BLACK VIKING

Asyou like her so much heee the full set of three drawings of
 

1688 with some very distinguished Arcanthus leaves in beautiful shape - but for the start the top of the bottle en details:
Her the tripple of the decoration drawings: 

The transom
 

The side gallery 

The gallion
 
Now some further details of the decor:

The simply half circeled Couronnament with with very useable 
detailling. 
 
And now the floral shape of wood in its finest way to be:



Hope this helps for the non state room's inner decoration and some the unknown decoration at breakheaswalls &c. so it is "some contemporary stuff" on and surrounding it.
 
 
Thanks for the interesting new pictures. 
 

Hello Chris!  Thank you for some interesting drafts that I haven’t seen before - particularly Le Fleuron.  The upper finishing of the bottle, there, only reinforces my resolve that this is the correct quarter gallery for 1689.
 
To answer your question, I don’t have any definitive answer to the painting of the battle stations in red.  I can only suppose that the inner painting of the port lids is a broader indication of the color in use.



If not red, then white would make some practical sense in that it would bring reflective light to the ‘tween decks, where it is needed most.
 
Druxey, yes the Liquitex is an acrylic medium, so it should behave as you say.
 
Thank you, Dan, and Mark for your kind compliments and thank you to all for looking in.
 
Mast work continues.  The lower fore and main masts are good and strong now, and rounding into shape.   More to follow...

Hello Marc, 
 
thanks for your great work! I am still astonished by your wounderfull and accurate craftman's workship!!!
 
I.
My own idea of building the SR, too gets faded more and more by any of the new pictures you do post... 😇
 
Ia.
I think I'll take the 3rd Heller hull for ROYAL LOUIS 1666 and do await the next book of Rickenbacher to get the detailling.
 
Ib.
And the 2nd hull will be invested in the DAUPHIN ROYAL. 
 
II. 
There ist without these light top framing nice braid

FLEURON 1688 (56guns) no guideline for the frise design in the official-approved-decoration-three-view-drawings (typical German way of linking words together, sorry) so far I looked around:
 


these place was empty - was it the space for the captains privatly payed personal decor of his own taste? (I do remember s. th. like this in the Greorgian RN.) 
 
III. 
And last but not least my intention to write here... 
...there is one question I don't think I will do a home-run with this but it is important for ALL of us in here:
 
Till when the inside planking of the battleststion was painted red? 
 
We all know it was done due to camouflage the horror of blood in a sea beattle aboard - and sothere is only one question: What was the coulor before?
Did we have got any colour pigments surviving inside the hull of VASA?
 
At SAINT PHILIPPE in the Ancre calendar of 2019 it is painted red... 

 
But for the French side I found in the Monographie of Commissar Huet of ROYAL LOUIS 1666 only a "light grey" - but it was the colour for the admirals accommodation - but no idea what the battelstations inside was painted in. Did you pass aside this important information duiring your literature journies in the Baroque world? 
 

I figured out this picture in DU BOIS DONT ON FAIT LES VAISSEAUX.  BOIS ET MARINE. 1650-1850 but the red inside if the gunport lids does (in my point of view) only corresponding to the red an "gold" decoration on the UP's frieze not any evident proof of some completly redly painted inside of the gun decks, isn't it? 
 
Thanks for your intrest - and please do not feel pressed to start to demolish the hole hull in a Dafi and beyond VICTORY manner to change the inner wall's colour!!! 
 
 
 
 

Looking forward to this OC . Stay safe m8 
Martyn

Cheers for looking in Popeye .
Had a bit of time this afternoon to have a go at the name on the side . I think it looks ok , just one more thing the paintwork looks to new and is there a way of whethering without a airbrush. Any help would be most appreciated.
Stay safe all 
Martyn

May I say a big thank you for all the information Egilman and everyone who has looked in   .
Hears a few pictures. The fuselage and wings where painted with Tamiya USAF olive drab and the underside USAF mid grey . I have built up the cockpit which is very basic. It needed a bit of filing to get it to fit . Next job painting the logo on the side before I start putting it together.
cheers for following 
Martyn

Wow thanks m8 . I've looked again at the picture and have just noticed that little triangle that's the apostrophe  
Martyn

Cheers m8 . I was a bit dubious about the number but the only picture I could find was a long distance one of her with her bomb bay doors open flying over Germany and it's very fuzzy. I must admit I'm not very good at all this computer stuff lol . 
Thanks agane 
Martyn 

Hi all and a big thanks for looking in . I can't find a lot of information on this plane but she was damaged by flack which killed the ball turret gunner but was repaired to fly again. If anyone can find out more I would be very happy.
Hears a picture of her and I believe her code number is232006.
 I will post some pics of the build later 
Martyn
 

Hi Rob from just over the border and welcome to MSW. I live just east of Bury St Edmunds so not to far .
Martyn

Cheers for looking in Popeye .
Had a bit of time this afternoon to have a go at the name on the side . I think it looks ok , just one more thing the paintwork looks to new and is there a way of whethering without a airbrush. Any help would be most appreciated.
Stay safe all 
Martyn

Hi all to stop me going gaga as I care for my wife so have to self isolate for 12 weeks I have decided to start a naw build from my stash. The model is a Airfix 1-72 scale B17 from 1978 . I am going to build it as Lil Audrey which is a aircraft that took off just behind where I live at Great Ashfield plus my 92 year old mother is called Audrey so it seems quite fitting.
 I will post some pics tomorrow 
keep safe all 
Martyn 

Looking forward to this OC . Stay safe m8 
Martyn

Evening all,    So as I said  - I have put  Mossie away in a box  and decided to start this,   first off  I looked over the spit-structions   page one called  for two  sub assemblies that are lower hull wall sections that have a few fittings attached to them - lever's,  covers and  bottles, these were glued done  then put aside, also  I cut away the two fuselage sides  - these needed the normal light tidy up and a pip cutting away,  there was a few moulding holes that I filled with plastic putty, this was then put aside to  set.
 
So I have made a start  - its a very very nice kit very good accuracy and quality  the dry fit join of the fuselages is excellent.
 
Sorry for the last pic  - didn't know it was oof  till after I took it.
 
OC.

Some great research and a great start   looking forward to seeing and reading more.
 
OC.

Just had a look a a few more pics and I found this.
Martyn

Cheers for looking in Popeye .
Had a bit of time this afternoon to have a go at the name on the side . I think it looks ok , just one more thing the paintwork looks to new and is there a way of whethering without a airbrush. Any help would be most appreciated.
Stay safe all 
Martyn

May I say a big thank you for all the information Egilman and everyone who has looked in   .
Hears a few pictures. The fuselage and wings where painted with Tamiya USAF olive drab and the underside USAF mid grey . I have built up the cockpit which is very basic. It needed a bit of filing to get it to fit . Next job painting the logo on the side before I start putting it together.
cheers for following 
Martyn

Wow thanks m8 . I've looked again at the picture and have just noticed that little triangle that's the apostrophe  
Martyn

Cheers m8 . I was a bit dubious about the number but the only picture I could find was a long distance one of her with her bomb bay doors open flying over Germany and it's very fuzzy. I must admit I'm not very good at all this computer stuff lol . 
Thanks agane 
Martyn 

Hi all and a big thanks for looking in . I can't find a lot of information on this plane but she was damaged by flack which killed the ball turret gunner but was repaired to fly again. If anyone can find out more I would be very happy.
Hears a picture of her and I believe her code number is232006.
 I will post some pics of the build later 
Martyn
 

there is some camo done on these birds...it's not too dramatic.  I have the Memphis Belle going at the moment,  and that has some subtle camo work.  if you want to try some fading on the olive drab,  have a look at my Wulfe Hound build.   I used three different tints of Olive drab and a 'wipe brushing'  {dry brushing with a rag} of bomber tan.  great job with the nose art  
 
I had the data base........I tossed it out since I only have the M.B. left to do.......then I'll likely move on to the B 25 I have in stash.   I had a thought to buy an older kit of the M.B.,  just to see how much of an improvement was done to the molds.  chances are they made new molds for the more up to date kits                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

It always amazed me the intricacies of Olive Drab camo. it can run from a greenish brown to a deep green depending on when it was painted and how long it had been on the surface... and the sun would fade it proportional to the thickness of the paint application.... Most of the B-17's went overseas in BMF and were painted in the field by either the maintenance facilities or the crews themselves by hand.... wipe brushing is a good way to replicate the look and spongeing is another..... I believe there is even fade powders that can replicate the look if used sparingly....
 
Me, I'm looking for a "D" model to model the "Swoose" 
 
There are very few combat used B-17's left most of them were sent to the scrappers immediately after the war..... Almost all the B-17's on display are post war manufacture.....

Just had a look a a few more pics and I found this.
Martyn

Just had a look a a few more pics and I found this.
Martyn