HMS Diana by Shipyard sid - Caldercraft - 1/64 scale

[Shipyard sid]

greetings Peter 

                          Yep !! The fitting of the plates is tedious, I have just ripped a few off this morning. I started fitting the Victory tiles working down from the waterline, and you can see I had no problem at all with them by the photos. As I said earlier I am fitting these from the keel upward, which appears to be the way to go, but the quality of the work is very poor. I will carry on working upwards and hope it improves, but if I am not happy I will rip them off and start again from the waterline. Your work continues to be excellent as always, well done.  Hello Keith good to hear from you, how are you keeping ?   Don’t rush with the dark room there’s plenty of time.  Best regards  DAVID.        ( photos Victory coppering,  others Diana coppering so far. )

[Peterhudson]

You are on the way!  P

[Beef Wellington]

Great start David, keep going!  Don't think you'll experience too many challenges as long as you keep thinking ahead.  I always wonder why people think coppering is an 'easy' option vs planking.

[clearway]

just think-at least she is a smaller than your HMS Victory 😁

[Kevin]

oooooooo  David,  Coppering, lol we all love coppering your build looks fantastic, i might evern get to start another build this summer

Edited May 12, 2020 by Kevin

[Shipyard sid]

 

Greetings All

                  David is no longer coppering !!! Not clever enough, so has abandoned it for now. I am painting canon  barrels until I receive an order from CMB . My coppering has been a total shambles, and it was never going to get any better.  So it was not worth continuing. I never liked the plates from the start, and realized  I would have a problem with them. I have ordered 800 different plates from CMB to check them out. They are  the wrong scale 1/72  but I am not bothered about that, so I will check to see if it’s worth using them.  Regards DAVID

[clearway]

shame but in times of trouble stick with what you know- looking at the plates though you can see where the nail details are off-set at the top of the pic a tad so you can get the overlap- think fishscales 🤨

[Shipyard sid]

Greeting all

                 Thanks for all your likes. Well I have started coppering the hull again, using the  alternative tiles I mentioned, which have taken a while to arrive.  Anyway I have started fitting them from the waterline downward, which is the wrong way, I think. But as long as I am happy that’s all that matters. I have worked along the waterline until the curvature around the bow and stern starts to take affect. The next two rows of tiles take me around the bow and I will infill there first. OK that’s me for now, thanks a lot. DAVID.     There are about 2100 Diana tiles here, which I will never use .

[Peterhudson]

How is it going?  Ill update my DIANA blog this week - hope all is on track.  Peter 

[Kevin]

hello my friend, hows it going?