Hello All!

[Joe Welch]

Thank you for allowing me to join your group! I wish I would have found you earlier : ). This is my first build, The Endurance from Occre. Being from the midwest I have no knowledge of ships but have a great admiration for them. I'm researching as much as I can to be as accurate as I can but have not found what the Endurance propeller is made of. I've replaced the tripple blade that came with the kit with a RC two blade prop but can anyone tell me what it was made of for deco purposes?

 

[Kurt Konrath]

Welcome to the best place to find ship building info.

The good folks here will provide as much up as possible if you give the info your asking for.

 

[Corsair]

Welcome to the forums !
Massachusetts Maritime Academy

Historically, older propellers would either be made of Manganese Bronze (58% copper, 39% zinc, and around 1% manganese, iron and aluminium) or Admiralty bronze (72% copper, 1% tin and 27% zinc alongside traces of iron, lead and arsenic).May 16, 2023

 

[swampdweller126]

Welcome the forum from NY

 

[Joe Welch]

Welcome to the forums !
Massachusetts Maritime Academy

Historically, older propellers would either be made of Manganese Bronze (58% copper, 39% zinc, and around 1% manganese, iron and aluminium) or Admiralty bronze (72% copper, 1% tin and 27% zinc alongside traces of iron, lead and arsenic).May 16, 2023

Thank you so much for the info! I've seen black deco on other models so I wasn't sure... I'll keep the deco as is then. Thanks!

 

[Uwek]

also from my side a warm welcome here on board of our forum.
BTW: especially for your first ship model -> very good work

 

[Herman]

A warm welcome to SoS Joe.

 

[Model Shipways]

Welcome, sir!

 

[Joe Welch]

also from my side a warm welcome here on board of our forum.
BTW: especially for your first ship model -> very good work

Thank you All for the warm welcome! Openning the box was a bit intimidating but exciting too. I'm a graphic artist and traditional artist/oil, acrylic, airbrush painting as well and wanted to paint the Endurance. Once complete I will photograph the model and use the photo subject to commemorate Shackleton and his crew's incredible journey with a painting. The ship parallels my career having old world propulsion of sails and steam as I started as a graphic artist using blades, markers and t-squares to learning design on computers : ) This is also the 1st forum I'ver ever been a part of so thank you again!

 

[J L]

Welcome, great work on the model looking forward to your illustration.

 

[Peter Gutterman]

Please add me to JL's comments. So nice to have another artist-craftsman to follow. I love the examples of your beautiful work. Please post More!

 

[Bill-R]

Hello and welcome aboard.

Bill

 

[shota70]

Welcome aboard