My Spanish ships of the line has come a little bit further. All but one have finished decks.
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Those angled looks as if they have a different tone, but that’s an illusion due to daylight.
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My Spanish ships of the line has come a little bit further. All but one have finished decks.
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Those angled looks as if they have a different tone, but that’s an illusion due to daylight.
Had to MacGyver a replacement port cathead for HMS San Josef after the original broke off in transit. Used a section of raft support, so her catheads look like a freakin' fiddler crab, but I figured the oversize one stands out less than Complete Absence.
I am NOT looking forward to coming up with two replacement lanterns for HMS Orion... even if the museum/collector models are right that Canadas and 64's only had two lanterns, just cutting the donor parts off is gonna suck.
DB, I had to replace a some lanterns for a couple of my initial models which broke off in transit. I used a small dress pin, cut off the point and head, then super glued in position, then next day , to give time to set, cut to size. At this scale and after a lick or two of paint I think it is not noticeable
https://www.sailsofglory.org/attachm...0&d=1619984454
The middle lantern was missing
Looking good Chris. One day I will try rigging just one of my models.:shock:
Rob.
The bridge.
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And some houses.
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The houses are a little bit too small on purpose to use less area on the battlefield.
An old chestnut Jonas. :wink:
Buildings to scale so that you don't hide a whole scaled down regiment behind a cottage.:shock: Trees to scaled height so you can't actually reach over them to move your bases.:Arrrr::minis: Sailing ships and flying aircraft are so much more easy to manoeuvre :steer: and amenable to play with.:clap: The bridge looks superb painted up.
Rob.
A GHQ West Indies merchant
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Very well done sir, and something that wec are short of and are in dire need of are the Light Merchantmen.
Rob.
Today I have been getting a few cards done for my new HEIC ships.
Firstly
Followed by HEIC Bombay.
Nice work, both of you.
Montañes is ready.
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Cracking job Jonas. those red insides to the gun port lids really set her of wonderfully.
Rob.
Jonas, your painting ability is truly incredible. It is almost impossible to believe that is a picture of a 1:1000 scale ship. Truly incredible job. Well done.
Anthony
The whole shipyard...
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...513_104637.jpg
post-drydock repair to HMS San Josef's cathead:
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Size comparison between two generations of Common 74, and First Rates...
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Henry's Purisima Concepcion is about the same size as SGN106, 108 and 201, which leads me to suspect that Ares' engineer was right about the Wave 1 ships being oversize but Meregildos is still BADLY undersize.
Current status/to-dos... all need guns and carriages.
HMS Victory - need better info or reco's/ideas on striping/beakhead/galleries and deck details for Keppel's red scheme
ARS Purisima Concepcion - silver for gallery, gold for figurehead, white for beakhead; need suggestions on Spanish bulwark colors
ARS San Jose - striping touchups, gold on beakhead, black markings on port/stbd forward quarters; ditto re bulwarks
HMS San Josef - need beakhead ideas; thinking go with typical turn of 19th century Babypuke Ochre and golden-yellow beakhead/gallery
HMS Canada - minor touchups on strakes and galleries; bulwarks; deck details; extend blue and add red trim on stern gallery
HMS Captain - minor stern details; bulwarks; deck details
HMS Orion - repair lanterns; touchup; gallery and beakhead; bulwarks; deck details
HMS Majestic - touchup; gallery and beakhead; bulwarks; deck details
HMS Ganges - on hold at primer and windows; need paint references
HMS Culloden - on hold at primer and windows; need paint references
HMS Tremendous - on hold at primer and windows; waiting for white paint
HMS Invincible - on hold at primer and windows; need paint references
HMS Minden - deck details; bulwarks; beakhead/gallery touchup
HMS Polyphemus - deck details; touchup; gold on gallery/beakhead; bulwarks; red trim; need to determine ID marker
HMS America - yellow sides; gold beak/gallery; bulwarks; red trim; need to determine ID marker
Your ships are coming along very nicely DB.
Thank you.
Great progress DB!
Working on Argonauta now...
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Where do I start with you gents today.
You are so prolific. This is a veritable production line. Fleets of this that and the other are taking shape.
If only Ares could get their act together as well as you chaps!
Keep up the good work.
Rob.
The trick, my friend, is just like Clipper's Zeppelins--queue up similar tasks and do them as a job-lot. :) And yes, an assembly line is exactly what I'm aiming for... someday a part of me wants to see if we could negotiate "group licenses" from Henry and Simon to either be shared among donating Anchorage members or offered as a "membership add-on" fundraiser.
That's the way I did the decks on my Spanish fleet. Now I basically just do the lines, stem and stern to finish it. Not to much, but as I want to find painting schemes I do them one at a time for that.
And now Argonauta is finished.
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:shock: Excellent paint job
Ah! Batch production expands to fill the void. What a sound idea. :happy:
Rob.
I have now got started on my next batch of sea coast and village.
Rob.
Or "specialization and trade"--I'm not sure if this fits with Henry's license terms, but IF he'd be cool with it if you specialize in one type of ship and a buddy specializes in another then you might just open a short line, each of you does all of a given type for both and then just trade finished models 1-for-1. Again, IF...
Thank you all for the nice words.
Looking at the pictures I think I should have sanded the hull a little.
It's not as easy seen in real life as on the pictures, but it's a bit annoying on such detailed, beautiful models.
And just to let you know, it’s far from good looking before I do the touch up.
Started the next one. San Ildefonso. Looks awful so far.
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What are you using to SEE that small? I've thought about buying an Optivisor, but every time I pick one up at the store a thought goes through my head about "what does it matter how well I can see if I can't hit ONLY the small target and not hit the non-target around it" and put it back.
And then my wrist aches just THINKING about hand painting the port lids one by one... you give us all something to aspire to.
I recently bought something like this:
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I have one of those Jonas, but it sits on a table stand. I use it for the light it gives. Never actually had the magnifying lid open.
Rob.
Also, new paintbrushes with proper finger support are making a HUGE difference! :) Man, if I'd known to switch to fine artist's brushes instead of the crap they dump on the model/hobby market 20 years ago... I'm not gonna get cocky and say Jonas has company catchin' up, that'd be a complete crock of BS, but today's paintwork has a visible improvement over just this time yesterday.
Good Tools Matter, folks. :)
Progress Report to Admiralty, end of day 14 May 2021
Work Required on Ships Currently in Dockyard
ALL - masts/sails; carriages; guns/ports
HMS Victory - need better info or reco's/ideas on striping/beakhead/galleries and deck details for Keppel's red scheme
Purisima Concepcion class
--ARS Purisima Concepcion - silver for gallery, gold for figurehead, white for beakhead; need suggestions on Spanish bulwark colors
--ARS San Jose - gold on beakhead, black markings on port/stbd forward quarters; ditto re bulwarks
--HMS San Josef - Babypuke Ochre and black stripes on but need touchup; golden-yellow beakhead/gallery and [unk color] deck details to-do
Canada class
HMS Canada - minor touchups on strakes and galleries; bulwarks; deck details; add red trim on stern gallery
HMS Captain - minor stern details; bulwarks; deck details
HMS Orion - repair lanterns; touchup; gallery and beakhead; bulwarks; deck details
HMS Majestic - touchup; gallery and beakhead; bulwarks; deck details
Ganges class
HMS Ganges - on hold at primer and windows; need paint references
HMS Culloden - on hold at primer and windows; need paint references
HMS Tremendous - on hold at primer and windows; waiting for white paint
HMS Invincible - on hold at primer and windows; need paint references
HMS Minden - deck details; bulwarks; beakhead/gallery touchup
Intrepid class
HMS Polyphemus - deck details; touchup; gold on gallery/beakhead; bulwarks; red trim; need to determine ID marker
HMS America - yellow sides; gold beak/gallery; bulwarks; red trim; need to determine ID marker
Rob, I only use the magnifying glass for details such as the stern gallery, but it’s a big help to me then. I’d never even try to do the Spanish heraldry on the stern of Argonauta if I hadn’t had that one. It’s not really depicting anything, but it’s the right colours and that’s enough even for close inspection not to mention at gaming distance.
And despite using that magnifying glass I still see the failed painting in the photos when I put them up here in the thread.
DB, yes a good brush is very important. I bought some online for the first time during the pandemic and was surprised to be very pleased by it. Usually I buy them at conventions looking through the entire inventory searching for the perfect brush.
I must give mine a whirl then the next time I paint a model Jonas.
Rob.
If you mean the marks left by the impression, don't worry, it doesn't show much. If you want to reduce these possible irregularities, I use Citadel inks, they are a little dense inks that cover well these types of irregularities, so that they do not spread and occupy the deepest parts, hiding the details, I apply the ink locally with a brush and then I apply a hair dryer to dry it quickly.