Old Collingwood
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Trouble with water pills - put them in water and they vanish.😁 OC.
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I might (might) start on the farm building tomorrow - its flat packed at the moment so it will be interesting to see how it assembles. OC.
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That is looking so nice mate - like a museum display love the room you have in there. OC.
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Evening all, small update a bit more paint and the superstructure was glued down, then I masked up the flight deck and added Two White lines, a wee bit of touch up and a part from a rattle can flat top coat - think its near as damn it finished - I will of course do more pics when the flat clear coat is on. OC.
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Thank you so much Denis. OC.
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Another idea - do your fittings on your deck before closing up your hull as you will have a cleaner / more easy area to paint the details of the deck fittings (except the canons as thay need the bulwarks to work off) OC.
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I lashed and glued the yards to the mast just by passing some twine/thread over the yard and around the mast then a wee bit of CA glue to hold the knot. OC.
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It was a long build but my pleasure to post the link to it, it was from the Excellent Revell kit and I bashed it by adding my own wood decking, some re built wood details - my own shrouds using wood deadeyes and thread and a few figures - had to have some pirates. OC.
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Bill can I add some ideas for your build a little further down the road? when you get to build the masts and spars/yardarms, I assume the kit has these as two part mast assemblies (left and right parts that join to make the mast) plastic alone might not be all that tough - what you could do (same as I did on my Black Pearl kit) is to invest in some different thickness wood dowels then make them fit inside the plastic ones and enclose the plastic ones with the wood dowels inside. This will give the masts some considerable strength for when you start doing the rigging. If you also replace the spars/yardarms for wood dowels versions (just use the plastic ones as a template) this again will make so much difference for the rigging to save the plastic ones from bending or even snapping. Hope you didn't mind me suggesting this? OC.
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Evening/morning all, a wee bit more progress on this - I will be honest my mind has not really been on it as we have had some issues where we live and its made me loose some of my interest in modelling - but I decided it would be a good distraction to take my mind of things - so I decided to have a go at painting the main deck (clear of the superstructure parts) same dark Grey but on the real ship she had fitted Two strengthening beams that also increased here beam slightly these did not go the full length but were tapered, and are the hull colour, so I had a go at masking these then I brushed on a few thin coats of Dark Grey. It was a hit and miss job as I was not getting a smooth enough finish due to the cut ins and profiles around the obstructions, I was also getting a little bit of the paint on the sides of the hull so this needed removing but left a few marks, also when I removed the masks there was a little bit of damage on the edge and a little area of the Dark Grey was also marked a bit (so all that's being put down to end of service wear) No pics as it was late when I finished and I forgot to take some. OC.
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Thats the ticket mate - that will look superb when all displayed. OC.
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I feel your pain mate - similar here but a slightly different meaning.😢 OC.
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Some more progress this evening - I have added some paint to the front block - Dark Grey tops and decks then touching up a few of the details and even Brown for the Bridge outer wood work. OC.
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I have decided to add some aerials to her as I have some thin wire that will do the job lovely, she did not have wires attached between masts as such but a few blade aerials - like whip aerials. OC.
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I will sit in on this one mate - always love your builds. OC.
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Evening all, so the progress in miniture continues - I have started to add the darker anti slip paint to the tops of the superstructure, and touch up some of the details. OC.
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Thank you so much for saying that Patrick - it means a lot. OC.
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Hi, I remember this kit Very well, it was my first ever wood kit and first log in here way back before the site crashed back in 2011 (I think) my avatar pic is of the little boat you built, I had to leave my part built hull due to a house move - it was too big to come with us. OC.
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Another for us telescope users - will pull up a chair. OC.
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What might also be a good idea - where the strips meet the steps on the right in your pic above, you could remove the Two step - run it straight across then make the Two missing steps out of your plastic evergreen stock. OC.
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