BLACK VIKING

Nicely done Michael!!
 
I hope all is well.
Frank

Hi all,
 
It's been a while since I've had an update to post. Finally completed the installation of the guns to their four upper weather decks.  added quoins as well
Here are a few images. 
 
Thanks, as always, for dropping buy for a look - always so appreciated.
 
Cheers,
 

I wanted to design and print the forward radar mast but my printer died. A replacement ordered but need to wait for a week.
In the meantime I finished the forward section. Removed embossed anchor chains and install new. Added few manifolds, boxes. Also the two machine guns forward. Weathering with light gray, decals and light weathering with darker gray. I finally installed the gun.

I’m not a smart man, I can only go to 4 

Eighteen cowl blisters done. 😵

 

This journey is almost over,  just a few things left to do,  but not sure of which way I like to display it.  With oars stoed or in the water.  So most likely just going to let it sit for awhile  then come back and add some extra stuff.


 I may just paint the background  , some sky, birds, fish jumping 😀 penguins maybe.


 
I have to wait a bit  to completely finish,  but it only touch ups and a bit of paint, so almost finished.  Finished enough for me to cleanup the shipyard and start another  model.
Thanks for looking.  Hope it was fun, I had a blast. Looking forward to The King of the Mississippi River Boat,  looks like a lot of tinkering, neanderthals love to tinker lol
Bob M.   
 
 
 

Apologies for my near silence for the last few weeks, there have been a couple of developments in my life, one very good, and one not quite so good. 
 
The not so good concerns my furry little helper, Freyja. A couple of years ago she ruptured her right cruciate ligament and had to undergo surgery to repair her knee (a TPLO surgery for all you vet types!). That all healed up exceptionally well, but with the caveat that if she’s blown one, the other will surely follow at some stage (generally sooner rather than later). Well, later happened shortly after my last post here. 
 
A vet visit and yet another surgery, and I’m now in the process of nursing her back to health again.
 

 
She looks a little silly, with her shaved posterior (complete with butt sling), and the doughnut of disgrace (we don’t like the cone of shame, we have figured out how to chew it to pieces), but she’s recovering well and within a few months, she’ll be back to her old bouncy, energetic self.
 
I’ll leave the good development for a later time, but suffice it to say that it was a long time coming, and that I’m happy.
 
I’ll do my best to follow along with everyone’s builds, and post something when I can. And I will keep you all updated on Freyja’s progress!
 
Andy

Hi all sorry for the long delay but life has got in the way.  I've been working on the yards and sails. These have been made from a old shirt that has been cut and distressed by rubbing them with rough sandpaper and then painted with different greens and browns. 
Next job more sails 
Thanks for looking 
Martyn 

Sorry for the late response as I've had one heck of a year as I lost my mum last year and we have moved back to Kent to be near No1 son .
I have attached some pictures for you to look at to show what I have been up to. 
Thanks again for the comments and likes .
Martyn 

Hi all sorry I haven't posted for a while but life has certainly got in the way.  But anyway back to the build. 
The guns have been fitted on the gundeck and the sides. 
I have made some lanterns and some weird sticky up things on the stern and fitted some wooden teeth things on the beakhead. 
Next job making the main mast .
Stay safe all.
Martyn 
 

Hi all sorry I haven't posted for a while but life and stuff has got in the way.  I have been slowly working away on the FD . I have finished the hull and have now put some details on the stern galleries and the sides.  As I'm no good at carving I have used modelling clay to make the scary faces and strange fishy things and to make her look old and battered I have put some barnacles and clamy things on the sides. I need to find away of putting some smaller barnacles on the lower hull. 
Thanks for looking. 
Martyn 

Evening all,   more  water  gel  in the  wheel tracks  and  a few  more puddles.
 
OC.

Adding some detail to the lantern and will need to address the gap between the poop deck and taffrail/stern, something I should've caught earlier but oh well and prep the deck for an offset Ensign staff.
 
Michael D.

Currently on a motorbike weekend in the south of England with some mates and today some of us visited the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm Museum in Yeovil. Actually very good with lots of interesting planes and helicopters...
 
And they had a Corsair with I took quite a few photos of, hopefully useful when I build mine. Recommended visit if you're ever in the vicinity.
 

 
And for those of you interested in the bikes we have various models and ages of Yamaha's, Aprilla, Triumph, BMW, Suzuki, Ducati, Kawasaki's, Honda and Moto Guzzi...
 
 
 

I was given a voucher for a presentation on ship weathering. So I was tossing up repainting the Morser and I decided I’d just do another one sans shield. Came out cost neutral 

Late pics of my shipyard :
 

I've been having a play with mixing colours and trying some pre shading for the first time in the cockpit. I'm trying to get somewhere close to this..
 

 
First I built it up and then primed it with Vallejo Black

 

 
Then fairly heavily pre-shaded with white, all paints are Vallejo Air range by the way. 
 

 
Then I mixed a combination of olive green, BS dark green, black, white and yellow until I thought it was close and then thinned to about 50%. Then applied 3 coats gradually. 
 

 
I'll let that dry now and see how it looks. Then I'll hand paint the rest and do some light weathering. As it's going to be in a museum it shouldn't look too shabby I'm thinking. 
 
 
 
 

There we go 😀 Thanks EG.
 

Hi all, 
 
So I've finished the engines, well almost, still the exhausts to add to the rear of them although I don't think they will be visible at all.
 
I'm pretty pleased with these though.
 

 
Shame that not too much is visible when built up... Dry fit test to see what they will look like reveals not much!
 

Slow and steady progress. 
 
There are 72 parts per engine. You can't fault the detail. And that's before you put the exhaust stacks on.
 
If the rest of the kit has this much to it though, I'll finish sometime around Xmas....2026! 😁

Photo time

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After all surfaces were treated, the barrel looked like the photo. The length is 120 cm.

The painting was done with two shades of brown and black to get a weathered rusty surface. The inside of the barrel still needs to be made matt black.

The mouth of the barrel is a bit rounder, as the examples often show.

The breech has to be slid into the back.

The breech during the assembly of the parts. Which was entirely according to the method of the barrel.

The breech ready to be painted.
 

In the Dutch language, a breech was called a "snelleke". It resembled a beer mug in appearance and the medieval name of a beer mug was "snelleke". In reality, this barrel would have weighed 95 kg but now only 40 kg.

This is the situation on this day. It will take somewhat longer before I can show you more
 
Constant
 

The main yard was finally also finished so far, here is an overview of the collection of all the blocks that have now snuggled together. Always seen from both the front and the aft. And as already written earlier, the stirrups and foot horses will only be smoothed and provided with gravity during the final installation.





The center of the yard with the chain sling ...





... and the yard arm, 9 blocks in 8 sizes :-0





Then came the exciting moment, the test hanging http://www.shipmodels.info/mws_forum/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif

First the lifts.






Then the yard tackles with outer tricing line.



And usually as last the braces.





And there is another little tidbit that is not normally seen on models. According to Steel, the rope slings were replaced by chain slings in wartime, as can be seen in the pictures of the lifts. Consequently, the forward-facing preventer braces should also be fitted. These replaced the double pendant of the braces of the 1760s. For this purpose, the brace was attached to the rearmost shroud of the foremast, ran to a block on the front of the yard, back to a block on the rearmost shroud and from there to the forecastle.



Exciting.

XXXDAn

Thank you, Ian. A majority of the stern work is completed, the gun port lids are installed and added the grid design above the upper glass panes to closely resemble that of the Pett painting, for this I gold leafed tulle as this stood out better than gold paint. Up next, I'll be reworking the rudder before moving back the beak head. As always, I appreciate you all stopping by and taking a peek. 
 
Michael D.
 
 

While I planned to sheath the hull with an epoxy/'glass layer for strength and watertightness, I wanted to try a proper planking technique as discussed on the "Modeling Techniques" portion of this site for practice.  My drafting board drawer still had some rolls of 1/8" wide drafting tapes, so I utilized them to help define the bands of planking which would be necessary.

The tapes certainly assisted eyeballing fair curves around this 3 dimensional curvilinear shape.  Once the locations seemed suitable, as recommended  I divided the space within the bands at each frame into equal widths and marked that frame.  To transfer the plank width markings to the other side of the hull. I overlayed a clear plastic strip on the marked frame, put dots on the plastic and then shifted the strip to the same frame on the other side. An awl was used to punch through the strip at the appropriate points. The divots were then highlighted with a pen.

The inboard edges of garboards would initially meet at the centerline "above" the keelson, so these planks were made about 2-1/2 times wider than the "standard" planks. The keel would sit on a flat formed by planing the garboards back from the centerline 1/2 the width of the keel, which would visually return the garboards to a more normal double width.  The two runs of broads would follow at a width of about 1-1/2 times standard plank widths before the rest of the planking was to follow.

The transition of the rabbet line aft was adjusted by gluing on thin, tapered pieces of basswood to each side of the projecting deadwood from about station 7 aft to the stern post.

By the end of March, planking began to progress (though there were the occasional mis-steps). 

Offering up a piece of planking stock for scribing in as a broad strake