by Plasma_Frigate » Fri Dec 14, 2018 10:15 pm
During my 1/400 scale Aurora project (to be completed as the museum ship she appears as today, vis a vis the Aurora at the beginning of the 1917 October Revolution), I noticed doing research that all of her upper deck railings are covered in canvas during the colder months, and the rest of the year they are without canvas (see pics).
I don't think the designers took this into account producing this model, as all of the upper deck and bridge pieces are moulded with plastic sides, meant to depict canvas, but the crows nests are both bare and I'm insructed to rail them with the supplied photoetch. This is not realistic at all because the crows nest railings are always draped in canvas while the rest of the upper deck is (for the colder months, as previously explained).
Aurora was in her "canvas" state during the October Revolution and this is how I want to proceed. For the crows nest, I tried to scratchbuild a semicircular strip from leftover plastic sprue, but it fell apart for being too thin and fragile. I need the canvas railing to look exactly like the rest of them that are in the model. It's very basic, simply a thin circular strip, to be glued on a circular platform. I need two of them, for rear and fore crowsnests.
Any common household materials I could use to make these? Tried using thin cardboard and sandboard but it won't fold and hold to the right shape of the crowsnest platform.
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- With canvas (my personal photo of Aurora I took in 2016)
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- Without canvas
During my 1/400 scale [i]Aurora [/i]project (to be completed as the museum ship she appears as today, vis a vis the [i]Aurora [/i]at the beginning of the 1917 October Revolution), I noticed doing research that all of her upper deck railings are covered in canvas during the colder months, and the rest of the year they are without canvas (see pics).
I don't think the designers took this into account producing this model, as all of the upper deck and bridge pieces are moulded with plastic sides, meant to depict canvas, but the crows nests are both bare and I'm insructed to rail them with the supplied photoetch. This is not realistic at all because the crows nest railings are always draped in canvas while the rest of the upper deck is (for the colder months, as previously explained).
[i]Aurora [/i]was in her "canvas" state during the October Revolution and this is how I want to proceed. For the crows nest, I tried to scratchbuild a semicircular strip from leftover plastic sprue, but it fell apart for being too thin and fragile. I need the canvas railing to look exactly like the rest of them that are in the model. It's very basic, simply a thin circular strip, to be glued on a circular platform. I need two of them, for rear and fore crowsnests.
Any common household materials I could use to make these? Tried using thin cardboard and sandboard but it won't fold and hold to the right shape of the crowsnest platform.