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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

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.

So next series of the photos...

The second planking is done and comes creation of some deck furniture, stern gallery windows, anchors, etc...

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...

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...

Thanks Antony for the compliment.

Capstan, and other deck furniture.

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.

Work on decorations of the hull, gratings, ...

Spiral staircases...

Work on stern...

White paint applied to the hull.

Finishing the windows, first decorative strips added.

Follow my first attempts on carving decorations from walnut, creating the windows and doors...

Finishing deck planking and starting to paint the hull blue.

Next pictures show the progress on deck planking.

These pictures show how I have attempted simulating tree nails. I was using putty instead of real tree nails.

Following pictures show start of the second layer of planking.

Finishing the first layer of planking using lime wood.

Next pictures. Start of the first layer of planking the hull.

So here come the first pictures...

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...