Keith Black
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Keith Black reacted to CiscoH in Ares by GeorgeKapas - 1/144 - Greek brig
i really like your copper plates technique. makes them stand out beautifully
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Keith Black got a reaction from Cathead in USS Tennessee 1869 by Keith Black - scale 1:120 - Wood Hull Screw Frigate - ex Madawaska 1865
Gary, thank you for you kind words regarding Maggie and the Tennessee.
I tried an Optivisor and didn't care for it. Today I ordered 6X glasses off Amazon, they were cheap. We'll see how those work out and if they don't, I won't hesitate to toss them in the bin.
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Keith Black got a reaction from GeorgeKapas in Ares by GeorgeKapas - 1/144 - Greek brig
George, hitting the 'wow' button with each new post loses emphasis of how greatly I admire your work. So when I hit the 'like' button please understand it's really a 'wow'.
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Keith Black got a reaction from Cathead in Pelican 1943 by FriedClams - 1:48 - Eastern-Rig Dragger
In the fisheries I'm familiar with ice for fish holding is flake ice. Block ice doesn't provide enough fish surface contact and crushed ice is too rough and dimples the skin/flesh of the fish. Flake ice is made at the processing plant and is normally provided free of charge to boats/skippers who fish for the processor.
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Keith Black got a reaction from Ian_Grant in Ares by GeorgeKapas - 1/144 - Greek brig
George, hitting the 'wow' button with each new post loses emphasis of how greatly I admire your work. So when I hit the 'like' button please understand it's really a 'wow'.
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Keith Black reacted to druxey in TRE KRONER 1742 by Beckmann - 3"/8' scale - Transom-Model
The color you show does look too intense. Even if this was what was used, it should be tinted (lightened) at scale size to look right.
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Keith Black reacted to Marcel1981 in New member and brand new (Paper) modeller!
Thanks! Another Dutchy
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Keith Black reacted to GeorgeKapas in Ares by GeorgeKapas - 1/144 - Greek brig
The masts are made of balsa soaked with cyanoacrylate and plastic. Added eyebolts for the rigging as well, mostly to make the rigging easier, than anything else. And a closeup of the foremast. I have set the yards at an angle, I'll put sails later and prefer to have them with the wind at an angle, even if it is not an a diorama base.
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Keith Black reacted to Tony Hunt in Ares by GeorgeKapas - 1/144 - Greek brig
I really admire the way you have reconstructed this vessel in the absence of actual plans. Great work. And your construction methods are novel and fascinating.
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Keith Black reacted to Javelin in SS Blagoev ex-Songa 1921 by Valeriy V - scale 1:100 - Soviet Union
Very sharp construction and painting. She will definately fit in a museum when finished.
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Keith Black reacted to Siggi52 in TRE KRONER 1742 by Beckmann - 3"/8' scale - Transom-Model
Moin Matthias,
that looks very good. But don't make the color sooo dark. More so in the direction of your last pictures. These light colors are not so good to determine, is it light green or blue. That is what I mean with turquoise.
Mostly you may see how the cabins where painted at the sides of the portholes. Here the Victory SLR0512
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Keith Black reacted to catopower in New member and brand new (Paper) modeller!
Marcel, Welcome! I've built a few Shipyard paper models, mostly the laser-cut kits. Temporarily on pause are Shipyards HMS Wolf laser-cut kit, and the Seahorse Armed Virginia Sloop kit. Hoping to get back to those very soon!
LOL! Hey Chris, I don't think that may be a universally understood reference! 😁
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Keith Black reacted to ccoyle in Salmson 2 A.2 by ccoyle - WAK - 1/33 - CARD - in markings of aircraft flown by Capt. Arthur J. Coyle, 1st Squadron, US Air Service, Autumn 1918
Here's a bit of progress on the wings. First I'll give you an idea of the lower wingspan. The Salmson is about half again as wide and half again as long as the diminutive Nieuport 11.
The design of each wing structure is not ideal. There are few clues on where to place the internal frames, and though there is a joiner tab in the area of the aileron cutout, no joiner strip is provided for the rest of the wing.
Well, that just doesn't cut it for me, so of course I had to add some additional structure from scratch, including a joiner strip and some internal cladding for the frames. Fitting the joiner strip required trimming the ends of the ribs.
And here's everything glued together, except for the wingtip.
Only three more wings to go!
Fitting the lower wings to the fuselage might be tricky. There's a single rib to be added at the inboard end of the wing, but the kit provides precious little guidance on where exactly to glue it. Its location will determine the placement of the wing-to-fuselage joint, and there are no locator marks printed on the fuselage. Hmmmmm.
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Keith Black got a reaction from Baker in Thermopylae by My Fathers Son - or as near as I can get it
Nice bit of kit, Simon. The ship's boat would look good stained but paint is more correct.
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Keith Black reacted to gak1965 in RRS Discovery 1901 by gak1965 - 1:72 - First Scratch Build
I'm off to the annual American Society of Clinical Oncology meeting in Chicago for the next few days, so no updates for a bit. The "plankers progress" continues. Here she is port and starboard...
A ways to go, and then a second planking. The second isn't for aesthetics, the ship had an extra layer of planks over the part of the hull that contacted the ice, but it will still be thinner like an aesthetic double planking.
You can see this on this small portion of a photo from Google Maps (source is named Open Virtual Worlds).
I find it interesting that it needs stealers, although I suppose I shouldn't be. I also note that while the primary planking aligns into the rabbet near the stern, the second layer does not, and that's good, because I didn't cut the rabbet to handle two layers of planks.
Anyway, thanks for looking in and hopefully an update in a week or 10 days.
Regards,
George
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Keith Black reacted to My Fathers Son in Thermopylae by My Fathers Son - or as near as I can get it
Ready for some paint.
Simon
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Keith Black got a reaction from mtaylor in Salmson 2 A.2 by ccoyle - WAK - 1/33 - CARD - in markings of aircraft flown by Capt. Arthur J. Coyle, 1st Squadron, US Air Service, Autumn 1918
Chris, is WAK the kit manufacture for both the J-2000 and Harvard IIB?
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Keith Black got a reaction from mtaylor in Salmson 2 A.2 by ccoyle - WAK - 1/33 - CARD - in markings of aircraft flown by Capt. Arthur J. Coyle, 1st Squadron, US Air Service, Autumn 1918
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Keith Black got a reaction from Hubac's Historian in Pelican 1943 by FriedClams - 1:48 - Eastern-Rig Dragger
In the fisheries I'm familiar with ice for fish holding is flake ice. Block ice doesn't provide enough fish surface contact and crushed ice is too rough and dimples the skin/flesh of the fish. Flake ice is made at the processing plant and is normally provided free of charge to boats/skippers who fish for the processor.
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Keith Black got a reaction from FriedClams in USS Tennessee 1869 by Keith Black - scale 1:120 - Wood Hull Screw Frigate - ex Madawaska 1865
Gary, thank you for you kind words regarding Maggie and the Tennessee.
I tried an Optivisor and didn't care for it. Today I ordered 6X glasses off Amazon, they were cheap. We'll see how those work out and if they don't, I won't hesitate to toss them in the bin.
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Keith Black reacted to Ferrus Manus in A 15th century cannon as found on the Mary Rose. Scale 1 : 1. Construction, description and research.
As an American myself, I can confidently say that everyone behaves better than American kids.
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Keith Black reacted to tartane in A 15th century cannon as found on the Mary Rose. Scale 1 : 1. Construction, description and research.
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The Burgundian Tower in Zutphen, the final residence for the cannon. It was built in 1457 because of the threat of war by the Burgundian Empire. The building has the floor plan of a horseshoe with a maximum wall thickness of four meters. In that wall there are three gun emplacements on the ground floor and five on the first floor. Below were heavier cannons.
This cannon will be placed on the first floor in one of the gun emplacements. Not all gun emplacements had cannons. In the event of a threat, the cannons could easily be moved inside the building.
This also must have happened to the cannons on ships. The many gun ports on Willem Barentz's ship will not all have been equipped with cannons. If you have 14 openings and there are 16 people on that ship, it's already clear
A gun gate of the first floor.
The gun emplacement for the cannon I am building.
The floor plan of the floor, with the five configurations. This cannon will soon be placed in place A. After the renovation, that place will be accessible by stairs, the others will not. The museum is scheduled to be completed by July 13 of this year.
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