HMS victory build

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I did not know that michael , did they have anything in their place ?

steve5

 Yes Steve, there were 2 six pounders. I've never used any blackening agent just a black sharpie and a light touch up as needed with black paint.

I use "Birchwood Casey" brand brass black. Works on brass and solder, sometimes even on stainless wire to make it look aged, as well as copper and bronze. They also have one for blackening aluminum. I got mine at a gun dealer store.

thank's ejhammer , michael ,- now I have a couple of option's .

I would like to pester the brotherhood a bit more , 1765 , would have been too early for brass plate's on the hull , right ?

steve5

Steve,

According to this:

http://www.academia.edu/358814/The_Introduction_and_Use_of_Copper_Sheathing_-_A_History

the Victory was first sheathed with copper in 1780.

See page 25 just below the middle of the page with the large paragraph.

thank's mike for that , found it very interesting reading . only read page 25 , will get a nice glass of vino tonight and read the rest , cheer's mate .

steve

I need someone to tell me what this particular piece does . I just know it is on there .

I think it had something to do with the anchor, but not exactly sure what?

Michael D.

it might have been a guard , to protect the chain's , michael .?

I really miss the prof.  , he was such , an incredible , fountain of knowledge , as well as being such a humble man .

That makes sense since the channels and chains were much lower then. May God bless the Prof soul.

Michael D

Yes, they are to protect the hull and channels from the flukes of the anchor:-

from http://www.all-model.com/pages/Neophyte7.html

Yes the Professor is sadly missed, his posts were always very informative and interesting.  He is a real loss to the forum.  We are fortunate to have experts like dafi around. But still..

Best wishes,

John

Sorry, no-one can replace THE master. Sadly missed, but we will continue to do our best.

Cheers, DAniel

thank's for that john , interesting reading ,funny name for it though , billboard ,

sorry michael but I had a go at copying your entry , hope you don't mind , not as grandious as your's ,[ don't know how you did those poles ] , I'm still to do the handrail .

painted the two bottom deck's , put some scratch's in the upper gun deck to simulate decking , if anyone look's in the hull entry's .

does anyone know where I can buy some decent rudder hinge's , I'm sanding the copper tile's off of the bottom at the moment , and need to replace the molded one's , any help will be greatly appreciated , thank's . 

 steve5

Havent seen any decent ones to be bought yet ...

Evergreen stripes in the true scale for the sides/arms and triangles of 1 mm sheet for the pintle should do the job. At least did with me  ;-)

Cheers, Daniel

thank's daniel , did know how you did your's , guess I was just being lazy , is that a .8mm drill bit in the back ground .

steve

Yes it is :-)

These are the small "messages to myself" in case I have to redo bits after some time. Works wonders with this fuzzy brain of mine :-)

More here

Posted February 16, 2013

XXXDAn

thank's dafi I was just going over your whole build

http://www.segelschiffsmodellbau.com/f162-HMS-Victory.html

this is so much fun , sanding my fav , only because of the amount .

How do you do it? By Hand/sanding paper? I have to do this soon too, and am not decided yet how ...

XXXDAn

PS: OK if you go through my building report, then your are busy for the next 3 1/2 weeks ;-)

yeah! mate , by hand , I started at 40 grit , 120 , 180 , 240 , 320 . 3-4 hour's worth . 

such fun , good luck daniel , but knowing your patience , this should be easy 

I also used a very fine file , to get close to the bottom wale .

are you doing an earlier version too daniel ?

steve

No, the later version ;-)

But she has to be recoppered as the existing scales look like the planking screme of Titanic ... 

xXXDAn

dafi this I am looking forward to , finished the handrail , now for some primer .

look's better the one colour

No worries Steve, looking good

Michael D.

Steve, what are you using for copper plates? I used individual copper plates made for a model on my 1/96 Constitution, but that has been 35 years ago. They still look good & are all still on. I used Goo for glueing them on. It was like a contact cement. I might still have some, but probably not enough. Your work is beautiful. Your cannons are super. 

thank's michael , gene , I am not putting copper plates on gene , I don't think they came about till the 1780's , the hull bottom will be just painted white mate ,

steve