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Yes, I have the same opinion regarding the growing use of 3D resin castings or printings. I note the pointed plank fudge in your own build. No doubt paint will hide that. In fact, if the boat is painted inside and out, why bother using wood at all? A DIY vacformed plastic hull would do........then one could fill an entire harbour with them.
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I recently posted photo's of 3 different 'Falconet' 1:72 4,6, 19 oared boat kits, all of which have the planks pre spiled. I believe there are other similar kits (Master Kirobel?)
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Are these boats to be painted? If so, this is fine. However, if the planking is to be visible, surely the planks should be spiled correctly (even at this scale). No real boat would be planked as you have done. Once this detail is appreciated, your method reveals the parody it is. Just saing.
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ARGH! WONKY rigols! How come I ever missed your previous excellent build. No doubt this rendition will blow my socks off! Glued to my screen for this one.
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English Royal Yacht by Ab Hoving - CARD
shipman replied to Ab Hoving's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1501 - 1750
Ab, your images are PNG files one minute, then jpeg's. Would it be possible to make them all jpegs, please (it makes life easier for me, at least). Thank you. Love your card methods. Ab, you say all your photo's are taken or downloaded in the same way. The 3 images in your post #50 are PNG files, yet the single image in post #53 is a jpeg. How did that happen? -
I've been pondering upon your bulwarks for a while, thinking there's something odd about the horizontal timbers on the inboard side. Surely there should be vertical ships timbers regularly spaced instead. I have no direct evidence, but there would be no structural reason to line over these, as you depict?
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I just love these small boat builds and this is another winner. Well done.
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Shame you're so far away.....I have 3 in my stash.
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This is a very old kit; over the years I've seen several built to very high standards. Being an elderly Yorkshireman, I have vivid memories of this type in the East Yorkshire ports such as Hull and Grimsby. Over the years as the fishing industry declined one saw how the maintenance basically stopped. The most remarkable example I recall was moored at Bridlington sometime in the late 1970's. I've never seen a more neglected example. The entire vessel was orange with rust, yet it was still in use, evidenced by the nets hanging to dry and the deck machinery was at least lubricated and operative. Haven't seen one in decades, but in their day were regarded as the finest sea boats. Actually the last I saw was in Goa, India taking day-trip tourists along the coast.
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English Royal Yacht by Ab Hoving - CARD
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I've always wondered where items such as this fish davit are stored? Not a small or light thing to hide. When needed many such things must be quickly recovered from storage, used, then whisked away again.
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Thank you for your input, my friends. Some of you may be aware I'm still in hospital since losing a leg at the end of November. The big issue now is getting home to a house unprepared for the paraphernalia required to accommodate a wheelchair user. Part of my problem is the result of collection hoarding (massive book collection, massive heavyweight coin collection, massive stash of mostly plastic aircraft/ship kits, a recent developing cycle collection....among other things). Now there's no room for me! Eventually I hope these issues will be resolved and I have a little corner to park my bum! I was waiting on delivery of 6 'Falconet' oared boat kits before the accident and can't wait to get started on them. My questions relating to longboat strake planking are to help a keen modeller friend who had a handsome Christmas gift of the Artisania Latina 'Endeavour' longboat kit. I suspect what appeals to him is a model which displays the charm of exposed wooden planking. My investigations reveal that kit has totally inadequate plank stock to make a fair representation of such details. Which means replacing the kit planking completely. No doubt most of the kit can be improved, given some research, but the kit at least has the bones to proceed and make a fair resemblance of such a craft, remembering all the bones were FREE! So, watch this space for my own build logs of the Falconet boats and news of my new life/adventure as an amputee! EDIT 6/2/2025 Just to assure; the reason I was trying to find the number of strakes for a longboat (or any other small boat) would be to give points of references to allow the spilling of each plank to the form of a hull. Spilling rarely provides a plank with parallel sides, so asking for a plank width is irrelevant. I've no personal experience of this, but the first 'keel' or 'Garboard' can be a mystery, due to its top edge having so much influence on subsequent plank profiles. I believe this is where a plank 'fan' become essential. It doesn't matter if the project is scratch built or a kit, both can have their planks 'set' once the 'lines' or 'form' of the hull is established.
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Building a 1/350 Revenge-class battleship
shipman replied to jefferyconley038's topic in Plastic model kits
Seeing how quickly 1:350 model ships are being introduced, it's only a mater of time before an 'R' class ship comes on the market. The 'QE's and 'R' have similarities, but too few to justify the work required.- 1 reply
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To coin a Michael Cain phrase....''Not many people know that''......CS's lines were derived from a steamship!
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As a whole the Revell 1:96 comes with a multitude of problems, all of which can be overcome by a moderately skilled model maker (see some excellent examples online). What the kit provides are two very accurate hull halves, again not without minor solvable issues. I haven't seen a wood based kit hull that bares even close comparison to the Revell assembly. The kit is so old I'd say it's antediluvian, yet most sub assemblies, with a little care can be very accurate to the real ship. All the wooden kits are simple parodies, often just crude. Masts and yards are another matter, the plastic being brittle and easily damaged.
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Making a good job of this, like your paintwork; crisp and clean. What method did you use to attach the etch, bow and stern? Don't forget to touch out the bits holding the letters to the surrounding detail.
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