction from daHeld73 in HMS Bellona 1760 by SJSoane - Scale 1:64 - English 74-gun - as designed
Mark you are right about it.
There is a nice video on you-tube about a guitar maker using a lot of jigs... and he is producing one of the best guitars on the market. A jig facilitate repetition and it is faster to use.
I do not think that it is possible to produce a perfect model, in my situation, I am sure that I cant, there are too many thousand operation to do with perfection . I try to do my best and I also try to make it look good.
My goal is not to do a perfect model ship, it is only to have fun in the construction process.
I guess we could that every model ship builder has his own speciality. As an example, I would name Alex for the best sail representation.
Yours would be something like: "Research and Building parts with the best possible method" and you succeed well with this result : very clean parts.
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Gaetan Bordeleau got a reaction from daHeld73 in HMS Bellona 1760 by SJSoane - Scale 1:64 - English 74-gun - as designed
a twisted wire in the jar, the rope pass through the ring, you pull the other side through a sponge, and you let dry, rope attached at both ends in the air
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Gaetan Bordeleau got a reaction from daHeld73 in HMS Bellona 1760 by SJSoane - Scale 1:64 - English 74-gun - as designed
I use walnut stain made from walnut shell
https://ardec.ca/en/p/62/walnut-stain
The color has to be fix with alchool. I also do some other mix with beewax and other components depending of the results I want
I am not sure you use a good method to turn ropes, look like some turns are missing to hold every thing together.
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Gaetan Bordeleau got a reaction from daHeld73 in HMS Bellona 1760 by SJSoane - Scale 1:64 - English 74-gun - as designed
Congratulation Mark,
You have succeeded in an area that I have never try and an area that I will never try.
I would prefer to turn 144 guns instead.
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Gaetan Bordeleau got a reaction from daHeld73 in HMS Bellona 1760 by SJSoane - Scale 1:64 - English 74-gun - as designed
Manual turning, by similar steps, at an average of 2 by day means around a month for a 74...but you have to glue the monograms.
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Gaetan Bordeleau got a reaction from daHeld73 in HMS Bellona 1760 by SJSoane - Scale 1:64 - English 74-gun - as designed
It is possible to include photos 3 times larger in size.
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Gaetan Bordeleau got a reaction from daHeld73 in HMS Bellona 1760 by SJSoane - Scale 1:64 - English 74-gun - as designed
Yes they are. The idea is that only the point of the cutter must touch the metal to remove. there must not be other friction from the tool on the metal.
A knife that I used and I added another to show on top
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Gaetan Bordeleau got a reaction from daHeld73 in HMS Bellona 1760 by SJSoane - Scale 1:64 - English 74-gun - as designed
I have a lot of talc powder at home; it comes from what we call soap stone, a very soft stone, easy to cut with a hand saw. We use this stone for carving and talc powder is sprinkled on dancing floor, and it is very slippery.
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Gaetan Bordeleau got a reaction from daHeld73 in HMS Bellona 1760 by SJSoane - Scale 1:64 - English 74-gun - as designed
Mark, I got an idea, rename your model: Le Bellona, and then, you will be able to go this way, amply documented by Boudriot.
And yes, it is true, why make it complicated when they surely made it the easy way.
Here is probably another wrong way, on how I did it about 25 years ago: last photo
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Gaetan Bordeleau got a reaction from daHeld73 in HMS Bellona 1760 by SJSoane - Scale 1:64 - English 74-gun - as designed
I have drawings of 1735 for 1- 3 -6 - 12 -18- 24.
ex.
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Gaetan Bordeleau got a reaction from mtaylor in Scalpel handles...
Hi Vossiewulf,
I agree at 100% about the blades that Vossiewulf uses. In the "exacto size blades", these are the best quality hard steel available.
Heres is my favorite knife... from Vossiewulf:
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Gaetan Bordeleau got a reaction from Canute in Scalpel handles...
Hi Vossiewulf,
I agree at 100% about the blades that Vossiewulf uses. In the "exacto size blades", these are the best quality hard steel available.
Heres is my favorite knife... from Vossiewulf:
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Gaetan Bordeleau got a reaction from thibaultron in Scalpel handles...
Hi Vossiewulf,
I agree at 100% about the blades that Vossiewulf uses. In the "exacto size blades", these are the best quality hard steel available.
Heres is my favorite knife... from Vossiewulf:
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Gaetan Bordeleau got a reaction from vossiewulf in Scalpel handles...
Hi Vossiewulf,
I agree at 100% about the blades that Vossiewulf uses. In the "exacto size blades", these are the best quality hard steel available.
Heres is my favorite knife... from Vossiewulf:
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Gaetan Bordeleau got a reaction from daHeld73 in HMS Pandora 1779 in 3D
Hi Jingyang,
thank you very much.
I like the colors
I like the angle of view
It is surprising how close from reality their effect can be.
There is a lot of work behind your work.
You have a fantistic tool to evaluate dimensions of parts in relation one to the other.
Congratulations for your work!
Gaetan
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Gaetan Bordeleau got a reaction from daHeld73 in HMS Pandora 1779 in 3D
Jingyang, you have a marvelous tool to work with and you use it as a master. It would be a charm to build HMS Pandora with this set of drawings. The problem with 2D drawings is that it is sometimes difficult to visualize a piece in 3D but with the extractions that you can do with the drawings it makes everything easy to understand.
I do not know if you are still working on this model, but would it be possible to show us a drawing just like if somebody would be inside the ship?
Thank you
Gaetan
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Gaetan Bordeleau got a reaction from daHeld73 in HMS Bellona 1760 by SJSoane - Scale 1:64 - English 74-gun - as designed
Ed is right we use the same method, with some variants; he gets the taper from the head, I get it by an attachment, I turn from the opposite end because it is easier to center the hole for the guns balls.
The most important is that it is made by steps, specializing in one part at the time.
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Gaetan Bordeleau got a reaction from daHeld73 in HMS Bellona 1760 by SJSoane - Scale 1:64 - English 74-gun - as designed
None of the above. The first times I used a duplicator for Unimat.
Now I use a taper attachment, a guide to set a precise angle for the taper.
I work by steps which is at the end a faster method but collets are required to reposition blanks more precisely
Example first deck cannons, same step for each ones, then second step for each one and so on
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Gaetan Bordeleau got a reaction from daHeld73 in HMS Bellona 1760 by SJSoane - Scale 1:64 - English 74-gun - as designed
I used another method with Unimat Lathe.
The difficulty in taper turning is to set the angle of the taper.
This setup has no angles to adjust
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Gaetan Bordeleau got a reaction from daHeld73 in HMS Bellona 1760 by SJSoane - Scale 1:64 - English 74-gun - as designed
Welcome back Mark,
You should build at 1/24 scale!
It is a lot easier to do the planking in the curves with 0 stress on the planks,
The plank is cut in 3D including the curve, the only drawback: it takes more wood.
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