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    Sovereign temporarily placed in her future home for display. The colours work well with the wood of the buffet
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    Good to see you back Ken, and doing a lovely job of the planking.
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    A contrasting view of my modified stern based on descriptions in Sephtons book, the Ley painting of Sovereigns stern and the sergal/Mantua kit version. I want to change a couple carvings below the higher tier of windows but basically I'm happy with how it's turned out. What a difference to the kit. Also note I've yet to make up the smaller lanterns on the quarter galleries- again the kit ones are just too large.
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    Finished off the transom counter decorations today! Basically all the decorations are now finished. There maybe a few more little items but the bulk of them are now done. I was hesitant about modifying the kit because of these, but I'm very happy with the outcome So what we have are four stern chasers on the middle gun deck level surrounded by round floral decorations. This brings the total number of stern chasers to 10. Between each pair of stern chasers is a small man crouching holding up an orb. This is Atlas supported the globe. Flanking the globe are the head and wings of angels. Flanking a small pedestal of which atlas stands are two fish lying on their heads with tails curled upwards. Below this and above are grotesque gargoyle heads. The last piece to make is a rather large gargoyle head on the top of the rudder post - Vasa has a lions head in the same place.
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    Yes all these lashings are tarred on sea going vessels. Even running rigging is covered in a tallow mix to prevent fast rot. However even with tallow, running rigging is replaced quite often.
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    BECC does have Modern Netherlands through Cornwall. http://www.cornwallmodelboats.co.uk/acatalog/becc-flags.html
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    With the plastic, there can sometimes be some releasing agent still present. It's a helpful idea to wash the sprues in soapy water, rinse and allow to air dry. You will find the paint holds a lot better. Also use tamiya fine primer after the wash.
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    Thanks Hans, it's miliput 2 part modeling putty. It air dries and doesn't shrink like some modeling clay.
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    As I'm in my sculpting mode, I've decided to continue with the stern. I've already showed how I make my sculptures with the effigy of Victory as the central piece on the stern. On the port side (Victory's dexter right side) is Jason wearing a crown and holding an oar on the frontispiece. Then there is Neptune the god of the waves riding a seahorse (this seahorse has a literal head of a horse with mane and a fish tail. I've yet to make Neptunes trident which will be slightly be hidden and held in his left hand. On Victory's sinister side (starboard) Hercules holds a club suggesting England is as fierce on land as she is at sea. Aeolus god of wind here rides an eagle opposite Neptune. Below all this above the royal crest is a helmeted man facing to his right (port) holding a staff. This is believed to represent King Charles the first. The great lantern is suspended above victory on the taffrail aided by carved feathers from victory's crown. Either side of the great lantern are two solitary figures forming the quarter pieces. Port is a crowned lion sitting behind the crest of St George representing England and on starboard is a unicorn again behind a crest which I assume to be the crest of Scotland. Both these figures front paws grasp onto a sphere and septre. Of course to show that King Charles was king of England and Scotland. The kit lion and unicorn are actually pretty accurate so apart from adding a few items I have used them as a base. I was originally thinking about changing the lantern thinking it too large however upon further reading, the great lantern could actually hold 10 men inside... so while I'll modify this piece it stays as the size is quite correct.
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    Oh I will follow with great interest. What a brilliant project, I am also using Van der Velde as my main source of information for my current build.
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    Finally finished of the figures for the hances between the waist and f'cstle and quarter decks. These are depicted as the Greek god Aeolus forward and Neptune aft on port and according to Haynes the stb has Jupiter forward and Mars aft. Basically half naked bearded male gods seated with either a spear or trident.. the spears and trident I haven't made as yet however.
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    Connie gun
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    Have attached a pic of one of the guns from the constitution. Also in a regards to your masts, I've also built this kit many years ago. From memory of you have a look at your mast halves (each section of the mast should be two halves you glue together) there should be a hollow seam that runs through. I would use brass or stainless rod inserted in here to prevent the plastic from bending. The problem here is the lower masts are usually fine - and also made up of those two halves. It's the most upper masts which have a tendency to bend yet these from memory are single pieces.
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    Painted and complete apart from the two lanterns either side.
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    I do prefer Cornwall model boats as my main online store. A much greater range than what is available in Australia and reasonably quick postage.
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    Thanks guys Been a busy weekend with the three kids but have managed some more shingles on the port quarter continued into the stern counter above the dead lights.
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    Nice work Jeff! Sometimes it's just easier to bite the bullet and really, a sheet of plywood doesn't cost that much extra
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    Hey Hennie, the flags are from Cornwall model boats. BEC brand. Attached are the flag codes I bought.
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    Yay that post worked! Perhaps I had too many words in the original... it was long. I'll add the pics to go along with that.
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    Decided to make up the rudder. The kit rudder is a single piece of walnut showing a reasonable shape. I've tapered the lower part of the rudder to match the tapering of the stern post and cut notches for the pintels. Sergal supplies four pintels and hinges in quite thick brass which I think too large for scale and not enough of them. So using the rudder from the model of HMS Prince (Greenwich museum) I've added six pintels and iron straps with ash veneer. I also used styrene rods and will use styrene bolt heads to finish the hinges. As these will be painted I'm not fussed that they're not brass.
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    Oh very interested in finding out what the sails are like. I've been thinking about buying he set myself. I have already ordered the correct flags from the U.K. BEC is the brand. At least the union flag will be correct as that of the ensign and charles the 1st banner.
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    Just another test as I again tried to post an update. Both with and without pics and no luck.
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    Just a test as I can't seem to post on my own thread.
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    When I worked on both he Endeavour replica and Duyfken replica we used a Stockholm tar and tallow mix which results in a dark tea coloured varnish basically when initially applied. So when newly applied it gives a sort of satin sheen varnish look to the hull. Within weeks of this application, naturally weathering with sea air and salt turns the mix a milky appearance which is described as a slight yellowish hue to it. Keep in mind though ship maintenance was and is an ongoing battle and at sea ships wouldn't necessarily wait till they were in dry dock. I have been over the side of both replicas in the Atlantic scraping the old and painting the new so when we arrived in port we looked cleanish haha. Hope this helps.

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