Greg Davis Posted August 23 Author #31 Posted August 23 Got a good start on one of the triangular bulwark structures today. I've tried to build in some of the curvature. Once this is dry some finish sanding will even up all the pieces and will hopefully have a nice look. Ronald-V, Bill Morrison and GrandpaPhil 3 Quote
Hubac's Historian Posted August 24 #32 Posted August 24 3 hours ago, Greg Davis said: This is a wonderful offer! The castings I am most looking for are the 14 closed gunports (roughly 1cm wide) as well as the (8 cm) ship's boat. The capstan is also missing, but that I can recreate if necessary. If you do find them, we can arrange shipping etc. Thanks! Greg I will take a look around and see what I can find. I’m not optimistic about what you are describing, in particular. Most of what I remember was strictly ornamental: figurehead, fleur-de-lis, the big stern carving, the main lantern, and some other stuff that I don’t remember. Castings/pressings of what I have may be better than whatever iteration of the kit you have now. I’ll look and keep you posted. In any case - if I can find it - you are welcome to it. Bill Morrison 1 Quote We are all works in progress, all of the time.
Greg Davis Posted August 24 Author #33 Posted August 24 25 minutes ago, Hubac's Historian said: I will take a look around and see what I can find. I’m not optimistic about what you are describing, in particular. Most of what I remember was strictly ornamental: figurehead, fleur-de-lis, the big stern carving, the main lantern, and some other stuff that I don’t remember. Castings/pressings of what I have may be better than whatever iteration of the kit you have now. I’ll look and keep you posted. In any case - if I can find it - you are welcome to it. That's wonderful that you will take a look! Bill Morrison 1 Quote
Greg Davis Posted August 24 Author #34 Posted August 24 One triangular bulwark in place - one to go as well as the corresponding top rail. Seems to look better than what I could possibly do with the kit supplied pieces. Bill Morrison, Ronald-V, GrandpaPhil and 5 others 6 2 Quote
Hubac's Historian Posted August 24 #35 Posted August 24 Agreed! Quote We are all works in progress, all of the time.
DARIVS ARCHITECTVS Posted August 24 #36 Posted August 24 (edited) 18 hours ago, Greg Davis said: This is a wonderful offer! The castings I am most looking for are the 14 closed gunports (roughly 1cm wide) as well as the (8 cm) ship's boat. The capstan is also missing, but that I can recreate if necessary. If you do find them, we can arrange shipping etc. Thanks! Greg I can provide the ship's boat and several other parts leftover from my La Couronne build. In a couple days, I can dig around in the parts box and provide a list of the Corel parts. I did not use them, since my build was heavily modified. I have most of the pressed fiber window frames, the ship's boat, the figurehead, the stern lanterns, some of the fleur-de-lis other decorations, all of the false cannon barrels and more. I can provide pictures later. Edited August 24 by DARIVS ARCHITECTVS Bill Morrison 1 Quote
Greg Davis Posted August 24 Author #37 Posted August 24 2 hours ago, DARIVS ARCHITECTVS said: I can provide the ship's boat and several other parts leftover from my La Couronne build. In a couple days, I can dig around in the parts box and provide a list of the Corel parts. I did not use them, since my build was heavily modified. I have most of the pressed fiber window frames, the ship's boat, the figurehead, the stern lanterns, some of the fleur-de-lis other decorations, all of the false cannon barrels and more. I can provide pictures later. Thank you so much for the offer! I really look forward to what you might be able to fill in the missing gaps from my kit. I do have the window frames (unlike you, there is no way I'm going to do all the work to open up and lighting he cupolas!), stern lanterns, and false cannon barrels. Greg Bill Morrison and Hubac's Historian 2 Quote
Greg Davis Posted August 31 Author #38 Posted August 31 I'm planning to use the pressed fiber windows. Today I airbrushed the windows blue and am starting to paint the gratings and window frames by hand: ccoyle, SiriusVoyager, DARIVS ARCHITECTVS and 4 others 7 Quote
Hubac's Historian Posted August 31 #39 Posted August 31 I’ve had a look around Greg, and I can’t seem to find that box of castings. They may have been a revision casualty of our last move two years ago. Quote We are all works in progress, all of the time.
Greg Davis Posted August 31 Author #40 Posted August 31 1 hour ago, Hubac's Historian said: I’ve had a look around Greg, and I can’t seem to find that box of castings. They may have been a revision casualty of our last move two years ago. Thank you for looking! Bill Morrison 1 Quote
Greg Davis Posted September 3 Author #41 Posted September 3 Can't quite believe it took 3 days to paint all the window grates - hard on the eyes for me! Now its time to start cutting all of the windows out. This may also be time consuming! ccoyle, Bill Morrison, GrandpaPhil and 1 other 4 Quote
Greg Davis Posted September 4 Author #42 Posted September 4 Got them all cut out / cleaned up today. Two or three have a bit of damage, but they will not be needed as there are extras of the tall and short narrow windows. There are no extras of the larger stern windows - fortunately they are all usable. The outer window casing edges need to be repainted and then the windows will be ready to install. GrandpaPhil, DARIVS ARCHITECTVS and Bill Morrison 3 Quote
Greg Davis Posted September 6 Author #43 Posted September 6 After a bit of touch painting, the windows have been installed: Bill Morrison, Ian_Grant, Hubac's Historian and 1 other 4 Quote
Greg Davis Posted September 8 Author #44 Posted September 8 There sure are a lot of castings in this kit! I've 'stuck' the larger ones on a piece of cardboard so that I can airbrush them without too much fear of them flying away. I don't care much for the plating, so I will be toning them down a bit. Hopefully when done they will look more like they were gilded instead of plated. There are also a zillion flor de lis, but they are so small, I doubt that painting in this manner would be worthwhile. I will say that these Corel castings are not badly done compared to some other kits, especially when it comes to flash removal - nearly none needed here. Hubac's Historian, GrandpaPhil and Bill Morrison 3 Quote
Greg Davis Posted September 9 Author #45 Posted September 9 Now the castings have gotten a couple of coats of paint! Not quite as harsh as before. I used Vallejo Air Gold paint for this. Ian_Grant, Bill Morrison, ccoyle and 1 other 4 Quote
Greg Davis Posted September 10 Author #46 Posted September 10 I've started to fit some of the decorations near the galleries. Most of the vertical ones are a tad too long and need to be shortened - which is fine as too long is better than too short! I'm reducing them quickly with a desk sander as filing was taking more effort than desired. I'll probably glue these in place later today. Currently I'm too caffeinated to keep everything in place. Ian_Grant and GrandpaPhil 2 Quote
DARIVS ARCHITECTVS Posted September 11 #47 Posted September 11 Washing the gold castings with black or dark brown thinned paint toned down the brightness of the recesses and brings out some details. Greg Davis 1 Quote
Greg Davis Posted October 6 Author #48 Posted October 6 All of the fleur-de-lis castings are in place - there are close to 50 of these - and it was really fiddly work for me as I couldn't find a single pair of tweezers that could hold them well for gluing and positioning. I've also attached a few decorations to the stern. I'm satisfied with the golden color that I painted the castings (less the very small fleur-de-lis castings). While there is a lot more to do in the stern region, I think that I may build and install the gratings that are in the bow region above the stem. I just received an order of grating material for this job - the supplied grating material wasn't enough to get this region finished. Ian_Grant, chris watton, Hubac's Historian and 2 others 4 1 Quote
Greg Davis Posted October 8 Author #49 Posted October 8 I've got all of the grating material ready to go. I decided to make a cardboard template to see how everything was going to be fit in - maybe I'll just go with this! Time to cut wood again. Ian_Grant, GrandpaPhil, Ronald-V and 1 other 3 1 Quote
Greg Davis Posted October 11 Author #50 Posted October 11 Gradually I have been cutting up and fitting the grating. One more challenging piece by the bow - I was close to finishing that piece but it didn't look very good, so another try coming. I will be replacing the piece furthest away from the bow also - it is a touch too narrow. The grating then needs to be reduced in thickness before cementing in place. Ian_Grant, Ronald-V and GrandpaPhil 3 Quote
Greg Davis Posted October 16 Author #51 Posted October 16 A couple of small steps forward: 1. The head grating has been reduced to the correct thickness and installed 2. All five of the gunport wreaths on the starboard side are in place (there are two more along side the forecastle). I wasn't looking forward to installing these as cutting away space from already installed material always gives me some anxiety! These went in fine - hopefully the port side goes as well. Ronald-V, Ian_Grant, DARIVS ARCHITECTVS and 1 other 4 Quote
Greg Davis Posted October 21 Author #52 Posted October 21 The last four gunport wreaths have been installed up front with the bow chasers. The figure head in place The bird reminds me of my phoenix tattoo (which is not this bright anymore)! GrandpaPhil, SiriusVoyager and Ronald-V 3 Quote
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