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Slowhand
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Apostol Felipe by Slowhand - OcCre - 1:60 - Spanish Galleon
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Thanks Ron, I think so too. They’ll need to be stained same colour as the balcony brackets. Just checking out your Sphinx build, Wow, it’s sort of bridging the gap between POB and POF scratch building. -
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Making the vertical strakes took much longer than expected. Cutting / carving / sanding outer profile quite easy it was getting the inner slots in the right place which needed a redo. Made strake length across grain as it carved better and had just enough strength at 4.5mm thick to be cut by the Proxxon That’s about 11” thick in real life which sounds reasonable to me. See painting of the Armada done in 1615 to 1620 in link below by Dutch Painter. https://artvee.com/artist/cornelis-claesz-van-wieringen/
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Hello from the banks of the Tyne
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Hello from the banks of the Tyne
Slowhand replied to Geordie Tyne's topic in New member Introductions
Aal Reet Geordie Lad! seriously welcome to the forum -
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Comparing my model with a painting of similar period galleons, mine didn’t give the appearance I was hoping for. Poop deck too low, my fault as the balconies were slightly too high and in effort to get window shape right they ended too high up. Decided to add a bit on top. Quite pleased with result. This is the sort of thing Baker does so well, mind his are the result of meticulous research. Mine a gut feeling.
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Große Jacht 1679 by Baker - Corel - 1:50 - modified model from the Yacht D'Oro kit
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You must continue with this build soon. It’s not only the superb craftsmanship but the historical research leading to the model.
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Slow progress I’am having to glue a plank wait for it to dry before doing the next one. Light oak stain on the supplied balcony pieces is quite a good match. There’s a few of us doing the Apostle Felipe and all going to look different.. Anyway glad I didn’t install the windows I’d made as there was a bit of sanding involved with balconies. H
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I’am sure you’ll find some if you ever need it. Company I used was Scale Model Scenery Limited in UK but I bet the glazing came from China.
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I think the central walkway above main deck makes positioning one capstan difficult. It’s turning out to be a great build
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I began to worry that windowed doors would be the downfall of me as unsuccessful in bending wood even thin stuff and nibbling was too obvious. Decided to carve top arches and stained with light oak. Anyway quite happy with the outcome, found a model railway diorama shop to supply the leaded glass as plastic sheeting.
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Planking disaster
Slowhand replied to sgrez's topic in Building, Framing, Planking and plating a ships hull and deck
You should be able to lever the pins out quite easily. When I am doing second planking I never pin directly into the wood just use the little brass pins provided or more recently a drawing pin into bulkhead next to the plank push plank up to its neighbour and use head to push strip down -
Travis, afraid can’t help as you’re way ahead of me in your build. I’am starting on the windows and still have some hull planking to finish off
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Finished planking lower hull, more planks used than expected and second batch of pseudo mahogany ordered was markedly different to what I had in stock, bit of a sickly orange but decided to use since if I reordered would new be any better? Anyway planking was acceptable not my best work mind. Bearing this in mind decided to paint bottom to represent white stuff. I have seen images of Spanish galleons painted with it. After much filling, sanding, painting, re-sanding quite pleased. Sure it will need redoing later after working on ship, but anyway shows hull is ok.
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Decks nearly planked. Trying to use slightly different tones of lime to make it more interesting, but only strips I’ve remaining are very pale and the same so will order a few more in hope for more variation.
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Travis, I am a long way off putting the tops on the bulwarks as I still need to plank the decks and then the lower half of the hull. Thinking of using a steam box which I’ve made but yet to use, haven’t bought he steamer yet. Looking at wood in the kit it will be interesting to see if it bends enough. Surprised if it bends with the admirals tongs. As a last resort I’ll buy flexible beech and stain it. That always works for me. steve
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More planking, now the main deck
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