Sailing Ships

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She's coming along nicely Niels.

Steve

Next I will be moving the : fore--main &first mizzen, masts forward.  And filling the anchor cable port holes, and make a pair of new ones, further forward.  It's good to here from you agen Steve.

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She is certainly looking yar Niels.  That is some mighty fine painting and surgery you've done on her.  I am looking forward to seeing how you move the masts.

Steve

Thanks for reminding me about the masts Steve, I'll post a picture of that -now.

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What  a great collection of sailing ships and fine modeling as well, I have about 50 plus plastic sailing ships I got from e bay in the last 15 years for next to nothing than what I would have paid from a hobby shop if I could find any that is, but lack of room now dosen't look promising for building any of them, but I may soon remedy that by adding on to our house as the wife has a hobby too .... oil painting.  Karl

Hi Karl, good to here you have a large stash as well--perhaps we can compare notes.  O--I due colored pencil drawings of my sailing ships.  You can finde them on google.

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Hi, I'm new to the Ship Forum but I thought I would add a few pics of my Soleil Royal by Heller. She's over half way completed and this is my second one. The first I completed using the provided French instructions and a translation book…….that was a lot of fun. The Royal has over 100 cannons and a lot of rigging, I'm almost through with the blocks and right now I'm on the rigging. She's a really beautiful ship from the late 1600's and something you wouldn't want to mess with. 100 cannons provide quite a punch. I guess I should have started a WIP a while back but really didn't have the time. 

Very nice work Jibber, thanks for posting.

Steve

Very, very nice work.  All that gold is hurting my eyes.

Hi jibber! Welcome to the forum!  I think you'll find there's a swell bunch of fellas here, with lots of fun stories to tell, and valuable info to share!  

Your Soleil looks tee-riffic!  I recently acquired one of my own, but I won't have the guts to start it for a while!  I do wish you'd have made a WIP for it...I'm sure I could use some reference material for the build...it's funny, I've seen several WIPs for the SR, but few that have been finished...I get the feeling a lot of people never *get 'er done*....

Beautiful work!

Dave

Thank you very much. David I may be able to answer some questions when you get started, I learned allot from my first one, such as I spent way too much time on most of the cannons, 100+ when only the barrel end shows. I do a lot or armor and I hear some of the guys complain when theres a dozen or so wheels….I hand painted this one with Testors only because I thought it would leave more realistic brush strokes, but honestly any more that I do will be sprayed with acrylic, at least the big sections. I can't talk to much about the sails because I always build them without to show more of the rigging.

I always have a couple builds going and I'll walk away for a bit when I get burned out right about this time with the blocking, but then I'll come back to it a little later.

Anyway I could go on, so please don't hesitate to ask I'd love to help if I can.

She really is a majestic beast…..and according to Jean Luc Picard, "Those were the days #1".

Thanks again and now I'm sorry I didn't start a WIP.

Terry  

Niels,

It looks like you cut the center section of the decking to move the masts to their proper place, or am I missing something?  Are you going to be using the plastic kit masts or wood?  As I said before, I love the painting you've done on her.  Do you tape off sections to paint or do them freehand?

Steve

Karl,

I'm seconding Niels request to know what you have in your stash?!  In regards to sailing ships, I estimate that I have about 30 or so, as well as a number of steel navy ships and a handful of airplanes (mostly the planes my dad flew while in Navy).

Steve

Yes-that's correct Steve.  I will use the kit masts, but make corrections as needed.  I posted a picture showing how I did the painting on my build thred--A Revell 1/96 English Man'O War.  I used a paper pattern to mark the spaceing.  Then drew the tryangles in pencil. Then scribed them with a small pen knife.  Then hand painted them.

Well done.  What glue do you use when making up the rat lines?

Frank--which model are you referring to ?

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this is the i766.photobucket.com/.../englishmanowar004_zps7e78f895.jpgmodel I am baseing my model on.  

I will post to this one to bring it back up to where David K can find it.

1943Mike---I tryed to send pictures of my compleated works by PM but it didn't work.  So I am makeing this post to bring this thred back up whair you can find it.

I have begun replaceing the picture posts photobucket took down.

Thats great, Santa.

I just reposted all of my pictures for each of the several threads I had going in one up-to-date batch.

B@st@rds!

Santa, Looking forward to your posting pictures again. I think it's highway robbery - or something akin to that - the way Photobucket has turned.

I'm happy, so far, using Flickr but other modelers seem to be having problems using them as their image hosting site. What site have you decided to use?

Never mind! I just looked at your thread Santa and saw you're using Imgur.

warshipguy

Gentlemen,

There have been some recent threads showing some very interesting techniques with plastic sailing ships, particularly with the Revell 1/96 USS Constitution and the Heller 1/100 HMS Victory.  Therefore, I would like to start a thread highlighting other builder's efforts, a general catalog if you will. I think it will be interesting to see . . . now, if I can get my own pictures posted . . . 

Bill

 

Yes, indeed ! Start a new thread.  I almost passed over your message because it was of a very old zombie thread!