DE ROODE BUL by Heinrich der Seefahrer - Revell - PLASTIC - modification of JOLLY ROGER kit project

[Heinrich der Seefahrer]

First coluring wood imitation and first redbrown (Tamiya Hull Red).

Port side

Starboard side

Transom (upside down)

The gap at the underwater part of the hull will be closed also the gunports will ne opened.

[Heinrich der Seefahrer]

For the superstructure I use Citardel Khorne Red and here the last pictures of the day:

 

 

the light is horribly but as it is 10 o'clock there is no sunlight any more.

Edited September 5, 2019 by Heinrich der Seefahrer
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[Heinrich der Seefahrer]

Next ten steps to the hull und rigging (standing and running):

 

The hull:

I.

pointing (not drilling through the hull) holes for the dowels, bolts and nails in 0,2mm and 0,4mm

 

II.

painting the "holes" in iron and darker wooden brown

 

III.

shadowing the red parts by inking them (topside darker red ink downside darkbrown)

 

IV.a

painting (Citardell Khrone red) the dreckspart's rest 

IV.b

Adding the aft lamp from the Heller SOLEIL ROYAL kit

on a bent lampbase

 

V.

Citardel Gold colours and inks for the decoration and ornamentation

 

 

Prepare the rigging:

Consulting the

Ab Hoven's HEERMKRECK drawings!!!

 

VI.a

Glueing the masts and yards ready without rigging  

VI.b

painting them with tanned sails

 

VII.

Testfit the masts deciding about the stays (without any staysails)

 

VIII.

Adding the running rigging to the masts and yards - (wait for the ordered blocks and lines!)

 

IX.

Drilling holes in the stem due to fix the bowsprit

 

X.

fixing the decksparts remember the stress of the running rigging! (Do not forget to ink them carfully before belaying)

 

Hello specialists!!!

Did I foreget anything?

Edited September 5, 2019 by Heinrich der Seefahrer
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[amateur]

yes, you forgot something:

XI: a nice gift-paper to wrap it all up

 

(ad VII: certainly no stay-sails, and no preventer stays. Don't forget the shrouds and the all-important ratlines)

Jan

[Heinrich der Seefahrer]

11 minutes ago, amateur said:

yes, you forgot something:

XI: a nice gift-paper to wrap it all up

 

(ad VII: certainly no stay-sails, and no preventer stays. Don't forget the shrouds and the all-important ratlines)

Jan

Thanks Jan,

 

the giftpaper is a good idea!!!

 

Shrouds and ratlines may be made from scratch - but this is not shure at the moment. I may build some half scratch solution shrouds and deadeyzs from the kit - all the ratlines from scratch. As the do not look very nice and detailled!

[Heinrich der Seefahrer]

Next step is for Pirates and Dwarfs only - it is about gold!

 

Thevwhit topped can is the basic ao what the other two  shades of gold are placed onto. 

 

 

My personal main problem is the transom with some huge empty area where before the skull and crossed bones were located. As the skull and crossed bones were now removed and everything looks a bit lonely and lost there is deep need to change something - but how!? And as the area isn't enclosed towards the top it is not so easy to fill the picture as everything seems to be lifted towards the upper side. There it seems like a framed picture with the top bar left away for an ascension's painting. Shall there be a curved bar to enclose everything?

 

So I think about some baroque painting to fill the empty space before the redbrown bull. So I left the survace carved as is is from the extinction of the given item and try to reuse the unflat surface for the clouds of the background.

 

So we do start with the golden painting of the  ornamentations, handrails and the little akanthus leaves.

 

[amateur]

Look at the Dutch Sterns: they all have some kind of curved bar on top, with two small lions resting on top of it,

and some kind of curtains around the central piece (some cow in your case).

 

Jan

[amateur]

Did the bBul ever reach his destinatiion?

 

Jan

[Heinrich der Seefahrer]

16 hours ago, amateur said:

Did the bBul ever reach his destinatiion?

 

Jan

Hy Jan, yes it will and is on my "list for spontaneous quick builds beside to raise motivation".

I'm waiting for a opportunity to catch James Bender's "Dutch Warships in the Age of Sail 1600 - 1714" for my slim pocket as I bought a pre-owned ribbon saw recently. I do own from the Blaue Reihe by Hirnstorff also "Der holländische Zweidecker", "Risse von Schiffen des XVI. und XVII. Jahrhunderts", "Modellbau von Schiffen des XVI. und XVII. Jahrhunderts" und die großen DelisClarsing Druck "Segelschiffe den XVII. Jahrhunderts"

 

But at the moment I have to work on the death of my mother and the working on  emptying her flat. And concentrating on SAINT PHILIPPE as I have a run in her.