GrandpaPhil
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They have good drawings of them, including location, in John McKay’s 100 Gun Ship Victory.
- tmj, mtaylor and Keith Black
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They aren’t hard to carve.
I made the full set for my Victory out of a 1/8” square basswood strip.
I used a scalpel to shape them.
- tmj, mtaylor and Keith Black
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Congratulations! Nicely done!
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Have you thought about carving replacement carvings yourself?
- Old Collingwood and allanyed
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- Old Collingwood, Canute, ERS Rich and 8 others
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Meriadoc,
The Borderlands games for me.
The latter day ships of the lines had most of their major fittings below deck.
The annoying parts for me are the hammock cranes.
Those are one of my least favorite parts to install and set up the netting for (and are actually one of the reasons I don’t typically build build late 18th Century or early 19th Century ships).
I need to finish those up on the quarterdeck and work my way forward.
I have most of the upper deck structures done, I just have to finalize all the details.
It’s just a matter of sitting down and doing it.
The masting and rigging are the easy parts for me.
Setting up shrouds are difficult for me, but once that is done, it’s just rope work.
I bought a full set of rigging fittings for the Victory last year, I just need to use them.
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Very cool model!
- Canute, mtaylor and Old Collingwood
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- firdajan, Glen McGuire, Canute and 5 others
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Making progress on the carvings.
I remembered about gluing them down to a board and did so.
One of the crowns is nearly done.
One crown is about 50% if I can salvage it.
The one knot looking thing is cut out and awaiting getting the bas relief cut in it.
Most of these carvings will be bas relief, which is not exclusively difficult.
I only have three fully 3D carvings to do on this model, one figurehead and two heads that go on bitts.
I am a few years out of practice on this sort of work, but that is okay.
It is all coming back to me now.
After I finish this model, I need to decide between an ironclad (or pre-dreadnought) or a 17th-century Dutch 80-gunner with lots of carvings.
Or maybe I’ll just go for broke and build La Soleil Royale or the Sovereign of the Seas.
Both of those have lots of carvings that look like fun, and I’ve seen some REALLY nice builds of both vessels, on this forum, that make me really want one.
In the case of Sovereign of the Seas, I have the McKay book and the Amati plans, with 3 different sets of carvings between them.
Maybe, I’ll just build it all three ways.
Plus, I may or may not have bought the game “Greedfall” for the PS4 because of its rendition of the Sovereign of the Seas.
Either way, once I run out of basswood sheets I need to replace them with some pear, boxwood or other tight grained wood to make the carvings on the next model.Also, my Victory needs finishing. It only has the upper deck detailing, upper head detailing, masting, rigging and sails to go.
Sounds like a lot. It really isn’t. I could finish it up in a few months if I really wanted to.Then, I would at least have a completed first rate ship-of-the-line in my collection.
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- scrubbyj427, mtaylor, firdajan and 7 others
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Looking forward to this build!
- Old Collingwood, Egilman, AJohnson and 4 others
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Congratulations on the new grandson!
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1:98 Wooden Stanchions for HMS Victory
in Discussion for a Ship's Deck Furniture, Guns, boats and other Fittings
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I’ll take a look this evening!