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A beautifully rendered end result! The surgery was a bold and successful move. Well done indeed. Flexible room temperature vulcanising (RTV) rubber molds will preserve the smallest detail beautifully. One correspondent asked whether you use mills. The look of a rotary carved surface is never the same as one that is carved using edge tools. The crisp edges are never there. The whole aesthetic is quite different. As for acanthus leaves, if one studies good examples of these, one can then imitate them as well as Aleksandr has.
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If you are rigging, the masts will stay put without glue. Hint: they didn't glue the masts in at full size either!
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The cross-chock joints with the bollard timbers are tricky, as the dovetails have to be at the same angle as the steeve of the bowsprit. Good luck with it! Once you try to bend black hornbeam, can you let us know how easy or difficult it is to bend, please? Thanks!
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HMCSS Victoria 1855 by BANYAN - 1:72
druxey replied to BANYAN's topic in - Build logs for subjects built 1851 - 1900
Glad to see progress and that you are back at it, Pat. The model looks terrific.- 1,021 replies
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If one absolutely has to use nails - which I do not for one moment recommend! - then one needs to predrill a hole just under the diameter of the nail one is using.
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Nice to see an update and progress, Gary. She is coming along beautifully!
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Spreading topsides is not a unique problem. Years ago, I had the same issue with a 64-gun ship model. My solution was similar to yours. In this case I placed the rods between the beams and buried the filed down nuts under the outer planking. The rods were invisible in the finished model.
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Every best wish for success in your new space, Chris!
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Ship models worth making are not a race against time. The hours you've spent so far shows in the results.
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Coming along beautifully. Perhaps the external door to the quarter gallery was more for ventilation purposes....
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Very nicely done. Just catching up on your build, John. Ailing or failing parents are a huge stress, and I empathise with what you and you wife have been going through. It's tough on everyone.
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"Just fooling around"? says the card wizard. First, working at that scale is impressive enough, but in card as well....
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Looks as if part 1, rolled, is the lining for inside the hawse hole. Is the area below the black line a glue flap? Certainly it's an odd piece!
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These are the kind of photos that make me smile! Looking lovely.
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A great philosophy!
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Nearly always, no-one else will notice things that you do, as the 'ideal' is only in your own mind and imagination!
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Beautifully executed, Matthias! Have you tried fixing the carving blank to a backing block of wood using PVA glue? It can be freed after by soaking in isopropanol (95% rubbing alcohol). That way there is nothing interfering with the edges of the carving. Also, a block can be easily held and turned as you carve. I've used that method successfully for many years.
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Edge-set deck planking
druxey replied to Hakai43's topic in Building, Framing, Planking and plating a ships hull and deck
At the date of Endeavour, nibbed planks would not have been used. Less extreme curved planks with a hook where needed was the style at that date. Here is an example on a modern model of Resolution.
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Edge-set deck planking
druxey replied to Hakai43's topic in Building, Framing, Planking and plating a ships hull and deck
Actually, curved deck planks were not uncommon, especially in the days before powered circular saw mills. Many contemporary models show such planking (nibbed planks only came into fashion the 19th century) as well as deck plans such as are seen in Steel and Rees. A quick web search shows a Spanish example from 1794: However, these planks were most likely naturally curved from the trunks or branches from which they were cut, not edge set. This was a less wasteful method of timber conversion.
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Edge-set deck planking
druxey replied to Hakai43's topic in Building, Framing, Planking and plating a ships hull and deck
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Great save! Well done.
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Ah, those micro-adjustments take a lot of considerations and time! Looks like it's developing nicely, though.
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Some basswood does not take stain evenly. I suspect that this happened here - it's not your technique.
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If you dissolve a PVA joint, just scrape the jelly-like remnants off and reglue. As there is very little water content in the alcohol (5%) you can do this right away.
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