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HMS Victory by guraus - scale 1:48 - plank on frame


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Alexandru,

 

Your art is SO brilliant as to be almost, well too amazing. Such a work of love on your part. Thanks SO much for sharing your brilliant  build of such a complicated ship-plank-by-plank. An astonishing build.

 

Michael

Michael

Current buildSovereign of the Seas 1/78 Sergal

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Golden Hind - C Mamoli    Oseberg - Billings 720 - Drakkar - Amati

Completed:   

Santa Maria-Mantua --

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Santisima Trinidad cross section OcCre 1/90th

Gallery :    Santa Maria - Vasa

 

 

 

 

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Alexandru,

 

Beautiful work as usual. I notice your modified throat plate on the saw, for cutting gratings. Very clever way to attach the spacer! I will try something like that.

 

Mark

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Thank you all. Your comments are greatly appreciated.

 

Did some finishing touches on the galley and started working on one of the anchors. Here are some pictures.

Alexandru

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Beautifully detailed and built anchor, Alexandru. 

Mark
"The shipwright is slow, but the wood is patient." - me

Current Build:                                                                                             
Past Builds:
 La Belle Poule 1765 - French Frigate from ANCRE plans - ON HOLD           Triton Cross-Section   

 NRG Hallf Hull Planking Kit                                                                            HMS Sphinx 1775 - Vanguard Models - 1:64               

 

Non-Ship Model:                                                                                         On hold, maybe forever:           

CH-53 Sikorsky - 1:48 - Revell - Completed                                                   Licorne - 1755 from Hahn Plans (Scratch) Version 2.0 (Abandoned)         

         

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

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just love how you did the anchor, 

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  • 2 weeks later...

This might seem strange, but I have to ask about a situation quite strange: I noticed recently that a stowaway passenger installed itself in my HMS Victory model: a spider.

Didn't see the spider but I saw its web all over the hold and the web reappeared after a thorough cleanup I did. Not sure if this happened to others or not but I don't really know how to get rid of it. I didn't dare to use any aerosol insecticide as I don't know for sure what would be the impact on the wood or glue. Does someone has some experience with how safely remove this kind of unwanted pests?

 

Thank you,

Alexandru

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Alexandru,

Insects can not stand orange oil.  It's avail. as an insect repellant or furniture polish.  It's non-toxic to humans and pets.  Wipe a little orange oil on the wood and they'll leave you alone.

Maury

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Are you sure it's not a Rigging spider come to offer its services? :P

 

Sorry - I couldn't resist either. I'll get my hat and coat and leave now.........

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Maury, thanks for the advice. I will look for the orange oil and give it a try.

 

Done the beams for the upper deck and switched to something different as I decided to do the lower masts. Started with the main one but I had to improvise a bit as my wood lathe was not long enough for it. Here are some progress pictures:

 

 

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I am looking at purchasing a lathe and was concerned that the smaller hobby lathes handle only 12 or 15 inches without the costly extension.

How did you manage without the tool rest?

Alan

Alan O'Neill
"only dead fish go with the flow"   :dancetl6:

Ongoing Build (31 Dec 2013) - HMS BELLEROPHON (1786), POF scratch build, scale 1:64, 74 gun 3rd rate Man of War, Arrogant Class

Member of the Model Shipwrights of Niagara, Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada (2016), and the Nautical Research Guild (since 2014)

Associate member of the Nautical Research and Model Ship Society (2021)

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the evicted spiders have arrived in my work space to help me proceed with the rigging

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Alan,

 

Initially for the extension I just took a piece of wood of proper height and clamped it to the table to use as tool rest for the extension part.

 

But I get rid of it, as in the end the rounding was not done by chisel but using strips of progressively higher grain sandpaper. Most of the work from square to round I've done it with a very coarse grit 60 belt of a 1.5in belt sander which I pressed against the mast using very thick leather work gloves as it become quite hot fast.

 

Took a bit and made a lot of dust but I got good results for the white soft type of wood that I used (some leftover floor boards that I had laying around) to simulate the pine wood of masts.

 

This was the biggest mast and had a bit over 75cm in length - about 30in so that will make for quite an extension. I also wanted to buy an additional bed for the lathe I have but was not in stock for North America and to get it from Germany would have taken 2-4 months. Even so probably I would have needed two of them for 30in. My solution was cheaper and faster and did the job.

 

Alexandru

For all my builds please visit my site at: http://www.AlexShipModels.com

 

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