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Thank you @Namabiiru, @Jim Fortnam and @pugwash for your kind comment.
@Jim Fortnam: I did not make notes, but I would be very surprised if it took me more than 250 hours in all to finish the model, mistakes and problem solving included.
@Jim Fortnam: I did not make notes, but I would be very surprised if it took me more than 250 hours in all to finish the model, mistakes and problem solving included.
Wonderful work. Just keeps on giving.
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Congrats! Good job well done.
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It's unbelievable that the model is made from paper. Really wonderful
Awesome work!
Again, thank you for all the positive comments and the likes.
In the mean time I started another dockyard model, the Mordaunt, from Richard Endsor's book The shipbuilder's secrets. The lower hull and the ship"s sides were finished in two weeks time, but I am not completely satisfied with the bow. If it all works out in the end I will surely let you know.
Odd scale: 1/4 of the original dockyard model: 1/192.
In the mean time I started another dockyard model, the Mordaunt, from Richard Endsor's book The shipbuilder's secrets. The lower hull and the ship"s sides were finished in two weeks time, but I am not completely satisfied with the bow. If it all works out in the end I will surely let you know.
Odd scale: 1/4 of the original dockyard model: 1/192.
You do excellent work. Will watch.
Hi Alex,
Carvings on a 1/200 scale model are a relative concept. It is obvious that carving in wood is impossible. It is also nearly impossible to make carvings that really picture recognizable images. It's all fake. I use several materials to suggest the gingerbread carvings: 2-components stuff like Magic Sculpt or Miliput, or small threads of paper or gesso. The last can be made in little doses with a mixture of chalk, white glue and acrilic paint in the color you choose. Small blobs are added to the locations where they are needed, until sufficient volume is reached. Finally some 'sculpting' can be done with round and sharp bamboo sticks or something like that. It works both for relief work and for free standing statues. It's a matter of bluff. You don't have to create real carvings, they only have to look like them.
That's all I can say about it. I'm not particularly good in it, but it's a technique that can be learned.
By the way: how would you produce carvings with a 3D printer?
Carvings on a 1/200 scale model are a relative concept. It is obvious that carving in wood is impossible. It is also nearly impossible to make carvings that really picture recognizable images. It's all fake. I use several materials to suggest the gingerbread carvings: 2-components stuff like Magic Sculpt or Miliput, or small threads of paper or gesso. The last can be made in little doses with a mixture of chalk, white glue and acrilic paint in the color you choose. Small blobs are added to the locations where they are needed, until sufficient volume is reached. Finally some 'sculpting' can be done with round and sharp bamboo sticks or something like that. It works both for relief work and for free standing statues. It's a matter of bluff. You don't have to create real carvings, they only have to look like them.
That's all I can say about it. I'm not particularly good in it, but it's a technique that can be learned.
By the way: how would you produce carvings with a 3D printer?
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Hi Ab,
that's what I wanted to hear. I recently read a book about navy board models and the author used thread, wire and tissue to "sculpt". It's always a bluff but it works. To answer your question: I think about buying a 3D printer to produce something like the ornaments around the gun ports. Things that repeat. I learned that at the "Texel-diorama" figureheads and repeating ornaments were made of Raisin.
I'll see. It's just an idea...
that's what I wanted to hear. I recently read a book about navy board models and the author used thread, wire and tissue to "sculpt". It's always a bluff but it works. To answer your question: I think about buying a 3D printer to produce something like the ornaments around the gun ports. Things that repeat. I learned that at the "Texel-diorama" figureheads and repeating ornaments were made of Raisin.
I'll see. It's just an idea...
If you want to make identical objects, use blue stuff. Search the internet. Much cheaper than a printer.