HMS ALERT 1777 cutter POF by shota70 [COMPLETED BUILD]

good evening dear friends
In the last few days I produced a third burn head with an inner diameter of 0.67 mm and an outer diameter of 0.9 mm.
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Today I went to perform the experiment of the new burning head. This time I also changed the temperature of the soldering iron. In the previous attempts I burned at 400 degrees Celsius, today I went down to 375 to refine the burn mark.
I am attaching the results of my experiments In the first you can see in the wide panel the three attempts 1, 0.5 and 0.67 and above it in the narrow panel 0.5 and 0.67.
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And in the second picture the narrow panel is all 0.67 internal radius.
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After the three attempts, I tend to use the new plates I made with the 0.67mm burner. I would love to hear your opinion.
My intention is to remove the boxwood panels, make new ones, glue and burn again.
I understand that I am in a bit of a hurry in the construction progress and that I should examine the possibilities of improving the products before installation/gluing.
Happy Thanksgiving and a pleasant and enjoyable weekend to all of us :)
 
Hi Shota,

I appreciate your perseverance! I do like the smaller trunnels at this scale. But don't miss Maarten's note about sanding. I felt like my burned-in trunnels were distractingly prominent until I sanded off some of the burn marks. I also didn't put as many because scale modeling (in my opinion) can't always fully replicate the full-size ship.

You're going to be a master-builder one day my friend!
 
shota70 said:
good evening dear friends
In the last few days I produced a third burn head with an inner diameter of 0.67 mm and an outer diameter of 0.9 mm.
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Today I went to perform the experiment of the new burning head. This time I also changed the temperature of the soldering iron. In the previous attempts I burned at 400 degrees Celsius, today I went down to 375 to refine the burn mark.
I am attaching the results of my experiments In the first you can see in the wide panel the three attempts 1, 0.5 and 0.67 and above it in the narrow panel 0.5 and 0.67.
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And in the second picture the narrow panel is all 0.67 internal radius.
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After the three attempts, I tend to use the new plates I made with the 0.67mm burner. I would love to hear your opinion.
My intention is to remove the boxwood panels, make new ones, glue and burn again.
I understand that I am in a bit of a hurry in the construction progress and that I should examine the possibilities of improving the products before installation/gluing.
Happy Thanksgiving and a pleasant and enjoyable weekend to all of us :)
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Ha Shota,
Lovely, just lovely. The sanding aside, see @dockattner suggestion, I would personally opt for the 0,5mm and the lower temp settings.
I also would convince myself which option I prefer, before demolishing the ship...
 
dockattner said:
Hi Shota,

I appreciate your perseverance! I do like the smaller trunnels at this scale. But don't miss Maarten's note about sanding. I felt like my burned-in trunnels were distractingly prominent until I sanded off some of the burn marks. I also didn't put as many because scale modeling (in my opinion) can't always fully replicate the full-size ship.

You're going to be a master-builder one day my friend!
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RDN1954 said:
Ha Shota,
Lovely, just lovely. The sanding aside, see @dockattner suggestion, I would personally opt for the 0,5mm and the lower temp settings.
I also would convince myself which option I prefer, before demolishing the ship...
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thank you very much my dear friends,
I greatly appreciate their opinion and words of encouragement :) Thumbsup
 
I would go for the smallest one at a lower temperature and most certainly sand it afterwards. Please heed @dockattner Paul's advice about the number of trennels versus the scale in which we are building. I have a bee in my bonnet about the number of trennels and copper/brass nails that some modelers use. In the end, that becomes the prominent feature instead of the ship. Subtle, subtle, subtle ....
 
good evening dear friends
Today I dedicated several hours to make the wale again. I handled with the boxwood boards as well as the black painted board.
First I sanded all the black paint and then the burn marks on the boxwood panels. It became clear to me that I did not make a deep burn and with a light sanding I made the big burns disappear. I sanded and smoothed the surface of the three rows of boards to a uniform height.
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I repainted the wide black board with three coats of acrylic paint.
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Later I made the burns with the head of 0.67 mm internal diameter. This time I lowered the burning temperature to 360 degrees. Then I sanded the surface of the burn with fine sandpaper and applied a layer of bees wax.
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I am satisfied with the result that I achieved with your help Dearfriends, Good night :)
 
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Tobias said:
Steady improvement Shota, looks very good, however you need to do one more here and then it will be perfect ROTF .

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Uwek said:
Much better now
Good to have eagles´s eye Tobias in our group -> I am also happy for such small hints
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Thank you very much dear friends :) Thumbsup
for your attention and compliments.
the blank marking has been completed :D
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Hello dear friends
I would like to pay your attention to a new topic that I opened this evening A new carving project - a body figure of a ship captain in a 1:48 scale
After three months that I finished carving the lion figure, I felt a need and longing for the craft of carving, so I started this project, welcome to take a look

A new carving project: a full body figure of a ship captain in a 1:48 scale [COMPLETED BUILD]

Hello dear friends About two or three months after finishing my carving project - a lion figurehead of the ship la Belle Poule https://shipsofscale.com/sosforums/threads/a-new-carving-project-a-lion-figurehead-of-the-ship-la-belle-poule.10057/ and focusing on the Alert model, I felt longing...
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shota70 said:
good evening dear friends
Today I dedicated several hours to make the wale again. I handled with the boxwood boards as well as the black painted board.
First I sanded all the black paint and then the burn marks on the boxwood panels. It became clear to me that I did not make a deep burn and with a light sanding I made the big burns disappear. I sanded and smoothed the surface of the three rows of boards to a uniform height.
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I repainted the wide black board with three coats of acrylic paint.
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Later I made the burns with the head of 0.67 mm internal diameter. This time I lowered the burning temperature to 360 degrees. Then I sanded the surface of the burn with fine sandpaper and applied a layer of bees wax.
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I am satisfied with the result that I achieved with your help Dearfriends, Good night :)
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Good morning Shota- yes I agree with you- you may be well satisfied. Cheers Grant
 
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