Sovereign of the Seas by cristikc - Mantua - 1:78 scale

[cristikc]

Continue to the stern

[cristikc]

After i stained one side

 

continue with the stern castle

[cristikc]

Painted the stern and castle

 

and the other side not stined

[edmay]

Thanks for the well wishes,wow very impressive workmanship Cristi,your doing a great job,nice color blue ,very neat,hope all at home are well.Edwin

[cristikc]

Had just some time for my hobby

and had to be very careful with the CA (cianocrilat)

 

glue some new parts

[cristikc]

some new decorations

 

 

using my hdd sander for small parts

and results

 

[cristikc]

last parts i glued (for the moment)

[cristikc]

Painted some parts, when i had a little time

 

Also i have to teach my granddaughter how to work with tools,

hope she will take the hobby from me:

 

 

[cristikc]

Bending some parts

 

 

[cristikc]

And glue some sticks

[Ulises Victoria]

The SotS is one of my dream ships. You are doing an excellent job here. My congratulations.

[md1400cs]

Just catching up.

 

NICE update, excellent work, enjoyed your granddaughter's effort. A future MSW builder (:-)

 

MIchael

[cristikc]

Had just a little time to work

 

I had a big "help" from my granddaughter (i was trying to teach her small thinks, so this was very important to me)

 

also i was helped by her, to transform the Unimat in fret saw (and i build a table for it)

 

After this i warked a little

 

I am a little disapointed for the bras parts (there are not so accurated as i expected, and for the price of the kut)

Hope that Denis, Andy, Vince, Garym and other that have build this kit, can tell me how they found the bras decoration

Cristi

[cristikc]

And here i am, before a weekend with my granddaugter, when we have to prepare "decorations" for christmas

 

 

And a Merry Christmas to all ship modeler builders

Cristi

[cristikc]

Hi Garym, exactly this are the problems, and i was wandering if you have the same problems. I have to make a lot of movements, and i still don't like, but that is. I have to finish somehow. I also have a lot of flashes, that i have to sand.

Thank's for the answer.

Cristi

[DenPink]

Hi Cristi

 

I did not have any problem with the brass decorations.

But my kit was an old one.

It is very easy to get the vertical ones the wrong way up.

 

Denis.

[cristikc]

Hi Denis, i had some problems with the brass figures, the dimentions are different, and also a part of the figures are not very clear.

I had to use this tools to arrange everything, but i can not say i am very pleased.

 

 

All the best to you and yhe family, and  Marry Christmas!

Cristi

[cristikc]

Add some new decorations, and here i am

[mtdoramike]

Oh come one, stop nit picking and get to building that beauty. You are doing a spendid job on her even with her misgivings. Some times you just have to work a little harder to make a silk purse out of a souse ear.

 

 

mike 

[cristikc]

Mike, i have still to go to my job, stay with my granddaughter and her brother, do things for home, and

at the end is the pleasure (my hobby). I'd like to work a lot to finish Sovereign and start a new ship, but... that is life.

I love my family very much,and, as you know, we are the last with pleasures in family.

All the best Cristi

[cristikc]

Hi Garym, i like that you think as i think. Family and real life are more important, hobby is excelent, is something that recharge our battery, but has to be at the end, when all are ok. I look to your log, to learn more about Sovereign.

All the best from me and Marry Christmas

Cristi

[Altduck]

 

Cristi

 

In post # 111 I see you made a disk sander out of an old disk drive. Clever idea. Any problems with it?

 

Richard

[Ulises Victoria]

I think he had a problem when he tried to "format" the sanding disk to use it again.     

[cristikc]

Hi Richard, i use the sander from some years, and it is ok. The only problem, if you want to buid one, is to use JUST the PATA (paralel ata - old type of hdd) and not SATA (the sata hdd start to spin and after 5-10 sec stops - this is the logic it works in computer) while the pata work ok. You can find what type you have, just looking to the connector. Also, you have to take out, the hdd head and magnet. If you need any more info, just write, here or in a pm

All the best Cristi. And Marry Christmas to all

 

ps. Ulises, from time to time you have to "reformat" the disk (change the sandpaper with new). But i also have different disks prepared with sanding paper of sand granulation (100, 120, 150, 180, 220) I have already prepared two more, with this sandpaper, and i have some ideas but for the end of the year i heve no time. Next year i will put some more pictures with the new ideas

[cristikc]

I made the photos for hdd sander

 

 

two sanders from pata hdd,and one sata that is not ok.

also the computer power source, also 1 spare (new format sander disk) and some spares not "formated"

 

two pata hdd, from the connector side

 

left the sata connector (not ok) and right the pata connector ready formated

 

hope this will help everyone

Cristi

 

[mtdoramike]

WOW, I never would have thought to do this. I'm impressed, how well does it work?

 

 

mike

[cristikc]

Hi Mike, as i said, it works very well, but just the PATA ones. The advantage is that you can make as many as you can, an you can change when the sand paper is not good. For the moment i have just two, because i mede also one for my son, and one for my son in law, but i want to make 4 or 5, and also to make some combinations

Cristi

[Altduck]

Cristi,

 

Thank  you for the additional explanations and photos.

 

This is one more "never would've thought of that" moments on MSW

 

Richard

[S.Coleman]

That's a great idea. If it works why not? Now I'm thinking..

[cristikc]

I wish to all builder or just watcher from the MSW a

 

Marry Christmas ! 

 

 

This are just a "part" from the list of wishes i sent....