GrandpaPhil
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COVID is not any fun. I hope you feel better soon. The models look fantastic!
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- Muleta de Seixal
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Thank you very much, Steven! This is the hardest part for me, so I am pleased to see it shaping up. Meriadoc, It is a taco and is part of an oversized Valentine’s card that says, “Let’s taco about us” I do resale on the side, and found a bunch of those obnoxiously oversized Valentine’s cards on a liquidation pallet. They were the perfect thickness (approximately 1 mm) and size (24” by 36”) for model making. Needless to say, I promptly gave one to my wife (which she also promptly gave back to me to use for model making as it was too large to keep) and then put the rest of them in my model making supplies.
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Thank you very much! One of the nice things about card is that there is no water or steaming involved, so it goes much quicker. Plus, you just preshape the planks as you go. Card has become one of my preferred ways to build. The Prince de Neufchatel, which was my first card ship and scratch build, was one of those things in which I just wanted to see if I could do it. Once I got the hull built, I realized that it wasn’t any different than any other ship model from that point on. So, I kept rolling. This is my fourth ship built in card, third scratch build, but the first one that involved building from plans for a wood model, and having to adjust accordingly.
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Starboard first planking is complete:
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Starboard side is first planked except for stealers:
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Cradle test fit: I’ll have to decide what color to paint it later.
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Yes, Roland is a good rooster. He crows in the morning after he hears me or my wife moving around. If he crows any other time it is to let me know that something is wrong. I’m working on the cradle right now to give Revenge a stable place to sit because the planking has progressed far enough that it needs a solid base now.
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The first planking is in progress: And, my shipyard supervisor, Roland:
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Here is the trireme: IMG_3431.tiff It won’t embed normally because it is a .tif file, so it is not compressed. It is courtesy of the French Ministry of Defense.
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This is going to be an awesome project! I have a plan from the French Ministry of Defense for a Roman Trireme, drawn in 1861, in .tif format if you would like it.
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Card makes great “iron” fittings, too.
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All material is cut for the first planking: We’ll see how this goes. This is the first time I have tried conventional planking on a card model. It should be noted that planking a model has never been my strong suit. Once I have a hull, I am good. It is just getting to that point which is my difficulty.
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The first layer will be a little rough, anyway. I will try to utilize spiling on the first layer. After I get the first layer done, I will be puttying and sanding to get a smooth surface for the second planking. I am not planning on stabilizing with paper. I will just be directly planking.
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I started cutting material for the first layer of planking. I need 32 strips that are 1/4” wide. That will get me through the first planking. I installed all gunport sills already. I have 10 strips cut so far.
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Thank you very much! That was very helpful! Matthew Baker designed and built the Revenge. I will utilize that drawing for my basic color scheme.
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Thank you very much! That makes perfect sense. In other news, I am enjoying this model enough that I just ordered myself the Sergal plan set for the Soleil Royal, from Cornwall Model Boats, for my birthday, so I can execute the same construction methodology that I am using with this model on the Soleil Royal. That will be a fun build in the future! I think that it will be a great build in 1/64 scale. That will make for a 48” model.
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I like making my own from wood strips. They are relatively easy to mass produce. Here is how I do it. I have refined my technique to round them out a bit before cutting them apart.
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