Wonderful works all of you ! ! The details of the "soot" on the shot tower from the canon balls adds a great amount of realism !
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Wonderful works all of you ! ! The details of the "soot" on the shot tower from the canon balls adds a great amount of realism !
Rob at this moment it is difficult to find English language docs about fights against the Berbery coast . I am trying to find .
We had lot of problems here in the coast , and lot of brigs , frigates , and ships of the line fights .
I have found another fight between USA and Berbery pirates 50 km from my home with a frigate involved :
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_off_Cape_Gata
Thank you Romeo and Vol . I used black and grey to give the black powder look . I was thinking all my towers are like new and may be I needed some action.
I finally finished the frigate
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This one shows the added aft and quarter boat davits
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The next pic is my scratch built 1/1200 Chesapeake with my new Chesapeake
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In this one you can make out the winged angel figurehead
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Morning Ferrante.
Firstly, I was very remiss not to mention your very fine tower yesterday. Both the ones I have are in pristine condition and I feel it is high time I had a ruin like yours.
Secondly thanks for looking up that extra information. will add it to my growing inventory of useful actions upon which I can draw.
Rob.
Another magnificent model Vol, and the setting in which you have placed it is stunning.
Rob.
Vol, your pictures are just breathtaking. :thumbsup: Thank you for sharing them. The combination "soft" white / black is really great ; without mentioning your rigging work (nice thread colour too instead of the given black one). It makes the ships look much more realistic. So (just to discourage myself) how many hours did you spend to finish her ?
Hi, thank you Roméo. It is hard to say how many hours it took me. Due to other circumstances, I have only been able to spend an average of 30 minutes an evening in the shipyard for the past month. Some days none at all. Other days only 10 to 15 minutes. I received the squadron packs on April 10, but did not begin work on the frigate until the end of April. So figuring three weeks at 30 min a day would be around 10.5 hours.
I feel this could be cut down by 25% if I could dedicate larger uninterupted blocks of time at it.
Vol I admire your job with painting , rat lines and flags. This looks amazing job . It will take to me more than double time to have that detail . My patiente is limited .
I still like more the 1/1000 models , larger battles , and less space needed
Rob no problem , I wish I can view your tower and project soon .
I am painting my brigade models fort , and another order on the way :)
Thank you Ferrante. That is why I prefer the 1/1200 scale for gaming....even larger battles, even less space:minis:
These 1/700 ships are fun to build and just pretty!
Vol your ship does look amazing and I like the fact its it's not on a base so that when you photographed it with the backdrop in place it looks so realistic.
A small work of art, I showed it to my wife and she said "where was the photo taken, Gibraltar" and then I explained it was a model with a photo behind, it's that good.
Rob I missed the start of your port, looking forward to seeing how you progress with it.
Ferrante that's a clever idea to show the battle damage on the tower, it does look good.
Well it took Brigade only four days longer to ship, and this little lot arrived today right in the middle of me painting the doors on the landing. However, that means that tomorrow I can start positioning my fortifications to see how they look best.
Rob.
Morning John.
You can catch the start of my port if you look at posts 27 and 33. Today I hope to refine some of my ideas by juxtaposing the new wall and tower sections with those I already had in stock, and then once that is settled send in another subsidiary order for any other items I think I need to enhance the main idea.
Rob.
It looks pretty inspiring too, Rob. I cannot get rid of my smile when I imagine each one of us trying all the possible positions ever of items to make scenery as much realistic as possible like kids would've done just to play. :medal:
You're pretty lucky to have only "four days longer to ship". I ordered some materials one month ago but resupplying is very slow because of Covid-19 : nearly everything comes from UK by the way. I'm stuck and can't do anything for the moment. That's why all your pictures are a very good medicine to my misfortune !
Well then here is today's dose from Dr.Rob.
https://sailsofglory.org/attachment....id=49426&stc=1
Tomorrow I start layering the Rocky outcrop.
Rob.
I think that was Vagabond asking Rob
I do have a quick question though. Do you refer back to the initial layout photos for placement after you have built up the hill top terrain? I know in the past I have had to change positions due to the way the terrain turned out. I never used photos. I think I will going forward.
Hi Vol.
Firstly thanks for spotting my mistake.
In answer to your question, if it is an historic fort like the ones I did for Basque Roads I try to be as accurate as the information I can glean allows. Modern photos often have a variety of modifications down the years and I try to define the most likely layout from my knowledge of the period and then tailor the bits of wall and bastions etc to fit. This often incurs a lot of cut and shunt, even in some cases totally new fabrications made from scratch. If copies of maps around the period are available this helps a lot. With The Isle De Rey I had a scaled down map of the whole Island and forts.
However, in this current case I simply picked a fort of which I liked the style, and converted it into a generic North African town and port which could look like just about anywhere. So, just like yourself, in the main it will be a case of best fit serves. As far as I can see so far, I only have two scratch built bits to do. The wall and stairs which will climb the cliff to the Citadel, and the flight of steps from it down to the town gate. As you will see tomorrow I have already modified that picture I posted earlier today.
Rob.
Thanks Romeo,
I hope that the end product lives up to your expectations.
Do you think it would be any swifter if I got your order sent to me and then forwarded it on to you. I can justify going to the Post Office once a week, even in the lockdown situation, and things here are easing up a bit now, or is the blockage with Customs at your end?
If I can help let me know.
Rob.
Nice little "harbor fortification", Rob. :wink:
Thanks Sven.
Still in the developmental stage as yet.
I am hoping to get som height on it tomorrow.
Rob.
I like your prospective layout, Rob. I can see where the different generations of builders had different ideas on defence.
Rob this is getting bigger and better . Nice forms , and matchs with the sea Matt .
I think is going to be a challenge the fight between the forts and some ships . Some historical battles could be remembered
While I have been patiently waiting for Rob to dazzle my senses with more of his amazing terrain art skills, I have moved on to one of the brigs in the Black Seas US Squadron pack. The modifications so far are:
1) Cut the spars away from the masts and dress the masts.
2) Cut the two pieces of the main course furled sail away from the plastic spar.
3) Cut and dress new spars from 0.32 music wire.
4) Glue the two pieces of the furled sail to the new main course spar. Fill in the gap with putty and sculpt to match.
5) cut two gun hatches in a piece of 60# card and glue it to the inside of the taff rail at the stern.
6) cut two hatch covers and glue them to the out side of the stern, matching the hatch locations inside
7) Mount a fife rail at the aft base of the main mast to tie off the braces from the foremast spars.
8) Extend the fighting tops
9) Make the ratlines with the new jig
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That is where I am at so far.
This is truly masterful Vol. I doubt I would have the patience to carry out all that rigging, but well worth it for a ship of that craftsmanship. The nearest I came to that was stringing the bows for my Wars of the Roses Army, but that was only one string each figure. That is a true work of art reminicent of Julien's ships.
Rob.
In the heat of today I managed to rough out the basic shape of the hillside and rocky crag.
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Rob.
I have now sculpted some of the contours of the hill ready for refining the shapes at a later date.
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Today I have been busy laying out the Castle and checking to see if the levels look OK, plus ensuring that everything fits snugly before I start cutting away to contours.
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Wow! That is going to look so cool!
Got the ratlines on and finished the standard rigging
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The next work is the sails. I am going to try wetting them and then shaping with a pencil eraser.
Almost a shame to set the sails and mask all that superb rigging Vol.
Rob.
Here is the progress I managed to get through yesterday afternoon and evening.
Starting the sculpting of the cliffs.
Rob do you use a hot wire/knife or just blades for carving? I have a hot wire foam carver but my basement hobby room has little to no ventilation and the fumes are too much.
Truly thank you a lot Rob for your offer. Unfortunately I think it's a matter of supplying between the British company and the French one so I basically have no possibility nor details on the shipping process. I just know that from a general overview, French (small) companies dealing with modelling have currently huge issues with their stocks despite the fact the economical activity started again a week ago. So I think it's just a matter of time with delivering the items then shipping to my place. But thank you again Rob, indeed it would've been faster to directly order to UK companies but I also wanted to help the small shop in my native region that has partnership with the British suppliers and has reduced import fees.
Both of you guys make a wonderful job. This is really great to follow step by step your works.
I was gonna ask you the same question. I haven't tried that hot wire yet and I was wondering whether you had used it to get such a good result about the cliffs. Anyway I love your different "floors" that give a good perspective (and realistic!) of the fortifications.
Without mentioning the rigging work. I personally use and glue the acetate pieces because I would be the last one able to reproduce them with real thread and that precision.