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Ty Sir, really appreciated ☺️ -
No sails and rigging as per instructions. I do plan to get the fancy blocks from Chuck though 😊
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More yellow and black 🙂 Lots of little mistakes everywhere, I know, and trying out a camera someone gave me, so forgive me that too, but overall I am quite happy with how it goes and looks! For some reason the name is a tad too low now, if I can't get used to that I will change it later. Hopefully I can finish the steps and channels asap so I can start coppering 🙂 Yes, it has finally arrived!
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I'm the worst to tell you anything about patience and perseverance, but making a model, in my experience, is a succession of frustrations and challenges you will have to overcome. Some challenges seem bigger than others and viewing your capabilities I am sure you will overcome this one as well! Hang in there! Walter.
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BR-18 Locomotive by Greg Davis - OcCre - 1/32
wvdhee replied to Greg Davis's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
I'm in. It's on my list too and will only get it when I see it at 50% 😉 -
I'm in love 😍 Don't mind the waterline obviously, but I adore the black and yellow ❤️
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Chop chop 😉
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Looking great!
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Hi Maurice, thank you very much, yes that is helpfull!
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Yellow! After having searched the web and some hobby stores and not having found the yellow I wanted, I decided to mix it myself. Well actually it was a friend who mixed it for me (Art teacher, making her own paints etc...) and she wrote down the formula so I can have more if I need. There's 3 layers on the ship now and I really love the colour. It's yellow, but not too bright or modern and not too brown, it's just perfect imho. One more thin layer I think to finish it off. I also gave it a coat of copper paint below the waterline (thx BE for the tip), where the coppering plates will go when BPost decides to go to work again. Only problem I still have is the name. I tried to print "ARIADNE" in a nice period font on a transparent decal, but that didn't work of course. I am hesitating now what to do; printing it on white decal paper? buying photo etched letters? or vinyl? Painting it by hand? If anyone has a great advice it would be very much appreciated 🙂 Thx, Walter.
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Thanks, I will try lighter layers. I am not so sure about highlights though, I know you like them 😉 I should have known about layers actually, I do some oil painting on canvas as well sometimes, but never tried with acrylics. But I need to know some kind of colour code to print the name as waterslide decal... to be continued..
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What yellow is yellow? As promised, I'd post when I'd deviate from the instructions and there we are! Small change, I admit, I didn't paint the wales black yet because I will paint in yellow ochre first. (I am actually having the Indy instructions next to me as a guide now, thanks Chris for providing them all!) But what yellow to use? As mentioned in the Indy instruction manual and on the VM website it ought to be AK Ochre 11118. So I bought that and tried it on some scrap wood, but it doesn't look like the yellow on the Indy at all I would have thought it to be closer to the yellow tape colour. Anyway, if anyone can shed a light (what light is light?) on it? Thanks and happy building! Walter.
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Second planking done! 😊 Quite happy with it actually, there's still some sanding to do to smooth it out, but it'll all be covered in paint or copper anyway. That is if the Belgian post decides to go back to work, waiting for a package still....
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Looking marvellous! And thanks for the tutorial 😊😉
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If I'd known it would be that time consuming... 😬
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Is it better to glue to treated wood (wop, varnish, paint primer, ...) than bare wood? I am thinking of putting black primer on the hull before coppering.
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Ah yes, there's that too, haven't even thought about that, but I am glad I abandoned that tool 😉
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Thank you! I really like the small boats, so far 😉 I'll be watching your coppering of Harpy intensely, as I will be copper plating my ship too and have never done it before..
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First planking done! Apart from some sanding obviously. I tried the plank bending tool (that squeezer thing that cuts the planks on the inside) for the curves at the stern, but to no avail. Squeezing too soft and it doesn't bend, too hard and you cut it in two and if I managed to dose the squeezing power and had something bendable, it got all mushy with the glue. So I reverted to my good old bending iron 🙂 I also advanced with the little pinnace, I really like the fiddling with these little boats 🙂 great there are two more to make!
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They are absolutely perfect yes. Ordered them from Krick in Germany.
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Started planking 🙂 I also decided to paint the walls of the captain's cabin white. As expected it's all splendid Vanguard Models quality and it all builds quite easily until now. But the tops of the bulkheads are really fragile and I snapped a few in my clumsiness. Not a big problem though.
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Wow, I shouldn't have followed you here, now I want those tools too! 😅
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