Hello all,
I just wanted to introduce myself, finally post some photo and thank this forum for invaluable help with my first build.
It is cheap Chinese Halcon 1:100. I do have some tools at home but those are mostly for minor renovations and not suitable for modelling. So let's start.
Now it is time for heavy artillery. Somewhere between 1st and 2nd photo I broke first small detail while cutting it out.
No planking yet and I later understood the error here as the bulwark was attached on wrong height.
Planking. From topics I knew that it will be problematic and actually I was really afraid to broke those tiny almost paper-like planks.
However, using soldering iron and some imagination, planks got to their designated places...mostly. Here I still had a hope to build it without googling heavily. Propably here first assumptions "ok, I see it that way" were done :|
Time for Chinese medicine! I was using Dragon glue which requires several minutes of holding parts together for some result. Well, this forum suggested to use mini-nails which I didn't have, so I took a liberty of rampaging through wife sewing box.
First layer of putty.
Polishing, painting... only to find all imperfections of polishing. Looks as crap. Re-do.
Re-polishing gave nice and kinda realistic look. Body became nice to feel in hands. First time when I started to look in future with some optimism.
Deck and body painting, installed bowsprit and first "hand-made" part (the one holding fore part with installed one). Chinese guide just said "this you can cut from leftovers and bring to necessary shape." Why they didn't include it into lasercuts?... Ohh, and this picture has first threads wrapped and super-glued.
Installing masts. I didn't understand how larger pole should fit to smaller precut whole, so glue it is. A lot of glue.
First successful rigging. Lines are glued on one side, and tighten to cut off ends of sewing pins. I just didn't want to wait for package with proper modelling ones. Wife was not happy. Here I started to think that it is not a problem to build a model, but it is challenge to make it close to reality as much as possible. And using cut sewing pins didn't improve that.
Deadeyes. Again I could have bought extra supplies and do it closed to "the book", but something pushed me to more "innovative" way. Chinese package contained dozens of small rings, so I've used them as deadeyes. Well, I hope most of my friends are not that much into sailing to complain about it.
There were several steps in between, like sails, but I guess 13 photos are enough for intro topic, so here is final photo mode (Yep, this is when I went to read how to make proper background
)
I can see that there is a waaaaay more thing to learn and master. Still building that ship required "tools, straight hand, fantasy and lots of luck" (as stated in Chinese instructions, such a nice guys).
So hope that my small intro review was not so boring, and see you all on your next builds!
Best regards,
Dmitriy
I just wanted to introduce myself, finally post some photo and thank this forum for invaluable help with my first build.
It is cheap Chinese Halcon 1:100. I do have some tools at home but those are mostly for minor renovations and not suitable for modelling. So let's start.
Now it is time for heavy artillery. Somewhere between 1st and 2nd photo I broke first small detail while cutting it out.
No planking yet and I later understood the error here as the bulwark was attached on wrong height.
Planking. From topics I knew that it will be problematic and actually I was really afraid to broke those tiny almost paper-like planks.
However, using soldering iron and some imagination, planks got to their designated places...mostly. Here I still had a hope to build it without googling heavily. Propably here first assumptions "ok, I see it that way" were done :|
Time for Chinese medicine! I was using Dragon glue which requires several minutes of holding parts together for some result. Well, this forum suggested to use mini-nails which I didn't have, so I took a liberty of rampaging through wife sewing box.
First layer of putty.
Polishing, painting... only to find all imperfections of polishing. Looks as crap. Re-do.
Re-polishing gave nice and kinda realistic look. Body became nice to feel in hands. First time when I started to look in future with some optimism.
Deck and body painting, installed bowsprit and first "hand-made" part (the one holding fore part with installed one). Chinese guide just said "this you can cut from leftovers and bring to necessary shape." Why they didn't include it into lasercuts?... Ohh, and this picture has first threads wrapped and super-glued.
Installing masts. I didn't understand how larger pole should fit to smaller precut whole, so glue it is. A lot of glue.
First successful rigging. Lines are glued on one side, and tighten to cut off ends of sewing pins. I just didn't want to wait for package with proper modelling ones. Wife was not happy. Here I started to think that it is not a problem to build a model, but it is challenge to make it close to reality as much as possible. And using cut sewing pins didn't improve that.
Deadeyes. Again I could have bought extra supplies and do it closed to "the book", but something pushed me to more "innovative" way. Chinese package contained dozens of small rings, so I've used them as deadeyes. Well, I hope most of my friends are not that much into sailing to complain about it.
There were several steps in between, like sails, but I guess 13 photos are enough for intro topic, so here is final photo mode (Yep, this is when I went to read how to make proper background
)I can see that there is a waaaaay more thing to learn and master. Still building that ship required "tools, straight hand, fantasy and lots of luck" (as stated in Chinese instructions, such a nice guys).
So hope that my small intro review was not so boring, and see you all on your next builds!
Best regards,
Dmitriy
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