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Hi Nils,

i would definitely keep those paint patches, and after total drying i'd paint them over with a darker red and then weather them with rusty brown. That will look like a repairing i guess, adding some extra 'details' then.

As IT engineer, i have to agree with you, but keep in mind that those frustration comes from marketing (to push you to buy new gadgets). They simply cut out the older communication protocols, however those would be much smaller than a new menu system. This is why the new car cannot communicate with old iPad.

Eberhard, i came initially grom GCOS (Honeywell-Bull) world, then moved to VAX/VMS, now using Linux.

Very clean work Nils.

Nils,

i'd go with bandaging gauze then. Thick paint will made it perfect.

Hi Nils,

will the railing covered by canvas or other material? The plan shows it something solid

Bill, an alternative might be to display Victory slightly listed and some work performed under the waterline from a launch, maybe combination of lexan/epoxy resin. It wouldn't cause much confusion because you did not build Victory with full sail set. A few ropes from the deck to the launch could add to the realism, maybe you could fabricate a floating platform with handymen. In reality when they listed their ship they moved all the guns to one side, plus all the ballast too, let say they doing it hidden under the deck. Just an idea.

Congratulations Bill, it is magnificent! Anyhow, for the margin of 'dioramic liberty' i can imagine the depicted situation. Le Soleil Royal is about to depart from Brest, they set sails in time but there is not too much wind as seen here. The sails mostly hanging on the masts thus Admiral Tourville ordered the crew to last minute ship in some extra barrels of fine french wine, and some timber because the ship's carpenter discovered a few minor leak since the departure. Adm. Tourville is a noble man, therefore the port authority immediately sent out a few launch with the desired reinforcements. And voila.

And pardon me to take the opportinity to tell this silly tale. Really a good diorama.

1 hour ago, KeithAug said:

14 hours ago, TBlack said:

 I’m looking at the third photo of the interior and can’t wait to see how you are going to replicate that!

Tom - much of it can't be seen through the skylight so I can cheat.

Don't cheat, you cannot go nowhere without that WD40 Keith! Can't see the duct tape however, that must be in the drawer.

31 minutes ago, Mirabell61 said:

do you know who the name of the model builder in that forum ?

Unfortunately not. Maybe the author, Mike Maynard, who served on that ship? At least the readers cheered him because the model, but nowhere else mentioned who is the builder exactly.

Thank you Nils. Fortunately she is still afloat in Bedford, Massachusets, could be seen there. But check out this excellent model, this was the one which ignited my interest many years ago.

Hi Nils,

You got another follower. My far plan is to scratchbuild the AMBROSE lightship WLV-613.

Bill,

if you intend to display Victory and Soleil Royal together, i think then Vic must have a sea base too. For making a realistic sea base, you might want to check out Ebroin's Miniatures on youtube: this Korean modeler is a master of waves.

Hi Mike,

here is a pic from May 1937, when the Graf Spee visited Spithead to greet King George VI. Maybe the stripes on the turrets were painted earlier, none of the later pictures shows them. The other warships on the picture is HMS Resolution and HMS Hood.

Although she is not entirely finished yet, but only i can do is to praise this model and its builder. Fabulous work!

Never ever step under a swung load sailor!

If you feel the figurines a bit too tall, you might scrape/file a very little from their shoes - i think their feet a bit thick due casting, so it wouldn't harm them

Didn't you consider to bash the motorboats a bit? Their shape quite off because the wheelhouse moved too far forward. They had brown wheelhouse and grey hull. Their aft deck was covered by an open top, not a solid structure though.

Bill,

i think Henry thought these reef lines on the foremast. I believe it is easy to comb them  down if you pinch the sail forward a bit, then the sail's curve will push the reef lines down:

I draw the three red curves just for illustrate what i thinking. The red arrow points to the backward curve of the sail whic (in my theory) need to push towards the bow to form the red curve lines.

16 hours ago, wefalck said:

Shouldn't we rather promote the 'good' stuff or the making of it ?

We're continously doing that in different topics.

Anyway, our local modeler club has regular market weekends, where all your surplus stuff could be sell or donate to others. The threads which is not suitable for you could be fine for other modelers, and not just shipmodelers: those market weekends (called boerse) often visited by diorama makers looking for photoetch rails, threads, chains etc. because they would urgently need only 10cm of chain, and they could pick it up from the 'garbage' boxes.

I did this (thanks for Heller):

I wouldn't go for the blue. Check out the reflection on water, she's definitely green, although the wheelhouse color match (just darker a bit):

I think the blue color on this picture is false white balance, maybe intentional editing.

On my UNCALIBRATED monitor the RGB color is Jade Mist HEX061618, whilst the color of the green boat on the first picture is HEX060f11 - they are really close to each other

I think we see here how another legend is born. Very clean work Keith!

Wish you Merry Christmas, and all of you fellow sihpbuilders.

19 hours ago, Mirabell61 said:

I would like to set a flag to my model, but unfortunately do`nt know wich one, Any recomendations ?

Another vote for German Merchant flag. I'd assume that the flag change is rather an artistic, dramatic episode than real event. Captains were never play hero just for fun, they WERE hero because that times require them to be.

So realistic flag +1

Nils,

Search for Litz, or Litze wire in electronics shops:

https://audioverse.de/produkt/21-awg-up-occ-wire-litz-wire

Usually they made from very thin, sub-0.05 mm wires, sometimes thinner than human hair.

1 hour ago, Bill97 said:

So guys I am looking at a build by one of the more familiar builders. He has several videos from which these photos were grabbed. From our discussion above, are we saying this sail arrangement is not nautically accurate? It appears not. 

Hi Bill,

let's ask Dafi. As far as i know the depicted sail set weared during battle, warships were kept their mainsails furled to let the deck clean and to minimize shrapnel damage. Anyways, this is a small Revell modell of Victory with its styrene sail set.

On 10/19/2023 at 6:23 PM, Kevin-the-lubber said:

The diorama looks incredible, who made all the ships?

 Here is the link Kevin, but they didn't say more about the builders. Another one, this is a bit more detailed in German, unfortunately the pictures aren't shown there. Google translator worked for me (i know German a little however)