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edmay reacted to Mirabell61 in Cape Cod Catboat by Marcus Botanicus – FINISHED - BlueJacket Shipcrafters – Scale ¾”=1’
Good work Marcus,
the boat is beautiful !
Nils
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edmay reacted to flying_dutchman2 in Cape Cod Catboat by Marcus Botanicus – FINISHED - BlueJacket Shipcrafters – Scale ¾”=1’
I have been sanding - spackling and painting. She is starting to look good. I have more than 10x thin coats on her. There are still some little depressions here and there but I am leaving it at that. I am pretty happy with the results. Planning to do a few more coats of this same color. It is a very light sand color. Could not get a darker sand color in a can. Maybe in the future I will invest in air-brush equipment but I don't do a whole lot of painting.
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edmay got a reaction from Elijah in Royal Louis 1780 by Ulises Victoria - FINISHED - Mamoli - Scale 1/90 - French 126-gun ship
Hello Ulises,Sorry to hear about your sister,nice work on the model,god bless Edwin
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edmay reacted to riverboat in Red Dragon by riverboat - Artesania Latina - 1:60 - Chinese Junk
Hey Tony, nice hearing from you....... you are too funny my man .... whats on your agenda Tony ? .... would like to visit what ever you're doing.
I thought I'd play it easy this time with the Red Dragon...... she's already a junk ,so I don't have to junk this one up.... Pretty clever huh!!.
We should get some skype time in '
Frank
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edmay got a reaction from marktiedens in Royal William by marktiedens - FINISHED - Euromodel - scale 1:72
Briliant workmanship,Edwin
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edmay reacted to marktiedens in Royal William by marktiedens - FINISHED - Euromodel - scale 1:72
Hi all - more work on the head rails, First thing I did was cut a notch out of the front edge of the bulwarks for the upper head rail top timber to sit in - right next to the cathead support. Forgot to take a picture for this post,but can be seen in my previous post #271 in the next to last picture. After fine tuning the shape of the upper head rail it was glued in place. I then built the bow grating - it needed to be put in place before the lower head rails were in place. The grating was then glued in place. The front section of the side decorations were then trimmed & glued in place.
Mark
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edmay reacted to marktiedens in Royal William by marktiedens - FINISHED - Euromodel - scale 1:72
Hi all - thanks for looking in & all the likes.
Update - working on the bow,the next thing I did was to make a cleat for the gammoning out of some hard walnut. After painting it black,I glued & nailed it to the stem. Next I started work on the head rails. I was having trouble bending the cathead supports using the heating with a flame method,so I decided to try a heat gun. While wearing some thick leather gloves to keep from burning my fingers I found that holding the metal cathead support in the heated air from the heat gun I could bend the metal pieces quite easily. After a bit of filing to fit the curves of the hull,they were painted gold & glued in place. To anyone building this ship using the heat gun is the best way I have found to bend the metal pieces. The low setting on the heat gun is all that is necessary to heat the metal to be bent.
Mark
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edmay reacted to marktiedens in Royal William by marktiedens - FINISHED - Euromodel - scale 1:72
Another update - port side decorations done & cap rails installed & finish applied to the rest of the hull. I think its time to turn my attention to the bow area - looks a bit tricky.
Mark
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edmay reacted to piratepete007 in Royal William by marktiedens - FINISHED - Euromodel - scale 1:72
Mark,
You and I keep in contact via PM but just wanted to say publicly how good your work is. Your craftsmanship will lead to a fantastic conclusion... what more can be said ? Having said that, I am hoping to see others follow in your footsteps. When a fine product is being presented on MSW, I shake my head and take a big breath... like "whow, he/ she is so good and I could not do that" Not so, folks. We all know that it just requires time, patience, initiative, interpretation, research and the will to see it through.
Pete
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edmay reacted to mtdoramike in Sovereign of the Seas by cristikc - Mantua - 1:78 scale
You are off to a great start. You will just have to sand real carefully.
Mike
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edmay reacted to cristikc in Sovereign of the Seas by cristikc - Mantua - 1:78 scale
Hi Vince.
I look a lot to your building log to take some ideas, and it is a great help for me.
Also i look to Denis, Garim and other logs, and i say to all Thank you for posting, because it helps a lot everyone.
The instructions from the Mantua-Sargal are not very good.
Hope to finish well this ship, and think for the future
Edwin, thank you for the nice words. I was to the sea side, and now, "fresh" i will go back to my work, but hope to have time to work to SoS
Cristi
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edmay got a reaction from md1400cs in Wasa by md1400cs - FINISHED - Corel - 1:75
Michael, What a wonderful log you built ,full of interesting ideas ,alternatives and the many vocies of exchanging tips,banter and genuine interest from across the world, The Wasa is in the closet but I do not know if I will get to it,if I do she would never be as beautiful as yours ,Well done. Have the Triinidad to so i hope you start her .Edwin. Thks
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edmay got a reaction from Piet in HMS Agamemnon 1781 by Hennie - FINISHED - Caldercraft - Scale 1:64
Nice Picture Sjors,Edwin
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edmay reacted to Hennie in HMS Agamemnon 1781 by Hennie - FINISHED - Caldercraft - Scale 1:64
Sansa and I visited Sjors and Anja yesterday. Thank you both for a wonderfull afternoon. And Sjors, thx for the rope and the rope standard. I already ordered the riggingrope, so I will use it next week.
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edmay got a reaction from EJ_L in Wasa by md1400cs - FINISHED - Corel - 1:75
Michael, What a wonderful log you built ,full of interesting ideas ,alternatives and the many vocies of exchanging tips,banter and genuine interest from across the world, The Wasa is in the closet but I do not know if I will get to it,if I do she would never be as beautiful as yours ,Well done. Have the Triinidad to so i hope you start her .Edwin. Thks
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edmay got a reaction from fmodajr in Wasa by md1400cs - FINISHED - Corel - 1:75
Michael, What a wonderful log you built ,full of interesting ideas ,alternatives and the many vocies of exchanging tips,banter and genuine interest from across the world, The Wasa is in the closet but I do not know if I will get to it,if I do she would never be as beautiful as yours ,Well done. Have the Triinidad to so i hope you start her .Edwin. Thks
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edmay got a reaction from mtaylor in HM Bark Endeavour by Mindi - Caldercraft - 1/64 - stopped build resumed
Hello Mindi, Very well built ,neat clean,she is going to be a beauty ,will follow .Edwin
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edmay got a reaction from Elijah in HMS Sovereign of the Seas by Sjors - DeAgostini - 1:84
Hello Sjors,Gun ports very nicely done,I like the blue also, keep up the good work,your interacting with your followers is always interesting to read, regards to Anga.Edwin
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edmay got a reaction from WackoWolf in Wasa by md1400cs - FINISHED - Corel - 1:75
Michael, What a wonderful log you built ,full of interesting ideas ,alternatives and the many vocies of exchanging tips,banter and genuine interest from across the world, The Wasa is in the closet but I do not know if I will get to it,if I do she would never be as beautiful as yours ,Well done. Have the Triinidad to so i hope you start her .Edwin. Thks
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edmay got a reaction from mtaylor in Red Dragon by riverboat - Artesania Latina - 1:60 - Chinese Junk
Hi Frank , Nice progress.Edwin
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edmay got a reaction from Piet in HMS Sovereign of the Seas by Sjors - DeAgostini - 1:84
Hello Sjors,Gun ports very nicely done,I like the blue also, keep up the good work,your interacting with your followers is always interesting to read, regards to Anga.Edwin
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edmay got a reaction from mtaylor in Royal Louis 1780 by Ulises Victoria - FINISHED - Mamoli - Scale 1/90 - French 126-gun ship
Hello Ulises,Sorry to hear about your sister,nice work on the model,god bless Edwin
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edmay got a reaction from DenPink in Red Dragon by riverboat - Artesania Latina - 1:60 - Chinese Junk
Hi Frank , Nice progress.Edwin
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edmay got a reaction from riverboat in Red Dragon by riverboat - Artesania Latina - 1:60 - Chinese Junk
Hi Frank , Nice progress.Edwin
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edmay reacted to riverboat in Red Dragon by riverboat - Artesania Latina - 1:60 - Chinese Junk
Thank you Mike, Denis, Michael and Edwin for coming on board......... well it's about that time for a Red Dragon update.
Since our last meeting I've managed to accomplish finishing the hull construction, main deck and painting of the hull and attaching the main deck. I'm in the process now of working on the upper deck ,,,,,,,, the following pictures will bring you up to date........ as always Thanks for look'n in
Frank
As you can see this is the first strake laid.... What I failed to do was to taper.... would you believe that??..... the way this hull laid out, it looked like there was no taper at all..... well , things went OK until we neared the garbord I then had to do some creative fitting I will never ever do that mistake again
luckily it turned out half way decent
Again......... thanks for stopping by........
Frank
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