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Hello fellow builders and lurkers,
Though not quite new in modelbuilding, this is my first ever 18th century sailing ship. I am using Boudriot's 74 gunship as reference but I mainly try to get a feeling for the technics used for the scale and what I can and can't do.
The build will be slow because I will try to not burn myself out on it.
First of all, I used to colours that Heller suggested, but I am open to suggestions!
The carriages are in the red that Heller sugests
I cleaned the gunbarrels after I painted them, Maybe next time I'll do it before.
I decided to divert from Heller's sugestion and painted the guns black and add a bit of gunmetal with drybrushing, still not sure if it looks okay
Guns, Guns, GunsThe guns completed, only the small caliber has no drybrush
In Boudriot's work I found the way the cannons are rigged. I think that on this scale the small blocks, tacks and cables are maybe not realy necessary but I did try to do some fitting for the heavy ropes. Not sure if this is the way to go. Again I am open to suggestion
Cannon with riggingNext, I tried my hand on etching some planks in the lower deck. I am thinking of adding some interior instead of only the heavy guns. It is absolutly not my best work, but it was my first try on a place that is not clearly visible in my final work. I also braided the cables for the anchors, just to do something different.
Etched deck and dryfit
So, this is all I did last month, just to give you an idea about how slowly I am going .
Tips and sugestions are more than welcome!
Kind regards
- CiscoH, Bill Morrison, ccoyle and 1 other
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I did a lot of things the last couple of weeks. For the first time ever I did some scratchbuilding. Also, a lot of painting has been done.
To start with the scratchbuilds:
The riding bitts
Oven and cable hatch
Next, as you can see in the last photo, I did try to do some light ropework on the guncariages:
And now for the paintwork. I kept it safe for the hull:
For the topdeck, the first partially visible one, I followed greenskins' explanation. I loved thre visual effect of his work, so, I made a step by step. After a leather brown layer of primer I heavy drybrushed with beige brown
Next, still quite heavily, drybrushed with Iraqi
Next was black, thinned to a Ink, to fill the crevises. I found it very scary at first because black looks so definitive
Used my fingers to spread it and then used papertowel to remove the excess
Then a new drybrush with vallejo Iraqi
Thanks for the explanation @greenskin!
Slowly arriving at the point of rigging. Still feel a bit overwhelmed by all that work