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GrandpaPhil

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  1. GrandpaPhil
    LOL! Indeed I do!
  2. GrandpaPhil
    The next deck is on: The silhouette is growing: Here’s the next deck’s worth of pieces:
  3. GrandpaPhil
    Welcome!
  4. GrandpaPhil
    The other side is on: Time to paint and move up to the next deck!
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    Thank you very much! That had to be an intimidation tactic back in the day. Yes, I am cutting out all the voids. It’s just normal printer paper that I sealed on both sides. It’s labor intensive, but so worth it. OC, Thank you very much!
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    OC, Thank you very much! Mark, Thank you very much! The layering up (or stacking) is sometimes also referred to as laminating the card. It is used for both strength and to make up the thickness as would be seen with a wood model. The extra is needed on this one because I have a visible sagging where the forward main deck connects to the amidships portion (aka damage control) that is affecting the upper works. Paint should hide the extra card on the next deck pretty well prior to installation. For the railings, I am using the method recommended by the owner of Digital Navy in an article that used to be on his website. I traced everything out, then cut the railings out in a block and fitted/pre-shaped them, to include scoring. Then I cut them out VERY carefully and glued them down. I also made the two aft ladders as part of this. Everything will be painted in place. I think for these that will be easier due to strength concerns.
  7. GrandpaPhil
    Welcome!
  8. GrandpaPhil
    Thank you very much! I added the rest of the interior structures/structural pieces to the first deck of the bow tower: To ensure alignment of the aft structural pieces, I also made the second deck and test fitted it: The forward part is 1mm thicker than the aft part to absorb the slight offset seen in the first deck from the main deck. Next up: some homemade photo etch railings made of paper and two ladders to finish out the first deck!
  9. GrandpaPhil
    Welcome! Very impressive fleet!
  10. GrandpaPhil
    Congratulations! Excellent work!
  11. GrandpaPhil
    Welcome!
  12. GrandpaPhil
    Thank you very much! I really like that view out my workshop window! I learn from each mistake! As long as I keep getting better, I’m happy! The front armor shield is on, in front of the conning tower! Oryol is starting to look really good!
  13. GrandpaPhil
    Very nicely done!
  14. GrandpaPhil
    The Artesania Latina Bounty Jolly Boat is a nice little kit. I built one many years ago. It was my first fully planked model boat that I actually finished.
  15. GrandpaPhil
    The hardest part of first making pieces, and then entire models, from scratch, for me, was deciding to try. It seems really complicated and difficult, but once you get into it, you realize that it isn’t all that different than any other model making. The line between a wood (or card) kit and a scratch build is really blurry anyway. The difference to me anyway, is just the mentality behind it. The hardest part of any task is making the decision to try. I have seen your work. You will do just fine.
  16. GrandpaPhil
    They aren’t too difficult to make either.
  17. GrandpaPhil
    Welcome!
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    Welcome!
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    Welcome!
  20. GrandpaPhil
    Congratulations! Very nicely done!
  21. GrandpaPhil
    Very nicely done!
  22. GrandpaPhil
    Steve, Thank you very much! The superstructure continues to grow: I have been using @Captain Slog’s Borodino build log as a reference to figure out the forward bridges. I need to make the forward part of the next deck up about 1mm thicker to fix a slight dip in the forward deck. Using paper as photoetch railings worked beautifully once I figured it out. Preshape the part as a block. Seal both sides before cutting out the railings and then when you paint, don’t lay them on something that the paint will stick to. Wait until the paint dries completely before handling and installing the part.
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    OC, Thank you very much! I finished the ladder and installed it after three attempts to make the handles failed. I also sealed everything that hadn’t been sealed yet. Then I remembered an article from Digital Navy that I read a while back about essentially using paper as photoetch. So, I broke out my light table and did some tracing: And then cut out the pieces that I needed for the lower ladder: It should be noted that I coated both sides of the paper that I cut the ladder from with clear coat prior to cutting, which made it into a type of composite material which won’t fuzz or fray out. I’m not particularly shy about making my own pieces, it’s part of why I like card kits. One of the recent NRJ’s had an article, an editorial, discussing card modelers and whether card modeling is a form of scratch building because a card kit is in essence a set of templates that a model is cut out from, very precisely, and built. For me, it’s not too different than what I did with my sailing Sampan, built from Amati kit plans or my model of the Revenge that is being built from Amati’s Victory Models line of kits. In fact, my experience with the Revenge’s plans led me to buy up many more sets of Amati plans. The only difference between those builds and a card kit is the thickness of material. In the other models, I essentially built up the card to the thickness of a wood part and built like a conventional wood model. However, the basic concept is pretty much identical.
  24. GrandpaPhil
    Bob, Looking forward to seeing this one!
  25. GrandpaPhil
    I seal the models as I go with an acrylic clear coat to protect them. As far as stability goes, once the hull is covered, they are quite strong. The scratch built ones are every bit as strong and durable as a wood build. The Orel kits are a little different than the scratch builds. The material is thinner and the pieces are much smaller due to the smaller scale of the models. However, once built, I haven’t had any problems, although the Solferino, which is the only other Orel kit that I built at 1/200 scale, is only a couple of years old and is kept in a case.

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