Endurance (1912) - Occre, Scale 1:70 - My First Shipbuilding Adventure

[The Ships Cat]

Your hull looks very black with its Arctic Ocean blue undertones. Outstanding result and brush painted? I can’t do quality brushwork like that.

Very kind mate, thankyou.
Let's not forget I was given many years modelling paint experience on a plate.

 

[Corporal Smith]

There's nothing here I tell you, nothing! Nothing but the eternal cold wing soughing between the pressure ridges and the whimpering of the dogs...

 

[The Ships Cat]

There's nothing here I tell you, nothing! Nothing but the eternal cold wing soughing over the pressure ridges and the whimpering of the dogs...

For the love of Pete man ! I AM ILL !!!!!!!!
as a Parrot !
I am not pining for the Fjords !
If I wasn't nailed to my perch I'd be pushing up the daisies.

 

[Corporal Smith]

I AM ILL

Made you laugh though.

 

[The Ships Cat]

Made you laugh though.

First belly laugh I've had in a week mate

 

[The Ships Cat]

Managed to crawl caterpillar fashion down the hall stopping periodically to deposit nasal discharge into collective absorption paper in order to retrieve what the postie left.
I've been waiting weeks for this lil' beauty

 

[Corporal Smith]

That will keep you busy.

 

[The Ships Cat]

That will keep you busy.

I've had a quick sticky-beak mate and still none the wiser

 

[Corporal Smith]

What do you want me to do, read it to you as a bedtime story?

It will make more sense when you are feeling better. Try just looking at the pictures for now.

 

[The Ships Cat]

Try just looking at the pictures for now.

Great minds
I've been dying to tidy up those loose LED wires on Starboard and fit that socket, then I can see if all my anxious anticipation and planning and chopping bits out of the deck has not been in vain

I still need to sort a little light-bleed at the base of the central cabin (not glued yet) but apart from that, yeah, happy.



I put the slider halfway back on the companionway because I want to mount the doors ~
LH will be about 20 deg, RH perhaps 45, but it's the door posts I've been playing around with in my head.
Should I do wood grain top/bottom ?
White Top/bottom?
Half/Half ?


I still have the red cross on my front door so not out of the woods yet.
See you in a few days ?

Cat out.

 

[Corporal Smith]

It looks quite sinister. Lights on but nobody around. Blair Witch monochrome.

I’m glad to see you recovering, Cat.

 

[Namabiiru]

Actually looks like infrared to me, especially with the light leaking out from under the cabin.

 

[The Ships Cat]

Actually looks like infrared to me, especially with the light leaking out from under the cabin.

The camera does that !
The trouble I've had trying to hide light-bleed that you can't see by eye, but the camera picks up every pixel
I'm going to fix around the cabin

 

[The Ships Cat]

I’m glad to see you recovering, Cat

Thanks Smithy, a little way to go

 

[The Ships Cat]

Well, it seems I have finally managed to right that nightmare of a wrong with the light bleeding from under the centre cabin making it look like a deleted scene from Close Encounters.
I remember I "inherited" all sorts of different tapes from my stint at an Engineering company, so I rifled through that box of tricks and found some not-too-dense sticky backed foam.
Cut into strip's and mounted with about 1mm or so proud of the bottom
Like we say down under, "looks like a bought one"
Excuse the "weights" used to press slightly, I still can't glue until certain deck pieces are in place

 

[Corporal Smith]

light bleeding

Bleedin’ nuisance! I certainly won’t be fitting lights to anything after watching this.

 

[The Ships Cat]

I certainly won’t be fitting lights to anything after watching this.

Neither will I!
Mind you, if I knew then what I know now I would've hardly had a problem.
It can have advantages I guess.
I mean the ZHL Black Pearl wouldn't look anywhere near as realistically spectacular if it didn't have LEDs

 

[Corporal Smith]

Neither will I!
Mind you, if I knew then what I know now I would've hardly had a problem.
It can have advantages I guess.
I mean the ZHL Black Pearl wouldn't look anywhere near as realistically spectacular if it didn't have LEDs

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It does look nicely spooky in a Disney sort of way. (Though that one looks far too tidy.)

 

[savas]

I've been puttin LED on everything... Last one was Queen Mary 2. Yes it is a pain in the a** to do this and the bleeding... But in my oppinion it just gives the model something more, it just looks a bit more interesting maybe? I use micro SMD led for the most part because they ar more "to scale" and easyer to put in places mostly, bum man they ar finicky to work with... Here are some photos of my models that I made with LED. My next ship probably will be with LED also:

 

[Corporal Smith]

LED on everything

You’ve done it very well. The F-4 looks fab, clever work on the inst panel.

Many of my models looked better in the dark…