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  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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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  7. 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!
  8. 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.
  9. GeorgeKapas
    Two overviews, finally its getting close now.
  10. GeorgeKapas
    Hand is better, finally I can get some work done. Shrouds almost done.
  11. GeorgeKapas
    The choice to make proper deadeyes proved very frustrating. Barely 1.5mm across and they take a lot of time. On the sovereign a lot of things will move much faster even though it a lot bigger. Perhaps not the best looking from point blank distance, just a few centimetres away they do the trick, so that will do. The shroud planks were generally a mistake that I tried to fix now, these plastic additions will be painted in the end...
  12. GeorgeKapas
    Thank you. Hurting the hand meant I couldn't work on the models properly... we shouldn't take anything for granted! But Its better now. The scale is really a problem, I couldn't use the tweezers which was vital. Also a lot of my choices especially with the shroud planks were not optimal and required fixes...
  13. GeorgeKapas
    Sorry for the lack of updates, I was a bit busy, plus a small injury to the hand. Hopefully more photos later today, the final building phase is now, and then back to the Sovereign!
  14. GeorgeKapas
    Anchors from the front and general views. Onward to finish the shrouds.
  15. GeorgeKapas
    Jibboom guys are finished, the anchors and their accompanying rigging is done as well, so we are done with the forecastle.
  16. GeorgeKapas
    Yes, with the Pyro's Revenge, which is even smaller, I''ll use spruce extensively. The problem here is that it takes a lot of time to tension them again.
  17. GeorgeKapas
    Did some tensioning on the standing rigging. I use the cloth as a movable but soft base for rigging. Also the ship in my hand for proper scale!
  18. GeorgeKapas
    BTW should I make the horizontal lines of the shrouds with melted plastic spruce or thin thread? I'm still unsure
  19. GeorgeKapas
    Thank you! Yes the material is the worst, soft Airfix plastic, the masts bend with the slightest tension, every time I add a piece of thread I need to readjust the stays or some other standing rigging... I have somewhat given up on most of these problems, at least for now, going to tension them near the end of the rigging phase
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    Overview:
  21. GeorgeKapas
    Details on the rigging, mostly of the stern section: Braces, cluelines, sheet lines, lifts etc Adding the ropes at the deck and the pins was absolutely troublesome, I did my best
  22. GeorgeKapas
    Progress! Finally, what a troublesome week! Sheets and cluelines, most of the running rigging is complete, including some of the shrouds:
  23. GeorgeKapas
    Sorry for the lack of updates, these will come this weekened when a lot of progress will be documented. I had flags printed, a 17th century Red Ensign for the taffrail a Royal Standard for the mizzenmast a 17th century Union jack for the mainmast and a small jack for the bowsprit, although it is debatable if I'll add the latter. There was an issue with the rigging thread, I was running low on Mantua thread which you cant find any more here. I have Nylon, Polyester, Silk, and various qualities of cotton. At this tiny scale, any blemish and fluff will show, and even with waxing, Polyster looked terrible ( all 0.25mm btw). Nylon has no fluff by default by its threading is very crude. Today I finally found some Egyptian Cotton thread that behaved properly and with waxing it looks just like the Mantua thread. Great news, as now I have a good supply near me.
  24. GeorgeKapas
    You are right, of course. I did this with a model I made some years ago, the also tiny Academy's Bedford Whaler. In the meantime I'm trying to fold up A4 paper pieces to suggest becalmed flags, I'll post some for suggestions.
  25. GeorgeKapas
    Dont worry, the flag is just for suggestion, I'll print flags for her anew. I usually dont add sails at all, and have the yards lowered. Perhaps furled up sails can be added, but these are rarely seen in museums and navy board models, so..

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