Old Collingwood

So  I have made another start -  here is Major Baring on his horse  un painted.

He is not glued in the saddle yet so I can fiddle around with his position.

OC.

12 minutes ago, CDW said:

Please don't follow my example, Papa. I am a bad influence in the excess stash department.

You need  to invest in Ten pairs of hands so you can  "multi-multi-multi-multi  task  and build many"😁

OC.

Afternoon all,   I'm back   -  I decided to give my Chinook build a slight rest  while I do somemore work here  -  I decided to have a go at building the chap who was in overall control over the Farm  no less than  -  Major Georg von Baring, as he  stayed  "sted fast"  with his army  right through the battle for the farm.

Pic off the net  showing him on his horse.

OC.

Right then  everyone,   I'm going to put a little hold on this  - Just when it was getting interesting, as I  want to do somemore work on my Waterloo  project   - see you over there😉

OC.

31 minutes ago, Canute said:

As your modeling skills grow, you get more comfortable with kit-bashing and scratchbuilding. Welcome to the Dark Side, mate.

Thanks Ken.

OC.

1 hour ago, Canute said:

Lots of small details that make it come alive. Good job, OC.

Thanks Ken,   yep  the rear roof area  in the kit is a bit  "basic"   you can get  update sets that include that area  - but just as good to fo it  yourself.

OC.

Hopefully  - we will see you back at full pelt  - its been fairly quite around here.

OC.

Sincerley warm welcome back mate  - hope all is good and well  with you and the family,    its great seeing you back in  "Plastic World"

OC.

Evening all,   I made some good progress today  -  I started on the rear roof area above the ramp, this area in the kit is a little bit bare of any detail, so after looking at some photos online  - some scratch building was called for,  so some card and a few other pieces  later  and I had a  plate to be glued to the roof,  I also added another one slightly smaller  - then a few coats of paint and a bit of shading  and this is the result.

OC.

6 hours ago, Edwardkenway said:

Of course,  nothing out of place here in Blighty, old chap!!😁

As Lou said,  coming along nicely 😀

 

Thank you Edward.

OC.

8 hours ago, lmagna said:

Same here Mark. Heck, sometimes we didn't even bother with seats! And doors? Who needs stinking doors? (Well I do have to admit that we didn't often actually take them off.)

 

But the two times I did fly in a Sh**hook it had not only jump seats just like these but belts as well. You also have to remember that as this is an OC build it is British and will be properly shipshape and Bristol fashion at all times!

 

Looking nice OC

Thank you Lou,   yep it was probably  a requirement  to amke sure they were tidy inside.

OC.

Why the vids - why not pics  and  writting ?

OC.

Evening all,    I  got some  good progress done today  - I finished  off attaching the the other folded seats  - then I glued both side walls  to the floor,   this was a fiddly operation getting the position right while not damaging the seats, I left them to set for a few hours  then I  located the roof part  - this was dry fitted and I soon dicovered it needed a bit of wiggling to get it to lign up with the lugs and wall edges,  after moving the side walls slightly  I was able to glue the roof down  - while positioning it while the glue was setting.

So this is the inner section boxed together   just needs some detail painting to the inner ramp roof area, before I can fit both outer sides.

OC.

On 10/23/2020 at 12:24 AM, Canute said:

H, that should be a good glue. You'll find you may at times also use white glue. And sometimes super glue/CA. They all have their uses in wooden models. Read the various logs and see what others are using for a given situation. Ask them why they do what they do in a given situation. We all learn a lot by participation in these logs.

Good advice Ken -  you have covered all there  is realy.

OC.

8 hours ago, VTHokiEE said:

I picked up a rope walk from Syren a little while ago and in order to postpone tapering the mast I put it together and tried my hand at making some rope today. I wanted to replace the anchor rope (really I may end up replacing all the rope either with my own or some from Syren for consistency) because it was a significantly different color than the rest of the rope I will be using. I wanted to end up with about 1.6mm rope so I used Chuck's Mara recipe for .055" (~1.4mm) rope as a starting point, but I ended up closer to 0.047" so I tried again using the 0.065" (~1.65mm)  recipe as a starting point and got much closer, 0.06" or ~1.52mm. I'm still debugging the process a little (my rope unwinds even after baking so I'm asking Chuck what I did wrong). The darker brown rope in the pictures in the kit supplied anchor rope.

What I would be tempted to do with the end fraying is to keep it taut  then serve it with fine thread  near where you want the end to be to stop it fraying,    you would only have to do about 5 -10mm.

OC.

11 minutes ago, oneslim said:

Really Nice Paint Job.

 

BobW

Thank you so much Bob.

OC.

Just found this  - Wow  that Ice machine looks amazing  - never seen anything like that before.

Hope you continue on a speedy recovery Jack.

OC.

11 hours ago, ChrisSC said:

Thanks OC. The top deck was a bit of a task to fit but I think it's worth the effort.

Definatley👍

OC.

Evening all,   next stage in my  train build - I mean  wokka build  is the inner side wall details  -   this starts  with applying a few  decals  for the emergency exit  and  first aid boxes, after these were on I put a few coats of micro sol on to settle then down in to the curves of the padding on the walls,  then I  worked on the last section of bench seating - this was constructed to represent then in a folded up position (they needed a bit of chopping here and there)  they were then painted  then glued in place.

They are not glued to the floor yet  - just placed to show how they will look.

OC.

Hello my friend  - how did I miss the start of this build   - excellent work, consider me well and truly  following now  (even brought a chair)

OC.

Looking forward to it bro,  you are collecting some excellent stuff there  - should make your build really  jump out the screen.

I too have a little plan for next year  to bring me back into some ship building  in 1/350 scale  - but that wont be till late 21.

I have a few builds planned for next year  .........😉🙂

OC.

16 minutes ago, Egilman said:

Airforce 1 does a 1/48 diecast of Pudgy IV

 

But I believe they are the only one, I do know of a few modelers that have scratch built in aluminium sheet at around 1/32nd scale but usually metal is 1/72nd or smaller....

Thanks bro,   I'm sure it was a kit   - a friend  past me over one some years ago  - but I can't remember.

OC.

Excellent work  - those decks look superb.

OC.

Wasn't there a scale metal kit of this to build  in the same scale?

OC.

On 8/31/2020 at 11:29 PM, mtaylor said:

Ah, the joys of getting older.   I heard the cell phone about week and ago and couldn't find it.   It was in my pocket.  I'm just about ready for the home.

 

Wire it up to some Very Very loud Speakers  - the wires wont be too much of a head ache as you walk around with the phone in your pocket.😛

OC.