HMS Tiger 1747 by Siggi52 - 1:48 - 60 gun ship from NMM plans

[DORIS]

Very impressive and inspiring work, Siggi.  I have browsed the pics with a pleasure.

 

Kind regards,

Doris

[Siggi52]

Thank you Doris, the same I can say of your work.

[druxey]

Yes, Siggi, the scuttle lid is flush with the deck.

[Amalio]

Congratulation Siggi.

[Siggi52]

Thank you Amalio and hello to all, also thank you all for your likes. 

 

Today only a small update. I started planking. Around the riding bits it was really a challenge, but at least I got it. If you see there some irregularities in front or behind the hatches, that is sawdust. So don't worry. 

 

 

[Siggi52]

Hello and thank you all for your likes,

 

today I finished the planking of the gun deck and I made also the spirketting. I think that I need the next week for relaxing my fingertips and let here and there some new skin growing  These riding pices are very hard and stable.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I build the deck without the margin plank, you would't see it later. The waterway I will install in the slit between the deck and the spirketting. 

 

 

 

 

[Mirabell61]

beautiful deck planking Siggi,

 

Nils

[Siggi52]

Hello,

 

thank you Nils and all others for your likes. Today only a small update. The men installed the waterway and thereby the planking of the deck is ready. Now the paint and varnish can dry. 

 

Next I think I must made the cheeks.  The head has the tendency to bent to the left. It's now only a little, but nobody knows what will come in the future. There went something wrong when installing the head and I hope I will stop that with the cheeks installed.

 

[Siggi52]

Hello,

 

it is done, the cheeks are mostly ready. First some pictures before I have painted them.

 

 

 

Here I started painting them. That was from the feeling more work then building them. But this is only the basis paint  The real hard work begins tomorrow,  all these small acanthuses.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[albert]

Hi Siggi great beautiful work.

[dvm27]

Your beaded edges are so lovely, Siggi. I assume you use some sorn of form/scraper tool?

[Siggi52]

Thank you Albert and Greg. Yes Greg, it's a scraper.

[Siggi52]

Hello,

 

and thank you all for your likes.

Today I finished the long feared paint job  I do not like it very much, but to the end my hands get more calm and I think the result is not sooo bad 

 

At one of the pictures with the cheeks not painted, you may have seen that the left one was a little higher than the right one. That came because the treenail was in a wrong hole. I saw it first at the picture and went immediately down into the basement to see what had happens, but all is ok. 

 

 

 

 

 

And here you see why I do not like the job very much, it's all so small.

 

 

Edited July 1, 2018 by Siggi52

[cog]

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[Siggi52]

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[Hubac's Historian]

Your painted scrolls/acanthus really came out beautifully, Siggi.  If you are unhappy with the results, I am not seeing why?

[cog]

why ... what is the reason?

[Siggi52]

Hello Hubac,

 

no, I'm not unhappy with the result. That is fine. I just do not like this kind of job. It's all soooooo small, the paint sticks to the brush and would't flow, the hands tremble and so on. 

[cog]

you might try and support you hand whilst painting, like painters do with a stick ...

[Siggi52]

Hello Carl,

 

for these small cheeks you need no stick to support your hands. I painted them not installed and they are still not fast installed. As I wrote, to the end of the job my hands get more calm. That are just the nerves.

[Siggi52]

Hello and thank you all for your comments and likes,

 

I was not very busy the last week, but I made the hawse hols with the linings and bolsters.

 

 

 

The next things are the trail boards between the cheeks. I have a trail board, all in ocker but only the little dragon in green, in my mind. I saw it somewhere, but I did't find that picture again. If anyone has that picture, or know where I could find it, tell it. 

Edited July 11, 2018 by Siggi52

[albert]

Very very nice work.

[Mirabell61]

Wonderful work Siggi !

 

Nils

[Siggi52]

Many thanks Albert & Nils

[druxey]

If it's any help, try to control your breathing while painting small detail. That will steady your hands. Nevertheless, your painted decoration looks beautiful.

[Siggi52]

Thank you Druxey, 

and also all others for your likes. 

 

The main problem I have when painting such small things, is my nervousness. When I see that it works, my hands get more and more calm. But again, thank you all for your tips. 

[Amalio]

Very, very good work Siggi.

[GrandpaPhil]

Looking good!  Excellent work!

[Siggi52]

Many thanks Amalio and Grandpa

[Siggi52]

Hello,

 

today I finished the small dragons, who keep Leo's feet warm 

 

 

I glued them to a piece of scrap wood, with a piece of paper between, so that I could hold them better

 

 

 

At the last pictures they are not already dry, so that I will tomorrow make the rest ready.