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JIM BAUMANN

Post subject: Re: HMS Victory and Le Redoutable at Trafalgar (1/300)

Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2021 3:11 am

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very very nice wire (!) wolding!!!

very impressive and .... very sharp.
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MartinJQuinn

Post subject: Re: HMS Victory and Le Redoutable at Trafalgar (1/300)

Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2021 6:02 pm

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Dan K wrote:

Since I'm still out of superlatives: :thumbs_up_1:

I'll second that. Fantastic work.

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GewoonWouter

Post subject: Re: HMS Victory and Le Redoutable at Trafalgar (1/300)

Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2021 8:06 am

Joined: Sat Mar 26, 2016 2:58 am
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Location: Belgium

I can only say 'yummie'. Sheer eyecandy!

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marijn van gils

Post subject: Re: HMS Victory and Le Redoutable at Trafalgar (1/300)

Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2021 9:57 am

Joined: Tue Feb 06, 2007 10:24 am
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Location: Belgium

Many thanks guys! :smallsmile:

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Neptune

Post subject: Re: HMS Victory and Le Redoutable at Trafalgar (1/300)

Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2021 7:49 am

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Fantastic work. I do think you should make a Victory in healthy shape :heh:

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marijn van gils

Post subject: Re: HMS Victory and Le Redoutable at Trafalgar (1/300)

Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2021 1:56 pm

Joined: Tue Feb 06, 2007 10:24 am
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Location: Belgium

Thanks Neptune! :smallsmile:

I know you're joking of course, but I feel I'm doing her in the healthiest condition possible: doing what she was built to do, and writing history doing it! :big_grin:

Clean usually doesn't equal glorious... :big_grin:

Meanwhile, progress is slow but steady.
I made the top and topgallant masts of the Redoutable, and thereby finished her masts:

Well, the fore mast doesn’t have much topgallant left… :big_grin:

Details of the main mast:

And details of the mizzen:

I also made some more pieces to ‘float’ in the seascape:

Now on to the yards! But I may do the boats first…

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wefalck

Post subject: Re: HMS Victory and Le Redoutable at Trafalgar (1/300)

Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2021 2:17 pm

Joined: Wed Sep 28, 2011 12:04 pm
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Location: Paris

Must have been quite an effort to make such a big matchstick ... :big_grin:

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Martocticvs

Post subject: Re: HMS Victory and Le Redoutable at Trafalgar (1/300)

Posted: Sun Jun 27, 2021 5:12 pm

Joined: Tue Jan 26, 2016 7:59 am
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I agree, that large scale phoshporus coating on the end of that piece of 4x4 is quite impressive...

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EJFoeth

Post subject: Re: HMS Victory and Le Redoutable at Trafalgar (1/300)

Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2021 1:38 am

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Very good

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marijn van gils

Post subject: Re: HMS Victory and Le Redoutable at Trafalgar (1/300)

Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2021 3:31 am

Joined: Tue Feb 06, 2007 10:24 am
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Location: Belgium

Thanks guys! :smallsmile:

Yes, procuring such a large amount of sulfur without getting the counter-terrorism services suspicious was the hardest part. Luckily, for the stick I had help from a great team:

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Maarten Schönfeld

Post subject: Re: HMS Victory and Le Redoutable at Trafalgar (1/300)

Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2021 4:30 am

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You even managed to apply battle damage to the match! :rolf_3:

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marijn van gils

Post subject: Re: HMS Victory and Le Redoutable at Trafalgar (1/300)

Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2021 5:22 am

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Hahaha!

That was caused by holding it many times in of the claws of my 'helping hand':

Or was it this one? :big_grin:

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EJFoeth

Post subject: Re: HMS Victory and Le Redoutable at Trafalgar (1/300)

Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2021 5:42 am

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I use an older and more elegant technique

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GewoonWouter

Post subject: Re: HMS Victory and Le Redoutable at Trafalgar (1/300)

Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2021 9:20 am

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Location: Belgium

Sacré Blue! C'est fantastique de nouveau Marijn! :big_grin:

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Joe Simon

Post subject: Re: HMS Victory and Le Redoutable at Trafalgar (1/300)

Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2021 11:18 pm

Joined: Sat Jan 24, 2009 5:16 pm
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Location: Wisconsin

Incredible work as always!

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marijn van gils

Post subject: Re: HMS Victory and Le Redoutable at Trafalgar (1/300)

Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2021 9:21 am

Joined: Tue Feb 06, 2007 10:24 am
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Many thanks guys! :smallsmile:

EJFoeth wrote:

I use an older and more elegant technique

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JIM BAUMANN

Post subject: Re: HMS Victory and Le Redoutable at Trafalgar (1/300)

Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2021 2:46 pm

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Location: Nr Southampton England

Well done Marjinn;

the masts are most excellent-- and very sharp

your platform however,,, is thing truly aof beauty!!
BRAVO !! :thumbs_up_1:

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marijn van gils

Post subject: Re: HMS Victory and Le Redoutable at Trafalgar (1/300)

Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2021 3:19 am

Joined: Tue Feb 06, 2007 10:24 am
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Location: Belgium

Many thanks Jim! :smallsmile:

That exact platform (mizzen of Redoutable) will probably attract some extra attention from anyone who knows a little about Trafalgar when finished, as it is will hold the man that just shot Nelson...

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Maarten Schönfeld

Post subject: Re: HMS Victory and Le Redoutable at Trafalgar (1/300)

Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2021 10:59 am

Joined: Fri Dec 12, 2008 12:44 pm
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Location: Herk-de-Stad, Belgium

marijn van gils wrote:

Many thanks Jim! :smallsmile:

That exact platform (mizzen of Redoutable) will probably attract some extra attention from anyone who knows a little about Trafalgar when finished, as it is will hold the man that just shot Nelson...

Depending on what view you take: "That man should have been excruciated! Tortured and burnt in hell!"
Or: "That man deserves the highest praise, being lifted into the heavens on angels' wings..."

So: depending on your standing point the world's history may look VERY different...

I had the pleasure last July 14th (what's was the remembrance of the day?...) to stroll over the Waterloo battlefield under rainshowers, with my son and his girlfriend, amazing ourselves on how vastly divided the peoples of Europe were at that time, one side expecting a last and final miraculous victory from their 'saviour', the other hoping to put the same person away forever... Only one stray and confused general (Grouchy) determined the fate of the day as it seems in hindsight...

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Willie

Post subject: Re: HMS Victory and Le Redoutable at Trafalgar (1/300)

Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2021 3:13 pm

Joined: Sat Apr 29, 2006 7:36 am
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Location: Vigo, Spain

Howdy Maarten and all,

Maarten Schönfeld wrote:

Depending on what view you take: (1) "That man should have been excruciated! Tortured and burnt in hell!" Or: (2) "That man deserves the highest praise, being lifted into the heavens on angels' wings..."

Well, considering that this guy was earning his wages in the middle of an action never seen before, that he disposed of the enemy admiral and sent him directly from the deck of HMS Victory to the History books, all in one single shot, I would go for (2): That man deserves the highest praise. In any case, as a clear example of shooting effects, he is one of the best snipers ever; as a clear example of economy, he is the dream of every quartermaster in any Navy.

Only backdraw of it all: considering the role of Villeneuve in this action, this sniper should have better been shooting from Gravina´s Principe de Asturias, Alava´s Santa Ana or or Churruca´s San Juan Nepomuceno.

I have visited the Waterloo battlefield a number of times too, all the way from Le Caillou to Hougoumont and la Haye Sainte. What a moving experience, specially if you have done your homework, and know all the details and consequences of the action that too place there.

Nice going from Spain,

Willie.

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