Jump to content
MSW Spring Donation Drive

EricWilliamMarshall

NRG Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    985

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Everything posted by EricWilliamMarshall

  1. EricWilliamMarshall
    Ok, coating and dedicated scissors/blades seem to be in the consensus. I have bunch coatings within the house to try first (since they are at hand and no additional cost). For the moment, I'll try to resist the urge to buy surgical scissors (but I hear their siren song calling...) Thank you Gregory, mtaylor, allanyed, wefalck, SpyGlass, and paul ron for your sage advice!!
  2. EricWilliamMarshall
    Ah, understood! Thanks
  3. EricWilliamMarshall
    Grandpa Phil, how do you handle unusual curves with the tape? Do you cut or modify the tape?
  4. EricWilliamMarshall
    Given Chuck’s suggestion I took another try (well, a set of tries) at the transom I have. The one with the quarter was the earlier set of attempts. This time I scraped down each raised line slightly with a #11 blade and the used a thin brush and ye olde paint. Not award winning but better. Thanks! I’ll try the other suggestion this weekend.
  5. EricWilliamMarshall
    After a quick web search, I'm game to try that. I believe I actually have one, in an old drafting set, but I didn't know the name or use until now. Druxey, thank you!
  6. EricWilliamMarshall
    hmm, that is excellent thought. Many thanks!! As an aside, your work is crazy and beautiful! Delightful!
  7. EricWilliamMarshall
    ha ha ha - I'm not sure if that will work, but I definitely will try it!!
  8. EricWilliamMarshall
    What is the best way of make a clean cut of string (or hiding the string fuzz at the end)? What are the standard knots (if any) for model rigging? Are there standard references folks would recommend (I love books)? I'm using mostly square knots and it's a bit slow, plus I have the tiny 'ends' that stick out. If I cut them too close, the knot falls apart. Also, what is the best way to cut the string? Sawing away with the X-acto fuzzes the string end for me. Thanks for your time (and expertise)! Everyone's models here look amazing!
  9. EricWilliamMarshall
    - how do folks paint clean, even, straight lines? - how do folks paint clean even wiggly/curved lines? In the photo below, I tried a few different ways to solve this with mixed results. I'm curious how other folks solve this. Thanks again!
  10. EricWilliamMarshall
    She has her masts and plastic ratlines attached. I lost another cannon and again reinserted it via putty and bamboo.
  11. EricWilliamMarshall
    I'm also curious for wisdom regarding knots and the clean cutting of string.
  12. EricWilliamMarshall
    What advice do folk have for painting even fine lines and strips?
  13. EricWilliamMarshall
    Little by little!
  14. EricWilliamMarshall
    Shotlocker, beautiful!! I'm building the baby version (1/196). If I survive this one, the next will be bigger. The photos were already useful to me!
  15. EricWilliamMarshall
    A couple quick shots: guns back where they ought to be. A boat added and the bowsprit started.
  16. EricWilliamMarshall
    None taken! I was being silly; as a newbie here my giving ' no thought about upgrading or re-modelling.' Also the same 'with the rigging just used whatever was supplied.' The goal is merely to complete the model and get a taste of dealing with the fiddlely strings, knots and the like.
  17. EricWilliamMarshall
    Wow! She looks great! Feel free to share some more photos! It looks like you didn't use the 'stock' ratlines. Am I correct? (I realize it may have been a while, no worries if the such details have faded in the haze of glory of a finished model.) I hope anything I work on is around in fifty years!
  18. EricWilliamMarshall
    Umm, that's the plan. Hunting around modelshipworld has inspired me to take more care, when possible. Thanks for the encouragement!
  19. EricWilliamMarshall
    First minor disaster - two of the lower guns popped out! (Third from the right was the tricky one). I tried to use tweezers but that didn't work. I hadn't put on the transom yet, so I tried with long tweezers. No luck, I couldn't 'release' the gun once in the right spot. In the end, I used a bamboo skewer with a blob of mounting putty (fun tack) and that worked. (Of course, the blob stuck to the gun. )
  20. EricWilliamMarshall
    Thanks VTHokiEE, GrandpaPhil, and DanO for the encouragement! The Sharpie Schooner and the Victory look wonderful; thanks for sharing the logs! It looks like Midwest (the maker of the Sharpie kit) has stopped making those kits. The Constitution is my introduction to thinking about rigging. I have a partial plastic kit of Heller's HMS Victory 1:100 (and I was just looking at GrandpaPhil's build last week before I became a member!). If I hang-on long enough to finish those, then I'll try something wooden. The Sharpie kit looks like a reasonable starting point, but I have many miles to travel before such decisions.
  21. EricWilliamMarshall
    Added deck bits and put the hull and deck together.
  22. EricWilliamMarshall
    Deflashing and paint.
  23. EricWilliamMarshall
    I recently discovered ship models (and this site)! I've been lurking and reading for the last few weeks and I am diving in (in the shallow end). So here goes nothing!

About us

Modelshipworld - Advancing Ship Modeling through Research

SSL Secured

Your security is important for us so this Website is SSL-Secured

NRG Mailing Address

Nautical Research Guild
237 South Lincoln Street
Westmont IL, 60559-1917

Model Ship World ® and the MSW logo are Registered Trademarks, and belong to the Nautical Research Guild (United States Patent and Trademark Office: No. 6,929,264 & No. 6,929,274, registered Dec. 20, 2022)

Helpful Links

About the NRG

If you enjoy building ship models that are historically accurate as well as beautiful, then The Nautical Research Guild (NRG) is just right for you.

The Guild is a non-profit educational organization whose mission is to “Advance Ship Modeling Through Research”. We provide support to our members in their efforts to raise the quality of their model ships.

The Nautical Research Guild has published our world-renowned quarterly magazine, The Nautical Research Journal, since 1955. The pages of the Journal are full of articles by accomplished ship modelers who show you how they create those exquisite details on their models, and by maritime historians who show you the correct details to build. The Journal is available in both print and digital editions. Go to the NRG web site (www.thenrg.org) to download a complimentary digital copy of the Journal. The NRG also publishes plan sets, books and compilations of back issues of the Journal and the former Ships in Scale and Model Ship Builder magazines.

Our Emblem ®

Modelshipworld - Advancing Ship Modeling through Research

Nautical Research Guild ® and the NRG logo are Registered Trademarks, and belong to the Nautical Research Guild (United States Patent and Trademark Office: No. 6,999,236 & No. 6,999,237, registered March 14, 2023)

×
×
  • Create New...