HMS Indefatigable 1794 by Kevin - Vanguard Models - 1:64 - Feb 2023

[Kevin]

4 minutes ago, Blue Ensign said:

So, you could be up for another 30hrs work to complete both sides, a testing exercise Kevin, and that's without any consideration of copper nail heads.🫤

She will look good tho' with the copper against the black.👍

 

B.E.

yes something like that, i think im starting to learn that detail like rivet heads is wasted on this scale vessel i have yet to see any that are realistic, unless done by scratch, IMHO 

[realworkingsailor]

Looks pretty darn good Kev! Slow and steady and you’ll be adding the last tiles before you know it!

 

Andy

[yvesvidal]

Come on Kevin!! Since that hull is very similar to the 72/74 guns warships, it only take 2400 tiles. You are almost there.... 🙂

I agree with your assessment about the rivets/nails. At that scale, it would be hard to see.

 

Yves

Edited June 29, 2023 by yvesvidal

[Kevin]

4 minutes ago, yvesvidal said:

Come on Kevin!! Since that hull is very similar to the 72/74 guns warships, it only take 2400 tiles. You are almost there.... 🙂

I agree with your assessment about the rivets/nails. At that scale, it would be hard to see.

 

Yves

well one side is 

[Kevin]

good evening everyone

Day 122-3 still coppering

 

im sure most of you would have completed both sides by now, i have lots going on, in RL but daily progress is being made

 

 

Edited August 30, 2023 by Kevin

[James H]

Neat and shiny!

[aliluke]

Hi Kevin

Been watching from the sidelines. This is all coming up really well!! If you don't like shiny copper there is a way to make it otherwise - see my Fly log. User beware...

[Kevin]

4 hours ago, aliluke said:

Hi Kevin

Been watching from the sidelines. This is all coming up really well!! If you don't like shiny copper there is a way to make it otherwise - see my Fly log. User beware...

im grateful for anyone to watch my shoddy building, i will certainly look at yr fly log

[Obormotov]

🙂Good afternoon, MSW, Kevin and everyone who is interested in ships... I am very glad that you, Kevin, are doing well and you continue to create your beautiful ship... I understand very little about ships, and therefore my question may seem ridiculous to you . and yet I'll try to find out: on the ship Indefatigable, two rows of "clusters" where the guns are located (I don't know how to say it correctly, in the maritime language.) The top row ends right next to the cabin, it turns out that the guns are in the cabin campaign? (I'm not sure if this room is a campaign room). By the way, it's the same on other ships, for example, HMS Victory. I think this is a little strange? Or maybe I don't understand something. This is not so important in the course of models, I just want to understand why this is so? I hope you have time to answer. thank you in advance! best wishes! Egor.

[chris watton]

23 minutes ago, Obormotov said:

🙂Good afternoon, MSW, Kevin and everyone who is interested in ships... I am very glad that you, Kevin, are doing well and you continue to create your beautiful ship... I understand very little about ships, and therefore my question may seem ridiculous to you . and yet I'll try to find out: on the ship Indefatigable, two rows of "clusters" where the guns are located (I don't know how to say it correctly, in the maritime language.) The top row ends right next to the cabin, it turns out that the guns are in the cabin campaign? (I'm not sure if this room is a campaign room). By the way, it's the same on other ships, for example, HMS Victory. I think this is a little strange? Or maybe I don't understand something. This is not so important in the course of models, I just want to understand why this is so? I hope you have time to answer. thank you in advance! best wishes! Egor.

Those cabins were removable, and were dismantled and put away before battle.

[Kevin]

4 hours ago, Obormotov said:

🙂Good afternoon, MSW, Kevin and everyone who is interested in ships... I am very glad that you, Kevin, are doing well and you continue to create your beautiful ship... I understand very little about ships, and therefore my question may seem ridiculous to you . and yet I'll try to find out: on the ship Indefatigable, two rows of "clusters" where the guns are located (I don't know how to say it correctly, in the maritime language.) The top row ends right next to the cabin, it turns out that the guns are in the cabin campaign? (I'm not sure if this room is a campaign room). By the way, it's the same on other ships, for example, HMS Victory. I think this is a little strange? Or maybe I don't understand something. This is not so important in the course of models, I just want to understand why this is so? I hope you have time to answer. thank you in advance! best wishes! Egor.

thank you for your question, the after cabins were all opened up when the ship was closed up at battle station's i was looking for a video, but at present this is the best i can find for now

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[Kevin]

good evening everyone

thank you for comments and likes

day 123-3 port side coppering complete

thats another 5 hours of coppering done, im quite happy with how it turned out

well im happier with it than England's performance in the Ashes test

Edited August 30, 2023 by Kevin

[Obormotov]

Looks absolutely great!!  and by the way, if you create a living and meaningful object, and your ship is exactly like that, how can you consider that you are doing a "crappy assembly"?  forgive me if I'm being tactless... Your ship deserves both respect and the most sincere and vivid epithets... sorry, I think so.

[Obormotov]

Вашему лучшему другу с четырьмя лапами и коротким хвостом, похоже, очень нравится ваш корабль. он гордится ими!😜

[Kevin]

36 minutes ago, Obormotov said:

Вашему лучшему другу с четырьмя лапами и коротким хвостом, похоже, очень нравится ваш корабль. он гордится ими!😜

google translates this to

 

Your best friend with four paws and a short tail seems to really like your ship. He is proud of them!😜

[Kevin]

Just now, Kevin said:

google translates this to

 

Your best friend with four paws and a short tail seems to really like your ship. He is proud of them!😜

this is Dobbie Pingate Periscope 8 year old English Cocker Spaniel

[Kevin]

now to do it all again on the other side

 

[Kevin]

and so it continues 

day 127-3

Edited July 4, 2023 by Kevin

[Blue Ensign]

Looking good Kevin, should be completed by the weekend.👍

Are you intending to keep it bright or weather it a little?

 

B.E.

[Kevin]

12 minutes ago, Blue Ensign said:

Looking good Kevin, should be completed by the weekend.👍

Are you intending to keep it bright or weather it a little?

 

B.E.

Thank you, I am going to let her tone down for a while, bit to bright for me

[Old Collingwood]

Hiya  Kevin,   I have caught  up  now,   you  are doing a  lovely  job   -  you saved  that  sanding issue  really well,  and  your paintwork  looks  proper   loverly,    what  really stands  out  to me  is  the  genuine  scale  correct-ness  the  canons  and ditance behind for  running in/out  and the  over all  beam  of the  ship  - just looks  so right.

Oh  and  loving the  tiles.

 

OC.

[Kevin]

40 minutes ago, Old Collingwood said:

Hiya  Kevin,   I have caught  up  now,   you  are doing a  lovely  job   -  you saved  that  sanding issue  really well,  and  your paintwork  looks  proper   loverly,    what  really stands  out  to me  is  the  genuine  scale  correct-ness  the  canons  and ditance behind for  running in/out  and the  over all  beam  of the  ship  - just looks  so right.

Oh  and  loving the  tiles.

 

OC.

lol the praise goes to @chris watton with the time and effort he put into the designing

[Kevin]

day 128-3

hope to complete this task tomorrow

[Old Collingwood]

Coming on nicely.

 

OC.

[yvesvidal]

Great work Kevin. Have you thought about protecting the copper or will you let it oxidize naturally?

 

Yves

[Kevin]

1 hour ago, yvesvidal said:

Great work Kevin. Have you thought about protecting the copper or will you let it oxidize naturally?

 

Yves

im going to let it do its own thing for now, and see what its like later on in the build, it is tarnishing much quicker than plates do

[yvesvidal]

6 minutes ago, Kevin said:

im going to let it do its own thing for now, and see what its like later on in the build, it is tarnishing much quicker than plates do

I left mine tarnish naturally for a few weeks and then sealed everything with Future Floor. It has been holding up its original color for more than a year, despite frequent handling with bare hands.

 

Yves

[James H]

You're still better giving it an initial polish with 0000 steel wool before allowing to age so that it ages evenly. If you leave greasy fingerprints, they will be seen in the final finish as the acidic residues leave actual fingerprints on the thin copper tape.

[Kevin]

good evening everyone

thank you for comments and likes

 

day 129-3 copper plating done

well that was an enjoyable couple of weeks, 

[Oboship]

That looks phantastic! The completed coppering is certainly a significant milestone for the whole project. I've been following the progress of your build and I really admire your skills.

Particularly the pic of the bow view (no. 3 from top) shows the symmetry of your great coppering.

Best

Uwe