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Incredible work!
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Thank you very much! Solferino is ready for masts! I started on the hammocks, but discovered that they would interfere with the lanyards on the deadeyes. So, I rolled them and put them in the plastic container that I stored the ship’s boats in. I have no idea how many I made, I didn’t keep count. I started on Solferino’s masts: I found out in a test fit of the lower foremast that the kit version of the masts only go to the deck. I had to use the first foremast I made as a depth gauge to figure out what I needed to add to each of the masts. I then annotated said addition by the pieces from the kit. Needless to say, I have to make another foremast. Oh well, live and learn. I’m making each full mast, one at a time to prevent confusion as to what goes where. I will make yards and gaffs after I finish and install the masts.
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Here are some pictures of the prep work for the railings: The hull rigging will be installed from fore to aft, with each side getting its respective rigging as I work my way down the hull so nothing is forgotten.
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Thank you very much! I’m working hull rigging and getting railing stanchions made from wire for the forward railings. I already touched up all paint and sealed my work in. I will paint the railing pieces after installation. I’m trying to finalize the hull so I can go ahead and make/install the masts. At some point in the nearish future, I need to put a highlight coat on the hull. That is when you VERY lightly drybrush white on the upper surfaces and edges of a model to give the impression of lighting and shadows. It should be done prior to installing the masts.
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Thank you very much! I am adding ship’s boats to davits: A couple of the straps are too wide and I shouldn’t have made them from the thicker card. Oh, well, live and learn. In other news I touched up the black. The tan needs touched up and then the whole model needs sealed. Speaking of sealant, I just bought a couple cans of that Krylon Matte Spray sealant that @ccoyle recommended. Thank you very much for pointing me in the right direction. I am acquiring a pretty significant card model collection. I keep buying Shipyard kits. I can’t help it. They are so cheap to buy, but are such high quality. And with the 30th Anniversary combo packs, how can you pass them up? Even if they are 1/96 scale, card kits are so easy to resize at will and build them however you want to. Orel has a bunch of kits that I want as well. The same scaling issue applies there as well.
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GrandpaPhil replied to Wonko the Sane's topic in New member Introductions
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The Vanguard Sphinx looks incredible!
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The drawing on the right is the side-on drawing of the first cant frames. They appear to take the shape of the curvature of the keel when set at an angle.
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Valeriy, I greatly look forward to seeing the finish of the Varyag! It is one of the best builds that I have ever seen! Stay safe! Phil
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Thank you very much! Good news! Solferino is going into her final stages of construction! The Victory will be back on my workbench in the very near future!
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Nicely done!
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The vast majority of the hull and deck fittings are now in place: She still needs a little paintwork, boats hung from davits, stern anchors, a flagpole, with a flag, and railings on the forecastle. The railings are currently drying after receiving damage from being taken off the loom. Then it will be time to finalize hull rigging (most of it will be false rigging, like the gunport lids). After that, it will be time to add masts, rigging and sails.
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La Gloire looks like she got rerigged as a barque, too, after 1864-5. I just found the barque sail plan on the French Historical Office’s website. Although, I found this etching of La Gloire with her barquentine rig, on Wikipedia.
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I just discovered that La Gloire had a barquentine rig, the same as Magenta at launching. AAMM has plans for La Gloire! This means that I need to place an order…
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Thank you very much! The first series of ironclads, encompassing La Gloire and the two Magentas (of which Solferino was one) were contemporary with Jules Verne’s earlier novels. I am a fan of steampunk and that definitely played a role in selecting this ship to build. Incidentally, thank you very much for bringing up the steampunk factor up because I had to check to verify how many ships were in that first series. In doing so, I discovered that La Gloire had the same rig as the Magenta at launching. AAMM has plans of La Gloire, which means that I can use the rigging plan from La Gloire to rig the Magenta.
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On a separate note, I came to the conclusion this morning that the HMV Emden kit I bought and any future Orel kits that I buy are getting rescaled to 1/100 scale and being used as build templates versus just getting resized. I really like this kit. I like it well enough to be a repeat customer. However, 1/200 or smaller is so inconvenient, especially with the level of detail in these kits.
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I was trying to figure out how to suspend the ship’s boats. On the Paris model, it looks like they can be supported by the railings. It also looks like they hung the ship’s boats with straps, not ropes. That makes this a LOT easier.
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The rest of the boat davits are double layered now: I’m going to do one set at a time, but I’m trying get all of them ready to be final cut, assembled and installed.
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