GeorgeKapas

Thank you all! Although Ares is technically finished, I'll return to her in a couple of weeks, to replace some rigging that need improvement. She is a test for me as well, so I might as well continue with experiments.

Also, since many suggested it in other social media, It would be a good idea to populated the decks with some sailors.

Nevertheless, 1/144 scale (14-15mm tall) figures are quite rare. And even if I could get some printed, I would prefer quite a number of them, so it would be difficult. In any case, if anyone has suggestions, or links, they would be most greatly appreciated. In fact I was thinking of a 2d-partial 3d figure built, where I would print color pictures of sailors on paper, and add hats, shoes etc to give 3d effect.

If you know nice drawings/plates of such a thing, I would be indebted to you as well. 

Thank you all. This was my corner, basically my first proper exhibition. And the gold medal, honorary, since we didnt organize a competition, but the three best models were given some recognition regardless. The small 1/350 paddlesteamer Karteria, which I havent made a thread, and the bigger 1/144 frigate Hellas, u/c, also needing a thread. 

Some more details on the rigging 

More deck details 

Sails are A4 paper, used pencil, acrylics and an enamel coat on top. Re-did them a couple of times, very tiring process indeed.. 

The tiny carving of Ares came out quite well 

Ares is ready! Actually she is ready for quite some time, I participated to our local modeling exhibition here in Chania last week. Unfortunatelly I had to work on her with a tight schedule to have her completed in time, and therefore took almost next to no photos of the rest of the rigging process. Needless to say it drove me mad, but I learned quite a lot, to say the least. 

On 9/21/2024 at 12:20 AM, wefalck said:

A couple of weeks ago I had, during a business visit to Athens, the opportunity to visit the Hellenic Maritime Museum in Piraeus. They have a 1/50 scale model of the ARES on display:

I think your small model compares quite favourably with this model, which is three times the size!

Thank you wefalck! I know this Ares, an old style traditional model, the few ones displayed in the other Greek museums are based on that.  

In fact mine is 1/3 the scale, and since it goes for all dimensions, it is 27 times smaller in volume, hehehehe 

For scale: 

The water caused me a bit of a trouble, as I added swell as well as waves. I added the anchors, properly rigged the guns, and added all the folded ropes on the foremast 

Good evening all! So the past month I had some changes done on the ship. I was not really happy with the rigging, both the running ones, and the ropes for the guns and anchors. Also I changed my mind on how I want her displayed....

Long story short, I built a sea diorama base for Ares, I almost completely re-rigged her, and changed all the gun and anchor ropes etc. I'll spare you the back and forth, and post some photos of her updated situation 

The additional waxing helped. Again, the scale is so small I am not sure it is even noticeable in real life to anyone other than me.  Some of these details will be covered by the sails that I plan to add, but I still dont know how to streamline the process, since this is my first time that I have gone that far. 

26 minutes ago, Keith Black said:

 Fantastic work, George. I work at 1:120 so I understand the issues you have working at 1:144. You did an excellent job selecting the blocks for their placement due to size.  

Indeed!! We have to reduce a lot of the rigging details at such scale. Making thes kind of dicisions is sometimes harder than following rigging instructions

14 minutes ago, Ian_Grant said:

George, astoundingly neat work especially at that scale! It doesn't look like you were "hindered". 😉 As to the upper sail rigging, it would make sense to me to pass ropes through the lubber's hope IF their pins were inboard of the shrouds. Windjammers did this and had fairleads along the shrouds to prevent loose ropes from tangling with each other. But if the pin is aft of the shrouds then to me it makes sense to run the lines straight as you have....why have them rubbing the edge of lubber's hole?

Thank you Ian! Because the limited number of schrouds and the gunports breaking up the continuity of the bulwark, the aft pinrails went  further aft than usual, I really wanted to hear the opinion of the fellow modelers, before doing anything I would regret.

Today I spend most of the time rewaxing the lines, as the tiny blocks had fizzed them up a bit. Oh well.. 

Here is one for scale: 

more closeups on the foremast. 

Posting a few more closeups: this time the bowsprit: 

Bofore I continue with more details, I have a serious problem, and a guestion I wanted to ask here in the forum.... 

So I put the pinrails where they are. trying to get the running rigging properly set, I felt that passing the sheet and cluelines of the topgalland and royal through the opening of the fighting top and then to the side pinrails was rather bizzare. I run these ropes straight to the pins down, right next to the backstays. Is this wrong? I have seen some books like the "anatomy of the ship- bounty" that does that, others books dont show it like that. I hope I make sense, two more zoomed photos to show this better: 

The side pinrails. I added a single test knot, they will go over the rest of the pins.

I have taken a lot of closeups with quite the zoom, but these photos are from a phone, so I did my best. 

Good morning! So the rigging process has progressed. I have been trying to improve the accuracy of my rigging work with this model, but the scale and the small size of the model is a bit of a hindrance. The current state of the rig is as follows: 

yes, but mostly drawing the planks on the hull with black pencil and then passing over them again softly with white pencil for a more 3d effect. Its subtle, the model is small and one has to inspect it from very close to notice tbh

Thank you ccoyle! Yes exactly, I mean, the way one finishes and colors his model is subjective, but this painting like asthetic pleases me, so that was the result. Always wanted to do it, with Mahmudiye I couldn't, but now I feel it is better. 

The rest of the deck. So the gun barrels and the wheel came from the parts pile, as for the rest of the deck, I am very happy with the result and its layout, all things considering