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  1. Old Collingwood
    I collected my new kit and after opening the sturdy box, i was amazed at the fine moldings inside - the hull sides look superb and i will want to preserve as much of that fine detail as possible, i am not sure what stages of build i will seperate and do, but i will construct the hull and paint it before adding the deck etc, any ideas for painting the black hull line folks? OC
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    I pick her up today folks cant wait to open the box let alone start to build her, i have had my general orders from Mrs Collingwood, and me old Warspite is to be fully dressed and museum quality, and of a display standard that Mrs Bucket would be proud of OC
  3. Old Collingwood
    Thanks for the replies folks I am still not sure how to build her, i am not old enough to have seen her in her glory years coming in and out of Plymouth, and as i explained i have walked across the beach at Penzance to St Michaels Mount on the stone path, from where you can just make out the corel remains of her. If i display her as she was at Prussia Cove i assume i would have to a diaramma, as she was just a slightly dismantled state minus gun barrals etc, but to construct her as she was at a later stage in Penzance Bay would be just a feature less hull. Desisitions desisitions OC
  4. Old Collingwood
    Right then folks ......Change of plan i have changed my mind about building HMS Illustrious and have now orderd HMS Warspite in 1/350 scale, she arrives by next weekend. Anyway after seeing her wreck via a wet path (whats left of her - just bits of her bottom area and keel under water) i am pondering over building her as a full display stand model but weathered, a part wreck as she was when she was wrecked against the rocks near Prussia Cove, to display her even more dissmantled as she was when she was towed into Penzance bay and taken down section by section(this woulkd meen just displaying a hulk with very little details. It would be a shame me thinks not to show her in her glory. OC
  5. Old Collingwood
    Happy New Year ALL
  6. Old Collingwood
    Just to say I'm back and will be posting again soon folks..... Collingwood
  7. Old Collingwood
    Hi, yep one of my posts to you has vanished also.
  8. Old Collingwood
    Realy nice tidy looking ship harlequin, she is a beautiful looking ship, I too have been abit destracted but in my case due to another hobby, I will take a seat and follow your build If I may as I think she will be a beauty.
  9. Old Collingwood
    Many thanks mate, I do like the color mix myself with a bit of red ocre and the natural wood as I am sure most ships of the period would have been, just like in the Victory disscussion on the black and yellow ocre stripes at Trafalger, my oppinion Is that the yellow ocre may infact have been a natural wood like mine, I think this would be more history realistic.
  10. Old Collingwood
    Hi all, I have just been having a little break, with the better weather over here for a while I have been out doing my other hobby, photographing planes, also I have been given a gift of a Mantua HMS President Frigate, but like I posted on another section on here, I am unsure about its scale acuracy so I may just canabolise it for parts and wood to carry on with this build. It may seem a complete wast of a potentialy good President kit, but if its not scale acurate I dont want to build it. Old Colly
  11. Old Collingwood
    looking realy nice hamilton, hope your well.
  12. Old Collingwood
    Hi Alex, fantastic work, your build is an insperation for my build, that is at a resting stage while i wrap myself up in finishing a mutch smaller modern plastic british warship, that kind of makes 100 scale seem huge.. C.
  13. Old Collingwood
    Id'e like to know this aswel, as i am painting a 1/700 scale british modern warship and its so hard to keep the detail and avoid over paint thickness even with tamiya acrylics... C.
  14. Old Collingwood
    I decided to do abit of work on testing a paint scheme on the transom and side window, i think i will go with a mainly red ocre and black tar scheme for the paint decoration as they seem to compliment each other, and lets just say that the ships commander had a barrel load so he decided to use them, ive also painted the whale and done some other paintwork to see how it will look. What do you think? C.
  15. Old Collingwood
    Here is the finished pic of my tinny tiny little ship, it was a real eye strain working and trying to detail at this scale 1/700. C,
  16. Old Collingwood
    In between building my frigate, i am also building a tiny little 1/700 scale destroyer model kit in plastic, its very hard to work with fine detail at this scale, but the following pictures highlight key areas where i need to finescale the detail and sharpen things up abit. C.
  17. Old Collingwood
    I have been carrying on with the deck planking and it has been an enjoyable break from the hull work, nice gradual progress sizing up marking the edge caulking with a pencil, then cutting to 30feet eqv lengths. Heres some pics... C.
  18. Old Collingwood
    I started work on the deck planks today starting with the bows two bulwark edge planks, i am cutting in the normal planks as they should be, and decided on a four step planking system, adding the square mast collars has helped by not having to cut this through the planking. Here are the latest pics... C.
  19. Old Collingwood
    Thank you hamilton, i have been tyding up the mast surrounds where they enter the decks, so i could get the correct and accurate positioning before i plank the main deck, this will give me a break from the hull planking as all that carefull work wetting and heating the hull planks was abit of a bore and tiresome, i have also constructed a solid backing for the main cabin front details, i will add these either after fitting the deck or possibly before? then i suppose i will have to continue on the other side of the hull with the planks down to and icluding the whale to match..... C.
  20. Old Collingwood
    Many thanks for the picture harlequin, i am going to approach this section sometime latter, for now i have been continuing with the hull planking down to and including the whale, i have also cut out the oar slots and the lower deck acsess port, i have set up the whale planking by using two sections - one 2mm by 2mm and the other 4mm by 2mm i think 6mm is quite a good width for the whale. Here's the latest pics.. C.
  21. Old Collingwood
    Just been applying more 2nd stage hull planks down to the whale, but i thought i would mention a trick i do to aid stcking and drying of the planks - i use a hairdryer(the wife doesnt mind - honest) i find the heat helps to melt and harden the wood glew and bond alot quicker, kind of like a heat gun. C.
  22. Old Collingwood
    A question - the planking below the transom that goes from port to larboard, sholud i paint this red ocre or leave wood? i know the the lower section near the waterline will be wood/dull white with a demarcation line. C.
  23. Old Collingwood
    More work on the ole girl, i decided to fit the poor part that fell off, and planked the rear section under the transom- slight color difference in grain due to using the other side of the planks without notic'ing, i have also completed two sections port and labord of the hull planking from the keel. Here's some pics...
  24. Old Collingwood
    Hi hamilton, im not sure yet about the transom i could sharpen it up with abit of scribing and then painting, but its darn hard to see even with glasses, the picture shows alot more detail than i can see with my eyes, then again im not brilliant at scratch building especialy as i have no acurate plans of this section. C.
  25. Old Collingwood
    More progress this time with the other side of the hull continuing to cut out the gun ports using my usual needle file set, i use a cutting action working down between the lines till i get to the line at the bottom, but making sure its square, then i have added the bulwark/gun port posts to hold the top rail. I have also shaped the rear cabin window casting and undercoated it to bring out the detail, incase i use it, also i have cleaned up the front keel section and adjust for - figurehead etc... Here's some more pics, and back to color as requested. C.

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