GrandpaPhil
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If you have a Hobby Lobby or Michael’s near you, the basswood sheets are only a couple dollars. I buy a lot of mine from the craft stores. The other thing is that the wood pillars are pretty easy to carve yourself if you wanted to try. I accidentally found out that I have a lot of fun making pieces like that.
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I’ll have to remember the stretched sprue method of filling seams in plastic models.
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Welcome! I agree, good start!
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Tool wise, my work horses are an old coping saw and a scalpel with a #11 blade. An X-Acto or an Excel brand equivalent are good too. The Excel blades are a little sharper and last a little longer than the X-Acto. I would discourage the use of balsa because of the coarse grain and the lack of strength. I use basswood a lot because it works easy, is a little stronger and looks good once painted. I also use card a lot because it is easy to work and looks good when painted. As far as tool familiarity goes, I learned woodworking by building Model Shipways Sultana. I strongly recommend it. You scratch build a lot of it. Otherwise, I would recommend taking your time and just remember to make small cuts while shaping pieces. There are many tutorials on basic carving techniques on this site and around the web.
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The gunport rigging is proceeding!
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We have proof of concept! One of the many things that I hate about this kit is that there are no inner decks and thus nothing to secure the gunport lid rigging to. I drilled the holes and glued the rigging thread in. After it set up, I tied off to the eyebolts.
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I glued down my deck fittings. I painted the bulwarks. I am much happier now. This model is a hybrid. My modeling skills have significantly developed in the two and a half years since I started working on it, so I have many problems to fix, or just live with. There are many areas where I have ripped stuff out and replaced it. The areas such as the stern and the quarter galleries, and the wales, I’m leaving alone. I could make the stern and quarter galleries better than the brass sheet. I will make the wales (which are too narrow) correctly in my next build. However, the amount of damage that I would inflict ripping them out, is not worth it on this model. So, I will leave it as is and move on.
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Thanks for all the likes! The decks look better. The fittings are just sitting there, and I still have many more to make, but I’m making good progress and I’m feeling a lot better about this build than I was. The holes in the deck did not make me happy.
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Excellent!
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I would personally go through Chuck Passaro’s planking tutorials on this forum. He has excellent guides.
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When I built Sultana, I used a chisel tipped X-Acto blade to thin the bulwarks. It’s no where near as difficult as it sounds. It sounds worse than it is.
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Good work on the Endeavour. Sorry about the Heinkel. That’s why I’m afraid to fly a model. Mine always end up hung on the wall.
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I have the companionways ready for the ladders.
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The gratings are all made and the deck hatches by the main mast are made. The galley funnel is partially made. I cut slots in the head gratings to pass the gammoning through. None of the deck fittings are painted or glued down. I still need to shape the funnel and make the end look hollow. I need to make the pin rails. Due to the scale, I am using straight pins for belaying pins again. I still need to make the bellhouse, the skylights, the wheel and the binnacle. I also need to make the ladders and my remaining guns.
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Thank you very much, OC. Happy Thanksgiving!
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The gratings for the forward deck are made. I have them sitting in place until all are done, then I’ll paint them and install them permanently.
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Heller 1/75 La Reale De France- English Instructions
GrandpaPhil replied to Paul Frawley's topic in Plastic model kits
Google translate works wonders for me, too -
Heller 1/75 La Reale De France- English Instructions
GrandpaPhil replied to Paul Frawley's topic in Plastic model kits
Check the back of the instruction booklet. Mine had a couple pages of English translations in the very back. I found it after I had almost finished the model. I used a French-English dictionary for the rest. -
I have the same problem. It is hard to work on projects sequentially. I keep trying to tell myself that I can build multiple projects at once, but I know better. It leads to many started projects and drags out some of them for years.
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Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
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