DCooper

Steve,
 
I build large scale yes, flying no.  Here's my 1/24 Airfix Hurricane.
 

 
Good luck on your Constitution.
 
Oh and if you really want to blow you mind at what you can do with a plastic model ship check out Dafi's Victory!
 
Dan

Do not worry Andy, I did not steal Kevins properties ;-)
 
This is how it looks if Fimo/Milliput is baked with 230° Celsius instead of 110° as blind dafi got confused by the english temperature beside the german writing and vica versa ...
 

 
... nicely black and blown up ...
 

 
.... so got the Fimo out again ...
 

 
... first the ball, then the thick sausage, then a medium sausage of 4 mm with the use of a small sheet with 4 mm spacers, and then the thin sausage of 3 mm with the flipside ot the tool with 3 mm spacers. Afterwards I used a "comb" with small wires in 2 mm distance to roll in the 7 lashings representing the 7 seas ...
 

 
... then bent the parts, distributed it on the oven plate and baked on the right tempersture.
 

 
Funny to see the bloated black been beside. And I got a nice stack of rolled hammocks :-)
 

 
Then filed the touching surfaces ...
 

 
... glued the parts together while paying tribute to gravity in the middle of the nettings.
 

 

 

 
This is still the rough version, paint will be easy, but the netting will still need some fiddling around to be figured out properly ...
 
All the best, Daniel

Thank you for your encouraging comments JPJ.  I'll be watching out for your build log.  1/96th seems a nice scale to work in.  Large enough to see some nice details but small enough to not take up too much display space.  Not to mention I can see the parts and my fumble fingers aren't chasing tiny little slivers of plastic all about.
 
Progress;
 

 

 

 
Just blocking in colours and starting to get some shading started.  No doubt I'll have to do a heap of touch ups as I go along due to all the handling the hull will get during construction.  It's nice to get a sense of what the ship will look like in the end.  I have opted for a 1812 post yellow ochre painted stripe colour scheme.  I'm not 100 percent sure this is all right but it does look good to my eye.  I have also gone with removable gun port lids rather than the kits hinged lids.  Once again not sure this is right but looks like the contemporary paintings that I've seen.  I am going to stay with only black, white, green, red and yellow ochre as the only colours.  Raw wood will be in differing shades of brown/grey.
 
I have been working on the hull internals and working out how to put some kind of supports for mounting pedestals.  Need to purchase some blocks to rig the main guns and pins for the belaying rails.  lots of fun so far and it's such a nice size kit to work on.
 
My wife was super nice to me and while out antique shopping picked up a second Constitution kit for $40!!!  Who knows how long it sat in a musty old antique shop but it is complete and unstarted.  I'm a pretty lucky guy to have a wife that both likes and supports my hobby.
 
Thanks for stopping in for a look.
 
Dan

Progress;
 
Aft riding bit
 

 
Insitu,
 

 
Not much progress for a days work but then I build slowly.  I'm working on the fore bit now and it should go quicker now I know what I'm doing.
 
I've started to paint the copper plating on the hull.  Looks way shiny now but I'll add some washes to tone it down.
 
Thanks for looking in.
 
Dan

Progress;
 

 
Not having the funds for overseas shipping of the Bluejacket photo etch sheet I thought I'd break out the styrene and have a bash.  Not all that accurate but once painted very dark grey and shaded it will at least give a presence of the stove being there.  The flue has been left long so that I can cut it down to fit the upper deck.
 
I have the Marquardt book of plans so I'm thinking of putting in the riding bits as I think you could see them through the gun ports.  I'll slap on some paint tonight and see if I have any hefty sized styrene for the bits.
 
Thanks for looking in.
 
Dan
 
Added some paint.
 

So instead I worked on the aft rider bitt today. It was my first solid build with styrene and I kinda' had fun with it. There was a bit of variability in the length of the bitt depending on the reference and I went toward the longer size. I still need to do some mild filing and painting.

After my small sidekick ...
 
http://modelshipworl...-display/page-4
 
... a quick return to my main project as the cap-squares arrived yesterday :-)
 

 
Immediately build the template ...
 

 
... and assembled :-)
 

 
Also the gunlocks ...
 

 
... almost to small to be pictured, but still managed to fix them easily by using the sprue to be inserted in a hole underneath.
 
So mission accomplished, the guns are completed :-)
 

 

 

 
And with ease I managed to triple the number of parts for each gun from 7 to 21 ...
 
Hurray
 
Best regards, sincerily, Daniel