Drazen Posted February 5, 2019 Author #421 Posted February 5, 2019 Final protection by varnish (also by Royal Talens) After several months drying, I apply - Talens picture varnish matt 003 for all surfaces and - mixture of 1:1 picture varnish matt 003 with picture varnish glossy 002 on all decorations. In the reality, the decorations have been painted glossy in order to simulate gold, but on the model, the 100% glossy does not look real. So, a semi-matt shade looks much better and more realistic. I apply final coat by airbrush. This removes partly the brush strokes or imperfections, by at the same time keeping the surface real (because of previous hand-brush application). Drazen Archi, paulsutcliffe, Captain Poison and 3 others 6 Quote There are no boundaries... … besides those we set for ourselves.
Drazen Posted February 5, 2019 Author #422 Posted February 5, 2019 ... and this is the final result on the ship. The ribbon and small windows have been assembled too. I will need to correct the paint on some small areas. This has been peeled due to the pressure when glueing, but this is no problem. Finally, I want to mention, that the benefit of beautiful colour of oil paint has to be taken relative in comparison with a very difficult procedure, very long drying time and low resistance to mechanical stress. Still, I will proceed with oil paints. Drazen tadheus, CDW, Valeriy V and 18 others 21 Quote There are no boundaries... … besides those we set for ourselves.
AON Posted February 5, 2019 #423 Posted February 5, 2019 simply masterful! mtaylor, Piet and Keith Black 3 Quote Alan O'Neill "only dead fish go with the flow" 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) Offshore member of The Society of Model Shipwrights (2021)
Hubac's Historian Posted February 5, 2019 #424 Posted February 5, 2019 Stunning carved work, Drazen! Also an excellent tutorial on prep and paint for wood surfaces. Is another purpose of the gesso to sort of smooth any irregularities in the carved surface? Piet, Keith Black and mtaylor 3 Quote We are all works in progress, all of the time.
paulsutcliffe Posted February 5, 2019 #425 Posted February 5, 2019 Beautiful work, although you missed out how you actually carved the scroll and acanthus leaves, the nail router is a great idea also Regards Paul Keith Black, Piet and mtaylor 3 Quote The clerk of the cheque's yacht of sheerness Current build HMS Sirius (1797) 1:48 scratch POF from NMM plans HMS Winchelsea by chuck 1:48 Cutter cheerful by chuck 1:48 Previous builds- Elidir - Thames steam barge Cutty Sark-Billings boats Wasa - billings boats Among others 😁
Drazen Posted February 5, 2019 Author #426 Posted February 5, 2019 8 hours ago, Hubac's Historian said: Stunning carved work, Drazen! Also an excellent tutorial on prep and paint for wood surfaces. Is another purpose of the gesso to sort of smooth any irregularities in the carved surface? Well, the gesso did actually add some imperfection in the already smooth surfaces of the carving. It is also very hard to grind gesso. So, once you get a surface, that is it. More "smoothing" has been done by GAC100. Still, this medium did close some very fine details, but not a big problem as you see on the photos. That is also the reason why I will try to go on with shellac. With this said, no positive effect of these layers, but you need to apply them with oil paint. Otherwise you get other severe problems. The "only" extremely positive effect of gesso is the brilliance you get out of the oil paint. It is so shining, so alive, that I was very surprised of the difference between the direct painting on the wood and on the white primed surface. Drazen Piet and Keith Black 2 Quote There are no boundaries... … besides those we set for ourselves.
Drazen Posted February 5, 2019 Author #427 Posted February 5, 2019 7 hours ago, paulsutcliffe said: Beautiful work, although you missed out how you actually carved the scroll and acanthus leaves, the nail router is a great idea also Regards Paul Paul, please, scroll back to the 13. April 2018. You will find there and after this date many hints and photos on how I did the ribbon and the single letters. I was using mostly the dentist's drill and only seldom the manual self-made carving knives. Here, with this decoration, I think, I did not use manual tools at all. Painting of the ribbon and letters after 16. September 2018. Drazen mtaylor, druxey, Keith Black and 2 others 5 Quote There are no boundaries... … besides those we set for ourselves.
Piet Posted February 11, 2019 #428 Posted February 11, 2019 Stunning work Drazen, bravo! Cheers, Keith Black and mtaylor 2 Quote Piet, The Flying Dutchman. "Your greatest asset is not the quantity of your friends , rather the quality of your friends." (old Chinese proverb) Current Builds: Hr. Ms. Java 1925-1942 VOC Ship Surabaya Planned Builds: Young America Diorama - scale 1:3000 Future Builds: KPM ship "MS Musi." Zuiderzee Botter - scale 1:25. VOC Jacht in a 6" lamp, Buginese fishing Prauw. Hr. Ms. Java - Royal Navy Netherlands Cruiser. Completed Builds: Hr. Ms. O16 Submarine Hr. Ms. O19 - Submarine Royal Navy Netherlands Ship Yard Diorama with Topsail schooner - Friendship Sloop Gwenfra Muscongus Bay Lobster Smack Golden Hind - Cutte Sark (both not in this forum)
Drazen Posted March 4, 2019 Author #429 Posted March 4, 2019 The wales are now installed on the ship. I needed to make a slope on the upper side of the wale, so water does not collect there. You see the masking tape against damaging the planks and the small grinding blocks I had been using. Drazen Erebus and Terror, tadheus, Captain Poison and 14 others 16 1 Quote There are no boundaries... … besides those we set for ourselves.
Drazen Posted March 4, 2019 Author #430 Posted March 4, 2019 ... and the gunport lids have been made in the same step too. When closed, they fit now nicely to the outer surface. The gunports on the lower deck will be mostly closed (port) or just slightly opened (starboard). The upper decks will have most of the gunports opened. Drazen druxey, costeo, Landrotten Highlander and 21 others 24 Quote There are no boundaries... … besides those we set for ourselves.
druxey Posted March 5, 2019 #431 Posted March 5, 2019 Beautifully done, Dražen! Louie da fly, Piet, mtaylor and 2 others 5 Quote Be sure to sign up for an epic Nelson/Trafalgar project if you would like to see it made into a TV series http://trafalgar.tv
Louie da fly Posted March 5, 2019 #432 Posted March 5, 2019 Wonderfully precise work, and a beautiful model. Steven paulsutcliffe, druxey, Piet and 2 others 5 Quote It's not really a ship model unless you've bled on it. CURRENT BUILDS Golden City - Ballarat paddlewheeler La Lomellina - Theoretical Reconstruction of a Genoese carrack sunk in 1516 FINISHED Venetian merchant Ship from Basilica of San Marco Australian couta boat RMS Titanic HMVS Cerberus 11th century Byzantine dromon Winchelsea Nef - Late 13th century Mediaeval ship Henry Grace a Dieu - Rebuild of 1:200 model I started in 1967 Mistydeefer - restoration of decor model yacht
Drazen Posted March 5, 2019 Author #433 Posted March 5, 2019 No, no! Not CNC here. Please, go to the date March 6th 2013. You will find the whole process of making gunports. Drazen Deperdussin1910, Y.T., mtaylor and 3 others 6 Quote There are no boundaries... … besides those we set for ourselves.
Drazen Posted March 5, 2019 Author #434 Posted March 5, 2019 ... actually, the gunports have been made not so different as on the real ship. I think also the 1:10 model in Lelystad was using the templates to get the same size of the gunports. You may study my photos from 2013 to understand how I got the same angle, parallelism, etc. Drazen mtaylor, druxey and Piet 3 Quote There are no boundaries... … besides those we set for ourselves.
Drazen Posted March 6, 2019 Author #435 Posted March 6, 2019 Hi Y.T., I am sorry. I'm afraid I do not understand. Please, try to go to the date February 11th 2015 and after it. There, I explain how I did the outer planking on the gunport frames. It is hand made - every single plank, not cut out of the frame/planking. Actually, the frame shall make a labyrinth-like closing with the gunport lid. Therefore, the outer planking has a slightly wider frame than the massive inner frame of the gunport. You see it also on the gunport lids when they will be ready. Inside of the ship, the gunport frame is flush with the inner planking (the deck-side). I hope, this is what you meant. But, if I am wrong, please come back to me. I did post all essential steps and technologies. It has to be here listed somewhere. Drazen Keith Black, paulsutcliffe, druxey and 4 others 7 Quote There are no boundaries... … besides those we set for ourselves.
schiffebastler Posted March 15, 2019 #436 Posted March 15, 2019 Hello Drazen, now I have been following the construction of your model for a while and I really have to congratulate you for this fantastic work! It's always nice to see more progress and I'll stick with it. Cheers, Joachim mtaylor, Piet and Keith Black 3 Quote My new Book in ENGLISH and GERMAN available: "The colour blue in historic shipbuilding" http://www.modellbau-muellerschoen.de/buch-en.htm Current build Amerigo Vespucci http://modelshipworld.com/index.php?/topic/836-amerigo-vespucci-by-schiffebastler-mantua-model-scale-184-italien-sail-training-ship-build-1931/ See also our german forum for Sailing Ship Modeling and History: http://www.segelschiffsmodellbau.com/
Kopape Posted March 15, 2019 #437 Posted March 15, 2019 Perfect work and look! Piet, Keith Black and mtaylor 3 Quote Ve výstavbě: Pinase 1660 - 1670 Můj web : https://kopape.webnode.cz/ Dokončeno: Grosse jacht 1678 Janita 18. století Golden Hind Jadran Santa Maria
Drazen Posted March 15, 2019 Author #438 Posted March 15, 2019 Thank ypu. Drazen mtaylor and Piet 2 Quote There are no boundaries... … besides those we set for ourselves.
Piet Posted March 24, 2019 #439 Posted March 24, 2019 Very nice work Drazen. Cheers, Keith Black and mtaylor 2 Quote Piet, The Flying Dutchman. "Your greatest asset is not the quantity of your friends , rather the quality of your friends." (old Chinese proverb) Current Builds: Hr. Ms. Java 1925-1942 VOC Ship Surabaya Planned Builds: Young America Diorama - scale 1:3000 Future Builds: KPM ship "MS Musi." Zuiderzee Botter - scale 1:25. VOC Jacht in a 6" lamp, Buginese fishing Prauw. Hr. Ms. Java - Royal Navy Netherlands Cruiser. Completed Builds: Hr. Ms. O16 Submarine Hr. Ms. O19 - Submarine Royal Navy Netherlands Ship Yard Diorama with Topsail schooner - Friendship Sloop Gwenfra Muscongus Bay Lobster Smack Golden Hind - Cutte Sark (both not in this forum)
Drazen Posted June 16, 2019 Author #440 Posted June 16, 2019 Small step forward in the project - small steps on the side of the ship Drazen Landrotten Highlander, cog, Archi and 9 others 12 Quote There are no boundaries... … besides those we set for ourselves.
Drazen Posted June 16, 2019 Author #441 Posted June 16, 2019 Doing the base for the side galleries... I did a small observation mistake resulting in a 5-6mm error in the heigh of the joint at the "slingerlijst". The plan observes the side galleries from the side and parallel with the waterline. I transferred the drawing onto the base directly which was few degrees more than the 0° - due to the slightly tilted base of the side galleries (it is something like 8° on my model). This i did only on the side galleries, but the tower has ben done right. Due to my cross section from the stern, the form of the side gallery was right and I needed to compensate only the heigh of the gallery-plank which is joining the slinger plank. Now, it is OK, but in spite of all brain work, such things happen. The big problem is that the plans I use have no cross sections and no top view of the side galleries, so I needed to combine the Otte Blom's drawings (which, frankly, differ from each other) and my observation of the van de Velde paintings. Let's go... Drazen Keith Black and mtaylor 2 Quote There are no boundaries... … besides those we set for ourselves.
Drazen Posted June 16, 2019 Author #442 Posted June 16, 2019 gluing the wood pieces together and cutting/defining the outer shape... The small bolts position the piece always on the same place on the hull - this I need for frequent checking the shape. Drazen Archi, AON, mtaylor and 6 others 9 Quote There are no boundaries... … besides those we set for ourselves.
Drazen Posted June 16, 2019 Author #443 Posted June 16, 2019 ... coarse and fine removing of the material to get the right shape. I used three templates of cross sections and the side plank to check the form. Drazen mtaylor, JpR62, druxey and 7 others 10 Quote There are no boundaries... … besides those we set for ourselves.
Drazen Posted June 16, 2019 Author #444 Posted June 16, 2019 The tower... It is an octagon. I calculate 360°/8 = 45°. So, I cut the wood pieces under 45 degrees and grind them so the outer width fits to the drawing by Otte Blom. Drazen Piet, cog, druxey and 6 others 9 Quote There are no boundaries... … besides those we set for ourselves.
Drazen Posted June 16, 2019 Author #445 Posted June 16, 2019 (edited) ... than glue together with epoxy and grind till they fit nicely... Drazen Edited June 16, 2019 by Drazen Archi, AON, Keith Black and 4 others 7 Quote There are no boundaries... … besides those we set for ourselves.
Drazen Posted June 16, 2019 Author #446 Posted June 16, 2019 ... giving it the approx. 8° angle towards the ship hull... (The galleries are standing vertically to the earth, not parallel to the ship's sides. - most probably.) Drazen Archi, AON, GrandpaPhil and 5 others 8 Quote There are no boundaries... … besides those we set for ourselves.
Drazen Posted June 16, 2019 Author #447 Posted June 16, 2019 Adjusting the shape to the side gallery where they touch - done with a Proxxon grinding tool. Drazen Piet, mtaylor, GrandpaPhil and 5 others 8 Quote There are no boundaries... … besides those we set for ourselves.
Drazen Posted June 16, 2019 Author #448 Posted June 16, 2019 ... trim the top... align both to be the same (with this the mistakes are also minimised)... Drazen mtaylor, Archi, Keith Black and 4 others 7 Quote There are no boundaries... … besides those we set for ourselves.
Drazen Posted June 16, 2019 Author #449 Posted June 16, 2019 Do the curvature/outer shape first from the side view... Drazen Benjamin Raule, GrandpaPhil, cog and 6 others 9 Quote There are no boundaries... … besides those we set for ourselves.
Drazen Posted June 16, 2019 Author #450 Posted June 16, 2019 (edited) ... than the curvature from front/stern view... and than the shapes in between (under 45°). One can easily control the shape by following the joint-/gluing-line of the original pieces of wood. Drazen Edited June 16, 2019 by Drazen Piet, mtaylor, druxey and 6 others 9 Quote There are no boundaries... … besides those we set for ourselves.
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