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Martini Porsche 935 by kpnuts - FINISHED - Tamiya - 1/12
GrandpaPhil replied to kpnuts's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
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Since I already made them, I installed all bitts: Next up: rope coils and forward pin rails!
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This is just me musing about future builds. My hands down favorite ship models are the Baroque Era floating palaces of the 17th Century. The only one of those that I have built is a Heller La Reale. That one died horribly in storage (it got knocked over). I have the AAMM plans for another one and am probably going to buy Gerard Delacroix’s monograph of La Fleur De Lis, this summer. I also have the plans for Sovereign Of The Seas (the John McKay Book) that I will turn into a model one day. I would also like to build one of the French Two or Three-Deckers from the Seventeenth Century, too. I’ll keep an eye on AAMM and Ancre for those.
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I’m doing the Zu Monfeld thing of working fittings forward to aft so I don’t forget anything. In that spirit, the first five bitts are in place: The rest are being made right now, since it isn’t really any harder to make a bunch than make a few: On a side note, this has been an interesting building experience. With transition era warships there are many more modern fittings, like superstructures and stacks, mixed in with the old binnacles, bitts, and a ship’s wheel that had its twin on the Constitution or Victory. It is neat looking at the differences between this model and those I have built in the past. My usual era is the mid-18th to early 19th Centuries.
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Looking for a card model of the Arizona
GrandpaPhil replied to Dion Dunn's topic in Card and Paper Models
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The green gun looks really good! I like to add a drybrushed highlight coat to models for depth and shading.
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The galley funnel is up: Working on bitts: These are tiny. On the Magenta, they will be much larger.
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Looking good!
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Welcome to Model Ship World! John McKay’s “The 100 Gun Ship Victory” (The Anatomy Of The Ship series) has been an invaluable resource for my own Victory build.
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USS Merrimack 1855 by threebs
GrandpaPhil replied to threebs's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1851 - 1900
Deciding to try to keep at it is part of trying. I’ve seen your other models. They are phenomenal. This one will be too. -
I have a very difficult time rolling the really small parts, it’s usually easier to just make them from wood.
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Looking forward to seeing this build!
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Chris, Quick nuts and bolts question for you (you’re much better at this than I am). How are you folding the really tiny pieces? They are throwing me for a loop. I’ve been clear coating both sides of the pieces prior to cutting out, then using the dull edge of my scalpel to crease the parts. After cutting the parts out, I’ve been using the tip of the blade to fold the parts. Do you have a better method for folding the parts?
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The last sloth figure, a DnD Bard: Now, to place them all in the Admiral’s curio cabinet, and back to the Solferino!
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The stove and another fitting are on: The other fitting needs some paint, but it’s too small to paint off the model. I’d lose it. In other news, I painted another sloth figure for the Admiral: This one is a cleric. They are all 1:48-1:56 scale. And in Solferino related news, I’m thinking that when I get to that stage and test build a cannon, I might just carve them all. If I think it will look better. Carving cannons isn’t particularly difficult, it’s just time consuming (like everything in this hobby). It’s also very relaxing to me (also like everything else in this hobby).
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It looks great! Well done!
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Just remember paper is cheap and easy to obtain. You can always make some out of paper and if you don’t like them, you can always make wood ones. If you look at my Victory build, I used paper gratings on a modified Mantua kit. Your’s look a lot nicer than mine did.
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Life is really busy right now so all hobby work has slowed to a crawl. The stove is cleaned up and edge painted. Plus, I started another fitting that sits next to it. Completely not ship related, but I enjoy painting miniature figures. The Admiral really likes sloths. I found a set of 28mm DnD sloth figures from Dark Sword Miniatures. The Admiral asked me to buy some of them and paint them for her. So, I bought her 3 of them. Here’s the first one:
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