chris watton
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I know, thing is, I thought there were 28 planks needed! lol. I will add three extra planks in all future kits, as I hate having just enough myself! -
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HMS Speedy by Delf - Vanguard Models - Scale 1:64 - Model Shipwright edition
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HMS Speedy by Delf - Vanguard Models - Scale 1:64 - Model Shipwright edition
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I will add in a few more first planking strips in future kits, as I always like to add more than enough of the base materials. If you had told me, I would have been more than happy to send a few more strips. For the sanding of the hull, I now use a small electric mouse type sander for most of the hull, finishing with hand sanding.
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HMS Speedy by Vane - Vanguard Models - Scale 1:64 - Master Shipwright (limited edition)
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HMS Bounty by Serhii - Eaglemoss - Scale 1:45 - Second wooden ship build
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I have always use water based wood filler, and diluted with both water and PVA wood glue. It can be thin enough to get into the tiniest of cracks, plus it is so much easier to sand back smooth.
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Am still learning a lot regarding the photography. Speedy is the last model I take construction stage pictures using the blue background. In future, the background will be white.
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Superb, best build of Sherbourne I have seen, well done, Dirk!
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This work is absolutely stunning!
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Fantastic work!
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Just checked my original Vanguard drawings from my files, and there most certainly are full size hull drawings, more than one, in fact. But this is for the Victory Models/Amati kit. The large full size plans were drawn in a 1000x700mm paper space with the overall length of the hull, including lanterns to figurehead is 847.304 mm.
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Looking good Vane! Those fragile stern frames were a headache for me. I didn't want to make them so thick that they would draw the eye from the rest of the model, but also needed to be robust enough to take the stern and side patterns. I could not use any kind of wood due to grain problems, they would break even easier and more often. This is why they are MDF, and also why I made sure in the instructions to tell the modeller to glue the stern patterns to the frames ASAP. The original designs for the 4 stern frames was a lot more robust, but found their oversized protrusions too out of kilter with the general fidelity and scale of the model overall - kind of like putting a 48th scale capstan on a 64th scale kit.. But, they are fragile, but just on the right side of acceptably so, I think.
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Compared to the soft and malleable Tanganyika, it's like strips of steel!
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I always use thick CA for second planking, and planking decks!
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I would honestly use the extra thin ones that come with the kit. These are Amati special pins and are perfect to hold the first planking to the MDF bulkheads without splitting any materials.
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Fender, chesstree?
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kit review 1:32 Fifie – The Scottish Motor Fishing Vessel by Amati
chris watton replied to James H's topic in REVIEWS: Model kits
The drawings were based on plans from James Pottinger (also other drawings of like vessels), with whom I liaised with when developing the model. This was 12 years ago now.
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