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GrandpaPhil
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Congratulations! Well done!
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Very nice!
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Congratulations! Well done!
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Congratulations! Well done!
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If you have a photocopier, you should be able to resize that engine kit relatively easily. Just figure out the scaling difference and do a manual scaling. That’s how I rescaled everything for my Prince de Neufchatel and Hannah builds. For such a small scale, I’d use really thin card or regular paper when rescaling though.
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@Dr PR wrote a most excellent guide to rigging a schooner on this website. I used this extensively while rigging my model of the schooner Hannah (much older, but still very similar). I strongly recommend giving it a read.
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There’s the Magenta, some assembly required: Seriously though, she’s going to be built of double thickness cardboard for the hull. I’m amassing the cardboard now. I’ll use roughly the same techniques I did with Hannah to build the hull. I’ll cover it using a combination of traditional techniques (rough in all of the gunports, windows, etc.) and card techniques. I’ll use the pulp board to plank below the waterline and then most likely plank with standard card above the waterline. The cool thing about doing it this way is that it will make making armor plating really easy.
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Well done!
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Very nicely done!
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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
Looking forward to seeing the build!
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