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    Battle of Waterloo Attack on La Haye Sainte Farm by Old Collingwood - 1/56 (28mm)

    in Non-ship/categorised builds

    Posted · Edited by GrandpaPhil

    Rest your wrist and hand on a sponge and use a 000 brush.  
     

    I bought the Qualrite set of detail brushes (note: these are artist’s brushes and not model brushes) off of Amazon and they have worked amazingly well for miniatures.

     

    The 000 brush works great for insignia at 28mm scale.

     

    The sponge soaks up the vibration from your wrist.

     

    Given the choice, I would prefer to put my wrist down on something solid to ground it out, but with where you’re trying to work, the sponge would inflict less damage.

    finding a R/C Napoleonic warship kit?

    in RC Kits & Scratch building

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    I’m not aware of any Napoleonic R/C kits out there, but you should check out Jerry Todd’s R/C builds.  


    He has built the Constitution, Pride of Baltimore, Constellation and Macedonian as R/C models.

     

    There is also a book called “Building a Working Model Warship: HMS Warrior 1860” by William Mowll that talks about his R/C Warrior.

     

     I actually just ordered that book after reading Jerry’s build logs here.

    Magenta 1861 by GrandpaPhil - 1/72 - CARD - French Ironclad Broadside Battleship - built as designed

    in - Build logs for subjects built 1851 - 1900

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    There’s a discussion going on, on another build here which is discussing using a 45 degree planking technique to make a lightweight, but very rigid hull, especially after 3 layers.
     

    I may have to try that planking technique for the inner hull because most of this model is going to be covered in either wood grain contact paper, “armor” plates or copper tape anyway.

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