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It looks like Apollo has landed on his feet. He's a cutie!
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Update: I'm chipping away at the frames as time allows, will post photos when I reach a natural break. Also, work has begun on the fixture to hold work in progress for stern decorations. The Society of Model Shipwrights is linked with MSW as a chapter club. A talk on building Berwick is now on their channel: Bruce
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FM, good advice (as usual) from Allan, and another book by Philip Reed is close to your stated needs: PERIOD SHIP MODELMAKING An Illustrated Masterclass It's on Ebay, AbeBooks and other places as well. In iit he walks us through building Prince de Neufchatel in 1/192 scale. McNarry and his wife were superb modelmakers and won quite a few pots at early Model Engineer Exhibitions in London. HTH, Bruce
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Size of a printer needed
bruce d replied to Frank Burroughs's topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
What Allan said, plus check the lines with a straightedge and measure the diagonals (corner to corner) for skew. -
Hello Paul and welcome to MSW from the UK.
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Ships at Trafalgar - what kits are available?
bruce d replied to bruce d's topic in Wood ship model kits
Update: AL have just announced a whole new Santisma Trinidad: Also, JoTika are promising a 74 with an interesting history. My bet is it will be HMS Defiance, a Trafalgar veteran, but we will have to wait and see. -
Construction of Masts for 18th Century 'Ships of the Line'
bruce d replied to tmj's topic in Nautical/Naval History
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Fascinating. My only potential contribution is to look at the word FULMINANT when translated into English. The modern translations all steer us to 'angry', 'furious' or 'quick like lightning' but the older translations included 'splendid'. The magnificent drawings have a theme of bundled lightning and flaming spheres. They follow military decorations and emblems of grenadiers of the period so closely that it cannot be a co-incidence. These decorations would have suited a bomb vessel.
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Fix uneven paint area
bruce d replied to DMM's topic in Painting, finishing and weathering products and techniques
Bummer. It would help a lot to know a some more such as what paint, was it brushed or sprayed? It looks like a plastic model so hopefully it will stand a bit of handling during the repairs. Bruce -
Kevin, just watched your newest video online. Nice work, enjoy your break.
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Construction of Masts for 18th Century 'Ships of the Line'
bruce d replied to tmj's topic in Nautical/Naval History
These drawings from the Danish archives may be of help. D206 is for English ships '80 and 100 guns', undated but from late 18th century: D201, as above but for 74 gun ships: G4728, more 74 gun ship masts: You can download hi-res copies free from their website: Arkivalieronline (sa.dk) HTH Bruce -
Lovely model, Richard, and I like her just the way she is.
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1961 Showboat Dragster by xken - 1/8th scale - scratch built
bruce d replied to xken's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Fantastic job, Ken, and what a great subject. I was lucky enough to see this beast run. Tommy sold it to a guy (name long forgotten) who put a Buick station wagon body on and VIOLA! - instant funny car. It was a crowd pleaser. I have some 8mm film of it somewhere, now that you have reminded me. Again, good job. 👍 -
Well done! Absolutely beautiful model, superb workmanship: you should be proud of this one. I learned a lot., thank you.
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Update: I've remade a handful of frames and am plodding through the steps already described to get them into play. The next step requires all frames to be present and correct. In the meantime, I had a very pleasant visit to Royal Museums Greenwich (a.k.a. The National Maritime Museum). The only plan of Berwick showing the stern decoration and figurehead, J2632, is not available online in hi-res and I am glad to say I was allowed to view the original. The detail is superb and, I confess, more elaborate than I had imagined. There was a 'what have I done?' moment but it passed. For copyright compliance reasons I will not post the images taken directly from the original. However, I have begun a crude process of digitally separating the components and looking for clues as to what was carved and what was painted. It is based on J2632 but is modified enough to allow me to comfortably post it here. This is work-in-progress, a tool to get me closer to the finished model and will evolve. Plan A at the moment is to start on the stern decoration as soon as the re-drawing is completed, the figurehead later.
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Danny Vadas' masting and rigging spread sheet
bruce d replied to allanyed's topic in Masting, rigging and sails
Allan, I got this message ... ... and downloaded the file. It worked fine (had to click 'enable editing' when prompted). -
Kevin, I already watched it online. You have raised the bar.
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