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Well, I am back. After I completed the Black Pearl, I decided to build a supposedly "beguines wooden model so I could wet by hands in the building of a wood model. So I tried the Dapper Tom, he boat itself was not too difficult, but the instructions were vague and confusing. Anyhow, it is now completed so I went ahead and decided to get another, I settle on la Pinta from Artesania Latina. I received the model ad the first thing I noticed is that it does not comes with printed instruction, they all are in a CD.This presented a problem for me since my computer resides in my office on the second floor while my workbench is in the first. I solved the dilemma by dumping all 57 pages in the color printer. I started to put the ship together by building the keel, it went fairly easy, my next step is to make sure that he angle of the ribs are correct, then will glue the thing up. According to the instructions, the next step is adding the main deck. will see how it goes. Following is a photo of the keel of the boat. Joe
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Thanks, I used the option to cancel the last post, I did not used it before because I was afraid to erase the entire topic. Joe
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Hello! I have finished the Black Pearl. I can not show a photo because my son-in-law, which is the individual who asked me to build it, took it to his home. What I have is a U tube short movie (about 1 minute) that he, being a computer graphics expert ) made to advertise his business. following is the link to the movie, it has sound and and other computer generated effects, it also has his advertising. Have fun Joe
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I was trying to add a new post to my Black Pearl build log which include a link to a utube site, and, by mistake, I attempted to upload a mp4 movie, the upload did not complete, now i need to remove this last post and re-issue it with the proper link to Utube, I do not want to erase the entire topic, just the last entry. Can you help? Thanks Joe
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Hi! I have completed the manufacture of all sails, first I sew the sails to make the lines on them, then I added a border to the sails. After that. I airbrush Tamiya dark grey followed by a light spray of Vallejo ochre. finally I distressed them with a hobby knife to make then look tattered and worn out. The following photos shows the sequence I used and also show 3 of the sails already mounted on the ship. This particular model has a rather complex rigging, it takes me anywhere from 1/2 hour for the smaller sail to over 2 hours for the bigger ones. The photos may not be in the correct order, because I have not figure out how to put then in order for his blog. Enjoy! Joe
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Well, I am back! I have been busy working on the ship and doing other things which is the reason I have not been keeping up with the blog. I have completed the hull work and I just finished doing the shrouds and getting ready to start doing the rag lines. As I stated before, I am not using the shrouds that came with the kit, I am doing my own, attached here are photos that shows the completed shrouds, I have started making the rag lines an have dome general clean up and adding additional details to make the ship look more ancient and distressed. I also plan to use fabric sails, that is when I discovered that the crossbeams (I am not sure that is the proper name, I am referring to the wood bean that holds the sail) are also molded to the kit sails, they are not a separated part. I went to Hobby Lobby and found a dowel of the same size which I will be using to fabricate the crossbeams. Here are the photos as the ship stands today: Well, until next time Joe
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I had the opportunity, back about 5 years ago, to go to the actual museum were the original ship is displayed, but I can not remember if they had the model completed. The real ship was fantastic, is to bad it was not seaworthy.
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Well, here is another progress report on the Black Pearl. First I like to thanks Ryland Craze and ccoyle for fixing the title, I am know for being a lousy speller. The ship is moving along I have added some 22 LED flickering lights purchase from Evans Design to it to make it look that there are candles burning at nigth, I also getting most of the furniture installed on the ship. I am planing to use cloth sales, I found this material used for wedding gowns and I am hoping it will make a good sail material. (I went looking for Egyptian cotton but my local Joann Fabrics did not carry it) The shrouds and dead eyes will be made by hand, I have purchased wooden dead eyes which I have dumped in a black wash to give it an old look and they came out nice. Following are some photos, the one with the lights, have a very bright light on the back, those are the lights that are going to be installed inside the lamps. The lights are powered by a 7-9 transformer and on the base there is a switch to turn them on or off. That is the main reason I added to wooden base, to hide the wiring. Until next time Joe
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Well, I have started the building of the Black Pearl, first thing I did was to have son-in-law order the lights from Evan Design , while waiting for the lights I started to weather the ship to look old and battered by time and weather, including adding to the hull something that hopefully looks likes barnacles. Received the lights, however I found out that my-in-law has mistakenly order the flashing lights instead of the flickering ones. Called Evan Design and talked to some nice people who immediately understood the problem and worked with my in exchanging the wrong ones with the proper lights, they should be arriving shortly. Attached are 3 photos of the progress I have made:
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Well, my son in law decided to buy the Black Pearl from Zvezda. Since I do not have any 3d printer equipment, most likely I will try to build the boat using most of the parts that comes with the kit. He agreed to purchase what ever lights I need from the Evan Design site, thanks to the moderator, ccoyle and you, Chilliard, for letting me know about this outfit. Well Chilliard I hope you do not get offended if I copy some of your ideas on how to build the boat, obviously, you are more experienced than me and I do need all the help I can get. I will be starting a build log as soon as I get the kit box. Thanks Joe
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I am going to make another attempt to upload the photos, here it goes: Well, this time it worked. Hope you like them.
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Thanks, I will check out Evan Design Joe
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Well, It is finally finished!!! I have completed the build, I had to use 3 different sets of documentation: the original French version, a Japanese. and an English version. I will think twice before buying another Heller model! I am fully aware that the ship is not to the standards of the more experience modelers of this blog, but, this is only my 5th old ship model, and the biggest and more complex one, I started on Aug 8 of 2020, today is February 15th of 2021, so it took me 6 months and some days. I have learn a lot, now I am looking for another challenger. Will see Attached are some photos of the completed ship (without the flags, in my rush to take the photos I forgot to put in the flags) Thanks to all of you who offered guidance, provide hits and guidelines, and motivation on this build. Joe I seem to be having a problem uploading the photos, I will try again later.
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Excellent work! My Son-in-law wants me to also build a Black Pearl, and he wants it with lights, would you mind disclosing were you got your lights? I also would appreciated if you could provide any hints as to how to wire them, I have never worked with led lights. Thanks Joe
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I have started to add the sails to the ship, I originally stated that I was going to use my own hand made sails, but, after I painting them, they did not look very real and the look and texture of them were off. I had a high level meeting with the Admiral about the subject, and, after a review of my sails and the plastic ones that came with the ship, we decided that the plastic ones looked more real that my own, so I painted them then I did a wash and they came out pretty good, not having anything else to use, we decided that I will use the plastic ones. The color I used for the sails is deck paint, from Tamiya, heavily mixed with white for the base color, then, wash the highlights with the same undiluted color Attached I have a photo of some of the sails mounted on the ship, they look decent so I have decided to use them. In my next build, I will take more time to properly research a better material for sails. will see. Until next time Joe
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