We are now only £167 short of our goal chaps, lets get this over the finishing line. Three more £55 pledges would do it.
Rob.
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We are now only £167 short of our goal chaps, lets get this over the finishing line. Three more £55 pledges would do it.
Rob.
The Christian looks really nice, here is hoping we cross the line
If Henry gets back to me with a quote in time, and I sort out my KS login in time, I'm going to be on for at least £50 for the 1/1000 set or a cherry-picked dozen I expect Ares will never do...
4 each Canada and Ganges (statistically similar to Bellona, so I expect Ares to slipstream with SGN104)
3 San Joses (statistically near identical and structurally very close, I've proposed that Ares slipstream the Purisima Concepcions as an SGN111 to give us HMS San Josef/HMS Salvador del Mundo)
1 Victory (three-way swap; my existing Britannia gets new paper as 1810 Boyne or similar, 201 Victory gets Britannia's paper and Henry's Victory gets the correct 1760s-80s red scheme)
Would a 3/8" diameter magnet fit between the hull sides on these? I was looking for old 1/4" neodymiums like they had when I was a kid, but they don't seem to be made anymore... thinking two magnets and two washers would be a foolproof, no-cutting attachment method.
For your magnets, DM, try Mcmaster Carr. Just type that in to your search engine and then go to magnets. They have 1/4" and smaller.
Will do, Dobbs; alternate option is mount the magnets in the base and use 1/4" hex-nuts in the ship. Challenge is getting a combo that'll stick even with 1/8" of plastic in the middle...
Funny thing... IIRC one of my gunsmith buddies said he gets his roll-pins and coil-springs through McMaster-Carr rather than the ripoff gunsmith-supply houses want for common industrial parts.
Only £122 to go! This is going down to the wire. All we need is a couple more £55 benefactors and I'll donate the last few squid.
Rob.
Henry quoted me 74.04, I rounded it to an even 75 in the spirit of getting this ship shoved down the ways. :)
According to latest update, we've done it! £500 to get Diadem... if we get close enough for two 1/1000's of that to push it over the top I'll do that too.
:hatsoff: Congratulations shipmates.:thanks: We just got our ships off the stocks:minis: with four days to spare.:clap: Let's hope :pray:the certainty of procuction now brings in a last minute flood of further pledges.
Rob.:salute:
Hurrah looks like we now maybe need to discuss stats for the Canada class ect
My expectation is Ares would just slipstream them into SGN104. Might be some changes in the wind arcs on the base-insert, but the differences are more visual than statistical IIRC.
In burthen terns, the Slade Common family based on L'Invincible range from 1546 (1757 Dublin) to 1659 (1776 Culloden) tons, Canada is 1632 and Ganges 1656. So both are 5x10, Gunnery will be similar too. Ganges-class Minden maybe one extra box for her teak hull.
Update: £210 to Diadem! Actually more like 195 if Henry's agreeable to adding two Diadems and a fifth Ganges to my bundle...
Oh crap! Just realized I forgot to ask about masts and sails...
£4,885... 115 to Diomede, less if Henry can do masts and sails which I completely choked on. Kicktraq projecting a final of £5374, 126 shy of Nepomuceno. (Which when he gets to I'll need at least four of as correction kits on SGN112...)
I'm very happy with how things are progressing! Just pulled a trigger on the FB ads and we'll see how far they get us on the last days. But it looks like we might be seeing an upswing as people are more confident the product'll actually get made :D I also think KS is more likely to display a campaign that's ending soon, so there's that.
I'll get back to you via PMs :) Sorry, I've been inactive the last two days as I've been embroiled with my erstwhile employer!
Well, with my latest revision, we have Diadem! 490 to get Nepomuceno.
I'll have to go check my pledge now to see how masts and sails might be impacted; one way or the other.
I signed up for the core set of 1/1000 printed ships. I assumed that they came with masts and sails. Does anyone know if this is true?
I don't quite follow the stretch goals. Am I eligible for those?
Also, Henry mentions that the models have an option of holes for rigging. I hope that means that they can come with no holes, as I don't rig my fleet.
I'm signed up for the 1/1000 too and having just looked at the original pledge level I didn't see anything about sails and masts? As for the stretch goals I'm not sure how those work either as this Kickstarter is a bit different from those I'm most familiar with. In most Kickstarter's the higher levels (read more money) usually include any and all contents of the lower levels, but often the stretch goals go to everyone who's committed to a certain level amount? Henry's KS has more independent parts so I don't know how he'll work it?
I am very happy for you all! I love the enthusiasm and excitement I am reading. Henry's Hulls are truly pieces of art and I know you will be pleased.
Right now for FDM masts, Henry's quoted me 2GBP/set, sails we'll work out later--he did say that he likes to do more finescale work while his mentor Simon likes more durable "game grade." At this point my pledge is at 120 for fifteen ships and mast sets including shipping, if we hit the Nepomuceno stretch I may talk about a second box with those to ship separately. (Didn't need the full 1/1000 Pledge because at this point I'm mainly trying to use Henry's models as "correction kits" for Ares releases, so he was kind enough to let me do a "Custom Mix" of just sculpts that fit there.)
No idea if Chris put us in for the sails or not. I will just go with whatever he has done.
Rob.
I'm also making the wildly optimistic assumption that my hands will stay steady long enough for me to paint hulls, seat masts and mount sails.
They are included in the .stl files. Not sure if you ordered a printed set whether you also get the files? Luckily I know someone with a high end printer, so I only got the sets of .stl files. Of course it may be awhile before I see him. :sad:
Anyway happy to see the project funded. Cheers for Henry. :beer:
Indeed we do :) Very happy as I'd been dying for an excuse to model a 64 for a while now!
This is all very contingent on how well my tests go with getting sails/masts to work at this scale. I hadn't offered masts with the 1/700 ships simply because, on my FDM machine, printing five lots of masts for seven ships would take several days of constant printing. However, for the smaller vessels, I may well include them on request but, again, it's all contingent on how well the sculpting goes - I've never tried to make sails/masts for such small ships on an FDM machine before. However I imagine I should at the very least manage some basic yards/arms.
I wanted to investigate getting fine resin sails that could "clip" on to bare yardarms too, but I'd have to charge for those I think as they'd be a lot more trouble to print.
After January 1st I'll get in touch with everyone asking them about specific options, including rigging holes :) Really that'll be the only option for 1/1000, but I'll be asking 1/700 customers if they want the "chunky" sculpts or to have the ship based (I'll be refusing to ship any unbased "fine detail" models as it'll allow me to secure the models better so they survive shipping).
About stretch goals - I'm afraid they're only supplied for the STL packages, not the physical sets.
Good Lord, you should've been my marketing man!
Henry, an idea for you: Do you think it might be possible to do a "long shaft" mast and deeper mast socket so that even if a mast isn't glued in it's likely to stay put and vertical unless deliberately removed? Since I don't rig my ships, I'm thinking of a combination of "battle damage" options and knockdown for ease of transport in my current storage system.
I have been doing this for years with the metal masts on my WWI and WW2 warships and with a bit of ingenuity it is even possible to do a fair bit of rigging which detaches with the mast.
Rob.
245GBP to go on Nepomuceno, 445 on the razee 64!
Make that 198 on Nepomuceno... if you bought the full half-dozen of SGN112 you really want four of these.
37 hours. My pledge is capped by Henry asking me to keep a 15-hull-per-box limit, but we CAN do this... if Henry's open to a second box with second shipping charge maybe I can carry the "last yard" here too.
Funded with stretch goal 64 yay! :happy:
Still time for the second one. I for one would be happy to wait for more mast and sail options and pay extra as well.
We have Nepomuceno and 74GBP left for the razees!
All goals funded, chaps, thank you very much :)
In other news for progress today; much of it was spent on my end trying to get 1/1000 and 1/1200 sail sets done. I can confirm that the single-piece sails/yardarms combo (AKA the "Ares style") successfully print at 1/1200; the 1/1000 ones should be a simple case of upscaling :) However, I've yet to ascertain how well the "bare yardarms" will print.
The evening was spent assembling 1/700 prototype prints, with their sails, so I can start a YouTube series where I offer painting tutorials on my ships. Hoping to put out a video covering every ship in the KS :)
Here's how Christian VII looks, in 1/700, with a (rather wonky) dry test fit:
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Just seen that we have the Razees.
Superb effort to all and sundry, and thank you Henry for giving us what Ares can not seem to do. Looks like a lot of my spending money will be earmarked for the forseeable future.
Rob.
Thought the KS said the ships all came with masts and sails, will need to confirm if that was for the printed pledge or STL files only pledge.
But looking good for extra ships as Ares future plans show nothing new upto March at least.
If we get the Nepo stretch I will be wanting extra , like you DB, to replace the Ares versions.
Ooooh just seen we got the Nepo, this just looks like getting better and better, now to save up for some ratlines
I'm thinking to just cheat on ratlines, a la Warlord, and use prints on transparency film. :)