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Colonial Air Force posted:Thank you, that's helped a ton. That's unfortunate, if not a huge surprise to me given the few pictures I could see of it and the quality of the instructions in the Carmen kit. On the other hand, the Carmen built into quite a lovely little ship, and as these kits go, was fairly cheap. Colonial Air Force posted:E: Just broke the starboard bulwark. One thing about these kits to always remember - "It's only wood!". Every single piece can be glued or just remade out of another piece of wood. I've remade some pieces 4 or 5 times until I got them right. If there isn't any spare wood large enough in the kit, you can run down to your local hobby shop and buy a sheet of the appropriate thickness basswood for a few bucks, and use the broken piece as a pattern for a replacement.
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Arquinsiel posted:Great result. Can't wait to see what you do next. I decided to try something a little different from the usual Western grey jets and picked up the Acadamy 1:48 SU-27 kit just to try something Russian. I've since watched few documentaries and read a few books (as you do with a new kit) and have fallen in love with the plane. I mean is this not the sexiest shape?   I decided to try a three colour sharp edge splinter scheme which meant more masking and a more in depth colour order then a I had ever done before. Blue plane:   First mask and dark grey cammo:  One of the things I found hard was trying to keep the panel shading through out the various layers:  Ready for the lighter blue layer:  Last base coats and the thing looking like a right loving mess. Up to this point I have no idea what this looks like or if anything has actually worked.  This is where I am at now. Details, edges and decals next. Then washes and final details.  
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big_g posted:I decided to try something a little different from the usual Western grey jets and picked up the Acadamy 1:48 SU-27 kit just to try something Russian. That's pretty awesome work with the painting. I think it came out great.
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That's one awesome looking camo job. Well done! Edit: drat autocorrect. Ensign Expendable fucked around with this message at 21:20 on Jan 18, 2015 |
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Jan 18, 2015 02:54
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Ensign Expendable posted:That's one awesome looking camp job. Well done! Darn spawn camping Russians.  As my video posted yesterday shows, I hit a bit of a milestone in the ship build, and completed the 2nd layer of planking, which I'm fairly happy with. Here are some regular photo's that show it after sanding, 2 coats of wipe-on Poly and some buffing.       The stern and bow shots show that there is a bit of finish sanding to do before I'm done, but I will do that after I've finished all the rest of the hull and deck work, and the build moves into the phase where it will always be on a stand and I won't be mucking up the hull finish anymore.
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I'm working on a 688 class sub. Right now it's just flat black, but I want to put some sort of top coat on. Regular Future would be too glossy right? For comparison, this is how a fresh coat of paint looks on one: 
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Deeters posted:I'm working on a 688 class sub. Right now it's just flat black, but I want to put some sort of top coat on. Regular Future would be too glossy right? You can supposedly mix Tamiya flat base with Future to make it a semi-gloss or flat coat.
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Man that sub looks like it has a lovely mid 2000's bump-map on it or something. If that was a video game I'd say the textures need work, doesn't quite look realistic.
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Jan 19, 2015 04:24
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Would a Satin finish work, maybe?
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I finished the hull (I think) by cutting in the sweep ports. What is a sweep port you ask? This sloop was a fairly small ship (just under 60' I think) and in that era most ships smaller than frigates (and even some frigates) had provisions to use oars (sweeps) to maneuver the ship in tight locations, or to make headway in calm wind. To use oars, they had to have holes in the bulwarks to extend the oars through - sweep ports. I was dreading these, as they are drilled/cut through the already completely finished bulkheads. There is no real reasonable way to have these pre-cut, as they go through the outer planking, the inner bulwark planking, and 2 other layers of planking and bulkhead filler in between. There is no way that these 4 layers would all match up perfectly if pre-cut, so they have to be cut in after. To do this I traced the side-view of the plans, cut that strip out and taped it to the ship, and used a sharp needle punch to mark the center of the middle of the ports after I masked both the inside and outside of the hull with masking tape to help prevent the outer layers from splintering. I then made a small jig out of brass sheet that had the center hole and the two ends of the sweep port. I used the jig to drill 3 holes at each port location. I then enlarged the middle hole to it's final size, and used an X-acto razor saw blade to connect the inside hole to both end holes. After that I removed the tape and enlarged the slots with a #10 X-acto blade. I was sweating bullets every step of the way, expecting at any moment to completely wreck something. I didn't get them perfect (some moreso than others), but when I realized that my continued efforts to improve them were probably beginning to do more harm than good, I called it done and painted. Here is a close-up of two of the better sweep ports, and some general inside and outside side views. The center 'hole' of the port is 3/32" and the outer ends are 3/64", and the total length of each port is 1/4".      Now I start making deck furniture (hatches, coamings, scuttle port, companionway, etc.) and then I can do the deck planking. Woo!
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Jan 20, 2015 05:28
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drat that's nice. I've seen newly made wooden boats with worse finishes.
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Sanguine posted:drat that's nice. I've seen newly made wooden boats with worse finishes. Ditto, this is looking great.
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Baronjutter posted:Man that sub looks like it has a lovely mid 2000's bump-map on it or something. If that was a video game I'd say the textures need work, doesn't quite look realistic. It's because they coat the entire hull in sonar absorbing polymers, the rubbery surface looks weird when you're expecting metal like a normal warship
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The Locator posted:I didn't get them perfect (some moreso than others), but when I realized that my continued efforts to improve them were probably beginning to do more harm than good, I called it done and painted. These ships were bespoke when made, so getting them 'perfect' would probably not look right anyway. Your model looks like a ship built by master craftsman, so by that measure it is perfect.
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Some of the Sheep posted:These ships were bespoke when made, so getting them 'perfect' would probably not look right anyway. Your model looks like a ship built by master craftsman, so by that measure it is perfect. Yeah, classes as we understand them today are a pretty laughable notion when every shipbuilder zealously guarded his secrets. Aside from the number of guns mounted, most ships in a rate were similar only in the broadest sense. poo poo, there are even subtle differences in modern ships of the same class, and I'm not talking about intentional amendments made to plans. Interestingly enough, a lot of the old ships of the line were actually lopsided due to the imprecision of measuring instruments. I seem to recall reading something about how the construction of the Swedish ship Vasa featured several different linear measuring instruments, each with creative interpretations of what a set unit of measurment would be. I think one side extends further from the keel than the other.
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Fearless posted:I seem to recall reading something about how the construction of the Swedish ship Vasa featured several different linear measuring instruments, each with creative interpretations of what a set unit of measurment would be. I think one side extends further from the keel than the other. 
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Jan 21, 2015 04:07
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Pierzak posted:Annd it almost sailed a mile without sinking, too It's been a while since grad school, but apparently her builder had never attempted to build a ship of that magnitude and complexity before. She had stability issues from the get-go-- apparently, running 30 men from port to starboard a few times was enough to make her rock badly enough to cause fear of a capsize. Anyways, that wooden ship under construction by The Locator is absolutely gorgeous and I love seeing periodic updates of its progress.
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Thanks for all the compliments, I know it looks fine, but I am, and always will be, my own worst critic. Keep in mind that I'm a professional QA Analyst, so it's my job to find fault with things, and I'm pretty good at it! When looked at from a reasonable viewing distance, it looks fine, but I'm working on it up close and magnified, so I'm overly critical of things I mess up at that small scale, and of course through the magic of a nice DSLR and cropping, I can share my faults with everyone! On the subject of how badly the ships were made 'back in the day', I'm sure there was a lot of variation, but we are lucky enough to have a fair number of surviving examples (at least from the 18th century) to have a fair idea of what level of workmanship went into some of these ships. It was certainly variable depending on what yard built them, but the level of craftsmanship in the ships of that era was really quite amazing, which is why some still survive today. Fearless is right in general, but there were notable examples where a fair number of different ships of the same 'class' were built to the same plans with what was, for the time, a remarkable degree of similarity*. There were no 'off the shelf' replacement parts, so minor variations between ships of a class really didn't matter, as repairs were made the same way the ships were, from base wood stock by carpenters. *Off the top of my head, the Swan class frigates (England), the United States (Constitution) class frigates were all remarkably similar to other ships in the same class. I know there are more, but I'm terrible at remember names.
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Not my work but one of my N scale friend's. It's too crazy amazing not to keep sharing. Some of the best detailing work I've ever seen in n scale. Hmm what's he making?   Oh just scratch buildin' a jack in N scale  Great rust job  No this isn't O scale, or even HO scale, it's N   Just in case anyone isn't familiar with N scale, the truck is about as big as your thumb.
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I hope it's okay that I make little squealing noises whenever I see your stuff with anything that puts it in scale. Lookit the wee lil' jack that the wee lil' man is using to work on his wee lil' vintage truck 
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That's awesome. That jack would be small as poo poo in HO, I have a hard time comprehending that level of detail in N scale.
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The scale trains and tanks in this thread are awesome to see, but I am a plane guy at heart and I love to log in and see plane pictures posted. That is one awesome camo job and a great inspiration!
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Fearless posted:Interestingly enough, a lot of the old ships of the line were actually lopsided due to the imprecision of measuring instruments. I seem to recall reading something about how the construction of the Swedish ship Vasa featured several different linear measuring instruments, each with creative interpretations of what a set unit of measurment would be. I think one side extends further from the keel than the other. The Vasa was was an engineering failure, it was too tall and narrow and sank on it's maiden voyage. Luckily it was recovered in the 1960's and you can view it in all of it's decadent glory! http://www.vasamuseet.se/en/ The Locator- man that model is looking nice, I really want to get into wood ship building but I need to start smaller. Does anyone know if there is a nice wood guillotine kit for sale anywhere? Or is that something I'd have to scratch build?
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Huggable Bear King posted:The Locator- man that model is looking nice, I really want to get into wood ship building but I need to start smaller. Does anyone know if there is a nice wood guillotine kit for sale anywhere? Or is that something I'd have to scratch build? Never occurred to me to look for one, but typing "guillotine wood model kit" into Google returned a bunch of stuff like this: https://www.etsy.com/listing/164171330/guillotine-model-kit For boats, I like the selection of small beginner kits from Midwest Products - http://midwestproducts.com/collections/boats For something completely different, I'm seriously considering getting one of these awesome working wooden clock kits - http://www.woodentimes.com/
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Just finished this one up today, Tamiya's Toyota TS020:       Took about 3 months since I had to redo the paintjob, plus plenty of carbon fiber decal work. Nice kit, typical Tamiya quality.
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SkunkDuster posted:The scale trains and tanks in this thread are awesome to see, but I am a plane guy at heart and I love to log in and see plane pictures posted. That is one awesome camo job and a great inspiration! Thanks for the feedback. I've generally been a tank man till recently, this is the 3rd serious plane that I've tried and I'm really feeling the love.
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Baronjutter posted:Just in case anyone isn't familiar with N scale, the truck is about as big as your thumb. Makes me want to dig out my HO Scale trains and build together a small layout. I remember a large electronics shop used to have one or two big layouts in the middle of their shop, with various cameras set up around it on mounts, so you could test em out on the layout.
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The Locator posted:...I then made a small jig..  George Zimmer posted:Just finished this one up today, Tamiya's Toyota TS020:
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The Locator posted:I did a bunch of stuff over the month of December, but very little work on the boat, but I finally did manage to get back to it and make some progress. Are those the work benches from harbor freight? Those are super rad. I've got two large glass top computer desks I use now but I'd love a nice wooden bench with drawers...then again the drawers would just fill up with poo poo I never use much like the rest of my room. Baronjutter posted:My wife got me a table lamp magnifier thing. I basically don't work on anything small unless it's the exact hours the sun comes in the window and even then the lighting sucks. I can finally see poo poo now!!! Where did she get this? I'm dying for one but I really don't want to shell out $40-100 for one. Shachi fucked around with this message at 22:10 on Jan 23, 2015 |
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Thank you! It's one of my better builds I think. First time I actually airbrushed the bodywork with decanted Tamiya sprays. Definitely made a difference and I'll be doing that from here on out.
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Shachi posted:Are those the work benches from harbor freight? Those are super rad. I've got two large glass top computer desks I use now but I'd love a nice wooden bench with drawers...then again the drawers would just fill up with poo poo I never use much like the rest of my room. Yes, those are harbor freight work benches. Hard to beat at that price point.
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Shachi posted:Are those the work benches from harbor freight? Those are super rad. I've got two large glass top computer desks I use now but I'd love a nice wooden bench with drawers...then again the drawers would just fill up with poo poo I never use much like the rest of my room. We had one of these at work (electronic repair) and I wasn't a fan of it. The light was nice, but I had a hell of a time using it as a magnifier when soldering small connections. I didn't like it because, in order to stay in focus, you had to maintain the right distance between your eyes and the lens, and the lens and your hands. Also, it is big and gets in the way. On my model bench, I use a pair of magnifying goggles (something like this) and it is much easier because the distance between the eye and lens doesn't change.
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Because I live in darkest Canada, I got me one of those full-spectrum $150 sunlamps to avoid the SADs. It is glorious and as a side effect, it gives enough light for modeling. Building a new tiny tank right now
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Shachi posted:Are those the work benches from harbor freight? Those are super rad. I've got two large glass top computer desks I use now but I'd love a nice wooden bench with drawers...then again the drawers would just fill up with poo poo I never use much like the rest of my room. Just some random art supply store. It was "only" like $40. I'm sure you could find one online for cheaper maybe.
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No Pun Intended posted:Look what my cat got me for Christmas I know this is from back in December, but I stumbled on a thread on doing exactly this on RC 10 Talk - http://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=37417. It's really nicely done
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Shachi posted:
They sell them at fabric stores for olds who do quilting.
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