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willz got a reaction from MichaelK in WDButler carvings
Victorys stern carvings, all done with a stanley blade, totally done without mounting
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willz got a reaction from Alan Cabrera in WDButler carvings
hi Moxis, dont have much on the main emblem on the stern, but found a few pics finishing the left hand side as you look at it, as i go i use a wet toothbrush for cleaning the piece
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willz got a reaction from KARAVOKIRIS in WDButler carvings
when carving a figure always do the head first, this will always be the focal point of the veiwers, its hard to recover from small mistakes with faces.
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willz got a reaction from Patrick B in WDButler carvings
this is a stanley blade, i find it easier to sculptor than a blade fixed in a pencil thingy..
rules there is no rules
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willz got a reaction from Patrick B in Getting started....mounting your carving blanks...and removing them when finished
i would glue a piece of paper with pva to the mounting block then glue your piece to the paper again with pva, after you finish you just leave it in water and your piece should fall away. i havent tried this method but i have never used a mounting block, i just dive in and carve
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willz got a reaction from Saburo in Chuck's carving attempts - #11 blades and micro chisels
your carvings look fine to me Chuck. but i have no idea how you can finish them whilst still on a mounting board, how can you get the roundness at the edges, as i said on my post i dont use mounting boards, heres a pic of my Vic stern carving, it is slightly less the 1/32 thick but not much, as for the finish i just scrape my blade sideways to smooth it out, when we are dealing with carvings as delicate as these we have to reach a equilibrium to are own satisfaction, and by the way i dont have big fingers
rules there is no rules
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willz got a reaction from GrandpaPhil in Ship paintings
great stuff, and so many. i used to paint pictures years ago but somehow i never really got the bug, i`ve painted about 25 in the last 45 years and none in the last 15 most i gave away. and i dont know why i just got bored, bit similar to my model building now, seem to have the skills but not the drive, of all my paintings only two were of ships, one i gave to an old friend that used to be in the merchant navy and the other i gave to my younger brother and his wife, i have a photo of this one, it was a picture i saw on a book cover in a second hand book store, so i bought the book for a few pence and painted it, the picture was done on a 30" x 20" board in oils, so here it is
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willz got a reaction from popash42 in WDButler carvings
ok Chuck, dont have much in the line for leaners. but anything i put on my blog can be of help to beginners, they dont and shouldn`t dive in at my level but they can always look in, this is my free advice, and i know when i was learning i searched everywhere for everything on carving and to be honest there wasn`t much!!. So with no further ado here`s the different stages on my HMS Victory sheild
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willz got a reaction from popash42 in WDButler carvings
hi Moxis, dont have much on the main emblem on the stern, but found a few pics finishing the left hand side as you look at it, as i go i use a wet toothbrush for cleaning the piece
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willz got a reaction from EricWilliamMarshall in Getting started....mounting your carving blanks...and removing them when finished
i would glue a piece of paper with pva to the mounting block then glue your piece to the paper again with pva, after you finish you just leave it in water and your piece should fall away. i havent tried this method but i have never used a mounting block, i just dive in and carve
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willz got a reaction from mtaylor in HMS Enterprise by AlexBaranov - 1:36
wow this is really great,,,looked over the photos and can only find one fault in my opinion ???? instead of the z in enterprize you put s...but it looks like its upside down
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willz got a reaction from JayCub in WDButler carvings
ok Chuck, dont have much in the line for leaners. but anything i put on my blog can be of help to beginners, they dont and shouldn`t dive in at my level but they can always look in, this is my free advice, and i know when i was learning i searched everywhere for everything on carving and to be honest there wasn`t much!!. So with no further ado here`s the different stages on my HMS Victory sheild
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willz got a reaction from JayCub in WDButler carvings
hi Moxis, dont have much on the main emblem on the stern, but found a few pics finishing the left hand side as you look at it, as i go i use a wet toothbrush for cleaning the piece
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willz got a reaction from JayCub in WDButler carvings
this is the marked point where i started the teethy things. so when you look at the finished band it looks perfectly symmetrical, and its not bad, but any discrepancy would be at the centre hidden behind the main emblem
rules there is no rules
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willz got a reaction from JayCub in WDButler carvings
heres a pic of my Vic stern, all carvings done with a stanley blade except for the band that goes all the way across, think i may still have a tutorial on how i did that if anyone is interested, cheers lads..
rules there is no rules
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willz got a reaction from EricWilliamMarshall in Chuck's carving attempts - #11 blades and micro chisels
your carvings look fine to me Chuck. but i have no idea how you can finish them whilst still on a mounting board, how can you get the roundness at the edges, as i said on my post i dont use mounting boards, heres a pic of my Vic stern carving, it is slightly less the 1/32 thick but not much, as for the finish i just scrape my blade sideways to smooth it out, when we are dealing with carvings as delicate as these we have to reach a equilibrium to are own satisfaction, and by the way i dont have big fingers
rules there is no rules
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willz got a reaction from BenD in Ship paintings
great stuff, and so many. i used to paint pictures years ago but somehow i never really got the bug, i`ve painted about 25 in the last 45 years and none in the last 15 most i gave away. and i dont know why i just got bored, bit similar to my model building now, seem to have the skills but not the drive, of all my paintings only two were of ships, one i gave to an old friend that used to be in the merchant navy and the other i gave to my younger brother and his wife, i have a photo of this one, it was a picture i saw on a book cover in a second hand book store, so i bought the book for a few pence and painted it, the picture was done on a 30" x 20" board in oils, so here it is
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willz got a reaction from GrandpaPhil in WDButler carvings
when carving a figure always do the head first, this will always be the focal point of the veiwers, its hard to recover from small mistakes with faces.
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willz got a reaction from GrandpaPhil in WDButler carvings
the last picture shows one of the orbs surrounding the crown has also chipped off but even with 20 20 eyesight its hard to spot with the naked eye. I would of liked to make the top bands thinner but I think the risk is too great
cheers lads and lasses
Willlz
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willz got a reaction from GrandpaPhil in WDButler carvings
whilst I was carving the two grooves in the bands at the top of the crownd I had a bit of a disaster !! Chipped a small lump out of one of the top bands, bit fed up about it but its not that easy to spot with the naked eye so going to have to live with it. I should have grooved the bands before hollowing them out
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willz got a reaction from GrandpaPhil in WDButler carvings
Next I cut some tamiya masking tape to the desired thickness and stuck it on the top to act as a guide for cutting. Then having the basic shape I just carried on with stanley blades and my dremel to get the the stage shown in the last photo, still work in progress but no need to go mad at this scale
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willz got a reaction from GrandpaPhil in WDButler carvings
ok Chuck, dont have much in the line for leaners. but anything i put on my blog can be of help to beginners, they dont and shouldn`t dive in at my level but they can always look in, this is my free advice, and i know when i was learning i searched everywhere for everything on carving and to be honest there wasn`t much!!. So with no further ado here`s the different stages on my HMS Victory sheild
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willz got a reaction from GrandpaPhil in WDButler carvings
i have not been carving very long but long enough to know to start thinking outside the box, heres one example of what i mean
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willz got a reaction from GrandpaPhil in WDButler carvings
i hold then very gently DavePete, some pieces you leave a tab to hold on to, but the delicate twirls i hold on a small piece of ply and overhang the bit i`m working on, heres a pic of carvings still with there tabs on
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