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About chris watton

  • Birthday 11/21/1966

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    www.vanguardmodels.co.uk/

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    Forest of Dean, Gloucester, UK
  • Interests
    Ships and cars.

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  1.    chris watton reacted to a post in a topic: HM Armed Cutter Sherbourne 1763 by Glenn-UK - Vanguard Models - 1:64
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  14. chris watton
    Your Speedy looks fantastic, very well done!
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  21. chris watton
    It is only paint, just touch it up with a brush, as you need to paint the innder edges of the gun and sweep ports red anyway.
  22. chris watton
    Oh, I don't think I ever showed the harpy box label. My step son, who works in marketing, asked if he could have a go, so most of this is him, a little more minimalistic than normal...
  23. chris watton
    Funny you mention the foot supports/bars, one of my amendments I asked for was to have the laser cut drawings for these, so they fit at each station - failing that, I shall include a length of pear. I shall look into rowers at a later stage, but right now, this commission wasn't cheap and have just spent a load on materials to replenish stock and of course, the Harpy stuff. I am now laser cutting a brand new batch of Indy stuff - this takes some time..
  24. chris watton
    I have Elegoo Saturn 3's and 4's
  25. chris watton
    Little update: We now have everything here for the Harpy, plans, manuals and box labels. All pre orders will be sent out within the next few days, so Harpy is now officially released. On Monday I received the 33 foot 'Shallop' or Barge STL file. I have now printed out the first samples, both in 64th (158.5mm long) and 1:48th (over 211mm long), with the latter taking 12 hours to print. I have attached the results of the very first run. On the whole, very nice, but have asked for a couple of minor changes before I start producing them. I may offer this in 48th scale, as I think this would make a nice standalone model in itself, what do you think?
  26. chris watton
    I have Harpy manual and box label with me, just waiting for the plan set, so shouldn't be too long now
  27. chris watton
    I am still waiting for printed materials, everything else is ready. They should not be too long now, as I know they went into production early this week, and they are all paid for.
  28. chris watton
    Will have the 32 foot pinnace on line soon, plus what you see here, the Indy 3-d printed boat full set, which replaces the laser cut frames and planking for all boats. (If ordered with an Indy, you still get the standard kit boats too) 32 foot Pinnace: 32′ Pinnace – VANGUARD MODELS Complete Indy boat set: HMS Indefatigable Boat Set – VANGUARD MODELS
  29. chris watton
    Not really, instead of the customer paying VAT at point of sale (like they would if buying from another EU country), they pay import or customs duty. It's not all one way, too, as I pay import duties on all supplied and materials I buy from the EU, pear, photo etch etc.
  30. chris watton
    We are about to ship AgesofSail a new order tomorrow, which includes Sherbournes
  31. chris watton
    Oops, corrected, am always doing that!
  32. chris watton
    Here is a pick of the first off (trial prints, not production) with the integrated fore and aft gratings - I had 2 files, one with and one without gratings, and I have chosen this one for production hulls. (Also has integrated coxwaines seats at the stern) Next to the 2 test print hulls is the 14 foot yawl hull!
  33. chris watton
    After many test prints, I am NOW doing production prints for the 64th scale 32 foot pinnace. This is quite large at almost 154mm long (so takes over 9 hours to print). The hull does include the fore and aft gratings (intergrated) and feint hull planking lines. Once I have produced these, I need to laser cut the pear parts, and then this will be for sale. Also, I was waiting for this one to complete the Indy full set for 3-d printed boats (Sphinx to follow, as 28 foot pinnace is next)
  34. chris watton
    Such a shame, Glenn

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