Postiljon, a Dutch frigate (1661-1678)
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I wish my fairly steady hands could do work as excellent as your shaking hands! Wonderful job on this model! As I mentioned above, I really like how you added the "white stuff" to the hull. Can I ask if you air-brushed it on, or painted by hand, and what kind (color?) paint did you use? I've spray painted mine with Rustoleum (yeah, I know), and it's not completely dried. I was thinking of painting over it and trying to achieve your effect.
@MikeC, @Bill-R and @MisterCA: thank you for your praise. To tell you the truth I am not very talented in receiving compliments. If this goes on I end up feeling too big to enter my own front door.
@Signet: It is a simple process. I start drawing a line on the hull, using a block of wood with a pencil on top. Then I apply my first layer of paint: Humbrol 63 for the upper hull and Humbrol 28 for the part below the waterline (it is not white, is greyish). Here I use tape. Next both layers are done again after a few days drying, but this time I don't use tape. I just try to be as accurate as I can. The end is applying a coat of VanDijks brown oil paint from a tube for the upper part of the hull. I cover the whole brown part and wipe it off immediately with a soft cloth, leaving enough color to give the brown a nice shade and fill the cracks between the 'planks' and the wood imprint in the plastic strips I use for planking the paper hull. It is inevitable that some brown is smeared on the white part. With a cloth, wetted with a little bit of turpentine I wipe most of it off, but not all of it. I deliberately keep the border between the two colors untouched to get a fuzzy effect.
I don't know the stuff that dissolves Rustoleum, but as long as it is sticky I don't think other paints will hold well. Perhaps you will have to scrape it off?
Hope this helps, good luck!
@Signet: It is a simple process. I start drawing a line on the hull, using a block of wood with a pencil on top. Then I apply my first layer of paint: Humbrol 63 for the upper hull and Humbrol 28 for the part below the waterline (it is not white, is greyish). Here I use tape. Next both layers are done again after a few days drying, but this time I don't use tape. I just try to be as accurate as I can. The end is applying a coat of VanDijks brown oil paint from a tube for the upper part of the hull. I cover the whole brown part and wipe it off immediately with a soft cloth, leaving enough color to give the brown a nice shade and fill the cracks between the 'planks' and the wood imprint in the plastic strips I use for planking the paper hull. It is inevitable that some brown is smeared on the white part. With a cloth, wetted with a little bit of turpentine I wipe most of it off, but not all of it. I deliberately keep the border between the two colors untouched to get a fuzzy effect.
I don't know the stuff that dissolves Rustoleum, but as long as it is sticky I don't think other paints will hold well. Perhaps you will have to scrape it off?
Hope this helps, good luck!
Thanks for that. The many steps of your process have yielded an excellent result. I'm not sure I can do all that now, but I will probably try my version of it, and hope that it will be closer to your result. My problem is that the "wood" portion above the waterline is stained wood, so I don't have the option of repainting it or smearing white with brown to get a good looking waterline.
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It's looking like spam. Be careful and do not on click the links
This night 70 threads are infected with this posts of ‘tiago’. I have already reported several of them.
I suppose the admins will get rid of them.
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Speaking of Chatam, there was a joke doing the rounds at the time of the last Iraq war. The Royal Navy occupied Basra Port and a sailor wrote home to his family. "The food is terrible and people keep shooting at us, so just like Chatam really, except there's no beer."
Yes, this is spam! The action was taken and all messages, from all threads\forums has been deleted. The user is disabled. Thank you for staying vigilant folks!!!
Thank you @Jimsky, this was clear to me from the moment I saw the 'message'.
Something else struck me very recently as being questionable and surpassing the borders of decent forum use as well. I received a PM from a member, @JoeF, who was obviously striving for a higher number of subscribers of his youtube channel, obviously for financial reasons:
My You Tube Channel
Hello,
I would like to share my work on You Tube channel on woodcarving and crafts.
The link is
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Please subscribe and enjoy the videos
Many thanks and regards, joe
In my opinion this has nothing to do with what a PM was originally invented for. I don't know JoeF and I see no personal message in his epistle. Nor do I find anything in his Youtube videos that interests me.
Something else struck me very recently as being questionable and surpassing the borders of decent forum use as well. I received a PM from a member, @JoeF, who was obviously striving for a higher number of subscribers of his youtube channel, obviously for financial reasons:
My You Tube Channel
Hello,
I would like to share my work on You Tube channel on woodcarving and crafts.
The link is
https://www.youtube.com/@frigo749/videos
Please subscribe and enjoy the videos
Many thanks and regards, joe
In my opinion this has nothing to do with what a PM was originally invented for. I don't know JoeF and I see no personal message in his epistle. Nor do I find anything in his Youtube videos that interests me.
Thanks, Ab. This is not spam, so no worry here. SOS as the forum, don't mind someone advertise their YouTube channel or small online stores if the content related to ship modeling or scale modeling in general.
I don't mind someone advertising his Youtube channel. What I feel as irritating is that he chooses to use a Personal Message as a way of promoting himself and his products. If I get a PM I suppose the sender wants to ask or tell me something. Not that he is after his own benefit. It may not be spam, but it is not a polite way to express someone's presence either.
I Totally agree, we didn't know he was contacted using PM. Can you PM me the members info? We will discuss this with a member.
I have not seen that done before. It looks very good and more ‘realistic’ than a perfect hard line. I will copy that style, thank you!
As I promised earlier hereby the (temporary) 'natural surrounding' of the frigate Postiljon. It is the situation during the Raid on the Medway on June 22 1667. Earlier the fortress Sheerness at the mouth of the river was conquered, the chain that closed the river was broken and here Upnor castle is under attack by the Dutch frigates. Three of the king's ships laid up near the castle were set to fire and little later the flagship Royal Charles was taken and brought to Holland as a trofee. The action speeded up the negotiations for a profitable peace and is still in the Dutch history books as a showpiece for the abilities of admiral Michiel de Ruyter (although he himself only arrived at the end of the action). I'm sure English history books have another view of the event if mentioned at all.
Emiel tried to keep as close to the facts as possible.
Emiel tried to keep as close to the facts as possible.
That is (again!) a very nice piece of art by Emiel, Ab. You both can be proud of this result!
Regards, peter
Wow Ab, what a great picture again.
These works look like a 17th century painting and then again not. Just beautifull.
These works look like a 17th century painting and then again not. Just beautifull.