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A bit of research 

I got this second hand  quite cheaply in the suburb next to mine via an online seller. 
 
I’ve yet to purchase the Pontos upgrade set which I’ll order this week. 
 
The reason I’ve nominated Feb 1944 is that it was just before it’s only WW2 upgrade where it recieved it’s dazzle camo and a few other alterations, such as catapults which I can’t replicate and I want to weather her heavily (Sorry). 
 
it’s going to be quite the build as I want to do the interior hangar deck. 

Hi Dirk,
 
thanks for your comment. Looking at your picture it is clear that the tiller has to move around the circle which the setup from the kit will not allow! I had this section in mind for a long time. I plan to re-do it anyways. Use iron hooks instead of strap on the tiller (so the tackle can be easily removed) and also I will look at the possibility to move the bulwark block more aft.

Binnacle house and companionway secured on the deck. 

I got some interesting news about the Nine O Nine.........the plane that the Collins Foundation flew,  was not the original 9 0 9.   the original 9 0 9 was built in 1943,  and after the war,  was delivered to kingsman Arizona,  where it was eventually scrapped.  a fellow modeler friend on mine at work told me about all this.........he is quite heavy into aircraft.  I looked into this new revelation,  and this is what I found........wiki is very quick to add the updated info about the plane's demise.
Nine-O-Nine - Wikipedia

after posting this......I looked in my camera.  I knew I had done a bit more to her.  I had finished the painting of the stabilizer wing(s).  they are now complete........



the deicing panels are now painted...........I need to do the wings and rudder.

You're probably right on that deck.  The 3rd and 4th photos down with the Daughtless (that is a good photo)... is that the Gambler Bay or a different ship?  

So here are some internet color photos that seem to corroborate the color I've got at least for the newly-applied deck stain.  Given that Gambier Bay survived less than a year after her commissioning, and after doing a bunch of ferry service delivering aircraft to Enterprise and others only really saw about 6 months of action prior to being lost in the Battle of Samar, it's probably not realistic to show her deck as extremely weathered.  I'll have to decide how much I want to try to do and how.  It's a large area.  Maybe with a large soft brush I could do some very light dry-brushing to reflect worn stain - probably light gray paint since exposed wood would likely bleach gray really fast in that environment.  Plus the photo of the Dauntless is a great one - need to hang on to that as I have a 1/48 Tamiya Dauntless in my kit stash somewhere...

I went through a space stage when I was young.........had the capsule and the LEM.   later buying the kit that had them both........they could be done docked together.   I had to do a report on the moon landing at school......got in big trouble when I failed to produce it when it was due.   long story { my parents were brought into it }........ended up with a poor grade and I still had to do it.  not a happy time     haven't heard of the company.......is it a fairly new release?

When Revell USA went out of business a few years ago, Atlantis bought a lot of their old tooling, this being one of them. We are lucky that someone took on these old molds. In the near future, Atlantis will be offering the big scale Turbo Prop Engine kit. As far as I know, that kit has not been released since Revell produced it as part of their History Makers series of kits. So yes, this is a fairly new release of a very old kit originally from Revell.

Butterfly Keel and stringers, to keep the shape I had to use planking pins to hold the in place, then removed when set.

Few more images with half of artillery fully rigged. 

Puffer unloading coal on the beach at low tide, in the Highlands and Island of. Scotland.
W/C 15” X 11”

RFA Grey Rover
Yesterday’s little 'adventure' (goes with the local weather) Grey Rover punching on.
W/C 15” X 11”
Jim

Long time no posts😀
 
I'm currently working in country where there is no possibility to do any modeling. But late summer 2020 I will be back in civilization!
 
So to prepare for that I have started to scout for suitable models!
 
Back home on the workbench Occres Cazador Is waiting, but I think about Billings HMS Renown. That is a small quick easy build of an interesting boat/ship.
 
I also, by mistake, found out about Artesanias Sopwith Camel in 1:16 scale. As soon as I saw it I got a tightness in my chest and I know I will build it sometime. Sometimes things get into my mind and stays there as a small nagging feeling that won't go away until I have given into it. Seeing that model Is one of those obsessive thoughts...
 
So already a few years worth of building plans laid out... Planning, dreaming and waiting is really the best part of the hobby!
 

Corel's plans call for the stem, keel and stern post to be covered with veneer at some point.  I'm fortunate to have acquired a laser cutter not too long ago, so my intention is to create a built up stem and keel parts with some wood stock yet to be determined.
 

 
First, I cut out part of the plans to define my cutting area.
 
 

I had to cut the frame into two pieces, because my laser bed is not big enough for the full size frame.
I put it back together, added a rabbet strip and started defining the bearding line.  You can see the pieces I cut off with the laser; they will help me shape the new parts.
 
Here are the tentative lines for the stem parts.
 

 
 
 

Hi,
 
The flag was straight out of the box and just needed trimming. It wasn't on a sheet like that but on its own and was very clear. It was just very stiff and took a lot of soaking and shaping. My wife brought me the kit in the first few years we were married and we have been married 27 years so may of been an earlier version.
 
Adrian

Seeing your build inspired me to get this off the shelf and get busy.
 
I just looked at your flag on speedy.  It looks really good. Was that out of the box?  The red is all bled out on mine and I can't think of any easy if any way at all to fix that.


Here is a readable version of the text from one of the Chapelle drawings.
 

Hi,
 
This was a very enjoyable kit to build even though I new the history to be incorrect. Materials are very good. I didn't use the flag at the time but managed to make it look respectable on my Speedy build ( well I think so). It was one of my early builds so I didn't do the research to much later. 
 
One major difference between a cutter and sloop is the fitting of the bowsprit. The sloop is at a greater angle and fixed. The cutter runs parallel with the deck and can be hauled in to shorten its length.
 
I am going to look forward to your build as I have so often thought of re-vamping mine. The first thing I would do is change the stern gallery and badge mouldings. Then I would re-rig as a sloop because I managed to do a bit of a cutter / sloop hybrid.

This will be my build of the Corel Resolution kit.  I was attracted to this kit based on a build I saw at  Model Ship Builder This is a Japanese site with many  very nice models represented.  I favor the natural wood/antique look with my models, so the style of this build serves as inspiration for what I hope to accomplish.

I have a rather long winded prologue that follows, so feel free to skip to the actual build description that should show up down there somewhere…
 
There has been some discussion here at MSW about the basis for this kit design.  It is pretty much agreed there was no actual ship of this configuration named HMS Resolution.
Resolution Solved
 
There are some plans from the National Maritime Museum of a sloop named Ferrett ( 1711 ), a 10-gun single-masted, cutter-rigged Sloop.. 

 
We also found some plans drawn by Howard Chapelle, that are clearly based on the NMM plans, embellished somewhat, but matching the basic lines perfectly as far as I can tell.
Corel appears to have used those lines, and embellished the ship even further, which I will discuss more as I go along, because I will not be incorporating some of those embellishments in my build.

There is more.
Chapelle drew another set of lines and wrote:
“ Ferrett and Sharke “ ,with  more detailed information pictured below.  I assume Chapelle had access to some resources I haven’t been able to identify, or he speculated based on convention at the time.
 
There are some plans of “ Shark ( 1732 ) “  from the NMM which say: “ A ketch-rigged 8-gun Sloop. “The lines are very similar to Ferrett, but not a 1 to 1 match.  A major, but not the only difference, being two masts, which fits the “ketch “ designation.
 

 
Corel calls the ship a ‘ cutter ‘ .
 I wondered what makes a sloop a “ sloop “, and found it was very ambiguous..  I settled on this from Wikipedia.
In part:
 “ A sloop is a sailing boat with a single mast typically meaning one headsail in front of the mast, and one mainsail aft of (behind) the mast.”
We also find:
 “ If the vessel has two or more headsails, the term cutter may be used, especially if the mast is stepped further towards the back of the boat.”
On the other hand there are a lot of ships called sloops, that have two or three masts.
I’m not uncomfortable with the designation of a cutter because the sail plan seems very similar to other cutters, as well as the notation on the NMM collection article which says :“ Cutter rigged sloop. “
 
The NMM plans say the length of the gun deck from rabbet to rabbet is 65 feet, while I calculate the scaled length of the Corel model at about 70..  I imagine the other dimensions will not match any better, but not an issue as far as I’m concerned.
 
Chapelle provides some deck details in one of his drawings that differ significantly from what Corel calls for.  Since there are no deck details on the NMM drawings of Ferrett, I would lean toward the Chapelle interpretation, but I may mix and match as I go along, and point it out when I deviate from the Corel plans.

The two large grates do not look typical to me, and I will have to see what I will do with that deck space.
 
 
 
I can’t resist the urge to also note, that in my research, I found a Sterling kit of Ferret on eBay..
 

It looks like it was probably based on the Chapelle drawings, but the deck plan seems a bit absurd with some sort of ship’s boat athwartship with no capstain or windlass.

 
I have also found two Ferret kits from the Ideal Model Co..   One plastic, and the other wood. They both appear to be based on the Chapelle drawings.


Continuing on, here is a brief rundown of the Corel kit contents.  If anyone has any questions, I will do my best to provide an answer.

The box art..
 

The framework is well done, but I have some modifications in mind, which I will document later.
 

There is a generous fittings package.
 

Unfortunately, the provided sailcloth is too heavy, and the flag set is un-usable..  I make my own rope, so the provided stuff is of no use to me.
 
There are eight sheets of well drawn plans.  The strip wood and dowels appear to be of good quality, but I will have to see what is usable as the build progresses.
 
(To be continued.)
 
 

OMG Lou........too funny       I clicked on some of the pages in the first link........the last one had me rolling on the floor!  
 
I never could Mark........not rationally anyway   

Just how much does Kevin like P-51's these are all recon crates love these all 1/48 and Tamy with AM decals and my 1/32 Hase P-47 "Lil Ceasar"

learned a new feature on GIMP not glues yet just fitted and I like Revells carriage kind of reminds me WingNuts build.

Here's the pic of the decals Greg and the sides are just about done.

So some additional progress today, but I'm not 100% happy.  The photos below show the dazzle camo scheme mostly done.  Even though I lightened the Ocean Gray and the Black with 10% white, I wish I had done much more, maybe 25%.  They still look too dark for that "huge object, far away" atmospheric fading effect.  But I'm not redoing it at this point - file for next time.  I was not happy with the location of the edge of the antifouling red as I originally painted it, so oversprayed with black and will come back next time and re-mask and re-spray the red.
 
What is more of a quandary for me is the deck blue.  I used Hasegawa's recommended mix (50/50 Navy Blue / Dark Gray) and lightened it with 10% White.  It looks much too dark to me, and not blue enough.  What do others think?  If I am going to change it, it has to be now, before I start hand-painting all the other tiny bits of deck surface around the gun mounts, sponsons, etc.  I'm thinking adding a bit of medium blue and a fair amount of white to it.