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Ray1981 got a reaction from maddog33 in HMS Victory 1805 by Robert29 - FINISHED - Caldercraft - Scale 1:72 September 20, 2022

What a wonderfull job!

I was thinking maybe I will do a wooden kit as next project but when i see this kind of work and the amount of tools im not sure if i will do that. It looks so difficult but again very very nice.

Grtz Ray
Ray1981 got a reaction from Glenn-UK in Gammoning of the bowsprit April 13, 2020

Hamilton

Thanks for answering

Good point regarding when to start with this because making this splice (i actually dont know how to do this) would not work anymore because I have other stuff on the bowsprit heheheh rookie mistake i guess.

but here a screenshot on how to do it, i think i was to fast with asking this on the forum.

p.s. I dont know if im allowed to post this because its a screenshot from a book. If this is illigal I will delete it straight away.

Grtz Ray
Ray1981 got a reaction from GrandpaPhil in Le Glorieux by Ray1981 - Heller - 1:150 - PLASTIC July 13, 2019

Hi Fellow Ship Modellers,

Today again a bussy day in the morning I stasrted with painting the two other decks and because I actually liked the result as in previous post I applied the same technique

After this job I started to glue the hull and lower gun deck

After this job I have waited for several hours to be sure everything has dried and the hull stays in form. On the keel I applied some putty and Mr Surface 1200 so this will look like one solid piece ( I hope)

And than after some hours I started with gueling and rigging some canons. Well this is going to be a nasty job. I have mounted eyelets allready before I glued the hull and glued the lower gun deck. So first of all it is quiet a difficult job to glue the deck without distroying the eyelets. But this job was possible with only two eyelts broken (I replaced them allready). Than as mentioned I glued the first canons also this is not an easy job and time consuming.

But with sufficient patience this is possible. I udes CA which is vissible a little bit but I hope with some gloss cote this will dissapear.

Well at the end of the day im not disspaointed it looks pretty nice and I had lots of fun doing these jobs. I hope the gurus here like to see the results as shown here on the pics.

If anybody have some comments on how to improve a certain thing feel free to advise me im eager to learn something.

Grtz Ray
Ray1981 got a reaction from CaptainSteve in Weathering a copper hull October 28, 2016

Hi Folks

I've been trying some things regarding this weathering of a copper hull. I've done 3 tests.

1) Using the Humbrol Chrome Oxide with a gloss verniz. The result is vissible on th etop right of the test plate I used. As you can see this is a dissaster.

2) I used the Humbrol Chrome Oxide with Decal soft from Revell so you get a wash effect. The procedure works better but it is not the right color (Chrome has a different color while oxidized as Copper so makes sense). Result is vissible on the right bottom side.

3) I took a turquoise enamel paint and applied the dry brush technique. This result is visible on the left side.

I think I will go for option 3 even though I really would like to use these powders as I have seen nice results but for this purpose I think it doesnt work. The turquoise has a much more realistic color for copper oxide.

But if anybody has other opinions or ideas feel free to give them.

Grtz Ray
Ray1981 got a reaction from Roger Pellett in Weathering a copper hull July 15, 2016

Hi Folks,

I was thinking when I have painted the hull of my kit in copper and apply a matt finish I could weathering it with Humbrol Chrome oxide. This has a greenish color. I could even use a little yellow the sand weathering power to soften the green a little.

I would like to experiment a little with those weathering powders now I got them at home waiting for me.

Anybody has some thoughts about that?

http://www.humbrol.com/us-en/shop/weathering/weathering-powders.html

Grtz Ray
Ray1981 got a reaction from robin b in Le Glorieux by Ray1981 - Heller - 1:150 - PLASTIC May 23, 2016

Hi Fellow Ship Modellers,

Today again a bussy day in the morning I stasrted with painting the two other decks and because I actually liked the result as in previous post I applied the same technique

After this job I started to glue the hull and lower gun deck

After this job I have waited for several hours to be sure everything has dried and the hull stays in form. On the keel I applied some putty and Mr Surface 1200 so this will look like one solid piece ( I hope)

And than after some hours I started with gueling and rigging some canons. Well this is going to be a nasty job. I have mounted eyelets allready before I glued the hull and glued the lower gun deck. So first of all it is quiet a difficult job to glue the deck without distroying the eyelets. But this job was possible with only two eyelts broken (I replaced them allready). Than as mentioned I glued the first canons also this is not an easy job and time consuming.

But with sufficient patience this is possible. I udes CA which is vissible a little bit but I hope with some gloss cote this will dissapear.

Well at the end of the day im not disspaointed it looks pretty nice and I had lots of fun doing these jobs. I hope the gurus here like to see the results as shown here on the pics.

If anybody have some comments on how to improve a certain thing feel free to advise me im eager to learn something.

Grtz Ray
Ray1981 got a reaction from docidle in Le Glorieux by Ray1981 - Heller - 1:150 - PLASTIC May 19, 2016

Well today I started with painting the guns for the lower gun deck and it was experimenting to get those eyelets into the gun-carriage. This was very very cool to do and for the first time ever dooingsomething like this im not dissapointed in the result. Here the prototype:

So tomorrow I will do the same for the other 27 guns.

Grtz

Ray
Ray1981 got a reaction from docidle in Le Glorieux by Ray1981 - Heller - 1:150 - PLASTIC May 19, 2016

Hello all,

I was able to makea little bit of progress yesterday. And one thing was a dissaster. I started withthe lower gundeck because this deck will not be vissible this deck doesnt show any planking so I thought lets try to do this for myself hmmmm that was a bad idea. I used a exacto knife and started to make planks it doesnt came out as I wished to be. Further Iused some light wood color paints and when this was dry I painted over it with dark brown oil paint.

The lower gun deck

Further I started with priming the second deck and the hull.

Soon more guys.

Grtz Ray
Ray1981 got a reaction from docidle in Le Glorieux by Ray1981 - Heller - 1:150 - PLASTIC May 19, 2016

Hey all,

This is a tiny update, I just came back from work and be home for a couple of days. I started today with the hull and take a good look on all the excessive plastic that need to be scrapped away. After I did a dry fit and I found out i got some little point left to do. After that time for cleaning and spray some primer.
I will use white primer from Revell because I decided to paint the hull with enamel from Revel. Im just not sure yet if I would do first the primer and than glue the two hull parts together or glue them first and apply the prime afterwards.

Hopefully in a couple of days a bit more results

Grtz Ray
Ray1981 got a reaction from docidle in Le Glorieux by Ray1981 - Heller - 1:150 - PLASTIC May 19, 2016

Hi Fellow Ship Modellers,

Today again a bussy day in the morning I stasrted with painting the two other decks and because I actually liked the result as in previous post I applied the same technique

After this job I started to glue the hull and lower gun deck

After this job I have waited for several hours to be sure everything has dried and the hull stays in form. On the keel I applied some putty and Mr Surface 1200 so this will look like one solid piece ( I hope)

And than after some hours I started with gueling and rigging some canons. Well this is going to be a nasty job. I have mounted eyelets allready before I glued the hull and glued the lower gun deck. So first of all it is quiet a difficult job to glue the deck without distroying the eyelets. But this job was possible with only two eyelts broken (I replaced them allready). Than as mentioned I glued the first canons also this is not an easy job and time consuming.

But with sufficient patience this is possible. I udes CA which is vissible a little bit but I hope with some gloss cote this will dissapear.

Well at the end of the day im not disspaointed it looks pretty nice and I had lots of fun doing these jobs. I hope the gurus here like to see the results as shown here on the pics.

If anybody have some comments on how to improve a certain thing feel free to advise me im eager to learn something.

Grtz Ray
Ray1981 got a reaction from docidle in Le Glorieux by Ray1981 - Heller - 1:150 - PLASTIC May 19, 2016

well it is too shiny but maybe after drying that dissapear and i was hoping for a more warn out effect. Maybe a wash over this will create that effect.

I started like this

After the aint dried I painted it with oil paint a mix of dark brown and raw sienna. What I saw on youtube I looked much better as I have now. Probably I need a littl emore patience and see the result tomorrow if it is dry by then.
Ray1981 got a reaction from docidle in Le Glorieux by Ray1981 - Heller - 1:150 - PLASTIC May 19, 2016

Today I painted the upper deck but im not sure yet how im going to call it.....a dissastre or failure. It was hard working but at the end im not really pleased (yet). Here are some results.

I hope im able to clean this up.

Grtz Ray
Ray1981 got a reaction from docidle in Le Glorieux by Ray1981 - Heller - 1:150 - PLASTIC May 19, 2016

Again a update guys I hope its not to boring for the people who follow this log. It was agian a bussy day.

I was able to finsih the 28 32-pounders for the lower gun deck.

I started with painting the hull as well, to get the color I liked I had to mix a little bit I took Revell nr15 and 16 and mixed them on a ratio of 7:4 to get the yellow sand color.

I tried to make the gun rigging as well with some blocks and thread. This was quite difficult and time consuming. I think I will use these block only on some of the 18-pounders on the 2nd deck and on the 16 8-pounders on the main deck
Ray1981 got a reaction from Keith Simmons in What are the best detailed plastic models? May 17, 2016

thanks guys, im so happy i found this forum everybody is very helpfull and i really learn a lot!!!
Ray1981 got a reaction from Elijah in Le Glorieux by Ray1981 - Heller - 1:150 - PLASTIC April 19, 2016

Hey Lukas,

I will make some pictures tomorrow and post them. I rigged all the guns with less rope as Mark suggested so now its time for the next step.

Thanks for asking
Ray1981 got a reaction from Lukasvdb in Le Glorieux by Ray1981 - Heller - 1:150 - PLASTIC April 16, 2016

Hey Lukas,

I will make some pictures tomorrow and post them. I rigged all the guns with less rope as Mark suggested so now its time for the next step.

Thanks for asking
Ray1981 reacted to Lukasvdb in Le Superbe by Lukasvdb - Heller - 1/150 - PLASTIC - First ship of the line ever built April 15, 2016

Hey all,

in the above pictures you can see that the ropes for the cannon port lids are a bit unfurled. I don't want them to stay like this as it won't look good in the end. Sloppy even.

What do you think I can use to get the lines tight again? Beeswax, some white glue, CA glue?

If necessary I can redo them but I'm not a big fan of that option

Every suggestion is welcome!

Edit: drilled all the holes for the lids on the starboard side. Holes have been drilled in the lids and 0.5mm copper wire inserted. All have been tested to fit in the holes in the sides of the ship and they fit (some after some adjustment ofcourse) fairly well. Pictures will follow later!
Ray1981 got a reaction from Piet in Licorne 1755 by mtaylor - 3/16" scale - French Frigate - from Hahn plans - Version 2.0 - TERMINATED April 14, 2016

wow great job mark it looks realy tremendous
Ray1981 got a reaction from Elijah in Licorne 1755 by mtaylor - 3/16" scale - French Frigate - from Hahn plans - Version 2.0 - TERMINATED April 13, 2016

wow great job mark it looks realy tremendous
Ray1981 got a reaction from Canute in Licorne 1755 by mtaylor - 3/16" scale - French Frigate - from Hahn plans - Version 2.0 - TERMINATED April 13, 2016

wow great job mark it looks realy tremendous
Ray1981 got a reaction from WackoWolf in Licorne 1755 by mtaylor - 3/16" scale - French Frigate - from Hahn plans - Version 2.0 - TERMINATED April 13, 2016

wow great job mark it looks realy tremendous
Ray1981 got a reaction from Jack12477 in Licorne 1755 by mtaylor - 3/16" scale - French Frigate - from Hahn plans - Version 2.0 - TERMINATED April 13, 2016

wow great job mark it looks realy tremendous
Ray1981 got a reaction from GLakie in Licorne 1755 by mtaylor - 3/16" scale - French Frigate - from Hahn plans - Version 2.0 - TERMINATED April 13, 2016

wow great job mark it looks realy tremendous
Ray1981 got a reaction from mtaylor in Licorne 1755 by mtaylor - 3/16" scale - French Frigate - from Hahn plans - Version 2.0 - TERMINATED April 12, 2016

wow great job mark it looks realy tremendous
Ray1981 reacted to popeye the sailor in Licorne 1755 by mtaylor - 3/16" scale - French Frigate - from Hahn plans - Version 2.0 - TERMINATED April 12, 2016

rudder looks super Mark. glad to hear your going to be setting her upright soon.

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