HMS Victory by Y.T.- Mamoli - 1:90 scale

[Peter Gutterman]

I'm glad the shellac treatment worked for you. Love the finish on the mast and contrast between the parts on the mast and the top. Love the lantern. This is going to be the last word on Victory models! Actually, probably already is.

Great slide show!

Pete

 

[Uwek]

Very Very good result - I am fully convinced - I like your "style" of making these details
blackened copper foil stripes - this I have to add to my construction methods - absolutely convincing way of doing such details
and by the way -> very accurate executed -> I love your model

 

[etubino]

The Main Mast ist superve! I really like hoy yo made it, looks very precise and impacable. I´m wondering though about the product that you have used for blackening copper. I have a lot o copper wire parts that I would like to blacken to get a similar effect that the one with bronce parts.

Eduardo

 

[Y.T.]

I´m wondering though about the product that you have used for blackening copper.

Hi, Eduardo, this is what I use to blacken brass and copper:

https://www.amazon.ca/Birchwood-Casey-Brass-Touch-Up-3-Ounce/dp/B0000C514O

 

[etubino]

Thanks a lot Y.T. !!!

 

[Y.T.]

Note that before applying the product you must very well degrease the brass parts with alcohol or / and acetone. If parts were soldered, they must be totally cleaned from any flux. Flux removal can be done with acids. I use this:

 

[Ken]

Some more.

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Hi, I’ve just read through your build log, I enjoyed it very much. I think that given all the issues you’ve encountered you are producing an excellent model, up there with some of the best, you should be proud of your work.

 

[etubino]

Note that before applying the product you must very well degrease the brass parts with alcohol or / and acetone. If parts were soldered, they must be totally cleaned from any flux. Flux removal can be done with acids. I use this:

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Thanks a lot again Y.T.!

 

[GrantTyler]

Would you like to see more?

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Good morning Y.T. It is so good to see you building your Victory again. Wonderful work. Cheers Grant

 

[Peter Gutterman]

Maintaining focus and momentum on such a massive project is impressive. Not to mention the amount of skill and talent being brought to bear!

 

[Y.T.]

My today’s working bench. I live in condo.

 

[Y.T.]

Building a main mast. Here is a progress.

 

[Y.T.]

A note. All main assemblies as lower mast, top mast and topgallant plus pole masts are all just a tight fit. No glue is used to join these assemblies. I can take them apart anytime. I plan keeping them this way. Is not it how it was in real life ?

 

[Jimsky]

A note. All main assemblies as lower mast, top mast and topgallant plus pole masts are all just a tight fit. No glue is used to join these assemblies. I can take them apart anytime. I plan keeping them this way. Is not it how it was in real life ?

Obviously, nothing was glued in any way, Uriy. In fact, for the ship size you are building the masts and the topmasts were made of multiple square sections of strips interlocked between themselves. Then planned down to 8 and then 16 sides, Finally they rounded off with a glass paper. Outside tidied with rope and lately metal woodings. This way the masts were sort of elastic and could naturally resist the wind by bending (a bit).

 

[Y.T.]

Finally they rounded off with a glass paper. Outside tidied with rope and lately metal woodings.

Hi , Jimsky. Can you please give a bit more details about a glass paper??

 

[Jimsky]

Hi , Jimsky. Can you please give a bit more details about a glass paper??

This is a very good question, my friend. Glass paper is a generic term used to describe modern-day sandpaper. Back in the 13th Century, it was crudely constructed on squares of parchment, using crushed shells, sand, seeds, and tree gum. As time went on, this product was innovated and improved upon by many entrepreneurs all across the world. In 1833 London, John Oakey’s company was manufacturing sandpaper using particles of glass and glass grit, rather than sand. They called it glasspaper!!
A Vermont man by the name of Isaac Fisher Jr. was able to patent the first process for mass manufacturing of sandpaper in the United States in 1834.

 

[Y.T.]

Looks there is a major misunderstanding about my post about not using glue. I will provide some pictures tomorrow to clear this issue out. Sand paper has nothing to do with what I was trying to say.

 

[Stevedownunder]

Building a main mast. Here is a progress.

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Beautiful work YT,

Cheers,
Stephen.

 

[uncchains]

I'm glad the shellac treatment worked for you. Love the finish on the mast and contrast between the parts on the mast and the top. Love the lantern. This is going to be the last word on Victory models! Actually, probably already is.

Great slide show!

Pete

You have probably addressed the question several times of how you determined the width of the black and yellow stripes on the hull. I have not been able to find a reference in Longridge or Bugler that would answer this question. Bugler did address the location of the water line (5'9" from the lowest gun port(s)) but, as yet, nothing about the painting. I am still looking and will continue to do so when I get a copy of the book again. Can you direct me to a reference for this? Thanks.

 

[Y.T.]

This is how this assembly looks when assembled.