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About GeorgeKapas

  • Birthday 09/19/1988

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    Chania Greece
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    Ships I guess

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    Thank you all, and again, I have neglected to post updates in my threads, or even start new threads of completed models! I'll plan to do that now, and perhaps continue with royal louis which is indeed a nice built.
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    I hoped you enjoyed the city Ian! Yes, the red building oposite the lighthouse at the harbour's entrance, on the Firka fortress. Alas, I have diverted my attention on a small built of La Couronne, rather unwisely. But this too fell short, perhaps a move to bigger builts is needed, once bigger workspace is available
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    Thank you all!!! Oh well, Karteria is well underway, but unfortunatelly rather stalled due to the lack of details of the Brent plans.... We'll see how it goes...The water is made by by applying tissue paper and woodglue into a few layers, and then form the waves with a brush. I found something similar done online and developed a method of my own based on that, to me it seems quite bizzare that not many do it like that.. anyway. The deck is simply a patern I drew on MS paint and printed it in black and white, then painted it with acrylics and sealed it with enamel clear coat. Nowdays I make another small model of the "La Couronne" (1636) mostly for my own pleasure, testing some new methods and materials, but in the general philisophy of these builts. I'll make a thread soon enough!
  25. GeorgeKapas
    A photo the day I donated her. Once she is in display I'll post more pictures. My next project will be of the steamship Karteria, for the museum here in Chania
  26. GeorgeKapas
    Last photos! Thank you all for your kind words! This was one of my first scratchbuilt ships, and I learned a lot while making it. I am very honored that a museum accept it. 😁
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    So this is it, the end result. From here on, are the finished pictures I took of the model 2 weeks ago.
  30. GeorgeKapas
    So here is the ship at 99% complete out of the water. These are the last photos I have of her as a full hull display, as she is not here anymore 😅
  31. GeorgeKapas
    So here the ship is 99% complete. One can in theory remove her from the base and display the ship as full hull model. Since the previous post, some details were added and some changed, like the boats moved further aft etc. A few more pieces were still not added by this point, like boat rudders, etc, but I'll post more of the finished photos later. I added some flags that I printed and painted, the anchors were sourced from my parts heap but reduced in size a bit, the boats are also from parts and have been cut down to scale.
  32. GeorgeKapas
    I put it in the typical position, top deck forward of the mizzen. The deck arrangement was not found so I followed the typical one, simplified
  33. GeorgeKapas
    Tomorow I'll short out the pictures of the near finished model, here a couple more during this stage of the built with me in for scale
  34. GeorgeKapas
    I made the base using tissue paper, woodglue and acrylic colours. Basically a papier mache with the woodglue and water that I shaped with a brush. I painted with acrylics then added another woodglue layer for gloss effect. I haven't made up my mind about the best combination of ingredients and methods for it, so each new base is slightly differently made. I went back after this stage and revised a few details on the ship even as late as this stage, but there is little point elaborating on it since I skiped taking photos on many of the stages to be honest.
  35. GeorgeKapas
    So here the rigging process is well underway, the yard lifters and most of the standing rigging is in place 😅😁😇 You can also now see the base with the water ready. I'll elaborate next on how I made it
  36. GeorgeKapas
    Thank you for you kind words! Everyone's work here is magnificent and different, this is what makes it interesting!

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