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Old Collingwood

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  1. Old Collingwood
    Thank you for your kind words and all the masses of likes my friend. OC.
  2. Old Collingwood
    I use lifecolor and had no problems but also hand paint never spray, at 1/350 scale the sub assemblies are small enouth to be painted by hand, what I did/do find usefull is to keep the pots stired whils't working with them also to keep the tops of the pots/jars real clean from dried paint residue. OC.
  3. Old Collingwood
    Thats the wifes department knitting from days past. OC.
  4. Old Collingwood
    This is on my wish list (santa prezzy list) and I seriously must get some of Dafi's bits and pieces including the wood deck. OC.
  5. Old Collingwood
    Folks I thought I better say - I havn't given up on the ole girl, Im just having a bit of a break and working on my other project HMS Greyhound 1720s RN Frigate, pop along and say hello. OC.
  6. Old Collingwood
    I couldn't resist doing some more work at the bench(living room table) I have decided to increase the apparent width of the wale by painting a strip ontop of the (Insatlled wale side), first I ran a line and then taped an even line with blue decorators tape, then I applied a few flat black coats of acrylic paint, this I will do on the side where I am constructing the wale sections also. OC.
  7. Old Collingwood
    Looking nice a sharp those dafi bits are superb. OC.
  8. Old Collingwood
    After the last strip was set, I began sanding it back level with the other second planking, it then occured to me that I would need to mark a line and cut into the last planking, this is to allow for the profile of the wale, this was done by measuring the line from bow to stern from the top of the bulwark rails down to the already fitted wale on the other side, then after marking a line I placed a plank against the line and used my sharp blade to cut a line all the way along, then I cut the sections out. After a clean up the line looked ok so I started cutting and fitting the first narrow section of wale, in sections as I did not have a full length just off cuts, these were glued and pinned in position. Here are the pics folks - OC.
  9. Old Collingwood
    X about Ten Thousand for every boat builder on here. OC.
  10. Old Collingwood
    Really nice work - love the cannons. OC.
  11. Old Collingwood
    Very nice work. OC.
  12. Old Collingwood
    Not much to say really just another row - this time second planking, soaked it then glued and pinned, now put a side to dry. OC.
  13. Old Collingwood
    When a close up photograph shows perfection like this..................Then you can say "You have nailed it" Fantastic. OC.
  14. Old Collingwood
    Very interesting build, if you dont mind I will bring my chair and take a seat to follow this, I am too building a period frigate in the Kit build section HMS Greyhound 1721 sixth rate 20 gun frigate. OC.
  15. Old Collingwood
    Hiya folks, I started work on the lower hull planking from the wale location - downwards, I recovered the plank that was sitting a tub of water since yersterday, I also got hold of some pins, so after placing a layer of pva I placed the plank and worked my way along pressing the pins underneath to hold the plank in place. I will have to do one plank a day due to time drying and affect on my hands. Here is just the one picture of the current status. OC.
  16. Old Collingwood
    Thank you so much Bill OC.
  17. Old Collingwood
    More work folks today continuing on the main deck area by fitting the two bulwark lower board supports, these will be painted Red Ochre when I get some more. This completed my inner deck work till I get or build the ladders, I then decided to work on marking out and drilling through for the oar ports on the side still left to be done, I followed the drilling up with a small sqare box file - the exact diameter of the oar ports, carefully filing till they were all correct. Next is the hull planking following from my last work - as I write I have a piece of hull timber in soak with boiling water, I intend to leave it there till tomorrow, before I attempt to fit it. OC.
  18. Old Collingwood
    Really nice work well done she is a beauty. OC.
  19. Old Collingwood
    Thank you so much for your kind reply, my next move will be to scratch build three ladders, to fit down to the lower deck through the frames I constructed, to be honest she is going to need a lot of scratch building as I lost a lot of the fittings including - gun barrels/carriages, bitts, belay pins, bollards, capstan, cathead, deadeys's, figurehead, helm wheel etc. OC.
  20. Old Collingwood
    Very tidy looking really nice. OC.
  21. Old Collingwood
    Hi folks, I got round to doing somemore work on the center section with the gratings etc, I managed to finish them with the exception of the three ladders that I will need to construct myself out of stock wood. She is starting to look like a frigate bit by bit. OC.
  22. Old Collingwood
    Crazy and Amazing work - some people do precision lawn mowing with dead straight lines, others do jaw dropping work on here, I take my hat off to you. OC.
  23. Old Collingwood
    She is looking very nice - very distinctive color with the green. OC,
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    OC.
  25. Old Collingwood
    More gratings/ boards and step frames put in place - starting to look a little better I think. OC.

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