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GrandpaPhil

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  1. 16 minutes ago, David56 said:

    Ship looks great. Question for you. When you painted galley did you have to remove any of the black paint or coating on yours and if so how did you do it. Mine is covered with a black coating and other paints do not show through. If i rub the black with my finger it smudges. Any advice will be appreciated 

    Are you talking about the brass pieces for the stern?

     

    I tried to sand the top coating off.  It didn’t look right so I hit them with acetone to strip their coat of covering off (an old toothbrush works great for that).  Then I sealed it with Mod Podge to give the paint something to adhere to.  I let it dry for 24 hours and then painted.  

     

    I didn’t like the initial blue that I painted the stern windows so I painted them black and gloss coated to make them look like glass.

  2. 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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  3. 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).

     

  4. 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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  5. 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.

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