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GeorgeKapas

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  1. GeorgeKapas
    Thank you! It is the same painting and rigging style and method I used on the bomb ketch. I have several small kits that I will employ the same built process.
  2. GeorgeKapas
    The rigging progressed quite fast this week. Its almost done.
  3. GeorgeKapas
    The rigging is progressing quickly, as there are no shrouds. But the backstays are a bit complicated.
  4. GeorgeKapas
    And here is the current state of the model. I used pencil to enhance the planking on the outside of the hull as well.
  5. GeorgeKapas
    At this point I added ribs, both to improve the model, but also to help secure the deck more firmly, as the plastic of the ship is unusually thin.
  6. GeorgeKapas
    Testing the colours, and working on the deck. The planks were done with a combination of dry brushing and washing each plank with a different hue. The rest of the details were done with pencil.
  7. GeorgeKapas
    The assembled kit. You can see in the photos the several blocks and dead eyes I made with plastic, that would go with the rigging. Some additional pins for the rigging were added on the deck. The sails, as mentioned are not good, so I'll make them out of silk, but folded on the yards.
  8. GeorgeKapas
    Hello again! Another tiny and old Heller kit, a small sailing ship representing the Mediterranean "tartane" type. The kit is not actually that bad. The yards were unusable and had to be made anew. The mainmast was also changed a bit. the plastic sails were also no good. Other than that I did very few modifications.
  9. GeorgeKapas
    Thank you all. I'll omit all the intermediary steps and jump strait to the present. Took these today: The side ladders are added, the stern railings are new, some work on the bowsprit as well, I added some more details around the top most wale. A thin undercoat is getting applied as well.
  10. GeorgeKapas
    The sanding down of the exterior of the hull gave me problems fitting the cheeks on the bow, but especially the galleries which required some bending. Filling was extensive all over the place.
  11. GeorgeKapas
    I'll post various photos of the built so far the next few days.
  12. GeorgeKapas
    As for the masts and bowsprit some modifications were made, to the yards and the lower masts.
  13. GeorgeKapas
    I used the gun carriages differently, glueing them vertically to created gunboxes behind the gunports. This will also make the gun barrels to align better
  14. GeorgeKapas
    Greetings to everyone! This kit needs no introductions, as it is an old Heller, with many issues. In fact I have made, and/or attempted to kitbash this kit many times in the past. So basically the simple plan is this: repeat all the methods I used on the bomb ketch, with the experience and skill I got from that kit to the Royal Louis. The main issue this kit has, which had to be addressed is the horrendous wood grain that covers the entire side of the ship. It is off scale, and actually shouldn't exist at all. Plus the over the top wales that had to be trimmed down as well. With these out of the way, some modifications are needed on the bow, like re positioning the holes of the anchor lines to a more conventional place, better staircases, knees to hold the upperdecks up etc. Trying to match the model in the Musee de la Marine perfectly is not my intend, chiefly because I don't like its color scheme. Here you can see the first difficult step: The entire ship has been sanded down, and every surface smoothed down. The wales were reduced as well. When planks need to show up, I'll draw them with pencil just like in the Bomb ketch.
  15. GeorgeKapas
    Indeed. Silk is currently my preferred method. Perhaps not the best material for models, it has some drawbacks, but the way it can bend and created so many wrinkles without hard edges is what appeals to me.
  16. GeorgeKapas
    I follow him on Facebook, he is a true master. He too raised the railings and added a gun port under the galleries. He built it very fast, I started mine way back but I still haven't worked on it. His method of making the sails out of paper is very impressive, I tried it on the Ketch but couldn't do it and made them out of silk instead..
  17. GeorgeKapas
    Heller's Royal Louis for me, and some other commissions for a historian friend, a kitbash of IMAI's Galeass which rather changes the ship's profile quite a bit, as well as a conversion of Heller's Golden Hint into the Tyger. Sovereign is a bit on hold. I would really love to get my hands on a Soleil Royal just like you magnificent model here.
  18. GeorgeKapas
    Thank you for your kind words! They are especially important to me coming from someone so skillfull and knowledgeable about the subject. I have followed your thread here as well, the depth of your research is astonishing! Unfortunately I'm not online very often and I omit to both learn from and praise the great work everyone does here.... I will try to be more diligent, follow you and everyone else more closely and finally open threads for the new builds as well.
  19. GeorgeKapas
    Thank you, thank you ! As I said before, many methods were tested on it, and so I insisted to give this rare kit done some justice. But it was a great lesson, hopefully Sovereign of the Seas will turn out the same, although now another kit, Royal Louis from Heller has gotten my attention.
  20. GeorgeKapas
    Hello again! I returned back to the bomb ketch after a lot of consideration, to try and add sails. It was a difficult process, but I settled in a method. If it is done in a bigger ship, it will look better and will be easier, but tried it with it regardless. The sails are made out of silk, I tried to strengthened the edges with thread, and generally tried to make them attached to the clue lines, at least the mainsail. All the sails are furled since the yards are lowered in the first place. Even with silk, they cloth is very oversized in this tiny scale, so the sails dont have their actual original outline and size, but are actually reduced in surface area and cut down before folded, so their volume won't look off-scale. In any case, the return to the Bomb Ketch was worth it, I think. I'll try to update and add other threads with my current builds as well.
  21. GeorgeKapas
    Thank you all! Now I'll be doing a conversion of Heller's Golden Hind into the galleon Tyger, for a historian friend of mine, and at the same time I'll return back to the Sovereign as well!
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  23. GeorgeKapas
    It was a long hiatus, but last weekend was very productive and the model is ready! I thank everyone who followed it! I learned a lot from it, on to the next!
  24. GeorgeKapas
    Once again, thank you. Cant wait to finish it so I can start a bigger one, so many kits lying around. This build has been a good school for me.
  25. GeorgeKapas
    Two overviews, finally its getting close now.

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