HMS Enterprise 1774 POF 1:48.

[Paul132]

Good morning. Cap rails continued……

I have played with many ideas to get my finish a little contemporary. Firstly I scraped the outer edge of the rail to achieve the historically accurate look, however these came out horrid and I did not like the look and feel of the ship- especially the black gun port frames.
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So like many contemporary models before me I decided to line the outer edge of the cap rail and stain the gunport frames the same colour as the bulwark.

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I don’t have any kit cherry wood left so I am cutting wood from my plank I bought. The grain is not as tight as the kit cherry and I am having issues bending this- just kept splitting. So alternate methods attempted.
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I tried two methods to make these sharp bends.
1. I cut little sections around the bend at angles. This can be seen on the upper curve of the lining.
2. I cut the shape from a 1.5mm sheet. The lower bend and the “twirly” decoration.
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Hmmmmmm……..close ups… .
I really like the overall look and feel I am getting tho.
Cheers Grant.

Awesome work!!

 

[CLB]

Looks great Grant -I am enjoying following your progress ! I took the same approach on my first scratch build - Confederacy.

 

[dockattner]

Fine work, Grant. Ignore the macros - I bet it looks perfect to the naked eye.

 

[RogerD]

Just playing catch up, which seems to be more and more a bad habit of mine. Really wonderful work Grant.

 

[GrantTyler]

Wonderful progress, Grant. She will be a beauty.

Thank you kindly Christian. Once the quarterdeck cap rails are done I must slow down and fettle everything properly.
Cheers Grant

 

[GrantTyler]

Awesome work!!

Thank you Paul.

Looks great Grant -I am enjoying following your progress ! I took the same approach on my first scratch build - Confederacy.

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Thanks very much. Yep- your Confederacy is the look and feel I am hoping for. Just maybe she will come out something close to yours…..hopefully

Fine work, Grant. Ignore the macros - I bet it looks perfect to the naked eye.

Thank you Paul. When I look at it I am very chuffed. After cropping the pics to macro it was like ……”is this the same ship”. I had to show you guys anyway.

Just playing catch up, which seems to be more and more a bad habit of mine. Really wonderful work Grant.

Thank you Roger. I am doing more of that now days as well. It seems more guys are posting and difficult to keep up at times.

Cheers Grant

 

[Masters Mate]

Good morning. Cap rails continued……

I have played with many ideas to get my finish a little contemporary. Firstly I scraped the outer edge of the rail to achieve the historically accurate look, however these came out horrid and I did not like the look and feel of the ship- especially the black gun port frames.
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So like many contemporary models before me I decided to line the outer edge of the cap rail and stain the gunport frames the same colour as the bulwark.

View attachment 641499View attachment 641502View attachment 641501
I don’t have any kit cherry wood left so I am cutting wood from my plank I bought. The grain is not as tight as the kit cherry and I am having issues bending this- just kept splitting. So alternate methods attempted.
View attachment 641507
I tried two methods to make these sharp bends.
1. I cut little sections around the bend at angles. This can be seen on the upper curve of the lining.
2. I cut the shape from a 1.5mm sheet. The lower bend and the “twirly” decoration.
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Hmmmmmm……..close ups… .
I really like the overall look and feel I am getting tho.
Cheers Grant.

After rigging, close-ups are my next pet hate! Everything looks great until you take the photo, put it on a big monitor and sigh - "how did I miss that?'
Of course it's because the model is supposed to be looked at with the naked eye, from a safe 'don't touch' distance, not through a telephoto lens!

 

[GrantTyler]

After rigging, close-ups are my next pet hate! Everything looks great until you take the photo, put it on a big monitor and sigh - "how did I miss that?'
Of course it's because the model is supposed to be looked at with the naked eye, from a safe 'don't touch' distance, not through a telephoto lens!

True story Ian. Still I was a bit surprise how my carving (if you can call it that- more like a hole and some scrapping ) was a shocker close up. I can live with it though. Cheers Grant

 

[Namabiiru]

There are a few folks on this forum (I’m looking at you, @dockattner and @archjofo ) who produce fractal results, i.e. no matter how close you look the results are the same: perfect. I’m not one of them. Mine are more in a class with Manet—they look okay from a distance, but up close, they’re just a mess.

 

[RDN1954]

She's coming along quite nicely and macro's are very distorting, so don't put too much value in those.

 

[Keef]

Looks great Grant -I am enjoying following your progress ! I took the same approach on my first scratch build - Confederacy.

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Wow Grant. That is truly impressive. Well done on creating this masterpiece

 

[Dean62]

Fine work, Grant. Ignore the macros - I bet it looks perfect to the naked eye.

Agreed, I hate seeing my close up photos after thinking something looks great…sigh