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HMS Kingfisher 1770 by Remcohe - 1/48 - English 14-Gun Sloop - POF


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Hi Remco.

Just catching up on your build of the Kingfisher.

Stunning workmanship and skill.

 

Regards Antony.

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Thanks for the nice compliments.

 

 

 

Sure, if I can hire you to do the drafting of the furniture, as I love your drawings. So just send your idea's and we'll make it a joint effort.

 

The upper half of the cupboard as two features, one shelf for pots and one to hold plates, I got the idea of some pictures I found of galleys.

 

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Remco

Wonderfull Fitting out of your Swan-Class Remco

A real delight to see..

 

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Stunningly beautiful work.  Inspirational!

 

Colin

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Hi Remco,

 

As I follow along with all the rest I used to continuously think that you couldn't continue

to stun me with your work. You have proven me wrong more times than I can count.

 

Simply wonderful ! B) 

Rusty

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Thanks for the very kind comments.

 

I started working on the sail room, a lot of preparation went into making a jig to cut the mortises for the loovers. After that was set up it was pretty straightforward (I thought, but making the different stanchions with the mortices on the right sides took more than one try....)

 

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The sail room will be made off the model, it's a big 3D jigsaw and I foresee trouble ahead to get the last side in place. But we'll see.

 

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I also got some fabric to make a couple of sails. I'm wondering if their shouldn't be racks of some sort to store the sails. 

 

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Remco

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There probably were racks: air circulation was important to prevent mould or rot. At very least, there would be battens on the deck. If you are showing stored sails, don't forget their wooden identification tags!

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Uh-oh... Druxey tossed another hand grena....  err.. challenge.  Yeah... a challenge.  :)

 

I like that jig for cutting the mortises.  Simple but effective. Though I can imagine it was a bear to set up and get right.

Mark
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Looking great as usual.

John

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Great jig, Remco. Sort of a variant of the gratings jig. It's hard to tell from the photo but I assume the blade width is the same width as the indexing strip?

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In addition to the fantastic build itself, your photos are showing some very nice detail on the jig set ups and much appreciated.  Small, simple, and used to good effect.

 

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Greg, correct the blade has the same width as the index in strip. I made a second one for paralel cuts to make the beds for the sails. At first I tried to glue the battens with temporary spacers, but it wasn't as evenly spaced as I had hoped. cutting mortices for the battens made assembly a lot easier.

 

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For the sails I first got a piece of silk used for model airplanes. Although the fabric is great I could not fold them neatly even with an iron I could not get something I liked. Pretty expensive experiment actually, now I have a very big silk handkerchief with a hole in it...... So thick tinted paper was used. The writing on the tally's are home made decals.

 

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I'm not sure if I will build the other walls of the sail room or leave it open like this, I actually like it the way it is now having a better view to the storage racks.

 

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Remco 

Treat each part as if it is a model on its own, you will finish more models in a day than others do in a lifetime. 

Current build HMS Kingfisher

 

MSW 1.0 log click here

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Great work and superb detaining Remco; these details take the build from great to extraordinary!  Always a pleasure to see what new details you have added.

 

Just one very minor query - is the tag just a little large for the sail?

 

cheers

 

Pat

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Very nice, Remco, a level of detail not seen before. You will need to have a book of photos beside your ship when it is done, to show off all of the details...

 

Mark

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You never fail to surprise and delight us Remco. What superb detail. Just brilliant!

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Well, you rose to the challenge again, Remco! Well done. That looks terrific. I think the tags might be a little large. They would hang down so you could easily find the sail you needed in the pile.

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Ah yes, that looks really nice.  Well done Remco!

 

Cheers,

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I see that you have a loose thread on one of those sails better get out the sail palm.....;~)

 

Absolutely brilliant attention to detail sir. The texture of the folded paper look very convincing.

 

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