Old Collingwood

Excellent  and  beyond  Imagination  -  love it.

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Excellent work Alan.

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Some good progress  there  -  love  your  other  builds,  would love to have seen a  build log  of  your Enterprise.

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Great  work  - really moving  on.

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Excellent work Phil.

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She is looking  Superb  -  so much  detail, and as said  - she still looks  like a graceful  ship not a tower block.

This is the only  ship I have traveled on  -  very much smaller  though  - 

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Amazing  work at this scale, I sure enjoyed working on my  Hood  kit in the same scale and make,  it kind of feels more self contained  at this scale  despite all the  tiny parts,   with the  brass  barrel  you used  -  I think when its  painted  it will  not be noticable and will  blend  in.

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Excellent work Alan  - mazing  detail  in these kits.

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Lovely work.

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Some excellent painting  going  on there  -  love it.

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Excellent work.

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Thats a Stunner.

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Excellent work there  Phil,   looking  mighty fine.

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Excllent work,  I still  remember the  day when she was lifted in the Solent -  what  an event  on the tv.

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You should check out  the  Original  replica  in  Brixham  Devon UK   -  lots of  Photos  of it  on the  net.

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Nicely  done Rick.

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1 hour ago, Glen McGuire said:

Still patching whirlpool leaks, but in between, work continues on the Black Pearl.  First up were the 14 cannons for the spar deck.  The barrels are 20 gauge vet needles.  The carriages are made from .5mm planking strips.

 

 

 

Next was carving the beakhead rails that extend from each side of the bow to the top of the keel.  I have a hard time carving sharp angles that are so small.  I use a scalpel with a fine pointed blade but it's still to big for some of the tight spaces.

 

 

 

Next, I carved and added the knee, channels, poop deck, and quarter galleries.

 

 

 

Finally, I gave it a paint job.  Following @Old Collingwood tip, I wanted the to have something that resembled the storyline from the movie where the Pearl was set on fire and sent down to the bottom of the sea with Captain Jack Sparrow aboard.  Sparrow sold his sold to Davy Jones and was allowed to raise the ship and continue his command.  So the ship needed a dark look of charred wood.  At the same time, I wanted to make sure there was enough color contrast between the Pearl and the dark gray Dutchman.  So I made a black wash with liberal amounts of thinner (Tamiya black and acrylic thinner medium) and brushed it lightly over the hull making sure that a hint of the underlying wood color showed through.  I left the deck a lighter color with some random streaks of ash color.  

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

That  looks  excellent, so pleased  I could help  with  the  colour  tips.

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Excellent work on this  tiny  miniscule  piece of  art work.

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That looks so lifelike Greg.

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Excellent work Alan   -  said  it before  that  at this scale the amount of detail  is  insane  -  looking  forward to more.

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The  touch ups  with the  paint  made all the  difference  Phil  -  brings it all  together.

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Excellent start  Alan,  "boy  love these  Flyhawk kits"    what are your thoughts  regarding  the  application of the  wood deck  -  place it straight down on the  plastic deck  or  sand the deck  slightly first,  cant remember  what I did  on my Hood  kit.

Looking forward  to  more  mate.

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Superb finish.

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Very nice work indeed.

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4 hours ago, Canute said:

OC, the quality of the resin prints and castings are so much better now that the amount of sanding is reduced from earlier models. Spaceman Spiff's ship, in modern kit builds, is an example of the older resin pours, which needed a lot of sanding to remove the over-pour. The over-pour nubs made for a lot of dust and the dust was an irritant for breathing. Well fit dust masks were required.

 

Greg, sorry for the hijack, but resin kits are a bigger part of the hobby now. Carrying over some old wive's tale will make people shy away from using this newer medium. Thank you for the opportunity to spread the truth.

Thank you  Ken  for  explaining  that,  and  also  sorry Greg   for  the  hi jack.

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