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Slowhand
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Apostol Felipe by Slowhand - OcCre - 1:60 - Spanish Galleon
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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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More planking and the wales are going on nicely, bending well. Need a new pest controller on the slipway
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Travis, thanks for nice comments, yes I am not going to do one long plank. I am not rigorously doing a regular butt shift but I am going to put vertical strakes which will hide the lack of pattern. I like lights on yours.
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What is the scale of your model? I visited the Golden Hind a couple of years ago and remember planks being 8” / 200mm or so wide. So for a 1:50 scale 4mm would be good. If I can find the pictures I took will post them.
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Glad you’ve resumed your build log . Your Santa Maria was one of the best builds I’ve seen.
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Mary Rose by Baker - scale 1/50 - "Your Noblest Shippe"
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This is amazing, the fine detail on your 700:1 model is unbelievable
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SBLim-2A by ccoyle - FINISHED - WAK -1/33 - CARD - Polish license-built MiG-15 variant - a semi-tutorial
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Finished the planking above the wales, but looked too light, I had tested samples of African walnut with a coloured Danish Oil and it looked perfect just about dark enough. Coating the ship with this oil and what a disappointment every blemish, wood glue stain was revealed. Lightly sanded down and reapplying no better, tried staining with medium oak no better. Everything had to come off, continuing without being happy with the hull would be a killer. Looking at my San Martin, covering with mahogany and finishing with diluted poly u varnish has aged well so that’s what I did. Going for the chunky finish using the grain and the texture of the planking to give an old galleon look. Looking on the bright side I can remove planking on hulls and decks quite easily and redo.
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