HMS Sussex 1693

Karen said:
Thanks a lot
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Hello Karen, your model of the Sussex is absolutely beautiful!! I am in the process of building this ship and I was wondering if I could ask how you did the off colored treenails on the black planking without messing up the black paint or ink by sanding them after they have been glued and trimmed, any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks
 
Bird said:
Hello Karen, your model of the Sussex is absolutely beautiful!! I am in the process of building this ship and I was wondering if I could ask how you did the off colored treenails on the black planking without messing up the black paint or ink by sanding them after they have been glued and trimmed, any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks
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Black planking is not paint. I used black hornbeam for it. Nails are copper wire.
 
Karen, which ropes brand and color did you use for running rigging? Is it cotton or polyester? Did you treat them with something to make darker? thanks
 
The threads I used were white polyester. For the standing rigging I painted them with oil paint, which I diluted with white spirit (Stoddard solvent). For the running rigging I used bitumen varnish, which I diluted with white spirit (Stoddard solvent).
 

The above link is ' document about the current situation of the Sussex, 800 meters down off the coast of Spain. She is believed to have 10 tons of gold coin still aboard. The wreck was located by Odyssey exploration on the early 2000's who struck a theoretically lucrative deal with the UK government to recover the gold. In the end it turned into a huge row between the UK and Spanish governments, and the project collapsed.
 
Karen said:
I have finished building the ship Sussex. Built on a scale of 1:48 according to the drawings of the British Admiralty and the book by Gilbert McArdley.
The keel, frames, side and deck plating, useful things are made of pear. The velvets and part of the cladding are made of black hornbeam. The decor is carved from boxwood. Spar made of dark pear. All wood is covered with tung varnish. All hull and deck boards are nailed to the ship's structure with wooden nails carved from light pear. There are about 5000 of them in the model. Ship dimensions: height 1300mm, length 1450mm, width 600mm.

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Hi Karen, Congratulations on the model ,a painstaking job of clean and finish.I ask: do I see the fifths ( from the photo)not perpendicular to the keel and photo effect or are they like that? Thanks for Your feedback.Frank
 
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