edmay
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edmay reacted to donrobinson in Le Soleil Royal by EJ_L - FINISHED - Sergal - Scale 1:77 - 1669 Version
That is a great looking kit, I'll gladly pull up a stump and watch
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edmay reacted to Bob Blarney in Tweezers - Japanese vendor Kaneshin
You might save some money, if you look in a catalog of instruments for a veterinarian's armamentarium.
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edmay reacted to Chuck in Chuck's carving attempts - #11 blades and micro chisels
I prefer a mounting board to prevent the small thin sections from breaking while carving. Everyone works differently. But sometimes it achieves the same result. Whatever is most comfortable I guess.
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edmay reacted to willz in Chuck's carving attempts - #11 blades and micro chisels
your carvings look fine to me Chuck. but i have no idea how you can finish them whilst still on a mounting board, how can you get the roundness at the edges, as i said on my post i dont use mounting boards, heres a pic of my Vic stern carving, it is slightly less the 1/32 thick but not much, as for the finish i just scrape my blade sideways to smooth it out, when we are dealing with carvings as delicate as these we have to reach a equilibrium to are own satisfaction, and by the way i dont have big fingers
rules there is no rules
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edmay reacted to fmartins in Royal Louis by fmartins - multi-media
Oh, and I forgot.... I promised before a picture of the carriages under the deck... It will be barely visible in the end, but I know it's there... and now you guys too
So far so good..
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edmay reacted to fmartins in Royal Louis by fmartins - multi-media
After a lot of sanding I was ready to the wales on the right (starboard?) side. With balsa wood pins would be pretty much useless so I resorted to use rubber bands and some tape to set the wales in place. I used CA glue sparingly on the bow and transom, just a bead to make sure they would hold.
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edmay reacted to fmartins in Royal Louis by fmartins - multi-media
With the hull faired, I decided (wrongly I suppose) to glue the wales... I got a bunch of pink cedar strips lying around...
But I was afraid of not being able to curve them properly. I saw a couple bending jigs and tried the best with a plank of styrofoam, a side picture of the Royal Louis (covered in tape so it wouldn't glue to the paper) and a few ball-point pins. No need for water or steam as they are really thin.
A redimensioned side view of the ship to see if it would fit...
So far it looks good...
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edmay reacted to fmartins in Royal Louis by fmartins - multi-media
As for the gratings, I tried to make them in wood, but even the smallest I could do was so off in terms of scale that even I who don't really care for scale in this size wasn't pleased.
So, improvising as usual, i just printed the gratings....
Some more details added
the same for the second deck (still need to paint the stairs red like the parisian model).
I also started building some more detail at the transom.
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edmay reacted to fmartins in Royal Louis by fmartins - multi-media
Yes... It's my first build... It's all pretty messed up but I'm loving it... I'm even considering doing something bigger if it turns out "acceptable" in the end... The problem with this scale and all improvisation is that I'm spending a lot of time thinking about the next steps or ways to correct the mistakes I made in the planning...
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edmay reacted to fmartins in Royal Louis by fmartins - multi-media
After a few attempts, I think that the deck planking was not so horrible...
The hole you guys see in the middle section was the fruit of my illusion to add some real miniature grating ... All the gunports were also painted red. Due to the small size, I think I'll have to use CA glue to secure the bow planks in place, so instead of wood, I carved/sanded a plastic piece (to make it easier, I think...).
The same was done with the other decks...
With a bit of improvised weathering (yeah everything's improvised!!! )
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edmay reacted to Mundie in USS Constitution by SawdustDave - FINISHED - 1:60th Scale
Very cool Google Earth Tour of USS Constitution
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edmay reacted to Mundie in USS Constitution by SawdustDave - FINISHED - 1:60th Scale
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edmay reacted to SawdustDave in USS Constitution by SawdustDave - FINISHED - 1:60th Scale
Thanks for the nice words Jesse, but I'm afraid watching the process would be about as entertaining as watching grass grow. Very slow process indeed for sure.
Here's another tip for wood carvers.....
After doing the rough carving, and then "refining" the detail to the point that it is beginning to appear fairly acceptable.... take two or three close-up photos of the piece using different angles and light reflections.
Then use the photos to mark areas of the carving you want to re-visit and work on, either to clean up or change the shape.
Then take some more photos, and go through the same process again.
Point is, the human eye simply will not pick up on the type of imperfections nearly as well as the camera.
I must have taken a thousand pics of the carvings I created for the SOS project.
Cheers.
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edmay reacted to JesseLee in USS Constitution by SawdustDave - FINISHED - 1:60th Scale
Wow Dave! I would love to be there to watch you go through this process of carving/scraping/painting. Very nice work!
Jesse
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edmay reacted to Omega1234 in USS Constitution by SawdustDave - FINISHED - 1:60th Scale
Hi Dave
Wow! Looks very smart!
Cheers
Patrick
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edmay reacted to Snoepert in King of the Mississippi by Snoepert - FINISHED - Artensia Latina - scale 1:80
I have been getting some good fre time and moving along.
There has been a lot of work on the wheel house and I have framed all the windows with plastic sheeting behind.
The biggest mistake was that I glued the 3rd level on back to front and had a big job removing it and putting it right.
Some damage was done but I hopefully rectified it.
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edmay reacted to Snoepert in King of the Mississippi by Snoepert - FINISHED - Artensia Latina - scale 1:80
Have been progressing further.Can't seem to stop ,I find this an enjoyable model to work on
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edmay reacted to Snoepert in King of the Mississippi by Snoepert - FINISHED - Artensia Latina - scale 1:80
Just thought I would show the display cabinet I made to display my projects.
In the top left corner is the model of the Sybiac made in Vietnam and this was the ship I migrated on with my family when I was 5 years old.
In the middle small bay is my first model I made called the Port Jackson and then below is my second construction,this is a Botter boat I brought back from Holland.
Top right hand corner is the Souvereign of the Seas by Agostini and will be worked after I finish the Mississippi.
Below this my Endeavour which I completed last month.
Hope you find this of interest.I find this stuff very relaxing work.
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edmay reacted to -Dallen in King of the Mississippi by Snoepert - FINISHED - Artensia Latina - scale 1:80
You might try this site for figures; Click on Accessory Items and then figures.
http://www.taubmansonline.com
Little pricey but I found some pretty good ones.
Dupree
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edmay reacted to Snoepert in King of the Mississippi by Snoepert - FINISHED - Artensia Latina - scale 1:80
Finished the rails on deck 1 and am pleased with the finishes.
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edmay reacted to Snoepert in King of the Mississippi by Snoepert - FINISHED - Artensia Latina - scale 1:80
Well finally the stairs are done.It has taken me some time to finish these and I still am not satisfied the way they have turned out ,however I have learned that the more you try to correct things the worse they come out so this my final go.
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edmay reacted to Snoepert in King of the Mississippi by Snoepert - FINISHED - Artensia Latina - scale 1:80
I have followed LADon's lead and put framing around the supplied cast windows.:this was done as the cast windows did not fit in the cut outs supplied by Artensia.
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edmay reacted to Landlubber Mike in Tweezers - Japanese vendor Kaneshin
I dabble in bonsai as another hobby, and this Japanese vendor came very highly recommended by folks on the bonsai boards that I frequent. Great quality tools, excellent customer service, and very fast delivery from Japan (on the order of less than a week).
http://kaneshin.shop.multilingualcart.com/index_en_jpy_9.html
While on their site, I noticed that they offer a full line of various types of tweezers. It's been hard for me to find good tweezers for modeling. I think I've bought and otherwise gone through about a dozen tweezers, and really only have one pair that seems to do it for me. So, I bought a few from that website figuring I would try them out.
Wow, the quality, feel and fit are fantastic on their tweezers. Much better than what I was trying from vendors like Micromark. A good chunk of their tweezers may larger than what we need building model ships, but they have a few shorter ones that work very nicely.
Anyway, just thought I'd pass their name along in case there are others that use tweezers a lot and have had a hard time finding good ones. I'm not affiliated with them in any way, just a very satisfied customer.
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