Bessey and Jorgensen are top notch clamps !
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For my birthday today my wife surprised me with the Dutch Statenjaght, 1/48 scale wooden model kit from Dusek-Mamoli. She also gave me 1/48 and 1/64 scale French Marines to use on some of my model projects (including the Statenjaght). I asked/strong-hinted for the French Marines, but she completely floored me with the Dutch Staten Jaght. She must be getting tired of me talking about the VOC, Ab Hoving, and the Raid on the Medway!
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Not nearly as exciting as all those nice kits, but I got around to making a bespoke heated & ventilated cabinet for my 'print factory' over the last couple of weeks. I've struggled with printing capacity over the last year or so as I could only fit two printers in the re-purposed, foil-lined kitchen cabinet I was using and it is rarely warm enough here in the UK for printing without heating. This one is lined with PU foam, uses a vivarium thermostat linked to a couple of tube heaters to control temps, and is plumbed into my fume extraction system. Ironically, the heat wave over the past few weeks has meant there have been some days when it's actually been too hot for printing! But I'm sure the cabinet will come into it's own soon enough.
You are a very lucky man! For my birthday my Admiral got me an electric chair.
Could have been an electrocution chair...You are a very lucky man! For my birthday my Admiral got me an electric chair.
It's been a few weeks since we got back from our great vacation in July and I haven't had a chance to share my haul of maritime books from our trip. We visited Mystic, CT (Mystic Seaport Museum), Bristol, RI (Herreshoff Maritime Museum), Boston Harbor, MA (Sail250 Boston), and Essex, CT (Connecticut River Museum). I'm most excited about the book "A Modeler's Guide to Naval Architecture by A. Richard Mansir and "The National Maritime Museum" ed. by Basil Greenhill, which I had given away to a friend bound for Liverpool.
Hello! Is the Shipcarver's Handbook for carving full size decor or scale model decor? Thanks!
Dockattner - It's for sternboards, trailboards, fiddleheads, figureheads and other projects for actual ships, but sadly not about carvings on model boats. Here are some pics from the book.
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Still, I bet it is a great resource and makes for interesting reading. Well bought!
Agreed. I'm most interested in the carving of stern decorations and bowsprit figures for my Dutch ship builds and these can probably be done in smaller scales for model boats as long as you have small enough tools. The carved lettering for trailboards and sterncastles probably not so much.
One of our sponsors sells a tutorial: https://carvingbook.weebly.com/
But you can also look at the work of @Steef66 who excels at rotary carving. Perhaps Stephan can give you a few links so that you won't have to search blindly... he is careful to explain his approach in several threads.
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@dockattner Paul mentioned it already. I made a tutorial here on SOS. Just visit it. There will be enough tips you problaby like to follow. Chisels for small details can be expensive, but dental rotary cutters are pretty cheap. And you can get them in 0,3 mm. Where you can achieve to make very small details after a learning period. In my signature you find the link to the topic.
Paul - The Carving Book looks great. Since I mostly work in 1/48 scales and larger, learning how to rotary carve ornamentations would be a great addition for my skillset. I'll also look at Steef66's build logs and posts to get a sense of how he goes about it. One of my next builds is a 1/48 scale Dutch war yacht that I know has a scrolled nameplate on the stern and the Dutch lion rampant as a figurehead at the bow, so may be the perfect time to get into rotary carving. Looking online I see a few rotary carving tools for under $100...also wondering if I can turn my Dremel tool into a rotary carving tool as well with the right carving / engraving bits. Thanks for the references!
Thanks, Stephan. And now we return to the previously scheduled topic of this thread
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Stephan - First let me say that your tutorial on carving ornamentation was one of the best pieces of work I've seen on SoS. Such precision and detail! It will be most helpful in the selection of tools, wood stock and designs. I skimmed through it but I'm going to read it thoroughly and pin it to my browser. As I mentioned to Paul, my next build will be a 1/48 scale 17th century Dutch war jaght (yacht) that has a scroll nameplate and fleur-de-lis crest on the sterncastle and a Dutch lion rampant as the figurehead on the bow. Your guidance will help me to fabricate both of those.
As an aside, I am very interested in moving into larger scale woodworking to work on decorative wooden plaques, inlaid wood cutting boards, and carving shore birds separately from my ship modeling. I think the skills you describe would be perfectly adaptable to each of these. Thanks for your tutorial and your support!
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Stephan - A few more pictures of the Dutch lion rampant figurehead that I am hoping to replicate.
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Here is a new gimmick that may replace some of the jobs assigned to a vise.
It is steel so holes can be drilled for clamping devises.
I see enough potential to be worth a $16 gamble.
In the video it goes 90 degree vertical. Just fix the base to something that ain't gonna move easily.
https://www.pulsetv.com/steel-360-f...ivy_4661984&utm_medium=email&utm_source=privy
It is steel so holes can be drilled for clamping devises.
I see enough potential to be worth a $16 gamble.
In the video it goes 90 degree vertical. Just fix the base to something that ain't gonna move easily.
https://www.pulsetv.com/steel-360-f...ivy_4661984&utm_medium=email&utm_source=privy
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I have one…..Temu purchase….quite sturdy wrt holding the iPad…..not sure it would replace a vice for working with tools etc.
In the first chapter, he says that he doesn't cover figureheads, and indeed does not .
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The way I use it, a vise is excellent at clamping at the wide face and showing the narrow face to be operated on.
It is also efficient at holding against vigorous abuse.
This device looks to be good at showing the wide face to be operated on.
The activity would of necessity be of the less than vigorous sort.
The body of a vise has mass and will not bend or flex. This holder - not so much - it is a potential supplement - not a replacement.
Detailed painting? Engraving style carving? Drilling holes where 90 degree vertical is not a necessity?