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| Charles |
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  Registered Member #1923 Joined: Mon Nov 28 2011, 06:07pmPosts: 829 | The Terror A nice ship I do not know if you are able to read French but any way here a link to a build on a French forum the modeller just finish it last September. http://www.laroyale-modelisme.net/t21587-montage-du-hms-terror-de-notre-partenaire-occre-1-65 The Reno are at my younger son not here, redoing all the floor and the basement he did buy and old house 80y old lots to do. [ Edited Tue Jan 21 2020, 01:50pm ] | ||
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| NovaStorm |
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  Registered Member #5618 Joined: Sat Sep 22 2018, 02:33pmPosts: 331 | Thank you Charles, sadly I do not read french but I can have it translated online  The translation works really well. He did a great job with his build despite the kit issue's at the beginning that Occre took care of, including throwing in some extra's. Let him know I want his sails, they look superb [ Edited Tue Jan 21 2020, 07:39pm ] | ||
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| NovaStorm |
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| Registered Member #5618 Joined: Sat Sep 22 2018, 02:33pmPosts: 331 | After a few more trials I decided on tooth pics again to treenail the deck. Sanded them down flush and added a thick coat of tung oil and allowed that to settle in. Some Pics     | ||
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| Charles |
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| Registered Member #1923 Joined: Mon Nov 28 2011, 06:07pmPosts: 829 | Magnificent work Robin  | ||
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| jacknastyface2 |
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| Registered Member #5239 Joined: Sat Apr 21 2018, 05:29pmPosts: 470 | I may have missed it, but how did you do the caulking on the deck? Any way, it looks a treat. Keith. | ||
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| NovaStorm |
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| Registered Member #5618 Joined: Sat Sep 22 2018, 02:33pmPosts: 331 | Charles and Keith, appreciate the positive feedback. Keith I went with a 4B artists pencil for the chaulking. I also cut back on my drill size for treenailing the deck, after finally getting some half decent bits. Used a .046mm I believe. I've started turning out copper plates for the hull using for the most part the procedure followed in the instruction's. But the slats (channels) that keep the copper straight and in line I did not glue onto a board! One thing I found while doing the first trials was having a poster board thick piece of cardboard under the copper gave me much better impressions vs hard wood. Pics : In the first pic, I took a copy of drill pattern actual size from the plans and glued it onto a 1/4 wide piece of hardwood to drill out. The pattern was drilled just enough to allow me to still hammer in brass nails partway to act as pins for making the impression. The heads of the nails were cut off and pins filed even and flat across. Second pic with the finished jig in production. you will notice the white strip of poster board under the slat's or runners...   | ||
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| NovaStorm |
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| Registered Member #5618 Joined: Sat Sep 22 2018, 02:33pmPosts: 331 | The copper strips were cut up plate size before installing. As they get installed I use a little block of balsa to flatten and burnish them. This is a rather tedious operation but I've figured out a fairly quick way of removing the backing from the copper plates before sticking them down. Trying to peel it down and away is way to hard but you can flick you finger down from the top several times and it will separate nicely...  | ||
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| jacknastyface2 |
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| Registered Member #5239 Joined: Sat Apr 21 2018, 05:29pmPosts: 470 | Almost makes me want to try coppering myself, but I have never done a period ship of that era.  Keith. | ||
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| NovaStorm |
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| Registered Member #5618 Joined: Sat Sep 22 2018, 02:33pmPosts: 331 | Hi Keith, I gotta kick outta almost lol. Honestly I worry a little because the copper is so thin it is going to be a challenge to finish off everything on the rest of the ship without damaging it. Hopefully I can pull it off. Once I finish doing both sides I will try to add a patina using salt and vinegar. Cheers ~ | ||
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| jacknastyface2 |
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| Registered Member #5239 Joined: Sat Apr 21 2018, 05:29pmPosts: 470 | There is something by J. Tilley on Dry Dock models about Coppering. I should have copied it. Perhaps you could find it. First he said that the old copper was more like Muntz metal and I think that was more like bronze. About your plates being thin and that you worry that it may come off:- Is there a finish you could spray on, such as a metallic varnish? Got to tell you this: I used to correspond with a very good Mexican modeler. He was also a good cartoonist and showed me one of his cartoons about patina on copper. The modeler used urine! Probably some truth there  Keith. [ Edited Sat Feb 15 2020, 03:37am ] | ||
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