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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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Thank you all for the likes and just for stopping by! The deadeyes, with chainplates, are installed: I have never seen internal chainplates before. I made and installed more of those posts that go around the hull. They still need painted. I have just been scratch building them. It is easier to scratch build them, than to use the kit version. Plus, they look better. I started making the first round of boat davits. One got a little roughed up. I used that card modeling technique where you use CA on the cut sides to stiffen up the part. It works pretty well. That’s how that piece got roughed up. At 1/200 scale, these would have been unusable if I hadn’t stiffened them up.
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Very nice model, Nic!
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If you want to add wood grain, I would recommend using wood grain contact paper. That’s what I’ve been “planking” my card models with. There are also specialized wood grain foils sold for card modelers. Most are self adhesive and would avoid the issue of adhering wood to plastic.
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Congratulations! Well done!
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The deadeyes are hard on the fingers. I got ten done in the first wave: The studding sail booms are on: Making progress!
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