DSiemens Posted August 2, 2018 Report Share Posted August 2, 2018 Birds are hard enough at large scale. Fantastic work. Chasseur 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onni Posted August 10, 2018 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2018 My nemesis; modelling ladders... James w rogers, Landlubber Mike, Bernard Kelly and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onni Posted August 10, 2018 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2018 Shrouds look a little bit better.... IgorSky, Bernard Kelly, James w rogers and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onni Posted August 10, 2018 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2018 Some of the armament that I may use; Nordenfelt machine guns on fo'c'sle,64pdr muzzle loaders on main deck and two Armstrong guns on the poop deck. A lot of the items I may or may not use as a full deck can look a bit cluttered . Added the hammock netting which is on the top of the bulwarks (indicated by the badly drawn arrow!) IgorSky, Chasseur, Bernard Kelly and 7 others 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onni Posted August 18, 2018 Author Report Share Posted August 18, 2018 Made some cowl ventilators using two different diameters of white styrene tubing.Enlarged the ends using a woodburning iron and then cut them off, and glued back on at an angle. Still have to paint them. JesseLee, Bernard Kelly, Landlubber Mike and 4 others 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onni Posted August 25, 2018 Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2018 Sometimes things just don't seem to go right... IgorSky, exwafoo, James w rogers and 2 others 2 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onni Posted August 25, 2018 Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2018 but then other times they do go better...My original sea looked pretty bland but with a bit of acrylic paints, big improvement? JesseLee, exwafoo, JerseyCity Frankie and 6 others 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onni Posted September 6, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 6, 2018 After spending hours rolling thin linen and tying them with cotton on to the spars to imitate furled sails,decided that it didn't look good and discarded them.Another 20 minutes to unpick them...duh! James w rogers, JesseLee, Landlubber Mike and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onni Posted September 6, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 6, 2018 Tried a few different ideas for the rolled up sails and in the end just laid several layers of white glue on the spars and painted them.Simple solution and quick and easy.Looks less top heavy anyway. IOAN, Bernard Kelly, Landlubber Mike and 4 others 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onni Posted September 6, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 6, 2018 Had to cut up the forecastle and poop deck to be able to get them through the bottle neck and also try to make them a bit more solid for e.g. railings,rigging and other items.Beginning to look like a jigsaw puzzle. James w rogers, IOAN, John Zuch and 5 others 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chasseur Posted September 9, 2018 Report Share Posted September 9, 2018 Deck furniture looking great. Too bad about the broken spar. I know the amount of work that goes into modeling... hurts when you break someth?ing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onni Posted September 10, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2018 Thanks Chasseur.I have a fascination of ships in the transitional stage of sail to steam and I look forward to seeing more of HMS Wivern that is from that era. Made this model of HMS Inflexible in 2013.It's in a very narrow, slightly tinted antique bottle. I chose to do a full hull model to do her justice. Quite happy how she turned out although the rigging could of been tighter. Chasseur, James w rogers, IOAN and 5 others 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onni Posted September 21, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2018 Some of the clutter which may be in the final version. John Zuch, Chasseur, JesseLee and 4 others 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onni Posted September 21, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2018 Spent some hours trying to fashion some decent looking railings with stanchions but the effort was totally wasted because they looked awful (Not even going to post a picture of them!) ? Bought instead some photo etched railings from the net which still took time to paint and fix but the end result is quite pleasing.? IgorSky, JesseLee, exwafoo and 6 others 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onni Posted October 10, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 10, 2018 The sea goes in and I disassemble HMS Gannet ready to squeeze her through the bottle neck and re-assemble piece by piece inside.Bottom of hull in and insertion of the top halves follows. Have to wait for the glue to dry. John Zuch, Landlubber Mike, James w rogers and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onni Posted October 10, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 10, 2018 Mast in place,after rigging is tightened added binnacle etc ,screw raising pulley and guns. John Zuch, IOAN, JesseLee and 6 others 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onni Posted October 11, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2018 Main mast goes in and I glue it firmly in place with two component glue.Two of the lifeboats in place but unfortunately the port side one is not at the correct angle and the glue has already set .Not much that I can do with it now.? JesseLee, Bernard Kelly, John Zuch and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onni Posted October 12, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 12, 2018 Progressed to the funnel area complete with air ventilators and boiler vents. Deck cannons in the mid gun ports.On the original ship these ran on rails making them easy to move and position for arc of fire. Only one muzzle loading gun at the front of the ship which used the same rail system so could be moved quickly from starboard to port gun position.Muzzle loaders had to be used in the early 1880's because of problems with the new armstrong breech loaders( a step backwards to the days of Nelson) Wiggled the foremast in;next step is to glue that in place.... IOAN, James w rogers, Bernard Kelly and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onni Posted October 13, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 13, 2018 (edited) Foremast in place and glued. In the first picture note the white loops at the top of the mast used to pull through the boom and jib ropes. (Not sure if those are the correct terms.) Picture two, here I am trying to evenly tighten the back stays together. Capstan fixed in place and also the Arab Dhowl sailing on the starboard side.Port side forecastle in but not glued yet because have to wait until both sides are in before I can fix them together. Edited October 13, 2018 by Onni Artur, JerseyCity Frankie, exwafoo and 6 others 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gwyl Blaser Posted October 13, 2018 Report Share Posted October 13, 2018 Very nice work. Bernard Kelly 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onni Posted October 13, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 13, 2018 29 minutes ago, Gwyl Blaser said: Very nice work. Many thanks Gwyl. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onni Posted October 14, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 14, 2018 Starboard piece of the forecastle deck is joined to the port side.Try as I might I just could not get the completed deck to stay down tight against the bulwarks so had to resort to using a tiny amount of instant glue (super glue) to stop it popping up. Seems to have done the trick.Added Nordenfelt machine guns ,fully glazed hatches and navigation lights(the white objects which look like R2-D2?) Lightly glued in place the bowsprit but stepping back and looking at it objectively it just looked wrong ( too large) so still having time before the glue set I took it away and am in the process of building a smaller bowsprit which I hope will be more in keeping with the scale. JerseyCity Frankie, JesseLee, Chasseur and 4 others 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onni Posted October 16, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2018 Having discarded my original bowsprit, made a new smaller version with thin metal spar and dolphin striker.As previously; made three cotton loops ready in the bowsprit to pull through the forestay,jib stay etc..glued the stays with ordinary wood glue and allowed to dry before cutting them off underneath with a small bit of razor blade cemented to a thin wire.Always a bit shaky doing that as one false move can cut one of the bobstays by mistake which would be a bit of a disaster,however everything went well and I am quite pleased with the finished item.I had already made a larger turks head so it was just a question of fitting it to the bottle neck. Last two pictures show a late Victorian gunboat/sloop 'HMS Gannet 'at anchor in the evening setting sun....... Bernard Kelly, Chasseur, John Zuch and 6 others 8 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James w rogers Posted October 16, 2018 Report Share Posted October 16, 2018 Wow! Looks absolutely stunning, love the shot through the neck, looks so realistic! Great job. ? Bernard Kelly, Onni and Chasseur 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onni Posted October 16, 2018 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2018 29 minutes ago, James w rogers said: Wow! Looks absolutely stunning, love the shot through the neck, looks so realistic! Great job. ? Many thanks James. Yeah its my favourite shot too! James w rogers and Chasseur 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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