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GrandpaPhil
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Congratulations! Well done!
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Congratulations! Well done!
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Congratulations! Well done!
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Congratulations! Well done!
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Congratulations! Well done!
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I like to use a larger paint brush (meaning a 1” artist’s flat brush) to dust the model, when it needs saw dust removed. It works beautifully.
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Congratulations! Nicely done!
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It looks really good! The copper will age itself naturally over time, even if you clear coat it. It will develop a natural patina. The coppering on both my Victory and Prince de Neufchatel models aged within a few months and developed a very nice patina.
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Thank you very much! I have an A-10, an Apache (both 1/48 plastic) and two solid model kits, another P-61 and a P-38. Those are 1/72, but I think they will be 1/48 out of basswood, since you carve them yourself anyway. I also have a 1/28 B-17 that needs MAJOR repairs, a 1/28 Catalina Flying Boat that needs repaired and a 1/17 Taube that needs repaired.
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Looking good!
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One pile o’ buckets and brackets! I made a couple extra brackets, just in case.
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Forward progress for the first time in a long time: The fire buckets are painted and I put a drop of gloss coat in each of them to simulate water. Next up, several need new handles, and they need brackets, which will be made of annealed wire.
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I really need to get this model done! Most of what I have left for hull details is metal working (hammock cranes and other brackets), which I’m terrible at. I still need to make a set of ships boats too (and the accompanying davits), a set of rails on the bow section of the upper deck and a chart cabinet on the quarter deck. Then masts, rigging and sails! I want to build this with studding sails, too. The Admiral bought me the Victory Models Revenge plan set for my birthday, from Cornwall Model Boats. They are beautiful! I need to get the Victory done so I can build it (I know better than to build multiples in parallel, it just doesn’t work out for me).
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OC, The model looks awesome! Well done on the pond! Sorry to hear about the wife’s fall. Glad to hear she’s okay. In the States we have something called Icy Hot and Bengay. I use both heavily when I get banged up (as stated earlier, we don’t heal as quick as we get older). They work wonders for me.
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That is an excellent idea. I will use gloss clear coat in it, as water. I did that with face plates on armored infantry I painted a while back and it came out great. I had not thought about applying that here. Thank you very much for the idea.
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Step one is finish the fire buckets: I am putting them on stick pins and painting them black with a gold “label” on the outside face.
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All damage (that I’ve found) is now repaired! Game on!
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Sitting idle for as long as she has, and moving twice, has not done the Victory any favors. I had to secure the crown on the figurehead again. It was hanging by a thread. The gun tackles on the port side bow chaser and the carronades were both loose. I used Tichy HO scale eyebolts, which look really nice, but are plastic, the first time around. Those are what broke. I replaced them with ones I made from steel wire.
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no, it’s not weird at all that you’re enjoying this build. This is an excellent build!
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The Victory is now back on my work bench for the first time in a year and a half!
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