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Welcome to the forum, love the Sherbourne, im just down the road in Bridgwater
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hopefully by the time i snuff it, lol after that i wont care as they are going to land fill with me as well
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good evening everyone This week i had to do something about the hull i had used copper tape, and cleaned them with nail varnish remover, before using an acrylic varnish, but never wore gloves at any time, so i think the oils from my fingers wore everything away its a shame, as i now have a two tone hull, and made worse by not wanting to do the bow, which is not quite so bad
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Welcome, to MSW i also have this kit in the stash
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I Have an Itch to Scratch
Kevin replied to SaltyScot's topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
yes, i should have thought about others -
I Have an Itch to Scratch
Kevin replied to SaltyScot's topic in Modeling tools and Workshop Equipment
can i make a suggestion, instead of going the whole hog with a full scratch, try something like a CAF kit, and take it from there, now i will leave the room and not come back until invited Sailing ship -
welcome to MSW, im the one who starts and never finishes anything, Here in the UK i get my bits from Cornwall Model Boats, and my Kits from Vanguard Models – Wooden Ship Kits & Accessories
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you have done a lovely job so far, how times have changed, buying a kit, where nothing has been laser cut, will seam very alien to some of the newer generation of builders. i will continue to check in on yr progress
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I was wondering just how all the internal fittings are going to stay pristine and in place when it comes to hull fairing/any planking
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great progress, as much as i want this kit, i have a Victory kit built
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real shame, but they missed the opportunity to extend/modify the range
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looking at the Royal William again yesterday and the opening banner reads this,
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well indy is certainly back, and i hope to complete her by the end of this month May 2025. just completed the mizzen yard lifts the stern copper plates, wore away from handling ( another tape error i have learnt, and will be replace before the rudder is fitted, the bow is not so bad i certainly understand full fat rigging now, just how many more lines should i have hade to put on the Caldercraft HMS Victory sorry about the pants photos the room is long enough but not the width, so hope to get her outside this week and the bois say hello
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i love Mountfleet kits, the metalwork does require a lot of cleaning up, but does turn out nice, this is my St Nectan, good luck with the rest of the build
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I appreciate, video viewers may be interested in the process of the PE blackening, but would it be simpler to just spray black
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good evening everyone thank you for comments and likes @hollowneck thats a lovely build @brunnels up to last week i have only ever used rattle cans and hairy sticks all five boats have had the outer coats changed from oils to matt white, i dont have the cradles fitted yet so not in any proper position taught myself to airbrush this weeks, by making up one of the Emhar 1/24 trucks
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San Felipe by Roy812 - OcCre - 1/86
Kevin replied to Roy812's topic in - Kit build logs for subjects built from 1501 - 1750
you could cut the broken side panel and remove, and place some support under the deck and reapply -
On friends recommendations, it was suggested that i remove the oils from the boats and paint white, it does look better, any other suggestions to make them look different?
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good evening everyone been nearly a year since i did any work on indy, and now hope to complete her in the next few months I have not been away, lots of modelling done, but a lot has not been shown due to circumstances, i may just show then here, rather than bore you with build logs anyway one thing on building these long term builds are the ships boats, i dont like building them, and at times having done so, i hate how they turned out. so i bought a set from @chris watton at Vanguard Models the hulls are very nicely produced, and come with the supplied wood pack to finish them off although i thought a lot about what colour to do them i kept going back to the idea of simulating then in wood phot from https://vanguardmodels.co.uk/products/hms-indefatigable-boat-set using an airbrush i used various different Tamiya buff colours, and oil Burnt Umber (reeves) base colour allowed to dry painted inside the hull with oils, not to wet like a wash but not to thick either, diluted with Turpentine after 10 minutes pull a dry brush over the oils in the like of imaginary planking add thwarts etc, paint those with a more diluted oils then do the outer hull i will possibly redo the outer hulls prior to fitting
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good evening nice to be back posting daily, now need to catch up on members logs, and two other Forums i post too Another Balcony top is the kit, and my version kit railings taken apart to shorten them by 10mm in German grey and fitted in position
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cargo/safety net looks great
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good evening everyone thank you for the likes Generator room not my photo, found on the web kit contents. just a large box walkways removed to replace with mesh open the front up resembles nothing, does nothing, but far better than my first attempt new walkways kit railings adapted to fit the new shape and 1cm removed from the height
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that came out very nice Andy
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