Keith Black
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Glen McGuire, if I could reach through this screen. Here I've been feeling guilty about bringing penguins into your build logs starting way back when and now it comes to light your son was a member of Club Penguin! Why, I oughta.....
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Miguel, thank you for stepping forward and introducing yourself. Glad to have you aboard.
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Thank you to all for the likes and for the kind comments. Gary, it could be the lighting making the driver in the first photo look darker as It appears the first photo was taken on a foggy day. The ladder/rear horizontal supports are done. I placed the ladder rungs/supports on two foot centers per the plans. The drive tower is getting close to being permanently attached to the barge. It makes the back of the driver look awful busy. I'm overwhelmed by the kind support shown by everyone, thank you so very much. Keith
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I'm amazed, again.
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Glen, congratulations on a completing another fabulous build. Each of your builds is unique, each journey is unique, each a joy to follow. You raise the bar with each new build, I can't wait to see what you have in store for the next one.
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Jay, thank you for the generous offer but first let me see how the sawdust concoction does. If it doesn't work I'll take you on a small packet of that green grass as it looks to be the ticket for replicating algae. Thank you again.
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Gunboat Philadelphia 1776 by tmj
Keith Black replied to tmj's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1751 - 1800
Stupid cats! We had one when I was restoring old cars that thought it was great sport stealing daddy's small car parts. We love cats, we've had a constant feline presence in our homes for almost fifty years. -
You're a peach Bob. Thank you for being you. Jay, thank for stopping by. No need to PM me, post it here where everyone has an opportunity to see it. I want my build logs to be more about us. Tom, in this goofy hobby I think the majority of us dive down some mighty deep rabbit holes when doing research. So many interesting things, so little time.
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Paul, that looks fantastic! Very very nicely done.
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Thank you, Eric. Thank you, Gary. I was trying to replicate the look in the first photo I don't think I'm seeing gray tones, more brownish and black. In the second photo, the driver on the left has the same mottled tones as the driver in the first photo but the driver on the right in the second photo has a lot less grunge, maybe it's a new driver? The far left driver in the third photo is lighter, grayish? I may have gotten too heavy with the base, time will tell if I've missed the mark. As quickly as this project is moving forward it won't be long before I'm up against it. Thank you, Eberhard. Yes, I have seen those photos of your model before and I was quite taken with your weathering treatment, the story it tells is perfect.
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Gunboat Philadelphia 1776 by tmj
Keith Black replied to tmj's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1751 - 1800
Tom, my next use of pastels will be my first so, I know nothing. But I do know this, in all the models where folks have cut corners by faking trunnels and plank joints, it's always turned out looking fake, IMHO. Bite the bullet, pick your trunnel wood of choice and get after it. You're trying to be exact with this project, please don't try taking the easy way and do something that might wind up looking cheesy. -
I had to look it up, Glen. The world has passed us by. https://www.quora.com/What-does-it-mean-to-not-twig-or-to-twig-something-Where-and-how-did-this-word-originate
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Keith Black replied to tmj's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1751 - 1800
Tom, were I you, since the planks are cherry, I'd go with cheery trunnels and let the devil take the hindquarter. -
It makes perfect sense, Jay. I'm in the process of and a future battle looms with weathering and grunge work on my latest project. Fortunately the subject is such that it's pretty hard to do too much. I think it's a lot easier to weather subjects made at larger scales. Working at 1:120 it's real easy to get carried away.
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Eberhard, thank you for the great idea. The barge's current algae line is flat and vague. Having some volume however slight would help define the algae line as something other that just a painted line. At 1:120 I think bits of ground up foam would be too large and might appear too weighty but I like the idea a lot. I think sandpaper dust is too fine but the sawdust one gets from sawing may be varied enough in size to provide an acceptable alternative to foam at this scale. I'll give it a try and mix up some sawdust and PVA and see how it looks. Thank you again for the idea.
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mcb, thank you for the compliment and for your response regarding the weathering. This is my first time weathering so I'm leaning heavily on Eric, Eberhard, Glen, and you for your experience and expertise making the weathering convincing. I'm really looking forward to playing with the pastels once everything is built and attached,
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Glen, thank you for your response. If the barge were stationary then there would be higher more patchy growth. The barge was constantly being moved from the piling just driven to the next to be driven and once that job was completed it was hauled on to the next job. This is the algae line i'm trying to replicate. That was my thinking, Keith. I edited the second sentence in my post #105 from "The barge has her grunge and algae added" to "The barge has her deck's base grunge and algae added" I sincerely apologize for the confusion.
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That's so nice, Glen. The overall affect is very peaceful and relaxing.
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Eberhard, Keith, thank you very much for your responses. As I said in my reply to Eric, what's on the barge deck is a base. I want the whole to be assembled before the real weathering takes place. Please remember I'm attaching everything with CA. When I smear CA gel on the driver base and press it into the barge deck, I want it to stick with a vengeance. I'm a tad bit leery about trying to do that with pastels twixt the two. Am I making sense or have I gone completely wonky donkey? Hey, be gentle.
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Thank you very much for the response, Eric. Yes, the deck is monotone brown (trying to replicate mud and grime. I did try to make it darker around the tower, where the engine shed will be, and the path between the shed and the tower. I also made it darker around the four cleats. I left it lighter in the two side areas where there would have been less foot traffic. I recently received two weathering kits from Golden Artist Colors and I will use these on this project but I wanted to get a base down that I could add to once the everything was assembled. Yes, no?
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Deck cleaning only came at the hands of Mother Nature when it rained.
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Bob, that right there is more important than all the ship models in the world. Congratulations!
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Thank you to everyone for lookin in and for the likes. The barge has her deck's base grunge and algae added. I still need to add poly just at the edge of the waterline to make the waterline edge look wet. I think this enough deck grunge, in fact ,it maybe too much? Please don't hesitate to offer up an opinion. I'm not looking for a pat on the back, I'm looking for honest assessments before moving forward as the barge treatment thus far is reversible. Once the driver is permanently attached then it's, it is what it is. The decks of the floating pile drivers was a mess. The photos show the decks littered with muck and debris so maybe this isn't too much? Algae added at the waterline. I'm not happy with the cleat weathering, that will get redone. No matter how the Donkey engine turns out, I'll be adding a engine shed as this is the most common configuration and it will add additional visual interest. I added a bit more grunge to the hull at the base and sides of the driver. Thank you to everyone for your comments and a huge thank you to everyone for your support by following along. Keith
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