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Thanks for that guys, it's much appreciated. I started making the buckets by using using a divider caliper set to 5mm and putting a groove in the dowel on the lathe and then cut them off individually, after a bit cleaning up they were then placed upside down and glued together and onto a 2mm wide strip of veneer, once all was dry they were then painted and glued onto the poop deck rail after the netting was added. Gibbo attached the following image(s): Building: DelPrado HMS Victory. Building: DeAgostini Sovereign Of The Seas.
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Great display of detailing, those buckets looks the business....  Regards Alan
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Thanks for that Alan, i'm quite pleased they came out the way they did, i was able to glue them onto the bottom rail as well so they shouldn't go too far in a hurry, tonight i've been working on the hammock netting on the waist rail, i made a template out of paper the same size as the netting i needed and then transfered those sizes onto the netting, this time i held it in place with an off cut of wood just under that size, this stopped it moving around which made it easier to sew. Gibbo attached the following image(s): Building: DelPrado HMS Victory. Building: DeAgostini Sovereign Of The Seas.
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The latest effort has been focused on the stairs to the poop deck, after spending a few hours on the lathe trying different things to get the posts right i abandoned that idea and dipped into the Heller kit, i don't know what these were meant for on that kit but they'll do the job for me, looking at various pictures of the victory the posts are quite long, the eyes on the PE posts were drilled out to make them wider to take a larger diameter thread, all will be painted and put together this week to be put on at a later date, next up will be rigging the cannons (sorry Guns, apparently they're not cannons when they're on a ship), not something i've done before so that should be fun and equally frustrating. Gibbo attached the following image(s): Building: DelPrado HMS Victory. Building: DeAgostini Sovereign Of The Seas.
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This one is for Jase. Gibbo attached the following image(s): Building: DelPrado HMS Victory. Building: DeAgostini Sovereign Of The Seas.
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Hi Paul,
Understand the issue now. This is how I would tackle it.
use a piece of masking tape to mark your cutting line. Then use a pair of nail scissors to cut along the line. (they do exactly the same job as etch sheers but about £20 cheaper )that should give you a nice strait edge.
with the binnacle I would then trim the the bottom piece you have just cut of and glue it back on the bottom so you don't lose the detail, you could also do this with the two strips that got cut off the top
on the cabin doors I would consider trimming the top first then cut off the bottom strip and glue it back on as suggested with the binnacle.
Hope that helps mate
Jase “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
-Mark Twain
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jase wrote:Hi Paul,
Understand the issue now. This is how I would tackle it.
use a piece of masking tape to mark your cutting line. Then use a pair of nail scissors to cut along the line. (they do exactly the same job as etch sheers but about £20 cheaper )that should give you a nice strait edge.
with the binnacle I would then trim the the bottom piece you have just cut of and glue it back on the bottom so you don't lose the detail, you could also do this with the two strips that got cut off the top
on the cabin doors I would consider trimming the top first then cut off the bottom strip and glue it back on as suggested with the binnacle.
Hope that helps mate
Jase It does indeed, thank you Jase. Building: DelPrado HMS Victory. Building: DeAgostini Sovereign Of The Seas.
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I built the poop steps as separate units so they can be put away to be put on at a later date. Gibbo attached the following image(s): Building: DelPrado HMS Victory. Building: DeAgostini Sovereign Of The Seas.
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Excellent detail being added WTG.  Regards delboy271155 (Derek) COME BACK GUY FAWKES "YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU"
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Excellent work on those steps, they look fab..... Regards Alan
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This weekend i've been working on the Binnacle, pic 1 shows the PE binnacle, this binnacle as it stood was too tall for the space i have, the top of the binnacle on the Victory is as tall as the middle of the ships wheel so this had to be cut down and after taking advice i tried the method with some nail scissors on some scrap PE sprue, the thin strip i cut off went into a spiral and couldn't be straightened out to my satisfaction so i thought i would try running it through Proxxon table saw, that was working quite well but the blade catch every now and then, i clamped a piece under a steel rule and went about scoring it with a Stanley blade, i originally wanted to take a piece out of the middle of the Binnacle and glue the top and bottom back together to keep the detail but it just wasn't happening, i only had one shot at this and decided to just take off the bottom and leave it at that, i finished by going over very lightly with a file to bring out some of the detail. Gibbo attached the following image(s): Building: DelPrado HMS Victory. Building: DeAgostini Sovereign Of The Seas.
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Your binnacle has turned out really well and all credit to you..... very nice work all round..... Regards Alan
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Nicely done Paul! I think the scoring method is probably the best one on that piece. If it wasn't so long across I might try the razor blade in the steel holder gizmo I've got (works great on plastic and wood, might be ok on thin brass! Definitely a huge improvement on what came with the kit!!!   Robin First wooden ship: The Grimsby 12 Gun 'Frigate' by Constructo Second: Bounty DelPrado Part Works Third: HMS Victory DelPrado Part Works 1/100 scale Diorama of the Battle of the Brandywine from the American Revolutionary War Diorama of the Battle of New Falkland (unfinished sci-fi), Great War Centenary Diorama of the Messines Ridge Assault Index for the Victory diary is on page 1
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Hi Paul, Excellent work on the Binnacle - well done. Kind regards, Garth "Measure twice, cut once!!!"
Finished!!! HMS Victory,
Current build: Black Pearl.
On hold: Bismarck, Golden Hind, Flying Scotsman, Victory Cross Section, SOTS, Tiger 1.
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The last couple of weeks have been spent working on the guns on the quarterdeck, this has been a lot of trial and error, after ordering some 3.5mm double blocks and 2.5mm single blocks from Caldercraft i set about rigging the guns and at 1/100 scale this is not easy, after drilling the holes on the guns for the etch ring bolts (went through half a dozen drill bits for this) and drilling the holes in the deck and the walls the ring bolts and hooks were primed and sprayed ready for attachment, first up were attaching the hooks ready to wrap around the blocks (pic 2)and then rigging the blocks ready for attaching to the ring bolts on the gunwhale walls and the rear of the guns (pic 3), this was extremely fiddly getting the hooks into the ringbolts near the gunwhales but it worked really well, after tightening up the double blocks they looked too close together and really chunky (pic 4), so it was onto the single blocks, the first attempt didn't go too well until i took the thread back through the hole in the block nearest the gunwhale, i think this much nearer scale and i'm much happier with end result (pic 5) 1 down 5 to go. Gibbo attached the following image(s): Building: DelPrado HMS Victory. Building: DeAgostini Sovereign Of The Seas.
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Nice work, looks great.
Graeme
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wow very nicely done especially at that scale. Lovely job Martyn Building ?
Completed. Soliei Royal . Sovereign of the Seas . Virginia . Scotland . San Felipe . Corel vasa , Santisima Trinadad X section , Vasa
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Nice job with the gun-rigging!Greetings,
Walter
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Revell B-24D Liberator 1:48
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Italeri "Fiat Mefistofele", Italeri "Moto Guzzi California", Fokker "Red Baron", Revell Bismarck, Revell Tirpitz, Arab Dow, Stage Coach, .....
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Hi paul. some very nice work being done. Look forward to the next update. Ian Current builds.Hachettes build the bismark,HMS Victory, HMS Hood.
Finished Builds Corel HMS Victory cross section.
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Well this has been long 'ol job, 6 carriages, 6 guns, 60 eyebolts, 48 hooks, 36 blocks and 18 coils later the quarterdeck guns are finally rigged, the coils could have been closer to the guns so it’s created a bit of a health and safety nightmare, maybe if Horatio tripped over one just before the shot was fired his jacket with the bullet hole in it wouldn't be hanging in The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich and he would have lived to a grand old age. Gibbo attached the following image(s): Building: DelPrado HMS Victory. Building: DeAgostini Sovereign Of The Seas.
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