Looks good. I'm very happy you have started on my ship!
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Looks good. I'm very happy you have started on my ship!
Myself I’ve been working on more Spanish third rates.
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Looking good as usual Jonas.
Rob.
Thank you Vol, I'm a bit unsure if I did it correctly. Do you think the length is correct in that piece?
Now got the reverse sides for my HMS Captain cards.
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I was able to do a bit more on the Purisima yesterday because it rained, hallelujah!
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Those ratlines really look the part Vol. Your ship is beautiful.
Rob.
Looking great, Vol!
I’ve been working on the Spanish fleet…
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14 third rates and three first rates ready for rigging. Still many ships left to paint.
Today, I have finished the spaniard ship Santísima Trinidad, I hope you like the final result and that soon will lead Jonas's Spanish fleet. :beer::beer::beer:
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Larger than mine Jonas.
I must get on with Henry's this Autumn.
Rob.
Formidable fleet Jonas!
Santisima is another masterpiece Julian!
I agree Vol.
I must get my Santisima out and touch up a few of the details.
Rob.
Vol, good job. May I ask how you made the wave base? and another question, the reddish color that you used to paint the waist, is it an artist license or is it historical? :beer:
Julian, for the base I use a clear household contact cement named Goop. I first squeeze on a thin coat in a circular motion to ompletely coverthe base. Then I sqeeze out thicker beads for waves. After 5-minutes I use a wooden toothpick to stir up the thick lines ito proper waves. I push the model into it at this point and use the toothpick to touch up the waves and wake. The base sets up to touch in 30-minutes.
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The Earth Red for the waist and upper masts comes from the Spanish Admiralty paint scheme requirements established at thend of the 18th century.
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I hope that is the answer you were looking for.
Thank you so much Vol, I will apply this new scheme for my new ships.
I’m back to painting hulls.
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Your ship painting excellence was mentioned many times by several of the participants during the Doncaster event Jonas.
Rob.
That surprises me. Julián is a better painter than me. And there weren't any ships painted by me at Doncaster.
Jonas, your painting is good, believe me. Until I didnt have the Santisima in front of me, in 1/1000 scale I have not realized the amount of detail that you do to the ships.
I apply inks to correct the outline and joins but I imagine you don't want to do it so as not to obscure the original colors of the boat, which gives it more realism.
I think Julián is a victim of his own excellence Jonas. We already know how good he is.
As soon as I told people that you had printed me those Frigates they started discussing how good yor Spanish were and the other ships you had posted.
Rob.
Well, I’m sad I couldn’t be there. I looked up the Covid rules and a couple of weeks back it would require a place for a two week isolation prepared to handle if a test was positive. I don’t think much have been relaxed lately.
It will have to wait until next year.
Thank you, Julián. I’ve seen your 1:1200 and know what you can do.
I’m honored to be thought of as a good painter in this company as the best here at the Anchorage keep a very high standard.
And I’ve been continuing with my Spanish.
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Jonas, in my opinion you rank up there with the best ship painters. Your crisp lines are excellent, and your added stern details are unique and inspiring!
The agravating thing to me is how you and Julian maintain this excellent quality on multiple ships at the same time!
I am striving to reach your level! But I know I will never match the numbers.:salute:
Vol, I count you as one of the best here too. Your ships have long been an inspiration and I'm impressed every time you post a ship fully rigged.
I finished it. Purísima Concepción
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And then, as an afterthought, I decided to add some crew. I only had 36 Eduard photo etched figures in the right scale. So they are sparse, sorry. You have to use some imagination and multiply by a factor of 27, LOL. I must put in an order for more figs.
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Superb! I love the detail of the pulleys :thumbsup::thumbsup::beer:
That is some really impressive modelling, Vol.
Just as we thought you had reached the high point of excellence Vol, you raise the sails to another level by adding pulleys.
Bravo Sir. Bravo.
Bligh.
On my workbench:
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Wrong time to be working on Purisima Concepcion. I will be outshone by far.
There’s 15mm guns for my WSS army too. I’m playing around with Henry Turner’s Napoleonic guns by scaling things individually and trying to make it look a hundred years older.
those guns with the long trails remind me of the ECW guns we use, but the others look almost like AWI ones. I don't know much about the WSS field pieces though. They all look very well detailed Jonas.
Rob.
Henry Turner as usual makes very detailed models. He made them for 10 mm but they are easily good for 15 mm or even 28 mm.
The short carriages are regimental guns that can be brought by infantry.
Here are some heavy guns.
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Splendid Jonas. I expect that will give you a much lighter troops box. Does he do limbers as well?
Rob.
Yes, these are lighter, but the armies didn't have that big batteries with many guns.
To be honest, I'm not sure if he does limbers. I didn't look for them. I have some painted already for my Swedish army which are quite neutral and can be used by either army. These are for my Holy Roman Empire army consisting of Austrian, Brandenburg and several small German states. I know he has artillery wagons on his Patreon voting list.
Similar to my AWI army then Sven.
The reason Captain Kiwi and I chose them was to save on cost as we were looking for something where the youngsters in our Wargames club could build an army without the cost of huge numbers of guns and limbers, plus only small cavalry units, without the extra expense of extra horse holders and dismounted and mounted figures. Galloper guns also helped to keep down the cost of horses.
Rob.