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garyshipwright reacted to DORIS in ROYAL CAROLINE 1749 by Doris - 1:40 - CARD
Captain and lieutenant:
And that´s me.....as a 4cm tall figure on the model....
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garyshipwright reacted to DORIS in ROYAL CAROLINE 1749 by Doris - 1:40 - CARD
Thank you Anja nad Crackers, I am glad and honoured, you enjoyed the pics of RC. There is still a lot of what I should improve, so the motivation is large and i have to learn. I find a lot of great and awesome masterpieces here and that is a superb inspiration for me. Thanks a lot for this opportunity.
I decided to create some crew members for RC to compare her size and
a scale. I am going to make about 20 figures; will include the king, queen,
princess, captain, officers, sailors...etc. Some of them will be created
according the real people that I know.
King George II. and the Queen Caroline:
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garyshipwright reacted to DORIS in ROYAL CAROLINE 1749 by Doris - 1:40 - CARD
I finished the roof for main cabin. The red colour (vermilion) was used also on Clevely´s portrait of RC.
The model will have an illumination from small LED diodes, here you can see the beginning of its fitting (it is not complete yet - stern and mast lanterns are missing) and functionality test....
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garyshipwright reacted to DORIS in ROYAL CAROLINE 1749 by Doris - 1:40 - CARD
Finally the staircase was added. For some parts I used wood from walnut or fruit trees. All paper parts were repainted or finished by self-adhesive foils with wooden look.
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garyshipwright reacted to DORIS in ROYAL CAROLINE 1749 by Doris - 1:40 - CARD
Hello dear friends,
thank you very much for kind words and praise, I appreciate it a lot and have motivation to work on models and find new ways how to improve my work. I am really honoured to share my hobby with you all.
To Anja: Great to see a lady here, my sincere regards to you. Looking forward to cooperation and sharing.
Let´s continue with Royal Caroline...
Completion of cabins - the bulkheads are from 3-4 layers of solid card with self-adhesive foil finish:
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garyshipwright reacted to DORIS in ROYAL CAROLINE 1749 by Doris - 1:40 - CARD
The planking (made of foil stripes) was finally improved by painting (I use Tamiya acrylic paint):
I decided to create treenails (used on English ships). On my model they are painted by 0,3mm wide tip of a micro-pencil. All are painted by Tamiya colours. The pencil tip was every time dipped into thin paint and after that was made one treenail on the hull planking.
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garyshipwright reacted to DORIS in ROYAL CAROLINE 1749 by Doris - 1:40 - CARD
The hull before painting of the upper part:
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garyshipwright reacted to DORIS in ROYAL CAROLINE 1749 by Doris - 1:40 - CARD
The real RC had blue/turquoise upper part of the hull, so I used the same colour on my model:
Before painting - the base is made of pale foil strips with wooden grain:
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garyshipwright reacted to DORIS in ROYAL CAROLINE 1749 by Doris - 1:40 - CARD
The work continues on planking the inside of the hull and interior of cabins, also there were added some parts on the bow and stern:
Lower part of the stern was probably decorated with paintings. On my model the paintings are hand-made using Tamiya colours as usually.....
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garyshipwright reacted to DORIS in ROYAL CAROLINE 1749 by Doris - 1:40 - CARD
Later the background was repainted into pale blue colour, this should be more realistic according to the real ship.
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garyshipwright reacted to DORIS in ROYAL CAROLINE 1749 by Doris - 1:40 - CARD
I started to make first sculptures and decorations for the front bulkhead of main cabin. They were made of modelling clay as at my previous models.
.....after baking in the oven ( temperature at 150°C):
.....and after painting:
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garyshipwright reacted to DORIS in ROYAL CAROLINE 1749 by Doris - 1:40 - CARD
Other decorations..... all is hand made from modeling clay:
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garyshipwright reacted to DORIS in ROYAL CAROLINE 1749 by Doris - 1:40 - CARD
Actual pics:
Please enjoy the pics, soon I am going to bring new ones.
Best regards,
Doris
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garyshipwright reacted to DORIS in ROYAL CAROLINE 1749 by Doris - 1:40 - CARD
Almost finished furniture in this cabin:
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garyshipwright reacted to Rustyj in Bomb Vessel Granado by Rustyj - FINISHED - 1:24 - cross-section
Nothing spectacular, just plugging along here. Holes drilled for treenails,
holes filled with boxwood treenails, everything sanded down to 400 grit
sandpaper and one coat of wipe on poly applied.
Now I have to make the cap rail and start working on some of the cleats and gun carriages.
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garyshipwright reacted to albert in HMS Naiad 1797 by albert - FINISHED - 1/48
Hello, I have finished assembling of cant frames.
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garyshipwright reacted to Gaetan Bordeleau in Le Fleuron by Gaetan Bordeleau - FINISHED - 1:24
Thank you Jacob, when I began my first model ship which was from plastic, I had no tools. I was working on the kitchen table.
On the last 2 pictures, we can see the effect with or without moldings. Building sequences is exactly as for a house: framing, cover the frames with planks, moldings and finishing.
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garyshipwright reacted to Gaetan Bordeleau in Le Fleuron by Gaetan Bordeleau - FINISHED - 1:24
The use of the original drawings are necessary to understand the scluptures composition because there are too many differences with the other provided drawings.
Actually, I am working on the upper moldings and trying to evaluate their composition.
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garyshipwright reacted to rlb in US Brig Oneida 1809 by rlb - The Lumberyard - 1:48 scale - POF - Lake Ontario Warship
Thanks, Elmer! Hope you had a good Christmas.
As Keith predicted, it starts to get interesting with a few more planks added--
Ron
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garyshipwright got a reaction from popash42 in HMS Montague 1779 by garyshipwright - 74-gun Alfred-class
Hi guys and thanks for your kind word's. I finally have a little bit of a up date of Montagu. Work is keeping me very busy these days but did finally get the metal work done on her tiller. Do believe I will have to take the tiller out to get a good picture of it. Also have installed the sweep, gooseneck along with the tackle for the rope for the ships wheel. The plan is to try to install it like Ed did in one piece but being her wheel is two decks up might just not be the easies thing in the world but we will try. Enjoy the photo's folks hopefully I have more time in the future to work on her. Gary
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garyshipwright got a reaction from WackoWolf in gun equipment
Thanks Mark and Wacko. I have come across pictures of them in books such as The Irene and Brain Lavery's, The Arming and fitting but no scale to figure out the sizes. Bourdroit gives a couple of plates in his 74 gun book, plate XXXIX and plate XL. The first plate doesn't give a size and the second plate says 1/12 scale which should be a big help. I have gone through severely of the Bourdroit books to see if they have this detail on any of their plans, but so far nothing. Always thought that each gun had all the same tools but they don't. If you guys come across the invertory of ships around 1780 could be some help. Another book that I have by Nicholas Blake, Steering to Glory, A Day in the life of a ship of the line, has what I would call plates and the fourth plate show's the layout of the gun crew. It does show the rammer and the sponge as one tool and the worm and maybe the ladle as another tool. It also show's the match tub,salt box's and a few other items. Funny how much one needs to know about them, such as how big was the match tub. It does appear that 3 matches are sticking out of the top of it, makes you think that maybe two or three cannon's worked out of one. Well Back to work. Gary
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garyshipwright got a reaction from fatih79 in HMS Montague 1779 by garyshipwright - 74-gun Alfred-class
Hi Remco. Thank you very much sir. Am glad you like the cannons sir and seems that your statement is just a little modest but I do thank you. Here are some more photo's of the gun deck with a few more details. Am not sure if I will leave the curve planking which is due to the curve of were the back of the cannon truck's land. May just plank one side for cannon's and leave the other side alone. Reason is that I just don't want to cover all of the detail up and am sort of stuck on the do I want to or not decision. :mellow: Gary
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garyshipwright got a reaction from popash42 in HMS Montague 1779 by garyshipwright - 74-gun Alfred-class
Merry Christmas and a happy new year every one.
Thanks to every one with their kind words. It seems that I have a small up date on Montagu gun deck. I took off the planking I installed the first time, or was it the second time but instead of installing just enough for the gun's, ran it all the way over to the hatch ways and left one side unplanked. The deck planking is silver maple and boy is it white and every thing has been pegged but have not done any kind of stain on it. Thinking about toning it down but not sure of the how or with what so if you have any ideal's please let me know. Have been expermenting but not happy with what am coming up with yet. Do know that Frolick used maplewood on his deck of his La Belle Poule, and looks real nice. Seems it is a honey oak color and doesn't blind you when you look at it, but havn't found out what type of maple and if you know what type maple and stain please let me know. The cannons are just sitting on the deck till other items get done and will be reloacted to a safer place once I start working on them again. Any way folks Merry Christmas and may you get that tool or kit that you been wanting for the past year.
Gary
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