Posts for: Pstrykacz
Apr 8, 2024 19:18:42 #
Cross your eyes to see the 3rd pic in the middle, no 3D glasses necessary.
Feb 24, 2024 02:35:20 #
I have finally finished my ship model after nearly 20 years of fiddling with it (with interruptions). It is a French 74-gun ship after J. Boudriot, scale 1:48.
I still have to fix a snapped spritsail yard for the bowsprit (ouch!), which I accidentally broke while working on the running rigging.
I still have to fix a snapped spritsail yard for the bowsprit (ouch!), which I accidentally broke while working on the running rigging.
Jan 31, 2024 15:21:41 #
Jan 31, 2024 13:12:03 #
tradio wrote:
Had to stop one morning and take this shot.
Where was this picture taken, if I may ask?
Jan 9, 2023 16:59:55 #
Oct 12, 2022 20:48:06 #
Pano, consisting of a few vertical pics, stitched together on PTGUi. Taken in 2016.
Sep 9, 2022 17:01:19 #
Pstrykacz wrote:
This is the website of the Model Ship World forum: www.modelshipworld.com
and this one is for the French Ancre, I mentioned: https://ancre.fr/en/
and this one is for the French Ancre, I mentioned: https://ancre.fr/en/
Oops... this was intended to be a private message. Sorry!
Sep 9, 2022 14:41:03 #
This is the website of the Model Ship World forum: www.modelshipworld.com
and this one is for the French Ancre, I mentioned: https://ancre.fr/en/
and this one is for the French Ancre, I mentioned: https://ancre.fr/en/
Sep 9, 2022 00:29:19 #
rv8striker wrote:
Truly amazing work. Is everything scratch built, like the cannons for example?
Everything had to be scratchbuilt, you cannot obtain such cannon barrels anywhere commercially, unfortunately. In this scale. I am still looking online for a few French sailor figurines in this size and from that era for my model, and I am unsuccesful so far...
Unfortunately, our world is dominated byAnglosaxon tradition, very few things are left for the French, Spanish and other...
The cannon barrels were turned from brass rod on a lathe, bound to a computer, and using a CAD/CAM software, so all of them came identically and in three different callibers. The process was done by one of my friends, since I do not own a computer guided lathe, only a manual one.
Sep 9, 2022 00:22:07 #
Hi Retired CPO,
I just sent you a private message. Check it out!
Thomas
I just sent you a private message. Check it out!
Thomas
Sep 8, 2022 15:18:18 #
Dalbon wrote:
I only have one question, where do you find the time to do any photography??...
... May I ask how long you've been working on that project???
... May I ask how long you've been working on that project???
Snapping pictures takes only a few minutes. Another few minutes for finishing them and converting from RAW into JPGs. Nothing, compared to model building!
See my earlier posts for details. Greetings,
Thomas
Sep 8, 2022 13:00:36 #
gray_ghost2 wrote:
Will it float or just be on display?
This type of a model is not intended to go into water - it would fall apart, since parts are glued with ordinary wood glue and the hull is only partially planked and not water tight.
(There are similar models intended to float and sail (radio-controlled), but the technique of building them is totally different...)
Sep 8, 2022 10:29:30 #
Many thanks, Everyone, for the words of encouragement!
To answer some questions, no, I did not count hours of my work, like some do. I've been working on it for the last 20 years, with extended periods of inactivity in between, some shorter and some longer. So, I don't know, how long it is taking me alltogether. Probably, if I add it together, perhaps about 8 or 9 years, so far...
The ship has no specific name. Per the author of the 4 volume monography on the topic, Jean Boudriot, this ship represents rather a specific class of warships that existed at that time - it is a 74 gun ship, double decker, third rate sailing ship of the French navy from the end of the XVIII century. Many such vessels have existed under specific names (with minor differences).
An eqivalent of a contemporary cruiser in modern navies.
The model is not built from a kit, everything is scratchbuilt. The wood is primarily cherry, the frames (ribs) from walnut, some smallest details (blocks and decorative scrolls on the bow and stern) are from boxwood, wales are from black ebony. I photoetched from a brass sheet some decorative ballusters and railings on the stern. Sails are from thin cotton muslin, sewn on a sewing machine (stitches 0.8 mm). Ropes (lines) are twisted on a ropewalk from cotton threads of various thicknesses and colors.
The model is only partially planked on purpose, to show internal structures - this scheme is the so called Admiralty type of a model, popular in Great Britain and elsewhere.
I still don't have a glass case for my model, am not sure where exactly it will be placed in my house, but these thoughts are still in the future, so I am not too preoccupied with them now...
Thanks again, everyone! I am glad you enjoyed the pic. :-)
To answer some questions, no, I did not count hours of my work, like some do. I've been working on it for the last 20 years, with extended periods of inactivity in between, some shorter and some longer. So, I don't know, how long it is taking me alltogether. Probably, if I add it together, perhaps about 8 or 9 years, so far...
The ship has no specific name. Per the author of the 4 volume monography on the topic, Jean Boudriot, this ship represents rather a specific class of warships that existed at that time - it is a 74 gun ship, double decker, third rate sailing ship of the French navy from the end of the XVIII century. Many such vessels have existed under specific names (with minor differences).
An eqivalent of a contemporary cruiser in modern navies.
The model is not built from a kit, everything is scratchbuilt. The wood is primarily cherry, the frames (ribs) from walnut, some smallest details (blocks and decorative scrolls on the bow and stern) are from boxwood, wales are from black ebony. I photoetched from a brass sheet some decorative ballusters and railings on the stern. Sails are from thin cotton muslin, sewn on a sewing machine (stitches 0.8 mm). Ropes (lines) are twisted on a ropewalk from cotton threads of various thicknesses and colors.
The model is only partially planked on purpose, to show internal structures - this scheme is the so called Admiralty type of a model, popular in Great Britain and elsewhere.
I still don't have a glass case for my model, am not sure where exactly it will be placed in my house, but these thoughts are still in the future, so I am not too preoccupied with them now...
Thanks again, everyone! I am glad you enjoyed the pic. :-)
Sep 7, 2022 23:08:17 #
A bottle???
This monster is 5 feet long, not counting a bowsprit!!!
It would have to be a one hell of a bottle!!! :-)))
This monster is 5 feet long, not counting a bowsprit!!!
It would have to be a one hell of a bottle!!! :-)))
Sep 7, 2022 22:32:34 #
After many years, I am now finally installing yards and sails on my model of a French 74 gun ship from 1780. Scale is 1:48.
Very tedious and time consuming work!
This is a 3D pic. Cross your eyes to see a third pic in between of those two - the third one will be stereoscopic (3D).
Very tedious and time consuming work!
This is a 3D pic. Cross your eyes to see a third pic in between of those two - the third one will be stereoscopic (3D).
