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JerryTodd

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About JerryTodd

  • Birthday 09/20/1960

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    Severna Park Maryland USA
  • Interests
    Astronomy, sailing, horse riding, motor cycle riding, wood working, living history and reenacting, wargaming, ship modeling, history, maps, reading, ice cream, animals in general but cats especially, a lady named Daphne

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  1.    JerryTodd reacted to a post in a topic: La Créole 1827 by archjofo - Scale 1/48 - French corvette
  2.    egkb reacted to a post in a topic: Constellation 1856 by JerryTodd - 1:36 scale - RADIO - First Class Sloop of War
  3. JerryTodd
    The crew got some touch up, and I tried a "wash" on them which wasn't all I hoped it would be, but I kept it and gave the a couple of coats of clear-coat. Ivan's blue uniform was certainly slimming, he's looking quite Stan Laurel-ish in white. I made a pattern for the head gratings from chip-board, scanned it and used the image to make 3D models. Went away for the weekend, and printed them when I got home. I need to install cleats (like seat cleats in a boat) for them to sit on along the spray-screens and hull. Then I can more accurately see how the shape may need adjusting, which may mean printing again, which didn't use much resin, but did take 4 hours.
  4.    JerryTodd reacted to a post in a topic: USS ST LOUIS by thorn21g - 1:24 - POF - Civil War Ironclad - Gateway Model Shipcrafter's Guild
  5.    JerryTodd reacted to a post in a topic: HMS Victory by dafi - Heller - PLASTIC - To Victory and beyond ...
  6.    Lieste reacted to a post in a topic: 3D Naval Guns 1850s ~ 1870s
  7. JerryTodd
    Took three tries before the guns printed well in 1:100. Using thicker supports seemed to do the trick. I went back to the first version I started of this gun, with the taller carriage, to finish it. I used plate #7 of LaFay's, which had measurements, rather than the model plans I had used. Both are modeled in 1:36 scale and posted on Thingiverse.
  8.    Lieste reacted to a post in a topic: 3D Naval Guns 1850s ~ 1870s
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  10. JerryTodd
    le canon est complet! Loaded in the slicer, re-scaled to 1:100, copied to make 7 tubes and carriages, sliced and sent to the printer. Fingers are crossed!
  11.    JerryTodd reacted to a post in a topic: 3D Naval Guns 1850s ~ 1870s
  12.    Lieste reacted to a post in a topic: 3D Naval Guns 1850s ~ 1870s
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  14. JerryTodd
    I got this far on it before I had to do other things today and tomorrow. Comparing the tube height to the sailor figure, this carriage is definitely a better match for the model it will be living on. I'm modeling it in 1:36 scale, but I'm printing them in 1:100. Besides what I print for my friend building the model, it'll get posted on Thingiverse when it's done
  15.    JerryTodd reacted to a post in a topic: 3D Naval Guns 1850s ~ 1870s
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  18. JerryTodd
    I found I could download the PDF of Lafay, so now I have a reference if another French gun shows up on my inbox
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  20. JerryTodd
    The Lafay link goes to the same carriage that I made, which I'm thinking is for a smaller gun, abiet very similarly shaped; but Douglas shows... which specifically says is for the gun I'm doing, so I think I'm going that route. Thank you very much Lieste, for pointing out a document I already had
  21.    JerryTodd reacted to a post in a topic: 3D Naval Guns 1850s ~ 1870s
  22. JerryTodd
    As usual, I have very few clues what the carriage for this gun would look like, so I have to conjecture it. This image is part of a set of drawings of the L'Agile (I think) which was a later ship. The drawing is 1:100 scale but there's no reference on the portion I got, so who knows what "scale" it might be. I modeled the carriage to this drawing and wound up with the tube six feet in the air; that couldn't be right, so I scaled the carriage down to the height of my 8 inch shell-gun. This is still top-heavy to my eye, but I don't think it would have been the low-slung Marsilly the IX Dahlgren had 10+ years later. I'm gonna dig around some more before I call this one done.
  23.    JerryTodd reacted to a post in a topic: Amanda F Lewis 1884 by SardonicMeow - Scale 1:48 - Chesapeake Bay pungy
  24. JerryTodd
    I'm still looking for data on the 68# smooth-bore's carriage, without any luck. I contacted the folks at HMS Warrior to see if they had drawings for what was on the ship, but they said their system was hacked and a lot of data was lost. Recently, I was asked to do a Canon-Obusier of 80 pounds for a 1:100 scale model of the French L'Orenoque (1848). I modeled it in 1:36, and will scale it down in the slicer to print at 1:100. The carriage is two-truck type, and I'm working on that now.
  25. JerryTodd
    I use ammonia because I happened to have a jug of it, but alcohol should work nicely too.
  26. JerryTodd
    Great, I could use some motivation
  27. JerryTodd
    Print a few more stock figures, but only 7 came out. In the meantime I altered a couple of others; I put straw hats on two, and changed a rammer to a sponger. I apparently made the brims too thin, and they didn't print well, so I made new brims from paper, and painted them in resin from the printer, then zapped them with UV to plasticize them. Painting then commenced on this batch of 15 crew who will all be in white jumpers. I got to fiddling with the davits again by mocking up a brace with chipboard; thinking that would work, applied it to the 3D model, as well as putting a proper double-block on the end, with a ring. I printed a pair to test, and 6 hours later, I'm pretty happy with the results.
  28. JerryTodd started following Friendship Sloop by gsdpic - BlueJacket Shipcrafters - 1:12
  29. JerryTodd
    All the figures I have are now painted. Not my best work, but I'm not my best self anymore either 😕 I think I got a decent shade for the Black fella,and the rest are the darkest "fleshtone" I have without darken it more. I need to modify several poses to get men climbing the rig, standing on foot-ropes. sitting, squatting, and so on. Also, I want to put straw hats on a few I also have one officer to try to work into 3 or 4 poses. Then there's the Marines, I want 6 or 8 in different poses standing and sitting on the main hatch cleaning their gear.
  30. JerryTodd
    Welcome aboard!
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  32. JerryTodd
    While I figure out how to deal with installing the metal braces the support the pin-rails on the bulwarks, I got my brain into something else; painting the crew figures I'm using acrylics, but while I have half-a-dozen "flesh tones," I didn't have any white, black, or blue, so I ordered some and set about painting hands and faces. That wasn't much, but it did make a big change from the shadows they used to be. Sunday the paint arrived and I got right to it, based mostly on these images, only one is actually IDed as American. I painted about half the figures I have, including Ivan*, who's gonna remain "clean shaven" from here on. I ordered more paint for a few hair colors, and things like casks, and buckets. * Ivan's explained back in post #49
  33. JerryTodd
    Nope, it's a "clubbed jib" note it doesn't extend all the way to the tack. It's meant so the sail is "self-tending" without sheets running abaft the fore. You find exactly the same on other Bay boats; Bugeyes, Skipjacks, Log Canoes, Brogans, 3-sail bateau, sloops, many schooners, and so on.

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