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Thank you very much! Starboard cheeks now have mouldings. I also cleared the slots for the bow gammoning.
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Thank you very much for the likes and the comments! I made the other badge for the starboard cathead and started the mouldings for the cheeks of the head. I’m using very thin strips of poster board to make them. Quick note for the other beginning carvers out there, gluing the piece down helps a lot. I just learned that.
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A schooner (or Baltimore clipper) is a nice compromise between a boat and one of the larger ships, and they make a beautiful model.
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Congratulations! Well done!
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Model Shipways will also replace any parts that are broken or missing, your fault or theirs. Their Sultana was my first real ship model.
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Looks good!
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Thank you very much!
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Thank you very much! Here is the Admiral’s finished raven: She loved it.
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Yet very impressive that it survived.
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Same here, lol
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If you’re looking for Royal Navy vessels from 1750-1815, check out the Triton and the Winchelsea group builds. The plans are in pdf format (which makes them easy to rescale) and all major parts (and most of the minor parts for the Winchelsea) are predrawn. This makes it so you can print, glue the plans down and cut. Chuck did an awesome job of planning out the Winchelsea. It’s also designed to be a hull model, so you wouldn’t have to deal with the rigging, unless you wanted to (When I get to it, I plan to modify the plans to allow for masts and rigging, but I really enjoy the process of rigging).
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Quick intermission. The Admiral loves ravens and crows. I carved one in bas relief for her over the weekend. It’s only primed right now. I made it from 1/4” basswood. I roughed it out with my trusty coping saw and did the carving with my trusty scalpels. The #11 blade is a great all purpose blade and the #10 blade works great for altering thicknesses (like slimming down the neck and the wings). I sanded it twice with 220 grit, once before the first coat of black and once after.
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I saw a badge on the end of the catheads on the outboard profile. It looked like a crown, so I made one for the port side and glued it to the end of the cathead. I’m not the greatest at drawing, but I think it came out okay:
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Proxxon jigsaw or a scroll saw
GrandpaPhil replied to Edwardkenway's topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
I originally started scratch building just to see if I could. I didn’t think that my first scratch building project, the Prince de Neufchatel, would get finished. I had a blast building the Prince de Neufchatel. It was the most fun that I have ever had building a model. I’ve been finishing my Mantua Victory from the AOTS plans, so it will be about half scratch by the time it’s done. The only power tool that I really use is a drill. My coping saw, my scalpels, a couple of machinist scales and my pin vise are my work horses, so the cost of tools wasn’t really an issue for me. -
Congratulations! Well done!
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Codice translates to code in English. That could be the original manufacturer’s part number. You might be able to get the exact lengths directly off the inboard profile if there is any question of how long to cut them.
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The frigates would be cool.
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