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Dear Maarten
Your work is simply an inspiration to me! when I am asked what I would like to be when I grow up? I answer: your skills and talent , my dear friend
Your work is simply an inspiration to me! when I am asked what I would like to be when I grow up? I answer: your skills and talent , my dear friend
Thx gents for comments and likes.
By sharing we will all get better at modelling and discover new ideas and techniques. That is the fun of this forum.
Today just a very little update.
Two blocks for the cat heads assembled each from three milled cherry parts and glued with PVA. I also prepared the gun carriage sides.
After trimming and sanding the blocks receive their final shape. Burnished pewter sheaves are fitted in the blocks.
Around the block I made a brass hook from 0,6 mm brass wire soldered with silver.
Cut the tip and file it to a pointed end.
After the soldering the brass is anealed and easy the shape.
Now the brass is burnished and the block tinted with judea bitumen dilluted in turpentine.
The brass hook is clamped around the block and pressed around it with small rounded pliers.
By sharing we will all get better at modelling and discover new ideas and techniques. That is the fun of this forum.
Today just a very little update.
Two blocks for the cat heads assembled each from three milled cherry parts and glued with PVA. I also prepared the gun carriage sides.
After trimming and sanding the blocks receive their final shape. Burnished pewter sheaves are fitted in the blocks.
Around the block I made a brass hook from 0,6 mm brass wire soldered with silver.
Cut the tip and file it to a pointed end.
After the soldering the brass is anealed and easy the shape.
Now the brass is burnished and the block tinted with judea bitumen dilluted in turpentine.
The brass hook is clamped around the block and pressed around it with small rounded pliers.
Impressive metalwork!
I love this block with hook - do not forget the roller inside - I guess you have to install the axis for the roller before you fix the hook around the block
amazing little (but very fine) work
BTW: great views of your two half hulls and the installed pumps - your photos are giving me some new ideas for my Granado and also some more homework of preparation and planning and thinking
I love this forum and the modelers behind - every day new ideas
Hi Uwe,
You are fully right, the two sheaves are already inside
.Actually the pin for the sheaves is originally fitted through the iron of the hook and clenched, but in 1:48 on this small vessel that would be a daunting task.
Looks great, Maarten. Tiny details on tiny parts!
Regards, Peter
Hi Shota,My dear friend Maarten
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays for you and your family
Allthough late to the party, many thx.
All the best for you and your family also.
Have a great 2023 and hope we will have a lot of hobby hours to come.
Not much progress in the shipyard lately. Most of my hobby time is currently going in to redecorating our previous dining room into an atelier for my wife and a rigging workshop for me. As my wife makes oil paintings I may not even think about creating dust there so rigging would be perfect. I will separate the dusty part of the hobby from the non dusty part . So hopefully in 2 weeks the new atelier-rigging room will be finished.
Secondly I am doing a lot of research for my upcomming fluyt. I got some new sources of information but I will share that in my fluyt blog.
But there is some progress to report on Alert.
The gun carriages are in progress.
The sides are glued together and sanded.
There is a slight modification according the aots book.
All the wheels glued and finished.
The holes for the wheel bolts drilled.
All wheels fitted
Coloured with Schminke and fitted all axle bolts.
Show off on deck.
Still a lot to do on these, but another day of work and these will be finished.
. So hopefully in 2 weeks the new atelier-rigging room will be finished.Secondly I am doing a lot of research for my upcomming fluyt. I got some new sources of information but I will share that in my fluyt blog.
But there is some progress to report on Alert.
The gun carriages are in progress.
The sides are glued together and sanded.
There is a slight modification according the aots book.
All the wheels glued and finished.
The holes for the wheel bolts drilled.
All wheels fitted
Coloured with Schminke and fitted all axle bolts.
Show off on deck
.Still a lot to do on these, but another day of work and these will be finished.
Maybe some bitumen treatment to tone them down?
looking great.
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I was wondering if the idea of changing the dining room comes from me. When you visit me. My "hok" workroom was before a diningroom too. The only difference is that my wife is not allowed to paint in there. She already choosed the wallpaper before..... 
You made some nice little ‘fellows’, Schmincke-colleague. I love the tone color.Not much progress in the shipyard lately. Most of my hobby time is currently going in to redecorating our previous dining room into an atelier for my wife and a rigging workshop for me. As my wife makes oil paintings I may not even think about creating dust there so rigging would be perfect. I will separate the dusty part of the hobby from the non dusty part
Secondly I am doing a lot of research for my upcomming fluyt. I got some new sources of information but I will share that in my fluyt blog.
But there is some progress to report on Alert.
The gun carriages are in progress.
The sides are glued together and sanded.
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There is a slight modification according the aots book.
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All the wheels glued and finished.
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The holes for the wheel bolts drilled.
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All wheels fitted
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Coloured with Schminke and fitted all axle bolts.
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Show off on deck
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Still a lot to do on these, but another day of work and these will be finished.
Regards, Peter
Bitumen dilluted with turpentine will certainly be an option but the bright red is in the pictures only, in reality they are far less fire truck red.
And if I start with bitumen on deck I have to do the rest also.
My next model will be weathered more like a real working horse.
Luckily I build only a model with 6 guns and this is already time consuming.
The work now is on making the eye bolts, rings, bolts, etc. etc.
First preparing the wedges to adjust the gun barrel. I made them with a piece of rope as handle.
At the end of the axles I made a reinforcement ring, in this case made of heat shrink.
The barrels I burnished black.
Followed by cleaning and giving them the @Jimsky graphite treatment
The result of the burnished graphite look left compared to my electrolitic coppered barrel on the right.
All 6 have their Jimsky barrels in place.
Dry fitting onboard, ready to meet la Coureur.
Next will be the gun carriages rigging.
The work now is on making the eye bolts, rings, bolts, etc. etc.
First preparing the wedges to adjust the gun barrel. I made them with a piece of rope as handle.
At the end of the axles I made a reinforcement ring, in this case made of heat shrink.
The barrels I burnished black.
Followed by cleaning and giving them the @Jimsky graphite treatment
The result of the burnished graphite look left compared to my electrolitic coppered barrel on the right.
All 6 have their Jimsky barrels in place.
Dry fitting onboard, ready to meet la Coureur.
Next will be the gun carriages rigging.
Guns are very convincing!