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La Couronne 1637 by Greg Davis - Corel - 1:100 scale


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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.

We are all works in progress, all of the time.

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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!

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I've also attached a few decorations to the stern.

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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. 

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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.

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A couple of small steps forward:

 

1. The head grating has been reduced to the correct thickness and installed

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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.

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