GrandpaPhil

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My favorite is Delta Ceramcoat paint. I used their black and “Antique Gold” for my Victory. You can find it at Hobby Lobby or most other craft stores in the craft paint section. I used copper tape for the coppering.

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Congratulations! Well done!

Most kit plans come with the templates for the die cut and laser cut parts. That is a cheaper alternative than buying the kit. Cornwall and Age of Sails both have a nice selection of kit plans for reasonable prices. It’s just copy, paste and cut at that point (plus you can alter the scale at will at that point). Plus the plans for Triton are $5 with complete POB templates and the plans for Winchelsea are $15, with all templates provided. I have both sets and plan to modify both for masting and rigging.

The Revenge is a neat ship. I’m looking forward to seeing this!

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Congratulations! Well done!

Welcome! The Sultana is a great kit and was my first actual ship model.

Good job on the quarter badges and stern galleries!

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Thank you very much, OC! I am glad you found that useful, Emmet. It saved me a lot of time.

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I like to carve cannons from dowel rods. It works well for me.

Thank you very much! It went back together much better than I thought it would. I thought for sure I would have to redo much more of the rigging.

Have you thought about buying the Amati plans or Sergal plans from Cornwall or Age of Sails? Both sets of plans should have templates for all of the laser/die cut parts. It would be copy, cut and glue at that point. The old Mantua kit had preprinted wood parts, that you would have to cut out anyway. The hardest part would be making the carvings, and you can buy the carving set from Cornwall if you didn't feel like carving them yourself.

Thank you both for the comments! Thank you everyone for the likes! So far, I have not needed to use magnifiers. I do however have multiple halogen bulbs sitting right over my work area. My work area has lighting like an operating theater. I am back to working on my fire buckets. I have rough carved 3, so far. I took a pause to paint some 28mm miniatures that I bought last winter. I also fixed up a broken whaling ship, I think an old Model Shipways Kate Cory, that I found at a local flea market yesterday. That was fun. I just had to remake a few pieces (mostly located in the head), fix the masts and replace/install some rigging. During this process, I found a quick and easy way to make the cheeks on the head (the pieces on the sides of the breakwater that provide lateral support for the beakhead and typically support the head timbers), which were missing entirely. For those who are not experienced with model ship building, the head is one of the more difficult sections to make. Making the cheeks usually involves a lot of trial and error. I call this out and provide my discovery because even for those building kits, most of the kits I have had did not provide the head pieces pre-cut. Those kits advised making the cheeks from card first and utilizing trial and error to fit them to the ship. The quick way is to use a contour gauge. That completely eliminates the trial and error. It was the quickest and easiest head that I have ever made (admittedly there were no head timbers or head rails). I think all four pieces took me a couple of hours to measure, draw, make and paint. If you have read through this log, it took me many hours, over several weeks, to build the head on the Victory (which while much more complicated, I also used the trial and error method, which involved multiple re-do's).

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And, it’s done: I always try to learn something new from every build (or rebuild in this case). This time I learned to use a contour gauge to make the cheeks on the head. It makes it much easier and takes the trial and error element out of it. We all know that the head is one of the most complicated parts of a ship. That makes learning this a valuable tool. It will make life easier in the future. I am glad that I found this model. PS: I know the original builder installed the flag on the main mast upside down. Out of respect for the original builder, I left it that way.

Dry brushing only catches the raised areas of what you are painting. It’s predominantly a miniature painting technique. I learned to paint from wargaming (Warhammer 40K), years ago. The general gist is that you brush most of the paint out of the brush and then paint what you are working on. It catches the raised area of the model. It’s also a great way to shade an area. It takes care when there isn’t much difference in height, but it makes the painting process much easier and in my opinion, looks much better because you can shade your model and add highlights and shadows to it. That’s how I add the illusion of depth to my models. I use a flat brush. It works better to use a brush with stiffer bristles, and the brush must be dry for what you need it for. Never use a good brush. Dry brushing is bad for paint brushes. I also use a technique called inking in which you use thinned down paint to add tinges of color (frequently for weathering).