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I'm using these LEDs: https://www.tme.eu/pl/details/ll-304wc1x-w6-3p/diody-led-tht-3mm/luckylight/ 😁 As for what I'm currently doing - planking!

Bulkhead under the forecastle finished. It was suposed to be an open space, but I decided to try and make one. I took a terrible path and will never ever do it that way again. I used card as a base because, well, I have a lot of cards and modeling paper so WHY NOT? Now I know why 😅 It does not look as good as I wanted it to, but I learned a lot. I will add doors but after the work on hull planking is finished.

Quick update: LEDs are working 😁

Hi everyone in my first building log! 😁 At the moment I'm working on DeAgostini Soleil Royal kit and OcCres Golden Hind - I guess I will start another thread on that one in the future. I started my work at the end of 2019. I had an idea to do the interiors, but unfortunately the design flaws demotivated me for quite a while. Then Covid pandemic came in, I had a lot of work as a teacher, time flew by and hey - it's 2021! In the meantime I read a lot about modeling, looked through some of the building logs here and on other forums. EJ_Ls thread was a big inspiration for me when it comes to Solei. Also recently I discovered this guy: rjscaleships and his Soleil (plastic Heller model) also had a big influence on my decision what I want to achieve with my work. Regarding the design flaws - the aft bulkheads are definitely too low! On this scale, a man is about 2.3 cm tall, and a stern bulkhead is 1.8 cm. I can't believe the officers had to stoop so much. So my plan is to lower quarter deck a little bit and raise the other one (I don't know how is it called, the one before poopdeck) to reach at least these 2.3 cm spacing. Now, let's go with the pictures: 1. I like my working space so I'll show it to you 😁I'm glad that I have window so close, daylight is something that really drives me to do my work. 2. LEDs - I will put them under the gratings, and there will be some at the stern gallery. I will not be using red/orange candle-like lights, but warm white. I'm not that much interested in lights looking realistic - I just want my model to be lit up. Warm white is a good for highlighting color of the surroundings. I added gratings also on forecastle deck so I decided to add some deck planking underneath it and modified forecastle bulkhead. It will be open. It's still work in progress, I added walls seen on the picture and I will planck them, along with the bulkhead, using sapele strips. The beakhead bulkhead has two openings (the upper ones) which in many models are used as gunports. In the DeAgostini model these were supposed to be windows, so I decided to stick with that. I drilled a hole in the frame behind this bulkhead so that the light could come out through these windows. I will make the windows of plexiglass, I just have to find a way to matt it because I don't want this interior to be fully seen. Strips provided for deck planking were made out of ramin, and were 5mm wide. I replaced them with a 4mm lime strips. 3. Forcastle gratings - dry fitted and not finished. I will put a capstan between them. 4. I didn't like the gratings provided with the kit so I replaced them and built them differently. I used Amati ones, and added walnut spacings. I didn't glue them in place yet, so the one in the back stick out of the deck a little bit. I will also add stairs under the deck. . 5. Meet Zdzisław 😁 I made this guy so that I could keep track of sizes of things. I know that holes in the gratings are too big, but I decided to stick with that becouse of LEDs underneath. He is named after my friends grandpa, who passed away two weeks ago. That's it for now. I don't know why but the quality of my photos is lower than usual, I must check if everything is ok with the settings of my phone's camera...

Hello hello 😁 Thank you guys for welcoming!

Thanks guys 🙂Yes, I will open my thread next week. I also read (and saved) a lot of topics here and the articles you recommend - I am the type of guy that likes to read a lot about the things I'm getting into. That's not always good, sometimes I read too much, and do to little...

Hi everyone! My name is Adam and I'm from Warsaw, Poland. Ship modelling was my big fascination when I was a teenager but I didn't do much with that because there were no hobby shops in my town and I had no internet at that time. Besides, wood modelling is kind of expensive and we didn't have that much money. The biggest thing I did, well at least started to do, was a model of Titanic from Hachette collection. Unfortunately I didn't finish it - when my mom saw that it will have 100 issues she said "honey, nope". Nevertheless I liked the idea of model making. Some time later I saw in one of our press shops an issue of polish modelling magazine which discussed a type of ships that I fell in love with instantly – galleons. Oh Lorde. The thing that brought my attention the most was rigging. I also liked over the top ornamentations, and castle-like structre – a lot of decks that were placed high in the aft. But rigging – how in the hell that worked? What it consisted of? So many questions, no way to answer. In the meantime we got internet, so I started reading as much as possible. I liked drawing projects of galleon models (and also shipyard cranes, what a weird passion 🙃), but that is that, I never got the chance to do a proper model. Time flied by, and I put the whole idea to rest. Until 2019, when I saw an advert of new DeAgostini collection - Soleil Royal. The passion came alive again, but with new possibilities! Internet, books, money 😁 Of course, silly me, I wanted to bash the kit and do a lot of enhancements. But the problem was, and still kind of is, that this model has a lot of design flaws, which caused my enthusiasm to die for a while. It got back to life as soon as I had an idea what to do with this model, which was not that long ago, but more on this in a separate topic. In the meantime I bought and started assembling Montanes by OcCre. Yeah, I know. Big and difficult set for the beginner, a straight route to a disaster. But I guess I did pretty well with what I did. I stopped at hull planking since I felt I needed to gain some experience on something simpler. Montanes has only one layer of planking so there's no room for learning - you have to know what you're doing. I'll get back to it some day, when Soleil is finished. Rigging is still my biggest fascination. I'm reading about it as much as possible. Anderson, Lees, Pettersson. Also I love book by Wolfram zu Mondfeld. During the time I was reading books, forums and other sources I realized that 16th and 17th century galleons are my main interest and probably I will focus only on them (maybe HMS Victory will be an exception). Some day I want to start scratch building, but until that, I'll gain my experience working with kits. Also, and that may be a little bit controversial - I am not that much focused on, and devoted to, historical accuracy. I mean, I was reading topic on Royal Katherine by Doris, and she didn't do some things in the cabins because English ships didn't have that at that time, but Dutch did. If it was me I would go for the Dutch looks, more than for English historical accuracy. Maybe it's more accurate to say that at the moment I'm building a model that resembles Soleil Royal, more than recreates it in the most accurate way. E.g. I plan on implementing La Couronne rigging to it, even though I know it's an anachronism. But hey, that's my way of doing it, you don't have to like it 🙂 Besides modelling - I am 30 years old, I have masters in theoretical physics and my interests focus around the geometrical foundations of quantum and classical field theories. I work as a private teacher.