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DSiemens reacted to Anja in Le Mirage by Sjors - FINISHED - Corel - Wood - 1:75
Dear Sjors,
I know she has caused you some headaches along the way.
But you have completed the build and she is now ready to take her place in the gallery.
Congratulations, you may be very proud of yourself. Well done!
Anja
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DSiemens reacted to Sjors in Le Mirage by Sjors - FINISHED - Corel - Wood - 1:75
The final update!
This is the end of the build of the 'Le Mirage' by Corel.
I know that there are a few mistakes here and there, but that is ok and I have learned from it.
She gave me a lot of problems and at some point I wanted to quit.
But thanks to the individual support of Anja, Mobbsie, Augie and all of you who followed me on this journey, she is now finished and ready for her maiden voyage.
Again I want to thank you all for your invaluable support, friendship, feedback, good words and likes you give me along the way.
I will now continue my build of the ' San Ildefonso' and I hope to see you there to accompany me.
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DSiemens got a reaction from Sjors in Le Mirage by Sjors - FINISHED - Corel - Wood - 1:75
Can't wait to see the photo's she's really a beautiful ship. Congrats on a job well done!
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DSiemens reacted to Sjors in Le Mirage by Sjors - FINISHED - Corel - Wood - 1:75
Hi Sherry,
You read it right !
The Le Mirage is finished.....
When I tell Anja about it when she phoned me from her work , she wants to take the pictures...
So tomorrow afternoon she will makes them and I will post them.
I hope you can sleep tonight while you are waiting.....
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DSiemens reacted to Sjors in Le Mirage by Sjors - FINISHED - Corel - Wood - 1:75
The fore mast is also done with all the 3 yards and the running rigging of the whole model......
Now I can go to the bowsprit and do some more ratlines.
Then the last rigging .
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DSiemens reacted to mtaylor in Queen Anne's Revenge by DSiemens - FINISHED - ~1:1250 - BOTTLE
Michael,
You and Daniel both push the limits... just at opposite ends of the spectrum.
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DSiemens got a reaction from IgorSky in Queen Anne's Revenge by DSiemens - FINISHED - ~1:1250 - BOTTLE
Augie actually I had no idea. Now I do.
Thanks Bob and Mark. Your comments are always appreciated.
I tried three different things and the last one worked. I worked on some separate paper and didn't have much luck so I opted to just drill the holes with my pin vise. No such luck it got all torn up and the holes weren't straight. So I thought I may as well try the cutting method and see what happens. That just made it worse so I cut off the bulwarks altogether. I then cut a 1mm thin plank and cut it into 2mm pieces. I glue each piece on to the ship leaving a space for the gun port. I let it dry and then added a cap rail and the channels underneath. I think I will paint these to bring them out. Any suggestions on the colors is welcome I'm not sure yet what I want to do. I'm shooting for as historically accurate as possible given no one knows what the ship looked like. In other words common colors for ships in this era.
I have one cannon in for sizing. I think that looks about right. I will cut out the rest of the cannons and add some hatches. I also have to do the gun ports on the side. I had planned 10 guns ports but managed to get only get eight. I think I'll put to more on a higher deck. I still have to build that up as well. These tiny ships are still a lot of work.
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DSiemens got a reaction from IgorSky in Queen Anne's Revenge by DSiemens - FINISHED - ~1:1250 - BOTTLE
Planking is on. I stained some paper and then cut it in 1 mm strips. I started from the top and glued that one to the plug. The rest are glued to each other each overlapping. I then put on a couple coats of clear nail polish to seal it and make it stiffer. A resin maybe better but I don't have any at the time being so I went with the nail polish.
Once the polish is dry I will work on removing the plug.
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DSiemens reacted to michael mott in Bristol Pilot Cutter by michael mott - 1/8 scale - POF
Cabin Structure part 12
The planking and scraping are finished on the top and now the bottom locating cleats are being glued to the bottom this cabin needs to be removable so that the weights and servo etc can be accessed.
The second picture shows the cleats being glued and also shows the small clamp draw from the card catalog file cabinet that shows up in some of the pictures.
Next is the hatch cover boards and the splines ready to be glued to the cross beams of the hatch.
The last picture shows a small work station that I can move quickly off the wood workbench, it has a cork surface and the pliers are held by some small 1/4 inch ceramic magnets glued into the pine backboard.
Michael
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DSiemens got a reaction from JesseLee in Queen Anne's Revenge by DSiemens - FINISHED - ~1:1250 - BOTTLE
Augie actually I had no idea. Now I do.
Thanks Bob and Mark. Your comments are always appreciated.
I tried three different things and the last one worked. I worked on some separate paper and didn't have much luck so I opted to just drill the holes with my pin vise. No such luck it got all torn up and the holes weren't straight. So I thought I may as well try the cutting method and see what happens. That just made it worse so I cut off the bulwarks altogether. I then cut a 1mm thin plank and cut it into 2mm pieces. I glue each piece on to the ship leaving a space for the gun port. I let it dry and then added a cap rail and the channels underneath. I think I will paint these to bring them out. Any suggestions on the colors is welcome I'm not sure yet what I want to do. I'm shooting for as historically accurate as possible given no one knows what the ship looked like. In other words common colors for ships in this era.
I have one cannon in for sizing. I think that looks about right. I will cut out the rest of the cannons and add some hatches. I also have to do the gun ports on the side. I had planned 10 guns ports but managed to get only get eight. I think I'll put to more on a higher deck. I still have to build that up as well. These tiny ships are still a lot of work.
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DSiemens got a reaction from augie in Queen Anne's Revenge by DSiemens - FINISHED - ~1:1250 - BOTTLE
Augie it's simply a piece of wire. I'm debating whether to just put in the wire by it's self or try to make gun carriages. I'm leaning towards just cannons. The eye has a way filling in what's missing.
I forgot to mention I have a new appreciation for paper modelers. While it's strong at a small size which helps with the detail it doesn't sand and isn't as forgiving as wood. I think I like wood a lot more.
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DSiemens got a reaction from Sjors in Queen Anne's Revenge by DSiemens - FINISHED - ~1:1250 - BOTTLE
Augie actually I had no idea. Now I do.
Thanks Bob and Mark. Your comments are always appreciated.
I tried three different things and the last one worked. I worked on some separate paper and didn't have much luck so I opted to just drill the holes with my pin vise. No such luck it got all torn up and the holes weren't straight. So I thought I may as well try the cutting method and see what happens. That just made it worse so I cut off the bulwarks altogether. I then cut a 1mm thin plank and cut it into 2mm pieces. I glue each piece on to the ship leaving a space for the gun port. I let it dry and then added a cap rail and the channels underneath. I think I will paint these to bring them out. Any suggestions on the colors is welcome I'm not sure yet what I want to do. I'm shooting for as historically accurate as possible given no one knows what the ship looked like. In other words common colors for ships in this era.
I have one cannon in for sizing. I think that looks about right. I will cut out the rest of the cannons and add some hatches. I also have to do the gun ports on the side. I had planned 10 guns ports but managed to get only get eight. I think I'll put to more on a higher deck. I still have to build that up as well. These tiny ships are still a lot of work.
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DSiemens reacted to shipmodel in Queen Anne's Revenge by DSiemens - FINISHED - ~1:1250 - BOTTLE
Hi Daniel -
What a treat to see a real miniature of the model I am working on. You are really capturing the essence of the ship in a really tiny way.
As for scale, my model will be 36.5 inches when measured on perpendiculars from the top of the taffrail to the front of the stem, which is what I see for your model. Multiplied by my scale this gives a length for the actual ship of 1314 inches, or 109.5 feet. If your model is one inch long, give or take a bit, I don't think you would be far wrong to say that it is 1:1250, which is a common miniature scale.
I've bookmarked your build and look forward to future installments.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.
Dan
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DSiemens got a reaction from avsjerome2003 in Queen Anne's Revenge by DSiemens - FINISHED - ~1:1250 - BOTTLE
Augie actually I had no idea. Now I do.
Thanks Bob and Mark. Your comments are always appreciated.
I tried three different things and the last one worked. I worked on some separate paper and didn't have much luck so I opted to just drill the holes with my pin vise. No such luck it got all torn up and the holes weren't straight. So I thought I may as well try the cutting method and see what happens. That just made it worse so I cut off the bulwarks altogether. I then cut a 1mm thin plank and cut it into 2mm pieces. I glue each piece on to the ship leaving a space for the gun port. I let it dry and then added a cap rail and the channels underneath. I think I will paint these to bring them out. Any suggestions on the colors is welcome I'm not sure yet what I want to do. I'm shooting for as historically accurate as possible given no one knows what the ship looked like. In other words common colors for ships in this era.
I have one cannon in for sizing. I think that looks about right. I will cut out the rest of the cannons and add some hatches. I also have to do the gun ports on the side. I had planned 10 guns ports but managed to get only get eight. I think I'll put to more on a higher deck. I still have to build that up as well. These tiny ships are still a lot of work.
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DSiemens got a reaction from augie in Queen Anne's Revenge by DSiemens - FINISHED - ~1:1250 - BOTTLE
Augie actually I had no idea. Now I do.
Thanks Bob and Mark. Your comments are always appreciated.
I tried three different things and the last one worked. I worked on some separate paper and didn't have much luck so I opted to just drill the holes with my pin vise. No such luck it got all torn up and the holes weren't straight. So I thought I may as well try the cutting method and see what happens. That just made it worse so I cut off the bulwarks altogether. I then cut a 1mm thin plank and cut it into 2mm pieces. I glue each piece on to the ship leaving a space for the gun port. I let it dry and then added a cap rail and the channels underneath. I think I will paint these to bring them out. Any suggestions on the colors is welcome I'm not sure yet what I want to do. I'm shooting for as historically accurate as possible given no one knows what the ship looked like. In other words common colors for ships in this era.
I have one cannon in for sizing. I think that looks about right. I will cut out the rest of the cannons and add some hatches. I also have to do the gun ports on the side. I had planned 10 guns ports but managed to get only get eight. I think I'll put to more on a higher deck. I still have to build that up as well. These tiny ships are still a lot of work.
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DSiemens got a reaction from qwerty2008 in Queen Anne's Revenge by DSiemens - FINISHED - ~1:1250 - BOTTLE
Augie actually I had no idea. Now I do.
Thanks Bob and Mark. Your comments are always appreciated.
I tried three different things and the last one worked. I worked on some separate paper and didn't have much luck so I opted to just drill the holes with my pin vise. No such luck it got all torn up and the holes weren't straight. So I thought I may as well try the cutting method and see what happens. That just made it worse so I cut off the bulwarks altogether. I then cut a 1mm thin plank and cut it into 2mm pieces. I glue each piece on to the ship leaving a space for the gun port. I let it dry and then added a cap rail and the channels underneath. I think I will paint these to bring them out. Any suggestions on the colors is welcome I'm not sure yet what I want to do. I'm shooting for as historically accurate as possible given no one knows what the ship looked like. In other words common colors for ships in this era.
I have one cannon in for sizing. I think that looks about right. I will cut out the rest of the cannons and add some hatches. I also have to do the gun ports on the side. I had planned 10 guns ports but managed to get only get eight. I think I'll put to more on a higher deck. I still have to build that up as well. These tiny ships are still a lot of work.
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DSiemens got a reaction from Q A's Revenge in Queen Anne's Revenge by DSiemens - FINISHED - ~1:1250 - BOTTLE
Augie actually I had no idea. Now I do.
Thanks Bob and Mark. Your comments are always appreciated.
I tried three different things and the last one worked. I worked on some separate paper and didn't have much luck so I opted to just drill the holes with my pin vise. No such luck it got all torn up and the holes weren't straight. So I thought I may as well try the cutting method and see what happens. That just made it worse so I cut off the bulwarks altogether. I then cut a 1mm thin plank and cut it into 2mm pieces. I glue each piece on to the ship leaving a space for the gun port. I let it dry and then added a cap rail and the channels underneath. I think I will paint these to bring them out. Any suggestions on the colors is welcome I'm not sure yet what I want to do. I'm shooting for as historically accurate as possible given no one knows what the ship looked like. In other words common colors for ships in this era.
I have one cannon in for sizing. I think that looks about right. I will cut out the rest of the cannons and add some hatches. I also have to do the gun ports on the side. I had planned 10 guns ports but managed to get only get eight. I think I'll put to more on a higher deck. I still have to build that up as well. These tiny ships are still a lot of work.
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DSiemens reacted to michael mott in Bristol Pilot Cutter by michael mott - 1/8 scale - POF
Deck Fittings part 1
While waiting for caulking glue to dry, I unraveled some copper ground wire pulled it through the draw plate for the correct diameter to thread 0x80?
I spent some time bending up some deck eye bolts. These are going to receive rings as well. There will be a few sizes from 1 inch to 2 inch OD in scale
When they are all made they will be silver soldered.
Michael
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DSiemens got a reaction from IgorSky in Queen Anne's Revenge by DSiemens - FINISHED - ~1:1250 - BOTTLE
Thanks Michael.
I got her out of the plug. I used a razor blade to gut out the edges on top that were glued to the plug then put my pin drill into the top of the plug for leverage. A simple tug and she came loose.
I then drew the planks on another piece of paper cut out the deck and glue the deck in.
Now I got to figure out how to cut out the gun ports. There's supposed to be ten on each side.
I've been wanting to put an aprox scale on this ship but the size eludes me. I've found she was anywhere from 200 to 260 tons. I approximate that to around 80 feet long. This is all guesstiment based on length to tonnage comparisons I've made. If I'm way off let me know. if 80 is correct though 80 x 12 = 960. This model is an inch long so that would be 1;960. Since I can't get an exact though I won't put it in the title.
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DSiemens got a reaction from themadchemist in Queen Anne's Revenge by DSiemens - FINISHED - ~1:1250 - BOTTLE
Planking is on. I stained some paper and then cut it in 1 mm strips. I started from the top and glued that one to the plug. The rest are glued to each other each overlapping. I then put on a couple coats of clear nail polish to seal it and make it stiffer. A resin maybe better but I don't have any at the time being so I went with the nail polish.
Once the polish is dry I will work on removing the plug.
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DSiemens got a reaction from Sjors in Queen Anne's Revenge by DSiemens - FINISHED - ~1:1250 - BOTTLE
Planking is on. I stained some paper and then cut it in 1 mm strips. I started from the top and glued that one to the plug. The rest are glued to each other each overlapping. I then put on a couple coats of clear nail polish to seal it and make it stiffer. A resin maybe better but I don't have any at the time being so I went with the nail polish.
Once the polish is dry I will work on removing the plug.
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DSiemens got a reaction from themadchemist in Queen Anne's Revenge by DSiemens - FINISHED - ~1:1250 - BOTTLE
Thanks Michael.
I got her out of the plug. I used a razor blade to gut out the edges on top that were glued to the plug then put my pin drill into the top of the plug for leverage. A simple tug and she came loose.
I then drew the planks on another piece of paper cut out the deck and glue the deck in.
Now I got to figure out how to cut out the gun ports. There's supposed to be ten on each side.
I've been wanting to put an aprox scale on this ship but the size eludes me. I've found she was anywhere from 200 to 260 tons. I approximate that to around 80 feet long. This is all guesstiment based on length to tonnage comparisons I've made. If I'm way off let me know. if 80 is correct though 80 x 12 = 960. This model is an inch long so that would be 1;960. Since I can't get an exact though I won't put it in the title.
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DSiemens reacted to gjdale in USF Confederacy by Augie & Moonbug - FINISHED - Model Shipways - 1:64
Augie,
Very sorry to hear of the mishap, but even more sorry that we won't get the whole photo-essay on how to recover from a major mishap. As others have said, that would have been both beneficial and heartening for the less experienced.
I look forward to seeing the completed repair job anyway.
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DSiemens got a reaction from mtaylor in Queen Anne's Revenge by DSiemens - FINISHED - ~1:1250 - BOTTLE
Thanks Michael.
I got her out of the plug. I used a razor blade to gut out the edges on top that were glued to the plug then put my pin drill into the top of the plug for leverage. A simple tug and she came loose.
I then drew the planks on another piece of paper cut out the deck and glue the deck in.
Now I got to figure out how to cut out the gun ports. There's supposed to be ten on each side.
I've been wanting to put an aprox scale on this ship but the size eludes me. I've found she was anywhere from 200 to 260 tons. I approximate that to around 80 feet long. This is all guesstiment based on length to tonnage comparisons I've made. If I'm way off let me know. if 80 is correct though 80 x 12 = 960. This model is an inch long so that would be 1;960. Since I can't get an exact though I won't put it in the title.
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DSiemens got a reaction from molasses in ESMERALDA by molasses - 1/640 - BOTTLE - Chilean Navy Training Ship
Looks great! The holes work really well. I can see what you mean on the touch up here and there some of the holes look wood brown rather then black. That's an easy fix though.
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