Update: Majestic and Ganges-class second deck coats applied, Polyphemus primed.
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Update: Majestic and Ganges-class second deck coats applied, Polyphemus primed.
Orion and Majestic hulls swapped; Orion wood brown and Polyphemus first coats of yellow applied.
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You are making me feel lazy DB. All these ships on the stocks, and I am just fannying around with another American Brig and its cards. hope to post pic later today when it is complete.
Rob.
I kinda cheat, Rob, when I have a paintbrush wet I like to get as much use out of that batch of mixed paint as I can. :) Polyphemus is being painted not according to any historical reference but as a direct mimic of her official Ares counterpart, and HMS America will be the same story. (If I can find references about those two 64's, I'll tweak their beakheads accordingly as a quick "ID marker.")
Not to stress you out but I have made this in the last couple of days.
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Five each of Canada and Ganges plus an extra Canada with broken lanterns that I used as proof of concept for painting and may end up using anyway. Then there’s seven San Juan Nepomuceno, supposed to make six, but one extra if I drop one, there’s two San José, and three San Nicolas.
Only the two in front is finished.
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:shock: Well that puts me in my place Jonas. :happy:
Rob.
Have a name picked for your fifth Canada, or just a later variant deco? I only ordered four to get what I had listed for Historical Pop, and passed on the sixth Ganges because it didn't make even my generous "1816 Second Barbary" overtime cutoff. The extra SJN's, well, they can probably pass for other Francisco Gautier 74's.
What's your secret on those nice crisp stripe edges? I can't get masking tape to work this small, either it doesn't seal and it bleeds or it peels off what it's supposed to protect. (Orion I kinda cheated, did the entire hull in black then overpainted Ochre Brown up to the top of the LD ports and down to the bottom of the UD's to leave a narrow band of basecoat exposed for the upper strake. Have no idea what I'm gonna do for the lower...)
To be honest DB, my idea behind numbers are actually from that my printer prints six ships at a time and I don't want to put big ships next to each others so I mix them up and while trying to paint them I found out that when dropping the model it breaks, mostly catheads or lanterns. Trying to remove the ships from the supports without touching them sometimes makes me dropp them.
My actual goal was four each of Canada and Ganges, six of Nepomuceno, two San Nicolas and one San José.
I find that there's some elevation difference in the side that helps me keeping "within the lines". Also I just bougth a lamp with a built in magnification glass.
Meanwhile, today another new Brig joins the US Squadron.
HMS Victory 1765 ready!
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Varnished wood with Prussian Blue upper and lower "edging" strakes seems to be a common pattern for the 1750s-60s Brits. Period models of Bellona and Canada five years apart show the same basic scheme as your Victory.
Jonas, would side-nipping sprue cutters like used in traditional modeling work?
Another fine ship ready for battle Julián.
Would you like the attatchments removing?
Rob.
Yes pls Rob, thanks
An incredible piece of art, Julián!
Db, I use tongs and a scalpel. The biggest problem is that the resin prints are toxic and a little bit soft and rubbery before curing and I try not to touch them at all. Not only to not spread the toxic resin around (always use protective gloves) but it's easy to damage the very thin guns, lanterns and so on sticking out.
Whilst waiting for my Swedish Frigates to come out of quarintine I am adding a few ships to my HEIC squadron.
Here is the first finished today. The 1801 Frigate Cornwallis.https://sailsofglory.org/attachment....id=54213&stc=1
A Spanish 80 finished and a 112 quite far come and two more 80ies started.
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They are looking very smart already Jonas. You must have a very steady hand to do that white line.
Rob.
It’s not really free hand. It’s a raised edge I follow.
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And paint scheme is inspired by this.
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Nelson’s famous bridge.
Thank you Julián!
Nice work, Jonas.
Precise paintjob. :salute:
Thank you, Sven.
Superb yet again Jonas.
And I have to try and follow that.
However, I must first discuss with you the suitable colour schemes and ensigns for my Frigates which come out of quarintine tomorrow.
Rob.
This is for Diamondback.
DB I promised I would let you know how the reduction to 1/1000 scale worked out on my printer after I swapped to a smaller nozzle. It was raining so I stayed indoors and changed out the nozzles today. Printing the 1/700 Elizabeth at 70%, using a 0.2MM nozzle at the Cura Ultra Quality settings
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I have also printed one successfully at 1/1200. So if anyone wants another hull, as long as you have purchased the STL from Henry or Simon!
Excellent pics gents, inspiring all.
Thanks, Vol, I think that looks more like "wait for remaster" to me.
Today's humble submission of Progress Report for the Admiralty's review...
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Top row L/R Canada/Captain, bottom L/R Orion/Majestic. Yes, I need to repair some lanterns; the references I've seen on Canada Class with those only show two so I'm thinking clip the centers, use one to repair Orion and set the others aside for spares/future repairs.
Great work!
Thanks, Jonas; I've been finding it works best for me to paint the "ports" section color first, then the top and bottom sections, and finally do the middle strake bringing my paintbrush in between the guns alternating top and bottom entries rather than my previous "linear" thinking. Any suggestions on things I need to work on for technique, or where to focus my efforts on these four next other than the bulwarks? I'm painting to mimic Ares style as closely as I can, so there's a Tamiya paint I need before I can do the guns and carriages.
ID keys for convenience: Canada is blue stripes, Captain is blue beakhead and black gallery top, Orion is black stripes, Majestic full yellow beakhead top and gallery. If I can find references to allow something similar, I'd like to have a similar "unique ID marking" system for the Ganges class, and eventually back-paint onto Ares ships as well.
Should I just figure on British Babypuke Yellow with Black for post-capture HMS San Josef, or go white or buff for the stripes? The only reference I've found under RN ensign is white as a gunnery training sip, but that's a good 20+ years after "end of game" and my preference would be more around the time Nelson broke flag aboard her while she was pinch-hitting for the burned Queen Charlotte.
What ever you decide DB, I'm sure that your colour code will catch on as an easy recognition method amongst these identical hulled ships.
Rob.
In the meantime, while my usual practice is to start a class with oldest ships first, I'm starting the Ganges class with Minden based on this painting.
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Would we call this a single high white stripe on otherwise black hull for Tremendous?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...Canonniere.jpg
Can't tell which of these ships at Spithead 1797 is supposed to be Ganges herself, still no luck with Culloden and Invincible.
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I added a bit about the base painting of the hulls in my recent how to.
https://sailsofglory.org/content.php...-printed-hulls
By the way Vol, that is amazing results from a FDM printer. They've really come a long way. Now, I am the proud owner of a resin printer, so I can get better detail, but with the added durability and most of all, larger print area I suddenly wish I had a lot more money.
Thanks Jonas, it has been fun playing around with it, trying new things, tweaking settings, experimenting with the slicer program settings, etc. to get the results I want.
And thank you Rob for the rep points.
Meantime back at the Anchorage I just got access to the smashing gift of three Swedish Frigates from Jonas. It looks as if there was also a stowaway hiding in there too Jonas!
Rob.
All the incredible work that has been showcased on this month's and previous month's workbenches has inspired me to attempt painting and assembling a few GHQ metal ships I bought a few months back. They are two 18-gun brigs, an 8-gun schooner, a 22-gun xebec, a 44-gun East Indiaman and West Indies Merchant without guns. All are 1:1200 scale so I'm not sure how they'll look next to the SGN models although some of the Langton's seem to fit in well.
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The first picture is with the initial primer on all parts and the second one is with some of the detail painting started. My work does not compare with any of the amazing work many of you do. But hey, I figure if I don't like my finished results, I have plenty of materiel for sunk ship and derelict markers.