Construction of scratch built 1/200 Prince Madog 1968
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The real thing. Image from Bangor University.
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Half circle iron bar added (annoyingly a bit wonky on this side) and marking for port side portholes. Positions taken from photos as I only have drawings of star board side.
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Portholes drilled on port side.
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Main mast attached in place with Uhu glue. Mast is brass tube.
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Bilge keels added. Made form plasticard. One is a bit wonky, but only just.
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Bulsa carving
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Perfect plastic putty
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I have done quite a lot of the fore mast now. I'll add the lamps after the main hull and structure colours are painted.
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Starting to build the 3 winches.
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Adding more details to the winches and anchor windlass. I used Aber PE hand wheels set.
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Dry fit of finished winches
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Anchor windlass dry fit
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Ladder rungs added to main mast and A-frame.
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Ladder rungs added to main mast and A-frame.
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Another coat of primer and then ready for painting. Some parts still need to be built, but they can wait. I need to design the decals at some point too.
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Pre-shading
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Pre-shading
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Pre-shading
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Off-white (white with yellow added) for the upper hull and super structure over the pre-shading
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Masking for lower hull colour
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Some more painting done. Touching up the airbrushed white with a brush looks awful. Not sure how I will improve on that.
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Bit more progress. Davits mostly made.
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Weather station to of the mast now made. I thought this would be impossible for me to make from scratch, but glad I did it now.
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Wind instrumentation on mast
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Starting to build the self inflating life raft canisters. I used round rod and sanded the end round. I then used half round profile styrene strip to create the ribs of the cannister.
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I used photo etch ladders to make the cannister racks.
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Dry fitting the unpainted three raft and rack assemblies. I think they will look fine. They took maybe two hours to build, but worth it. It is satisfying building items from scratch with styrene.
Комментарии
27 3 June 2022, 14:21
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Your entire Research Vessels collection is interesting - and thumbs up for expanding it by using different means: mainstream kits, 3D prints, paper models, and now scratch-building... Respects! 👍
4 June 2022, 14:01
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Thanks Alex. The options are fairly limited with mainstream plastic kits. It's proving very slow progress with scratch building. But the hull is almost done, which is a major part of the build. I've learnt a lot so far anyway! Doing water line models would be much easier, but I like to see the hull form and propulsion.
4 June 2022, 20:51
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Thanks. The hull is not ideal. It's made from Balsa wood which proved hard to get sharp and straight edges with. If I had the skills I would 3D design and print,but I don't. I would probably use bass wood next time as it would keep the edges better.
8 June 2022, 15:30
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Nicely done! Interesting way of scratch build, which could also be used for aircraft.
24 October 2023, 10:25
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Impressive.! And well documented to help us, lesser human modellers, marvel at your skills 🙂
20 December 2023, 22:13
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I've got to finish this model soon. It's been nearly 4 years since I started according to this. Think I'll not scratch build a whole model for another twenty years me thinks.
15 May, 21:34