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Thank you all for the likes and for stopping by! This round of deck fittings is complete and it is time to start making the bulkheads for the ends of the decks. I have all the pieces for them printed out and glued to card, so I just need to print them out and paint them. The plan set came with the decorative friezes already printed out that would have come with the kit. I do not have the painting ability that some of you do, so I believe that I will use them because I believe that it will look better.
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French Pre-Dreadnought Battleship Carnot
GrandpaPhil replied to dgbot's topic in Nautical/Naval History
I have been on a late 19th century binge lately. The binge started with the Solferino (1860), one of two modernish battleships that were designed for a full broadside, and has expanded from there. The Solferino’s hull was pierced for 96 gunports. Only 55 were used as gunports, the rest were windows. It is possible that the things that look like gunports on the Carnot were intended to look like gunports, but were actually windows, like the Solferino. I have no idea why the French Admiralty would want a ship to look like it could deliver a full broadside after turret ships had obsoleted them, but it is a possibility that that may have been the intent. -
That’s one way. Or you assemble subassemblies and then paint. I’ve utilized both methods with great success.
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Proof of concept/prototype for the first grating: It still needs cleaned up and painted, but that will do just fine. This set of plans is very nice. The trick for the plan sheets for the brass photo-etch is to just photocopy onto thin card and then cut them out. I made the mistake with the gundeck and orlop deck gratings of cutting out the pieces on the plan and trying to glue them to card. It didn’t work too well. But, this is working just fine. It is fundamentally the same thing I did with the windows I made earlier. It’s a little tedious, but isn’t everything in this hobby, lol? That’s part of why this hobby is so relaxing.
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All decks are planked and the forecastle deck is sealed. I’m actually a little farther along with the model, but I haven’t paused to take pictures. I’m currently working on cutting out the rest of the pieces that I traced out and prepping the grating pieces and trim pieces that I copied on the thin card. Those are going to either get layered onto other card after I carve the details into them, or get glued down to wood and then carved. Thank you again to this wonderful forum for that carving group project. It was immensely valuable to me. Sometime in between, I need to make 2 ladders and get the hatch pieces finalized, to include the aforementioned gratings.
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