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BLACK VIKING reacted to CRI-CRI in Saint Philippe 1693 by CRI-CRI - scale 1/72 - French warship from Lemineur monograph
Today work about transom of right cat head (not glued) :
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BLACK VIKING reacted to aydingocer in Orient Express Sleeping Car 1929 by aydingocer - FINISHED - Amati - Scale 1:32
Figures 473-475: The lighting is in place and it doesn't look bad at all!
That's all for now.
Thanks for watching!
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BLACK VIKING reacted to CRI-CRI in Saint Philippe 1693 by CRI-CRI - scale 1/72 - French warship from Lemineur monograph
Some enforcing accessories about the cat heads :
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BLACK VIKING reacted to Seahorse in HMS Victory by Seahorse - Corel - 1:98 Scale - Cross-Section
Progress may be slow..but I do have an excuse....
Started reading COMMANDER by Stephen Taylor. A real page turner!!.
I have quite an extensive collection of maritime fiction books by the likes of C S Forrester, Richard Woodman, Alexander Kent etc, but am not a fan of Patrick O'brien.
This book by Stephen Taylor is well worth the time and effort. Unfortunately, it eats into time that could be spent more productively modelling. None the less, I would highly recommend it to anyone interested in this genre.
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BLACK VIKING reacted to mtaylor in F-86F-30 Sabre by Egilman - Kinetic - 1/32nd scale
Probably didn't need the 40mph, Ken. That big fan overhead probably worked. The bigger birds (CH-46, CH-47, and CH-53) only had A/C that I'm aware of in the cockpit. Everyone else, hugged an open window or went to the tail with the ramp doors open..
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BLACK VIKING reacted to CRI-CRI in Saint Philippe 1693 by CRI-CRI - scale 1/72 - French warship from Lemineur monograph
Pussy cut or cut of the two cat heads (handy made, of course...) :
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BLACK VIKING reacted to Baker in "Mary Rose Your Noblest Shippe" Anatomy of a Tudor Warship edited by Peter Marsden (volume 2)
Published by the Mary Rose Trust
Author ??
Edited By Peter Marsden
First Published in 2009
A very detailed book about the construction (detailed description of the shipwreck) of the Mary Rose .
Contains little info about the cannons,
The book (433 pages) is accompanied by an extra cover that contains 15 drawings in 1/100 scale.
The book contains drawings of the frames.
The extra drawings have also a rigging, sailplan.
recommended 👍
Main cover, book and the cover with te drawings
Index and the list of figures
Some of the content
The 15 drawings scale 1/100
drawing n°1
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BLACK VIKING reacted to Baker in Tudor Warship Mary Rose by Douglas McElvogue - Osprey Publishing - Anatomy of the Ship series
Published by Osprey Publishing in 2020
Author Douglas Mc Elvogue
First published in 2015 by Conway Publishing
Contains very good drawings of the frames and keel.
A "must have" for a future scratch project of the Mary Rose (my opinion)
Recommended !!
Front
Back
Index
An explanation why there are 2 models of the Mary Rose
Content
Best part : drawings 👍
Museum Information
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BLACK VIKING reacted to modeller_masa in Planking stripe template (Alternative to the planking fan template)
Hello,
I made a template for lining off the hull. It is exactly the same as the usage of the planking fan template (https://modelshipworld.com/topic/23950-planking-tutorials-pdfs/), and I optimized the sequence a little bit faster and more convenient in my own way.
Download links
planking stripe template v1.pdf
planking stripe template v1 instruction.pdf
I have only built a few ships, so I don't know any other usage of the fan template or may misunderstand it. If you think this isn't better and quicker than the planking fan template, please let me know and I'll delete the download links. Any ideas that improve this template are also welcome. (ex: mm → inch unit)
Have a happy planking!
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BLACK VIKING reacted to BenD in Ropes of Scale developments and updates
Polyester Anchor Cable is now available.
I made them ranging from 1.1mm (0.043") to 3.8mm (0.149") in Diameter. The 3.8 cable is big enough for a 74 gun ship of the line in 1:48 scale.
I've also added a letter mail option at checkout for small orders. Now people that only need a few ropes don't need to pay ridiculous shipping costs.
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BLACK VIKING reacted to Old Collingwood in M1A1/2 Abrams by Old Collingwood - RFM - 1/35 - with partial interior
Morning all, no work progress as life required my attention (well tv actually lol) but I have been doing some research into the visual differences between the base M1 and the latest M1A1/ M1A2, and apart from the additional fittings the Two main Turret changes are - the front turret faces received some extra armour of around 150mm thick - extending the physical length of the turret, and the rear edge of the turret was sloped in the M1 and straight/flat in the M1A1/M1A2.
Here are a few diagrams off the net that show the difference -
OC.
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BLACK VIKING reacted to Vegaskip in Ship paintings
The Old Days
Victorian Dockyard
Acrylic on Mountboard 21" X 10"
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BLACK VIKING reacted to bartley in Stagecoach 1848 by John Bartley - FINISHED - Artesania Latina - 1/10
Preparing the Front Panels for Planking
This is an interesting process. In order to produce a concave or domed contour on the front and back of the cabin both surfaces are covered in 5 mm battens. These are much like the ribs on a ship and are eventually faired to produce the curved shape to support the planking.Some of the steps are shown below:
Battening around widows and doors:
Horizontal battens on the top and sides of the front panel
Full battening of the left side of the front panel
The completed battening:
The instructions suggest fairing the battens with course sand paper. I started the process with a small Luthier's plane and finished off with sandpaper:
The completed fairing job is hard to photograph. In the photo below you can see the general effect but the perspective makes it looks as if there are bumps and hollows. In fact the curve goes very smoothly from about 5mm near the top of the door to virtually zero at the outside edges.
The horizontal planking which comes next will accentuated the domed shape.
By the way thanks for all the "likes" it is very encouraging.
John
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BLACK VIKING reacted to Old Collingwood in M1A1/2 Abrams by Old Collingwood - RFM - 1/35 - with partial interior
Evening all, some more progress today carrying on with the turret details, when I brought it I also got the Update sets for it, so I have been diving into them improving some of the details - plenty of resin and PE bits and pieces going on.
OC.
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BLACK VIKING reacted to Kevin in Stage Coach 1848 - Artesania Latina - 1/10 - by Kevin - July 2021 - finished March 2022
good afternoon everyone
Calling this finished
pretty well OOB with some extra brass trimming, and extra Stanchions on the roof, i have seen much better made example of this subject, but im happy with it
thank you to those who followed the build
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BLACK VIKING reacted to fifthace in HMAV Bounty by fifthace - Caldercraft - 1:64
Hello.
Very quick update. Second planking is finished, now time to sand it and try and make it look like I didn't do such a half assed job on it haha.
2 Drops at the bow, 3 at the stern.
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BLACK VIKING reacted to Kevin in Stage Coach 1848 - Artesania Latina - 1/10 - by Kevin - July 2021 - finished March 2022
the kit is ok, but like everything in our hobby, it could be tons better,
if it wasnt for the love of my ship building, i would do these as a pastime, or non live steam engines replicas
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BLACK VIKING reacted to Kevin in Stage Coach 1848 - Artesania Latina - 1/10 - by Kevin - July 2021 - finished March 2022
good evening everyone
good day today, sun was out, so the wife was happy, dog was happy, had a visitor, first one to see me in years, other than family, even brought my new build
stagecoach boot finished, it could have been better, but looks like a covered area as intended
and the drivers area is also in position
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BLACK VIKING reacted to Kevin in Stage Coach 1848 - Artesania Latina - 1/10 - by Kevin - July 2021 - finished March 2022
good evening everyone
thank you for comments and likes, i will get back to you
@popeye the sailor @Canute @Old Collingwood
the great fence repair has taken me away from the build for the last few days, sorted for now, the rest can wait for warmer days
the pretty strips are done both sides now and has all had another coat of varnish
last night was spent making up one of the two mail pouches
the previous night doing the trunk
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BLACK VIKING reacted to Louie da fly in Oseberg Viking Ship by Norseman - Billing Boats - 1/25 Scale - 9th century
Of course you could take the top plank off, make a new, slightly wider one for each side and do it all over again.
But why? Who's going to look to see how much overlap there is? Apart from anything else, it's invisible - the only way you can check is to measure the distance from the top to the bottom of the top plank both inside and outside and compare the two.
The model is looking good. You're doing fine.
Steven
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BLACK VIKING reacted to norseman in Oseberg Viking Ship by Norseman - Billing Boats - 1/25 Scale - 9th century
I have finally got the top 2 planks installed on both sides of the ship. It turned out better than I thought. The only thing is, there is not much overlap on the top plank to the bottom plank in places. Hopefully this will not be a problem.
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BLACK VIKING reacted to Patrick Matthews in 3d printing crew figures
p.s.: As a white guy, I feel I can take any liberties when painting a Caucasian... but somehow I feel- uneasy? - trying do a creditable Black soldier (who by the way were operating many of the DUKWs, with for example the 476th Amphibian Truck Co at Iwo Jima). And it seems that available skin tone paints just don't go here.
This paint is too "chocolate" imho... darned if I know how to fix it.
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BLACK VIKING reacted to Patrick Matthews in 3d printing crew figures
It sure is hard to pin down the correct shades to use for faded and well-worn US uniforms, but here are my choices for my 1:8 GI DUKW driver and leatherneck hitchhiker.
I'm no figure painter, and I want to make more improvements on the faces and eyes in particular... but I still have to finish building the rest of the DUKW!
- Dressed and posed in DAZ;
- Messy stl's cleaned up at GamePrint;
- More clean-up in Blender;
- Hollowed in Fusion360;
- 9" figures printed on an EPAX E10
- Mostly Lifecolor paints.
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