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Sovereign of the Seas - Sergal 1:78 (with hopefully many added details)

oldflyer said:
Kurt,
You're working way beyond my skill set - that said you still might complete yours before mine is hit with a bottle of bubbly.
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Not likely old friend. I'm doing scratch built work and your kit build will progress faster by the simple fact that you don't have to manufacture all your parts from raw material. Look how long it's going to take to create ALL the decorations and 3D print them. You kit has pretty shiny gold decorations already made. Maybe when you get to the rigging stage you might slow down a bit. Rigging is always slow, careful work.
 
DARIVS ARCHITECTVS said:
Not likely old friend. I'm doing scratch built work and your kit build will progress faster by the simple fact that you don't have to manufacture all your parts from raw material. Look how long it's going to take to create ALL the decorations and 3D print them. You kit has pretty shiny gold decorations already made. Maybe when you get to the rigging stage you might slow down a bit. Rigging is always slow, careful work.
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Well that is what I was badly trying to communicate regarding your skill set with 3D your printing all of the hundreds of decorative bits - one by one -. Way beyond my skill set.
 
oldflyer said:
Well that is what I was badly trying to communicate regarding your skill set with 3D your printing all of the hundreds of decorative bits - one by one -. Way beyond my skill set.
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Oh I got that part, and I thank you! I was responding to the latter part. I can't work fast doing scratch building. I may get brain-jammed trying to determine what the next step should be, and not get any work done until an idea comes to me. BTW, if you start learning Blender, you could also learn what I am studying too, but it's such a slow process that most people don't ever start digging into 3D modeling. In my case, I want the decorations done right, and there is no alternative.
 
Hi,

Have not posted in a long time. I have, actually, been totally away from this hobby. We did a bit of travelling instead. Now back;
So not much -- BUT I have installed and rigged two anchors ROTF a few images - Yikes need to do some serious catching up here!


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oldflyer said:
Hi,

Have not posted in a long time. I have, actually, been totally away from this hobby. We did a bit of travelling instead. Now back;
So not much -- BUT I have installed and rigged two anchors ROTF a few images - Yikes need to do some serious catching up here!


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Good evening John. Those anchors took a very long time ROTF. Having a break and traveling instead is a no brainer, however it is good to see your ship again - really a beautiful model. Wonderful work as always. Cheers Grant
 
Grant, Daniel - thanks for your nice posts. Both of your levels of work is very impressive -- as I have followed along as well....

And thanks for the likes from members as well. Appreciated!
 
GrantTyler said:
Good evening John. Those anchors took a very long time ROTF. Having a break and traveling instead is a no brainer, however it is good to see your ship again - really a beautiful model. Wonderful work as always. Cheers Grant
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Grant - travel was indeed a great part of this year so far.
NEVER though that I would agree to a ship cruise. Not my style - that was then haha.
Very small ship (It's a company also owned by Caribbean Cruise Lines called Seabourn - had never heard of them ) went to several stops within the mediterranean. One of which was Rouen. It has one of the five national Maritime Museums. Here are a few images of one of the models.

OH! that last black ship happened to be anchored next to ours belongs to "that" other guy --- it's his $500 million dollar toy"

The white one belongs to nobody that wants to know me :( We were in Palma de Mallorca

MJD


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oldflyer said:
Grant - travel was indeed a great part of this year so far.
NEVER though that I would agree to a ship cruise. Not my style - that was then haha.
Very small ship (It's a company also owned by Caribbean Cruise Lines called Seabourn - had never heard of them ) went to several stops within the mediterranean. One of which was Rouen. It has one of the five national Maritime Museums. Here are a few images of one of the models.

OH! that last black ship happened to be anchored next to ours belongs to "that" other guy --- it's his $500 million dollar toy"

The white one belongs to nobody that wants to know me :( We were in Palma de Mallorca

MJD


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Good evening John. That looks awesome. That looks like Jeff Bezos yacht (ship ROTF) Koru ? I also disliked the thought of cruising on a ship with people I didn’t know until we did Croatia on one. Very cool way to travel. Cheers Grant
 
GrantTyler said:
Good evening John. That looks awesome. That looks like Jeff Bezos yacht (ship ROTF) Koru ? I also disliked the thought of cruising on a ship with people I didn’t know until we did Croatia on one. Very cool way to travel. Cheers Grant
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Yes it is indeed his yacht. I joked with the Admiral that she actually helped to pay for it because of her almost daily addiction with Amazon (well I'm kinda there sort-of as well) - along with 100s of +millions of us) That bus. model is beyond brilliant.

The Admiral - my nineteen year old girlfriend from 52 years ago. ---- at La Citadella de Calvi - PS: of course there was some turbulence along the way ROTF but all good - we were lucky!


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Another set of images from one of the ships at the museum.


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Thanks so much for the many likes

Cheers,
 
oldflyer said:
Yes it is indeed his yacht. I joked with the Admiral that she actually helped to pay for it because of her almost daily addiction with Amazon (well I'm kinda there sort-of as well) - along with 100s of +millions of us) That bus. model is beyond brilliant.

The Admiral - my nineteen year old girlfriend from 52 years ago. ---- at La Citadella de Calvi - PS: of course there was some turbulence along the way ROTF but all good - we were lucky!


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Another set of images from one of the ships at the museum.


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Thanks so much for the many likes

Cheers,
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Awesome John. I have some catching up to do - Arlene and I had our 35 anniversary on the 31st. Do you know the scale of of the ship in the photo. Someone had fun building that. Cheers Grant
 
GrantTyler said:
Awesome John. I have some catching up to do - Arlene and I had our 35 anniversary on the 31st. Do you know the scale of of the ship in the photo. Someone had fun building that. Cheers Grant
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Grant,

Congrats as well. Re: scale - don't know - I did a 30 second video but it wont attach neither in .MOV nor mp4 - so froze 2 frames of that video on my iMac.
Note the two people in the upper right to corner. It is a very large model as you can tell. The ship is in a walk-around glass case - really stunning work indeed

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PS: does anyone know how I may directly drop in videos here from my iPhotos.
They will transfer and upload to my youtube channel 'OK" - but not here????

MJD
 
Welcome back John, good to see you have been having fun during your modelling sabatical

Not much progress, but great work and an excuse for us to see more images of wonderful model:p

Lovely holiday snaps including the modelling related ones
 
Hi,
Thanks for the many likes - super encouraging Thumbsup
Moving to the stern - time to work on the rudder, as well as adding cannons and their doors.

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Not crazy about this set-up, but easier to work on and the Proxxon has a suction cup. Seems stable enough so far.

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Note kit provided rudder

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Wanted to add rudder detachment ropes - spent a lot of time looking at many sources for "how to's" decided
on following Boudriot's ideas from 74 Gun Ship - certainly wrong for this ship!! - I like the added details that this will offer.
McKay was helpful with the rudder, but not too detailed on misc. rope/chain attachments.

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