HMS Victory [1805] 1:79 by serikoff. Started with Mantua -> Upgraded with John McKay's Anatomy.

[Gilbertm]

So, the final chord - and the skin will be completely finished.

Rudder feather.

Before I started to skin the steering wheel, I glued the pins of the curtains, and then pasted the end with strips of self-adhesive copper tape. Due to the complex geometry of this area, it would be problematic to use a regular shoal, so the choice was obvious.

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I polished the copper to remove the oxide.

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Then I cut off all the excess and isolated with tape the area where the glue should not get.

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At the same time, I left 1.5 mm of exposed copper in order to glue standard copper plates on top of it. This will prevent the self-adhesive tape from peeling off in the future.

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Then I made imitation nail heads on self-adhesive tape...

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... and with that the copper cladding work is OFFICIALLY COMPLETED!!

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In the end:

2630 copper plates were used to cover the entire underwater part of the ship in my 1:79 scale!

The plates were in 1:72 scale and had the following dimensions: 4.5 x 17 x 0.1 mm (naturally, most of the glued plates were rectangular, but they also turned into trapezoid and triangular shapes in the narrowing areas).

One thing, those who were following the process, noticed that I glued them in groups, i.e. not only individually, but also in two, 3, 4 and even 5 plates in one strip. In the end, this saved me 2 times more time. Since in total I glued exactly half of the total number, or more precisely 1310 fragments.

Next up are the steering wheel covers... cleaning off the tape, polishing off the glue and opening up the patina... but for now I need a little break from copper. For now I'll number the parts on Alert.

Congratulations Sergey
Impressive work

 

[serikoff]

Good morning Sergey. Bravo.....That was a massive job and wonderfully executed. I'm with Paul though and have no desire to copper plate a hull. Cheers Grant

Ahah, I wouldn’t have covered it myself if I had done the correct bottom lining, but as it was I had no choice))

Congratulations Sergey
Impressive work

Thanks for your rating! )

 

[Tobias]

Good morning Sergey,
wonderful work on the copper plates. Congratulations on completing this very complex project.

 

[RogerD]

Hi Sergey, a great job on that copper plating. It seems like an endless monotonous job at the time but the result is worth it, yours especially.

 

[serikoff]

Good morning Sergey,
wonderful work on the copper plates. Congratulations on completing this very complex project.

Thank you very much!! Yes, this was really the most difficult for me. I decided to take a break, switched to Alert, although I still plan to make steering wheel loops to finally cover the copper with patina.

Hi Sergey, a great job on that copper plating. It seems like an endless monotonous job at the time but the result is worth it, yours especially.

Thank you very much. I'm glad you liked it. I agree that it's worth it, but I'll think twice about doing it all again or not)))