GeorgeKapas
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Thanks!! Indeed I forgot once again to properly document the process because of the time pressure this year... Actually sorry I misspelled sprue. So I meant the classic method of melting pieces of sprue of kits to produce lines of varous thickness etc. I also have a large supply of vacuum formed sails from kits, that I use as thin sheets of plastic for virtually anything. For the deck and some fittings, I printed black and white designs on the lazer printer, glued them on cardboard, coated their edges with ACC or superglue, and painted them. The guns as you can see are a combination of such materials, the muzzles are actually tiny beads etc -
The scale of the ship was really a challenge, but anything bigger and I would not have the time to experiment on till completion. Here are my attempts to make a tiny lion figurehead, the carving being a few millimeters tall
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Painting continues, I remade the rudder, worked on the masts a bit more, added footrops with melted spruce, added all the guns and gunports etc.
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Working on the deck. I had it printed black and white and then hand painted it. Some small pieces were used from my scrap stash to produce fittings
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The hundreds of guns were made with scrap plastic melted spurce and beads. I used a base for the gun stubs so I dont have to paint the interior of the box behind the gupports, everything in this model is tiny. The gunports are of the American two piece style. Needless to say these were many many small pieces
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The stern galleries were a field of problem solving for me, melted spurce and scrap pieces were the order of the day there as well. Work on the coloring, surfaces etc continues with back and forths
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The next photos show quite a few weeks later, back and forth on test painting, correcting the surfaces in many places and working with the stern galleries
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The bow details were made mostly with plastic strips and pieces. After this point I started going back and forth trying to correct the generally the surfaces and the stern in particularly. It was the most frustrating but useful part of the built
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So here is the stern being worked on. All surfaces were still quite rough at this point The plans called for a balcony as well. The masts are simply inserted and not properly fitted. As for the deck, I did it by hand as a seperate piece, which is still not fitted properly down. I also made a nice base for a full hull display, a plan I later revised. Notice the boxes inserted to create the gunports, quite a lot of them and about 2,5mm cubed
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Thank you! The museum is right next to the Dolmabahce Palace. It has royal barges and a galley, but not much in the way of models unfortunately.
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The yards were made with the same method, I also heavily used melted spruce, both here and throught the ship
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I used balsa wood, bamboo pieces sanded down and plastic strips to make the masts. Some yards I later remade
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So then I decided to make the lower hull, as this was still an experimental model for me. This time I went for the bread and butter method, so I printed horizontal lines. After applying a simple planking I coated it with modelling filler.
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I heavily use superglue, even as far as completely coating the paper to turn it into some short of fiberglass. I also used thin stripes of plastic sourced from the sails of plastic kits. I added the wales using this plastic and traced and cut the gunports. Boxes will be inserted and then all surfaces will be coated with filler to be sanded down.
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So originally I printed the lines for a waterline hull. Used thick paper and architectural foamcore to fill in the gaps. Her lines are unconventional, quite wide, limited tumblehome, bow heavy volume and rather thin lines aft, with only two levels of galleries and a flush continuous deck like a frigate.
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Lets start with some info and photos of the ship. 128 guns, dimensions 76.15 m × 21.22, one of the largests ships of the line ever built. Later, it came to my attention that some schoolars debate the length of the Turkish foot (kadem), but for me that was rather irrelevant, as it would only slightly change the stated scale. The plans had no scale and I printed them manually anyway. Launched in 1829, she participated in the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–55) and was considered to be upgraded to steam propulsion but that plan was never materialized.
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So this was a project I started after my friend and naval historian Emir Yener send me the plans of the ship, that he found archived in Russia and had them redrawned. He will publish them along with an article about the ship, so unfortunatelly I cant really post them properly here. Needless to say, I had to try and built it. In fact I have grown to love scrathbuilding ships, especially smaller scaled ones, and this built proved a great lesson for me, as I had only built few ships from scratch, and no ship of the line, or even proper fully rigged ship. My initial thought was to just make a waterline hull to test methods and technics, but the scope grew and grew. Later I added the underwater hull, then I decided to fully rig the ship, and by the end, add a waterline sea-diorama base for her. The project took 8 months of several back and forths, mistakes and a lot of downtime when I was preocupied with other activities and models.. Half way through, and before starting the rigging of the ship, I decided to donate it, once finished, to the Naval Museum in Istanbul. Indeed, last week I visited Emir in Istanbul, took Mahmudiye to the museum, which accepted the small model to my great pleasure and honor. I want to thank Emir Yener for the plans of the ship, as well as for his hospitality! This is going to be one my usual threads, that I will post in the next few hours all of the built, from start till its completion.
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Good evening all! Another small test project, which building process I forgot to record.. It is in fact my first small scale scratchbuilt square rigged ship. Mostly an exercise on the rigging method at such a size, on a generic and rather simple base and hull, representing a 19th century greek merchant brig, circa 1/350, waterline. A single-post thread, with the end result straight away. If mods think there is no much point please delete.
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My great thanks Hubac's Historian! Indeed an interesting observation about the capstan. Maybe I'll just leave it as a deck hole, we'll see. I have been busy with modeling and I realized I haven't posted my latest scratchbuilt projects either... There were also many real life problems I had to attent to. More updates coming today!
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Perhaps each bench to be a single paper cutout of 5 men from the waist up? Their arms might be formed from notches to the paper bent at a 90 degree. I didn't like some tests of this though. But this reduces the pieces to be made to 60 "groups". In any case, I will have to return to her sooner or later, with the original base plan. Yes , the sea is soft paper with woodglue, painted with acrylics. This time I ommited glossing it, and it does look better more matte at this scale.
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300 oarsmen in fact I dont know how I can do such a thing without looking terrible, and without taking too much time..
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So for a test built it went fair enough. Many firsts for me, and many back and forths. A lot of improvement happened, and as usual, the next built will improve on the previous one. Here is on my hand for scale. I may revisit the thread if I make a new base as originally planed.
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