BLACK VIKING

I did fix the frame and added the two........   the decals came in yesterday,  so this morning I've begun to add the more delicate parts.  I should have some pictures....or even the finish soon     

I think so too    the cockpit canopy is done........there are two really small bits of frame that I'm not going to bother with.  they're not noticeable.  I'm working on the nose glass now.

........I just made myself feel bad........I added them in    I guess I may as well fix that bit of frame that runs to the roof {copilot side}.

Time to finish this build
Added some rust and some bare metal here and there.
Glued the model on a base plate and gave a matt black wash.

Tagged and stored with his T34 and SU brothers and sisters.

Thanks everyone for following, comments and likes.

More progress
 
Painting in base color

Add a cable (2 russian towingeyes and some rope)

turret parts glued together

made "a mess" with some mat Black  😇

turret installed

A free style 3 tone camauflage  (the black mess is a bit less messy 😉)

dry brushing with light grey

metal parts painted and ammo boxes in differend colors

to be continued.

Thanks for the nice comments.
 
Wheels and tracks are in place.
The vinyl tires have one disadvantage. Normally these plastic tracks can be glued with regular plastic glue. Now it is necessary to use CA glue.

 

After 8 Months of loving this build, heavily improvising and pushing my capabilities, my 1759 ROYAL LOUIS - HELLER 1/200 is FINISHED.
5 months of building the kit and rigging her up and 3 months to Hand sew 20 sails and add reef lines, Bowlinesand Braces, I can honestly say I feel burnt out, strained but very happy.
It may not be perfect or historically accurate but I have pushed my own capabilities to the max, I still have a lot to perfect and learn, if I can. But for now I can sit bk and enjoy her as I hope some of you will.
Happy modelling everyone and keep building and enjoying our great hobby and Art.
All the best and #staysafe Rob 👍🤺🤺🤺⚓⚓⚓

Evening all,    some more good progress  today,   I took the bases  off the figures I had painted, then got the farm on the table  and worked out where  they would be placed  -  the farms time zone  I am going with  is when the French had done their second attack  on LHS  and  the 54th/55th Ligne  had attempted to get in via the opening in the Barn (they then tried to get into the courtyard)   some of the  KGL  were guarding the Barn doors  while others  raced the front gate  to chase the French who inturn  where being chased by the British Hussars.
 
There is now over 50 KGL  in  there.
 
OC.

After years of building with equipment all over the house which I had to drag out and then store again, I now have a dedicated shop. Yippee! I replaced the original structure which was a shed attached to my barn with the new structure which has heat and air conditioning as well as exhaust fans. I split it into two rooms one of which is for sawing, filing and anything which creates dust. The other room is for metal work and assembly. I also included a fly tying table as I am an avid fly fisherman. I still have plenty of room left over to add tools. I'm thinking of a thickness sander but I don't need it yet.
Richard

Done yesterday and this afternoon , based on HMCS Montreal and HMCS Skeena 16.5” X 11.75”

'Runic' with Schooner w/c 16.5” X11.75”

OC. Thanks always so kind with you comments 👍
 
Finished the beakdeck bulkwarks as well as doing some needed fixes. Image notations reduce needed text.......
Ropes and deadyes are from Syren - So glad that Chuck's company is again selling ropes.
 
 
 

Very nice Michael!
 
I agree with you that the pinrail holes appear to be way over scale.  Kits are notorious for supplying  hugely over scale pins. 
 
For SoS, there probably were no  pinrails at all?    David Lees notes  in Masting and Rigging of English Ships of War belaying pins were not used by the Royal Navy until about 1745.  This is more than 100 years after SoS was built, and when introduced, they were mainly in racks lashed to the shrouds not on racks secured to bulwarks or on the bitt cross pieces.  Donald McKay's book on on the SoS is supposed to be a great source of information for anyone building SoS and might address this as well.  
 
Again, your construction is very clean and very nicely finished!  
 
Allan
 
 

Thank you for the information!  Makes a lot of sense.  Still not sure about putting it on a diorama or just leaving it as is, but this has been a real learning experience for sure - WW2 aircraft, colors, flight decks versus hangar decks, etc.  Not to mention, learning how to really chop up a kit and add resin details.  Maybe making a base that is a dark gray base with sorta big squares etched out like in this picture would get me there.  Then I can add a mechanic or two and lay the panels down and have a nice little scene.  I started looking at hot wire cutters to be able to cut styrofoam to make plane and ship dioramas, so maybe I should just go with the flow.
 

 
 
I've been thinking about what to pull off the shelf next, and I'm leaning towards staying with US WWII aircraft and going with the Accurate Miniatures TBF-1C kit.  I've got a few goodies for that kit and could build it similarly to this one with the exposed engine bay, wings folded, etc.

Evening all,   my 5th KGL  are now  finished  -  dusted  and Flat coated   with my  sprayer.
 
OC.

HMS Codrington at Dunkirk. Done this afternoon, Commission for a guy who's father was evacuated aboard her w/c A4

HMS Gentian

Thank you all for commenting . Haven’t been doin much lately. Did this book cover for a friend. The original was taken to Canada by RCN Minesweeper along with a rare Corvette's skiff , discovered in the boat shed in Portsmouth Dock yard 

Evening all,   another slight  update  on my 5th Line KGL   -  hands  now painted,  back packs with Grey Coats  and straps,   facings done  and details to the Shako's,   not far to go with these  than I will be back on some more 2nd KGL Light.
 
OC.

what the heck........no time like the present......right?!?!?    after I logged off,  I figured that it would take no time at all to take a few pictures.....I also have a picture of that tool I was tell'in you about.   I bought this as an assortment........I was going to see if they would work with this project,  but I've pulled the trigger on the supplied windows and doors.  so I'll save these for other projects {the mind of a pack rat  }  the scary part is..........I DO have something in mind.........I just have to get started on it ***huge rabbit hole***   the assortment comes as ten packs of twelve......come complete with the clear glazing and shades { for all you Peter Noone fans  }

 

 

 

they have a larger set too.......I think over 200 pieces......but I think you have to order the glazing separately.  heck......who knows......I may even build my OWN house    we'll see what happens!
 
about the tool........this was given to me a while back.  I had no idea what the heck it was.  when I started working on the PT boat,  I used it to make a couple handles..........and that's when it hit me.  it's use is to make the bends for grab Iron handles and brass railings.  loosen the knob and position the brass to whatever step you need...tighten and bend away  

another thing to add to the project,  is that I've saved all the cut outs from the larger windows.  I figured they would make great chimneys.  what the Grabhandler is sitting on,  is a piece of artist's poster board.......to keep me from hacking up the table.  I saw that was happening and I came up with this stuff that was in the closet gathering dust.   forgot why I bought it.......

I see a large mat in my future..........
 

I did some work during my work week.........surprisingly {wonders never cease}.  I need to fit the rest of the windows,  so I can paint the entire lot.  still flip flopp'in on the color,  so while I was cutting the windows out of the powerhouse walls,  I can bat it around in my head.  the templates that I cut out don't match the size of the wall billets,  which the outer wall is already done in a brick motif.  I decided not to downsize the overall size of the building,  but drop the height..........about 10 mm should be good.   I was also going to leave the walls and scratch build the eaves and pitched roof,  but I ended up pitching the roof using this 10 mm spec,  leaving enough to box in the soffits.  the back wall has no windows........the side walls are identical......only the front wall has a door {so much for fire codes}.  I thought I had taken some pictures of the assembly.....but I thought wrong.

 

the corners will have moldings to hide the bare wood.......I painted up some .5 x 3 mm strip stock to cover them.   wish I had 2 mm,  but this is all I got at this point in time.  I added some form of framing inside to help strengthen the structure.  with all the windows and doors cut and delegated,  I can paint them........I went with a dark gray.

the kit did not supply anything for the glass,  so now the question is,  whether to use that tinted cello I have on hand,  or use clear stuff {which I also have plenty}.  I find that today's clear product packaging does a great deed to keep me well stocked {and in different thicknesses too}.  I also ordered an assortment of windows from Micro Mark, produced by Tichy.......I'll show you what they look like in the next update......they are pretty cool  unlike the boiler house,  I decided to drop a floor in there for the second level.   this kinda forces my hand......now it is likely that I will do it for the boiler house.   the last thing I did before we had to go out again,  was to add the side sills for the rafters and A frames,  which will be likely from scratch as well.

hope to get more done.......I'm on the week end  
 

I got a chance during the past week to work on this project,  but time wasn't on my side to present it.   as mentioned,  I got to paint the exterior of the boiler house.  to clear this up { I was confused too}  the larger structure is the boiler house......the smaller brick building is the power house.  as said,  I used the same green that I used on the PT boat.

 

I'm kinda debating whether I want to do floors in it.  I decided to do the single smoke stack .......glued the four sides together.

I gave it a bottom.......cut them from scratch,  since the supplied pieces didn't fit.  the top wasn't flush,  so I added another piece on the top.

the windows took some time to clean up......I still need to paint them.   debating what color to paint them..........white to me,  seems kinda residential,  don't you agree?!?!    the smoke stack will fit on the back wall.....the one facing you in the above picture.  the instructions are pretty vague on the piping,  so research is under way.

I finally took the B&M snow plow out of the closet.......this was my early stab at a diorama

for some reason {I didn't use flash},  they came out kinda dark.  I was just going to do a bit of scenery and a scratch built structure or two,  signs,  and other railroad bits.  this structure kinda changed that,  causing me to think larger.   that's where I am on the snow plow.......I was working on the wings.

 

I had gone to Hobby Town to get the trucks and couplers.  I even have the slips........these are Bettendorf trucks.

whether it's my goof or what,  the front trucks don't have the ability to turn too tight a radius.

I had to redo the cupola.....broken or misshapen parts.......I would have to look in the old log on her to recall

it was 2011 when I got it.......not much was done.  it was fun getting her to this point.  I do have a tool to make grab irons........know  I have a picture of it somewhere.  I even dug out the decals I bought for her.  for a chuckle,  I even put the military train car on the track.......that includes a ramp / platform, so there's something else to plan for.
 
before I forget.......my excursion didn't pan out much......Hobby Lobby is limited on what they carry for plastruct.  I'll have to do the corner molding from scratch,  unless I can go to Hobby Town.......I'm sure they have more.
 

Cargo finished - at least the bit that will be visible. Both large and small barrels.
 

 

 
Cargo arranged in position. In the real world they'd have been wedged tightly together - with wedges.
 

 

 
And a start on the main decking.
 

 

 

 

 

 
Main deck planking complete. And starting to add the removable planks to go above the hold.
 

 
 
 

 

 
All the removable planks glued in place except the ones left off to show the cargo, stacked off to one side. I think I'll make an extra crewman and show him putting the last of them in place. 
 

 
 
 

 
And the mast and yard dry fitted to give an idea of proportions. 
 

 
Next to make the windlass, then the steering oar and the castles for the bow and stern. 
 
Coming along nicely.
 
Steven
 
 

OK. I've done a bit of research. Certainly there is a wide range of barrel sizes - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_wine_cask_units
 

 
But if you look at mediaeval illustrations, particularly of wine barrels, they generally seem to have been pretty big -
 
        
 
   
 

 
Maybe I'll go with the idea of different sized barrels. Thanks for the suggestion, Druxey and Mark.
 
Steven
 
 
 
 
 
 

I appreciate that very much, Mark and David.  It’s all a bit overwhelming, but my sister and I are a team, and I think we are on the right track.