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Jagger - I so agree with you. I have the book --- it is, IMO, excellent. I will start this ship soon. I don't have the skills to properly master a well done round tuck, so I will compromise with a minor square tuck - see image below. The McKay book will be gone through very carefully indeed. Though I will adapt one of the upper decks with Fox' thoughts in mind. My next build will be this ship - Amati discontinued that product - so Sergal are the only option available... PS: I don't know whom to credit for this amazing Sergal example below - Brilliant work!!
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EJ - that last image On my list!!! great work
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Impressive work -- bow planks, caulking both so well scaled. Your plank edge cuts are so great - I need to learn how to do that. I will use 1mm planks and the black paper idea for my next decks. I'll send you a PM when I get there asking about the paper etc..... Take Care
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Noted Rick 😊 You've been around a few blocks indeed.!
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Rick re: You're giving waaaaaaaaay too much credit to the company. They're simply very poor models! Really!!! that is a very stetched opinion ----- in my opinion 😂 A Pocher done "right" is an incredible amount of work- especially the leather interior details, and paint - just the spoke wheels alone could be 800 parts+ in the agragate..IMO again comparing apples to oranges - diff. skill sets Oh have fun ineed some Lego kits are really special
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Richard, As always - beyond brilliant -- Hmmm - I did not want to search wayback What kind of wood strips did you use for your deck? I like the look of these for my next project. And did you buy from a supplier or cut the planks yourself - prob. a stupid second question haha Cheers,
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Good idea - will do thanks
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Yours is really excellent - you should send it as a gift to Michael Hirst 😂 (I was a The Vikings huge fan for 6 seasons - got me super motivated to build a Viking boat) FYI: if you were also a fan -- Unfortunately, the show has come to an end with Season 6 being the final instalment. The makers have confirmed this. However, there’s still good news because Hirst just isn’t done yet. Valhalla, a spin-off series has been confirmed which will stream on Netflix and not Amazon or History. As its predecessor show did. Twenty-four episodes have already been greenlit and will be filmed in Ireland. His book about the series (Vikings) was also very interesting - He and his staff were obsessed with getting as much as possible visually and historically accurate for the series... Regards,
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Really like your work on this example - lot's of really nice details...nails look just right - yup not much under the planks, but was interested in the internal structure along these lines -- but prob. overreach on my part. in any case Viking build will need to wait - one in between is up next - then to the 8th Cent. Oh and your shield is just right !!! Cheers,
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Nice - let's see how the outer hull nails came out. I also plan to add nails, but to complicate things I'm hoping to leave some deck panels open to show interior details - big issue I know - covering the deck, as you did makes things so much easier Yours looks very good - nice build indeed. Anchor perfect - interesting that Viking kits only include much later style anchors.
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JIm, Way too kind - so glad that some parts of my log are helpful - I've emulated, and copied from many others as well. Part of the fun of improving our skills.... Cheers,
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Hi Mates, I would like to acquire - see bad images below (from YouTube still framed) the two instruction manuals that are included in the current generation kit. I know that one of these is available as a pdf. but it does not enlarge well. The actual booklets (both) would be much better. If you have built the Sergal SoS, and still have those two booklets lying around, and don't need them anymore please PM me -- I'll send you a check or cash for the two booklets, your time, and shipping costs. I just go hold of an 1980s old "new in box" #787 --- kit has no booklets, no images, just very bad english text build instructions. PS: All other plan sheets were indeed there along with many hundreds of metal decorative parts all in small bags - oh my! Thanks in advance for checking in. Regards,
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Thanks EJ, sounds as if it makes a lot of sense once hull planking is done. I'll look into getting one. I think that my next English ship will be rather large - this will become useful. PS: just checked three sites - everywhere back-ordered - prob. will be that way until the planet comes back to a more or less normal way of life.
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Looking very good I thought that I had saved a link for that framing device that you have. Are you finding it as useful as you had hoped? or is it kinda "so so" useful? I'm thinking of getting it before I start my next project. Let me know --- Oh what's it called - I can find a source at Google.
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Denis, Indeed it is - for members that might not know these sites - wonderful world of Classic Pocher examples wayback when. Also they come up - unbuilt new "in box" occasionally on eBay - I bought a Mercedes many years ago - never finished it - sold it partially assembled .... Grant you're doing a great job as well as showing us how amazing these kits -- still are. https://scaledetails.com/ and many superb finished examples here; https://www.modelmotorcars.com/
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Ah!! --- ok thanks Mark. Bronze it is - Someone who knew much about the two generations of this kit had mentioned brass - I would still image that those bits were much nicer than the current white metal bits that are dipped in a gold looking type of solution. The bronze images I posted appear, compared to what builder logs show today, to have much more detail and definition. Thanks for the update
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Hi Jim, Just found your log - love all the details - big scale allows for lots of examples of such. Will enjoy following along to your also very informative notes. Just about to finish my first cross-section (from a kit) nowhere as brilliant as yours. PS: will you need to add "filler" materials to each deck as you go up - the hold, for example, with ballast bits and those great barrels that you made? Or just build all the decks and add inside details later - just curious..... Regards,
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Yes - excellent idea - this has crossed mind mind as well per "one of my ideas" that I alluded to above. Though I have made a contact re: an old "new in box" earlier edition of SOS with all solid brass bits - The leafing is still a brilliant idea however. The images that I have seen of the earlier brass Sergal kits - DO - IMO make a big diff. with small details that really stand out - adding to the scaling correctness. TBD. images of the brass bits taken with a mobile phone from the connection that I made with a MSW member. These have been in a box for many years - need cleaning polishing and spray brass protection spray - that said - the details look to quite good indeed comparatively speaking....Lastly an example of a superb Sergal SOS from their all brass release bits. Don't know whom to credit for this amazing build.
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Frank, It was to be - still might be - but the rumor is that for Father's Day I will be gifted with a Sergal Sovereign of... - When it again becomes available backordered world-wide until Italy comes back to life along with the rest of the planet. - Hmmm I just got the new McKay book and, It will be an incredible reference. Either of the two I plan on "bashing" the best that I can. In the meantime following your work, and almost done with my current build so TBD Regards
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GP, Noted - thanks - your thoughts are beyond my skill set. I need to revisit the possibilities re: building the SOS. I have some ideas. PS: I did not know that Sergal sold the decorative bits separately. Also the Amati SOS is a diff. scale from the Sergal release, as you know... And it seems as if the new Sergal SOS decorative bits (100s of them) are not as well "detailed" as in the earlier release of this kit. solid brass bits became white metal sprayed with a "gold" spray covering....resulting in much less accurate details --- Still working on solutions. TBD I have the new McKay book - excellent addition - though one reviewer on Amazon killed it with 1 star - need to read why he hated the work so much - all other reviews were 5 stars. Little is actually known empirically about this ship - so who knows. MJD
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Frank - that came out superbly!! Glad that our ideas worked out. Your work on this project is Top Notch - Pleasure to follow along My next project will need areas to be painted - this will be brand new learning for me - Hmmmm Learning continues. Regards as always Michael
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Hello Mates, I would like to purchase an older Mantua example of their Sovereign of the Seas., NOT a newly released Sergal kit that included some updates such as pre printed complete deck. If you have one that you never started, and the kit is complete with no missing parts, including complete instructions, please send me a PM and I can possibly take it off of your hands. I will pay through payPal. Regards,
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Frank, Try this. I have used diff. grit sanding discs to make small sanding blocks. Paint over your brass piece then using a 600 grit block on a very flat surface just sand over the top of the brass piece. All of the recessed paint will be perfectly outlined. The 600 grit block is super fine and won't show scratches on the bare brass -it will, of course, dull it a bit. There are certainly other ideas like razor blade scaping and so on - but the 600 grit block will evenly remove the bits of paint that run above the grooved areas keeping the unpainted brass consistent looking. PS: those small sanding blocks are alss just a great way to sand small bits of wood. 😊
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Mark: thanks for your nice post, as well as following along much appreciated indeed. Yes this was a wake-up-call. Never occurred to me that rigging plan sheets would have those kind of issues. Well this one is only my third build so seasoning is a bit newbie for me in that regard. Will certainly be more cautious here on out. So, spent the last four or five sessions working on untangling all of the crossed lines - once I had found pin locations. More or less done (looks "ok")- now starting to add coil loops, and securing lines with pins. And, as you mentioned, needed to do some "creative" changes to rigging - and yes thankfully it's only one mast and four yards - sails certainly add lots of extra work next - just shrouds and ratlines - case is being built as well - --I won't post again until she is Finished ---- I'm sure you're all getting bored with my similar area posts of late. Regards,
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