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Hi marsalv, thanks for the compliment! I am following your build of RC also very closely and I am very impressed by the quality and accuracy of your work! -
Hi David and many thanks for your very kind words! The only downside of creating the ornamentation myself is the time to carve them which I am constantly missing... So the build is still going to be quite long considering the amount of the carvings on Royal Caroline... Best regards, Jan
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Work on the spars has started. Also I have attempted to create new stern gallery wiindows from scratch as I didn't much like the ones that came with the kit.
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So next series of the photos... The second planking is done and comes creation of some deck furniture, stern gallery windows, anchors, etc...
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Hello and welcome to the build log of my first attempt on wooden ship modeling. I was asked by a few members of this forum to re-create the build log and I finally got to it so I hope it will be useful to some people building this kit. I will mostly upload only pictures, hopefully no words will be necessary. In case you would like to ask please feel free to do that. I have decided to bulid the Golden Star model that was suggested to me by a local seller of wooden ship kits. Before that I have tried to build a few plastic ship models but the wooden ships attracted me very much. Build of the kit took me around 10 months and I really enjoyed the work. So here finally are the pictures. Starting with the assembly and first layers of planking...
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Hello dear visitors of this build log, a few months ago I have encountered this article from Chuck on using Sculpey polymeric compound for creating decorations for ship models. I was so thrilled about the options that I had to try it out. I was not very successful on carving such complex ornamentation from wood so this seemed to me to be a very good option. I also found the build logs from Doris which is an expert on such work and this also made me buy this material and start experimenting. In the end I have decided to replace most of the metal casted ornaments that came with the kit and also redo some parts of the model... I have wasted quite a significant time this way but I do hope that in the end this is going to bring some nicer details to the model... Anyway it still takes me a long time to create these ornaments and I am at the beginning of the learning curve so please don't compare my attempts to Doris ones. I have also repainted the hull with more turquoise blue color...
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Thanks Antony for the compliment.
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Capstan, and other deck furniture.
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Cannons and their attaching to the model... Quite a tedious work... I have also bought 2mm diameter balls for ball-bearings to simulate the cannon balls and blackened them.
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Work on decorations of the hull, gratings, ...
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Spiral staircases...
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Work on stern...
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White paint applied to the hull.
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Finishing the windows, first decorative strips added.
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Follow my first attempts on carving decorations from walnut, creating the windows and doors...
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Finishing deck planking and starting to paint the hull blue.
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Next pictures show the progress on deck planking.
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These pictures show how I have attempted simulating tree nails. I was using putty instead of real tree nails.
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Following pictures show start of the second layer of planking.
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Finishing the first layer of planking using lime wood.
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Next pictures. Start of the first layer of planking the hull.
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So here come the first pictures...
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Hello and welcome to the build log of my second wooden ship model. This time it is the Royal Caroline by Mantua/Panart in the scale 1:47. I was admiring work of others on MSW while building this nice kit and that is why I have finally decided to go with this as the second build. I am constantly trying to do some kit bashing. I am also using the Anatomy book to improve some parts and details of the model to be more historically correct. Although some parts I kept as they were in the kit. I started the build in December 2011. Unfortunately I was not able to spend as much time on the model as I would like so I am still almost at the beginning. I will try to upload all images as in the previous build log of the RC from the MSW 1.0 forum...
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