Artesania Latina Santisima Trinidad 1/84

[sevish]

P.S.
If you doing the coppering buy amatis' copper plates with small trimming to fit the scale
bit expensive but they are the best looking ones.

 

[ConsNZ]

A small update as it best illustrates "working from a square corner out" when building hatches made up of multiple gratings.

I know I said "no exotic wood" but I did have some bits of Ebony in the scrap bin so sorry I am using that for the framework. It will save masking and painting the framework black, the gratings will be varnished wood. I will mill recesses for the cannon balls once the item is fully assembled

A nice comparison between the kit supplied part and my version. I figured the single expanses of Grating in the kit are too large and would be very weak in reality.

Finally a pic of the deck after the first coat of varnish, it had "cupped" in the middle slightly hence it being clamped to the piece of Pearwood while I apply the finish.

The spirit based Polyurethane has been thinned 20% with white spirit and applied by brush. I expect to have to apply a multitude of coats with sanding to get the finish I am after

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Hi Nigel, Thoroughly enjoying your build so far. Your doing some excellent work and updates. How did you upgrade the gratings? The ones that came with "San Juan Nepomuceno" AL kit are too big. Would be nice to be able to have better fitting or more acceptable sized ones to fit to the model. Cheers.

 

[GrantTyler]

Shota couldn't have said it better!

Ditto

 

[NMBROOK]

Thanks everyone for comments likes etc

Paul - Old employer, different role, it pays the bills until something more suitable comes up

Guy - I already had 5 packs of Amati photo etch plates in 1/72 in my stash for something else, I was planning on using these on this build. I am not planning on cutting them down, lot of work for minimal gain. They are 5 x 17 mm from memory which I feel is near enough

@ConsNZ - Easy, Caldercraft 1mm Gratings

 

[Vfordyce]

Loving your work, Nigel.

 

[oldflyer]

Get better Nigel ---
As always your work is superlative. And adding lighting to this project great!!

Cheers,

 

[ConsNZ]

Thanks everyone for comments likes etc

Paul - Old employer, different role, it pays the bills until something more suitable comes up

Guy - I already had 5 packs of Amati photo etch plates in 1/72 in my stash for something else, I was planning on using these on this build. I am not planning on cutting them down, lot of work for minimal gain. They are 5 x 17 mm from memory which I feel is near enough

@ConsNZ - Easy, Caldercraft 1mm Gratings

Thank you Nigel. Checked out link(s) but they are a little too expensive (£2 per 30mm square) for us elderly folk way down here. Plus mortgage size shipping/mail.

 

[Robertk]

Just purchased this and will be following you log.

 

[NMBROOK]

Just purchased this and will be following you log.

Good luck with your build. Ships are on hold for me at the minute as I am sorting a spare bedroom out

 

[Robertk]

In section one, step 27 and 28 it indicates not to use glue on part #9. Did you follow that? I am reluctant not to glue it at some point to reinforce the frame structure which is a little flimsy.

 

[NMBROOK]

In section one, step 27 and 28 it indicates not to use glue on part #9. Did you follow that? I am reluctant not to glue it at some point to reinforce the frame structure which is a little flimsy.

Yes and no

I only glued the internal cross pieces to the inside of the gun mounting strips to start with. I did not glue the Gun strips to the bulkheads until the skeleton was fully assembled and the strips were in position for all the decks. I used a small fillet of glue to the outside face between gun strip and bulkhead when fixing them permanently in place

You need the ability to be able to flex things about until all the gunport strips are in place. I also found wetting the bow end of these lower strips and using the heat from a soldering iron shaft, I could add a little bend. This means the strips do not require a lot of force to follow the insides of the bulkheads.

 

[Robertk]

I just finished the first section and have scrolled through your log. This gives me food for thought on the issues I may have to deal with later on. It looks very impressive at this point.

 

[NMBROOK]

I just finished the first section and have scrolled through your log. This gives me food for thought on the issues I may have to deal with later on. It looks very impressive at this point.

I just finished the first section and have scrolled through your log. This gives me food for thought on the issues I may have to deal with later on. It looks very impressive at this point.

Thankyou Robert