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Will it take stain and glue?
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So if I am reading between the lines correctly, one should chose cotton rope options from manufacturers and not the polyester as the latter will not take glues, stains and will not hold knots as well??? Is that correct? What about those little fuzzies that come of natural fibers?
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Thanks OC I will refine them a bit still, especially the holes that I under drilled so that I can make them work with the rope I will order
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Well I had a fun day to myself doing what I wanted…modelling and it felt great. I can make these deadeyes work, takes some time but I can get it done bit by bit I made about 130 plugs blanks and 40 or so finished ones
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Yes I can do it just in my hands with a file like that, but would like it spinning to get that groove centered, deep and clean. Been reading a bit more and followed an amazing build by Alex M. Wow such craftsmanship. I will borrow a few methods and see what I can come up with for shaping the groove and the inclines on the deadeye’s faces.
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Yes indeed these are the same figures. The plastic is awefull to work with😱 I hope to make mine half as decent as your guys turned out. Excellent painting skills there mate👍🏻😎
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Here we go off the deep end again Read a bit about making deadeyes in here. Discussion on face cutting Vs lathe operations helped me immensely. A comment about how much your time is worth is very wise…unfortunately I am both frugal and stupid There are 130 ish deadeyes for the Black Pearl. Their diameter is 6mm I have a 6mm and 9mm plug cutter for use on the drill press my two plugs. I popped out ten wood plugs in about 15 mins. It is very doable time wise ok so 6mm plugs, 9mm are way too big. I can easily make the three holes in them in my little jig vise. The wood is from wood scrap exotic bits I have had forever…possibly Osage orange wood. It makes me itch and tickles my throat so I know it is exotic at least to my immune system. Yes I got the respirator on for cutting. The real problem is finishing and getting the groove in their centers. They are impossible to spin on a lathe with off center holes. Will have to figure that out🤔 suggestions welcome
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Anchors getting base coat textured dark iron before rust applied and the wood layers are complete A crew assembles to watch impatiently as their ship constructs
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The joke was with my wife as to why I NEEDED a little lathe..as a pencil sharpener so I did that as my first project It is a fun, handy little sucker though and I have made a couple useful tools The Sherline is handy for softer metals like brass and aluminum. Steel, not so much but it can Th
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I bought a Sherline with the extended bed and no CNC in August and love it For my purposes is is perfect
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Now the decks. I had them dead flat black It didn’t look right in comparison to some references So I decided to do a light tan primer and then oil paints overtop in effort to make a wood appearance Ochre and burnt umber oils specifically, lighter where walking and use occur, darker in corners. And then a black oil paint added for accents I cannot for the life of me remember what inspired me to have this specific look
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We are getting close to full catch up progress This will be the curved rail and the end baluster …turned from styrene with a styrene circle base and top Heat bending styrene is much like herding cats . I would have preferred to use metal or wood, but here we are. Inspiration from a design in 3D for smart people who use their printer Bending styrene rail And then pretty much the final form save some weathering
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Continuing along on the hand rails made from styrene stock 3/4 rounds and small round styrene rod It then dawns on me that there are only half enough stair treads on the staircase, so I add five more treads on both sides Just some tan primer and curving the bottom a bit with some excess to do the turn into the end baluster and finale
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Thank you for your comment Mr OC. Yes indeed I believe the Revell and the Vzezda kit are identical save the box art I certainly have looked at your amazing build and read it through, made references and got some great pointers Very much appreciate you looking at my build and as I said, I stand on the shoulders of giants…one of those is yourself and your great build
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Using the turned balusters and making new hand rails. Thin brass rod as guides and support
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The kit staircase is next. The staircase balusters are very skinny and inaccurate. There are not enough stair treads in the steps by half. The finale turn is plain. The upper railing has nicer baluster supports 🤔maybe I could copy those My 3d printer was awaiting a part so I made some balusters out of resins and styrene on my makeshift battery Dremel this will look better so I hand turned a whole bunch in the different materials
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This is an excellent build👍🏻 Following along 😎
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off into the deep end for the stairs-case and the bulkhead modifications. I did some 3 d printing of some fair maidens to make the side support columns here are the windows with white glue glass and the supports
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Thanks so much Jeff🙂
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Ok here we start going a little sideways The kit bulkhead is weak to be polite it looks nothing like the Pearl’s Bulkhead shown here So we print out some window frames and cut out four windows and a wider door into the kitbulkhead cue the slippery slope to a lot more work coming🙄 test fitting the frames then painted them up a bit, put some thinned white glue for windows and Capt Jack can skip away happily on deck knowing he will have a more realistic bulkhead to his quarters
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I made her a little foam/cardboard/plywood cradle for support and to not destroy the painted kit stand Then most everything got a base layer of flat black Stylenrez
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Throw in some more 3d resin printing Found some files for barrels and boxes so printed those out and painted them Also found some generic sailors files to modify into the pirate crew…had some wonky errors and lost some limbs so will re-print those The grey ones are my resin printing, the green figure is a “Caribbean Pirate” eBay purchase kit and the tan ones are HO scale train people
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Next up…I made a lot of cannons. Mr Metal Dark Iron for the cannon paint A flat black with burnt umber oil paint for the carriage Like a lot of cannons. 32 in total I think it was The Pearl’s cannons are used and abused, not shiny and perfect so I kept them a bit on the grimy side as I will with most of this build
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😊Thank you so much…you have made my day
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Let’s move along so we can catch up to where I am Covid came and I got bored and purchased a 3D printer. One of the files I got was an excellent Capt Jack Sparrow So I printed him out and painted using acrylics and oils. I plan on using him displayed with the completed Pearl.
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