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Jim,
What a wonderful model. So well photographed too. She really looks like a ship at sail. Every aspect of the model looks alive and natural. I've always enjoyed seeing your work but this one might be my favorite. I really enjoyed reading through the build thread and learning how you worked through the different phases of the build. Yep, this may be my favorite Jim Baumann build yet. I hope you don't mind me sharing this with our model ship club. Congratulations on your award at Telford!
Dave

I had the chance to see this gold medal winner model at the Telford. The model is exquisite. I had to focus my eyes to see the rigging and details. The pictures do not do justice to the finesse of the model.

Congratulations! :wave_1:

I learnt something new....-- and it may be worth noting

When Photographing small models-- I have often used small LED lights as ' fill in ' lighting in dark areas

In this instance I used it to fill light towards the port lee side of the stern

and noted only today - ( prior to sending to the gallery)- on re-re-reviewing(!! )
the images that the light had thrown a colour projection shade of the red ensign onto the mizzen sail...

Never seen the likes of it before--but I shall be more vigilant !
Hope it assist

JIM B

Thank you all for your kind words;

It certainly is a different subject to the usual steel / steam ship diet...

Have spent some time taking proper photos -- but still not satisfied with all of them;

in part ...

because I was taking photos outside, and in late afternoon the temperature quite suddenly fell though the floor( down to about 07 deg C )

-- as a result the ship shrank a bit lengthwise in the cold...
==> ergo the masts moved closer together-as you can see --slackening off the off the stays that connect the mast-heads --so more shooting soon
Once back indoors at normal room temperature after about 5 minutes they were dead straight again ,--as installed and intended !! :cool_2:

herewith a size comparison with my manicure-deficient left hand!!

Wonderful!!! :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1:
A beautiful model, not just technically but also with heaps of atmosphere.

This thread has been extremely inspirational and educational. Many thanks Jim for the detailed account!

Marijn

A lovely little ship, Jim. Hat off to you :)

Excellent work, Jim. She is a beauty.

Thank you gentlemen !

I was not displeased myself-- :cool_2:

The overall effect is quite convincing-- and after spending 6 months looking at it through my x 5 magnification Optivisor...

I have to remind myself the ships is only 4 inches loa! and on the whole is quite nice!

But I had caught a taste for miniature sail after the Mary Rose and now the Winston Churchill...

but for now I shall build a steel ship model ...

see upcoming thread!

Jim Baumann :wave_1:

That's an exceedingly lovely rendition of an elegant ship.

I like the energetic dynamism of the diorama. You can sense the [i]motion[/i] of the ship.

Your sails really turned out very nice indeed!

:thumbs_up_1:

This is just wonderful!
Having followed the build I'm still surprised to see how marvellous she looks once completed.

.... :cool_2: and so the model has reached completion...

Painting the sea was a pleasure--as the model really came to life !

Despite being a ' modern ' sailing ship( launched 1966) , I've learnt much and quite enjoyed the research--
often from Pathe news reels, but also from private video footage that has been uploaded to youtube

There is much that I would have tried harder on were I to repat the build,
- I have gained valuable experience in small sailing ship modelling which I shall put to use
in a future 3-masted sailing ship project that is germinating as we speak... :big_grin:

....but in the meantime I shall build a couple of small ship models that do not have sails !!
...-though they will have ratlines... :cool_1: :big_grin:

Some " proper" photos will be taken soon and appear in the gallery in due course

--meanwhile a couple of point-and-shoot camera images from today see below:

As a conclusion to the project, Sir Winston Churchill had a few mishaps early on in her career...
images below

[i][b]In November 1965, Sir Winston Churchill toppled over onto her starboard side whilst she was being fitted out.
All three masts were broken. The accident happened a week before she was due to be launched... [/b][/i]

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....whilst manoeuvring at a dockside , she speared a delivery lorry with her bowsprit (!)
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She did however have a happy ending--after 24 years of intensive service, when her days as a youth sail training vessel
-- including a visit to the USA in 1976 --- were at an end,she was sold initially to a firm that after the refit intended using her as a training vessel.

Some years later she passed into Greek hands, she was subject to major and comprehensive refit in 2016
emerging as a highly polished and beautiful private sailing yacht
now being used as a private and charter yacht in the sunny Mediterranean sea

( Her near sister Malcolm Miller also was converted to a luxury sailing vessel in Greece )

Her gaff rig on fore and mainmast have been retained and she is available for charter with a crew of nine professionals for a basic day rate of Euro 5,750. (!)

Herewith today's snapshots of the finished model

Jim Baumann :wave_1:

Gorgeous close-ups!! :thumbs_up_1:

That work is truly amazing! :woo_hoo:

Beauty as always, Jim.

When washing the netting, how do you keep the liquid from clogging up the spaces? Or is the wash thin enough that it's not an issue?

The ship is now in the end stages of the build...--( Phew!!! )

A very distinctive aspect of SWC were the relatively ENORMOUS Navigation light background boxes

( Compared to the rather more slimline versions seen on warships old and new ! )


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I made these using a brass PE square ( cut from larger railing ) -backed with paper
-to which were added the larger edges aft and bottom made of strips of thin paper

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These were NOT mounted to the shrouds as they would be angled upwards,
but in real life were upright and had struts supporting them off the coaming
I used some PE railing glued on from behind and then glued this to the inboard edge of the timber capping strake

The lanterns were made of brass tube, a small dollop of white glue to fill the top hole ( painted brass later )
with a very small strip of black decal to simulate the lens
the end result was not entirely displeasing.

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after much fiddling, many attempts I managed to get the bow sprit netting in place to my liking

Now the sea base has had its first coat I can see it too distictvly--making a harsh contrast
I shall gently wash it with light grey to tone down the white

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Failing to find a decal red ensign to my liking .... ( most of them the red is too dark, or the decal to thick to crease nicely

I resorted to making my own of paper, coloured with water soluble Caran 'd'ache Pencils, with the union jack sourced from an old but sharply( alps) printed
'Dungain' decal sheet from Duane Fowler

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Just have to refine the water now with a few layers, a bit of rigging twiddle and she should be as complete as I can make her...

see you soon

JB :wave_1:

Hello Jim

your work reaches an incredible finesse :woo_hoo: sublim :thumbs_up_1:
a day ,I hope to reach your dexterity...
fabuleux
cheers
nicolas

Fantastic work Jim, it looks fabulous! :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1:

Thanks also for all the in-progress shots and tips.

Cheers,

Marijn

Hi Wefalck!

small blocks ( on mast or similar) are either white glue then paint--or just paint on brush

larger blocks are either very small photo-etch circles ( usually harvested from a part not intended as a block
(ie 1/700 pompom gunsights etc)

or for larger blocks a 1/700 porthole lid or small slivers of styrene rod

encs a picture of todays trials and tribulations....

the running backstays -unusually had two mast take-offs-- 7/8 and 3/4 of mast height
the split again with a cascade pulley

darn tricky in small scale !!! my outer shrouds of stretched prue alas suffered quite badly due to tweezer interference... (!!!!)

(aka my clumsiness !! ) :cool_2: so more rigging of these again..!

Jim, you probably said this somewhere already, but how do you simulate blocks at this scale ? Blobs of coloured glue ?

Thank you for your comment Martin! :wave_1:

Oddly enough it is the rigging that brings a model of any ship really to life and adds that feeling of delicacy and intricacy
especially on a sailing ship....
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Small steps now-- I have an A4 sheet of paper jammed full with pencil jottings of all the remaining jobs to do on the model.... :Mad_6:

Yesterday evenings achievements were to create the Boom crutch/ gallows

-This was (almost) permanently rigged ..
and allowed the long heavy mizzen mast boom to rest upon when sails were dropped.
On the model I made this of strips of Brass PE and stretched sprue for the diagonals

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Have now also managed to make the mast flagstaffs -complete with tint mast trucks atop --On the real ship these were made of wood,
on mine they are made of fuse-wire, pulled, stretched and straightened-- and most alarmingly ... butt glued onto the flat top surface of the mast


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To stop these falling over ...-incessantly ! :Mad_5: ) whilst the (rather un-super ! ) super glue/ CA was setting...


I simply held the model on its base upside down and allowed gravity and my eyeballing to get them aligned!
its an old idea of mine from 15 years ago ( and when I was CONSIDERABLY heavier too !!! ) when gluing top masts on my old Tsessaravitch model....


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