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1/70 Soleil Royal – French Ship of the Line 1669

Posted by Paul On April - 13 - 2021

4/13/2020  The COVID 19 pandemic is on and my wife and I are sequestered at home for the last 33 days now.  Tough times, but we are doing well.A rather longer build log of my Soleil Royal can be found HERE.

I have created a 12 minute video of my build HERE
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The finished pictures are HERE.

A few days ago I received this very nice wood ship model kit from China of the Soleil Royal in 1/70 scale.  It's advertised at 1/90 but that's incorrect based on the length of the model (41.4 in) vs the actual ship length (200 ft). This will take in the neighborhood of 2 years to complete.  Here are some pictures of my completed model:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here are some pics of the box contents:

Just an insert here.  The model is marked as 1/90 scale, but by my calculations it is closer to about 1/70 scale.

SOLEIL ROYAL SCALE        
         
  FULL SCALE MODEL SCALE MODEL SCALE
  FEET IN FEET  
TOP GUN DECK   28 2.33 74.68
UPPER GUN DECK LENGTH   26 2.17  
LOWER GUN DECK LENGTH   25.5 2.13  
GUN DECK 174.25      
LENGTH OF KEEL 151.25 25.75 2.15 70.49
BREADTH 47.00 8 0.67 70.50
         
RATIOS        
TOP GUN DECK/BREADTH     3.5  
UPPER GUN DECK/BREADTH 3.71   3.25  
LOWER GUN DECK/BREADTH     3.1875  
GUN DECK LENGTH SHOULD BE 29.66 2.47 70.50
         
LENGTH OF KEEL/BREADTH 3.22   3.22  
KEEL LENGTH SHOULD BE   25.74 2.15 70.50
         
GUN DECK/KEEL 1.15      
GUN DECK LENGTH SHOULD BE 29.67 2.47  
         
         
MODEL SCALE= 1/71      
         
LENGTH        
         
         
    CANNON LENGTH LENGTH  
SHOT WEIGHT CALIBER MODEL SCALE, MM FULL SCALE, FT  
4 LB        
6 LB     6.00  
12 LB        
18 LB   43.00 20.31  
26 LB        

 

Here are photos of significant tools I used:

Here is information and photos of aftermarket items I used:

These sails worked out perfectly. I ordered them from HiSModel

Hatches, rope, blocks,cannon barrels and cannon carriages I ordered from Syren.

The display case came from Houston Display Furnature – I can no longer find him on the web so he may have gone out of business.

Cannon barrels and carriages from Syren.

Ships boats from HiSModel

Flags printed on both sides from HiSModel

4 Atlas ship supports from Ebay

I got the 3-d printed laterns from Shapeways:

https://www.shapeways.com/product/FBPDDK5AS/1-24-scale-age-of-sail-stern-lantern?productConfiguration=69158618&etId=199020953&utm_source=automated-contact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=order-shipped&utm_content=2

Here is where the build is presently (4/13/2020):

4/15/2020 Adding the teak decking.

4/17/2020A few more photos from today.  I'm modifying the two poop decks to look more like the museum model. The two aft poop decks look just too inclined to me (rather too steep for the crew to stand on and function), so I've decided to make them more parallel to the main deck. The museum model also shows these two decks roughly parallel to the main deck too.

 

4/21/2020

I have been working on this and have made some progress….

5/3/2020 Current state of the build…

5/13/2020

More pics…

5/24/2020

I've now added the gun port frames, done some finish work on the stern, and planked the lower hull.  I next will do a finish sanding on the lower hull, paint the gunport frames red then proceed to plank the upper hull.

5/31/2020  I made a little more progress, the lower hull was finished with Gilders Asphaltum.  The wales have bolts sumulated with beechwood toothpicks.

   

6/14/2020 Some more photos to update…

A few more pictures.  I have finished planking both sides, but I still have a few upper wales to add.  I've shortened the keel height by half and done some more work on the stern.  I have replicated bolts in the wales by using IC-2000 carbon and rubber toughened CA and Aleenes Original Tacky Glue.

7-19-2020. Here are pics to show my current status on the build.

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1/24 Fujimi Ferrari 250GTO

Posted by Paul On July - 31 - 2020

7/25/2020 I just started on the Fujimi model of the Ferrari GTO250 for my daughter Summer.  This is arguably the most beautiful Ferrari ever made, and certainly the most expensive.  The last one sold at a public auction went for over 38 million dollars.  For paint I've used Tamiy acrylics as well as Alcald II.  For the red body used the Tamiya TS-8 rattle can. On to the pictures:

8/6/2022 To view a video of the completed chasis – go HERE.

8/7/2022 I'm almost finished with the body.  The chrome trim is Bare Metal Foil.

8/11/2020. Here are the finished photos:

To see the video of the model – go HERE.