Hello everbody from Turkey
I've been visiting this forum everyday for one year. Today I decided to join this group. I'm 39 years old and I returned modelling last year after 29 year. All the models that I built before are not good to show here.
I espicially want to share my first important model with you. Before explanations about my model I want to thanks "Donnie" from forum. I've used the explanations that Donnie made here about Wappen Von Hamburg. I painted the ship ( Lindberg's Captain Kidd ) according to the Donnie's recipe but with some small changes.
At the beginning I drilled every cannon with hand-drill. This was a very crazy job for eyes. But I prefer to do this procedure in order to get a lifelike seeing. After paint procedure I changed plastic sails with tissue. I tied tissue with thread and painted with Nescafe. Then I got rid of plastic ratlines and built new ones with thread. I used Heller's loom a line. I scratchbuilt also barrels. Because I couldn't find suitable barrels in the market for this scale. After all of them I painted crew and placed them on the ship.
This ship will be very important in my life because my father has died during the construction. After I decided to finish the model in the memory of my father. He loved my skills about painting and modelling. In this period modelling has helped me to keep my feelings better as a physicotherapy.
I hope to share my new models as soon as possible.
With my best regards.