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  1. Bill97
    Marc maybe I am selling myself short. I don’t know. But every time I look through your updates I am amazed! There are two separate areas of amazement that I can’t decide which is more impressive. One is your complete physical remake of the ship regardless of what color scheme you would decide to use. Two is your exquisite detailed paint scheme that you could have just followed on the kit right out of the box. Early on, at the beginning of my build, I decided I would go no where near attempting to follow your lead on redesigning the structural build. I would have just made a fool of myself. I only picked a few things here and there to copy. Secondly, way before I started mine I studied your painting. The beautiful detail everywhere, especially in the painting of your statuary, is incredible! I thoroughly enjoy small detailing and colorful painting but your skill level is so impressive. I decided it best for me to not attempt your expression of the ship, but to leave this version of the ship to you alone in the history of model ship building. Better to not attempt a poor imitation of the Mona Lisa. Now after all this Saturday morning pats on the back let me just summarize by saying very well done my friend. Tres bien joue mon ami en effet!
  2. Bill97
    All of the touch up putty, sanding, and painting of the side galleries complete. Now to add a repair some gold leaf here and there and then I am ready for all the statuary. I noticed that I have broken off one of the acorn shaped tops on the side gallery. Not sure if I should just cut the other one off or try to craft a new replacement.
  3. Bill97
    Yea Ferrus that is something Henry suggested to me a while back that I have procrastinated doing.
  4. Bill97
    Ferrus I don’t see a “follow” at the top of the page to click on. I usually just save a site in my favorites and check now and then. Please advise this actually 70 year led brain where to find “follow”.
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    Ferrus I came over to look around and see what you are working on. Beautiful job young man. I can say that because I think I am about 50 years older! You really have the aging and weathering technique in your skill set. That will serve you well in this and your future builds. You have learned much from Krill4 and should be proud. I will definitely stick around to follow your build. Bill
  6. Bill97
    Well guys thank you for your kind words. Ian, Marc, and Henry everything I have done and will do I learned from you guys. You were definitely great teachers. Ferrus should I dig into MSW for builds you are working on? Henry I may need a class on using parts X and Y. Will let you know.
  7. Bill97
    Yes Henry I see those in the kit. No idea what they were for! MSW comes to the rescue again. 😊
  8. Bill97
    Thanks Ferrus. So I just close them up like a flower around the base of the lantern? Will let you know how it comes out.
  9. Bill97
    Ferrus is this the little guy you are talking about? Marc, Ian, and Ferrus thanks for the thumbs up on leaving the doors alone. I really did not want to mess with them, but I was concerned if I didn’t you guys would demote me down to rank amateur! 😀
  10. Bill97
    Henry do you have anything in your kit that looks like the item circled in my photo? It is the bottom of the large center lantern. I have the four numbered parts but my 199 and 200 don’t have the same bottom end.
  11. Bill97
    You know Ian, you now have me contemplating if I should attempt to remove those 4 doors? I wish I had thought about it before I put the balconies on. Would have been pretty easy. On the other I wonder if I should just leave well enough alone and not risk tearing something up.
  12. Bill97
    Ian I wondered that same thing. I assumed there were doors there regardless. I probably should have looked at more pictures. I started to cut them out and glue them back in in the open position similar to the doors on the beakhead but I was concerned it would weaken that section of the stern plate. I am going to pretend, and tell people, that the doors were there to secure the rear balconies to ship officers only. What do you think? 🤔 By the way I don’t believe I will ever feel a need to tell you, my dear friend, to SFU! 😊
  13. Bill97
    And the three balconies. Next up will be days and days of touch up of gold and blue paint, and gold leaf. Then I will get to all the statuary.
  14. Bill97
    Side galleries in place and waiting for glue to dry. I used a series of push pins to hold the galleries tight against the ship. One small thing I noticed, which has to be a mistake I made somewhere, is the hatch at the bottom of the port side gallery does not line up perfectly with the corresponding hatch opening in the hull. The side gallery is flush with the edge of the stern so I did not want to push it back slightly to line the hatches up. Then the balconies worked not have fit flush to the stern. The starboard side is great so it has to be something I did. Oh well once I put the hatch cover on the bottom of the port side gallery it should not be that noticeable. I could attempt to move the cannon over to center of the gallery hatch but may not be worth the trouble.
  15. Bill97
    Gallery floors made and installed. Paint edge scratched for good adherence to side galleries. Tomorrow May be the day they go up!
  16. Bill97
    Kevin what I seem to run into very often is breaking off the tiny drill bitt in the hole I am drilling. I have a pen vise I use but the slightest tip to left or right will break my bit. Maybe I have not found/purchased the strongest tiny bits. 😊
  17. Bill97
    Thanks for the like Ian. Do you think my gold leaf application looks OK? I seem to have lost some of the small detail in areas I applied it. Faces of characters, etc. not as sharp and detailed. But I guess that is a compromise if I want the leaf?
  18. Bill97
    All pieces painted and gold leaf applied on the areas where I wanted it for the next step in construction. Made the four deck floorings and painted them, along with the floors of the three balconies to match the decks. Now to carefully scrape glue lines to get bare plastic. Then see if I can do a good job of getting these side galleries and balconies installed.
  19. Bill97
    Thanks Henry. I did that with a fine point ink marker already. Will go over it with x-acto. I just noticed when looking at this picture that I have the knight heads reversed! 😳 They are looking toward the rear. Ol well. They will be inside the side galleries.
  20. Bill97
    Do any of you have a best practice for scratching/removing a straight line of paint to make for a good glue line? All over the process of adding the side galleries, balconies, corbels, etc. there is going to be the need to scrape away a glue line on previously painted areas.
  21. Bill97
    Hey Kevin so glad you are back. I have been checking your build from time to time to see if you posted. I was thinking you and the new King were off somewhere on holiday! How is the ankle feeling? As always your 3D work is impeccable. I admit have absolutely no idea about the process and can only imagine crafting the entire ship (except hull halves). Very impressive work my friend!
  22. Bill97
    Robert she is beautiful indeed. I am reading through your build with very keen interest. Like you I have only built plastic models to this point, with the Heller HMS Victory and LeSoleil Royal being the most complicated and time consuming (see builds here on MSW). I am researching attempting my first wooden model and the OcCre Endeavor is the one I keep coming back to. I really like it and want to attempt building it. As someone who had not built a wood model before, what did you think of it? I have many years of woodworking experience and hope that experience serves me well. Is pretty much everything you did straight from the instructions? In comment #25 you did list a number of things it sounds like changed. What was your thought process for making these changes? Also did feel a need to purchase after market items for he kit or was everything you needed/wanted included? I am surprised at how quickly you finished it! My Victory took a little over 18 months and I have no idea when I will finish my Soleil Royal. I would have expected the Endeavor to take a couple years maybe. If and when I do purchase my Endeavor I hope you will consider it a compliment if I were to ask you for advice.
  23. Bill97
    Yeah Henry that is what I am tinkering with now. Wish me luck. If I get it right I want to scribe lines and paint to match decking. Also trying to scribe and paint the floors of he three balconies before I add them to the stern. Will see how this goes.
  24. Bill97
    Thanks Baker. Wishing to be at Mons street market place this morning. Sunday mornings were always my favorite!
  25. Bill97
    Baker your model is beautiful. Yes you are correct on the comment number in your build. I want to have my hatch covers fully open to show the fluer-de-lies I am placing on the inside of each cover. I guess I could just bend the wire close to a 90 degree angle, or if a wire flexible enough I could bend the cover up or down to achieve the cover angle I wanted. Did you drill small holes in the top of the hatch cover to accept the wire? I would not want the wire to show on either side of the cover. Let see, two holes in each hatch cover and two at the top of each hatch multiplied by 56 hatch covers 🤔. Would that be 224 tiny holes? Hummm!

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