1/100 HMS Zinnia ( 1915 )

[Dave Wooley]

Hi Laurent This is excellent work , I do like the way you have reproduced the ratlines.
Dave Wooley

[J. Soca]

Beautiful work Laurent

[Laurent]

Hi all ,

Thanks for the comments ,

Indeed , for the ratlines , I think I got it ...

I'll take some pics of the full model within a few days , when the weather gets better

Cheers ,

Laurent

[Laurent]

Hi Guys ,

hereby pictures I took yesterday while modifying the wheelhouse deck and some pictures of the whole model I took today .

I've first put a piece of thick card as a ground for the new planking to come :


I've then glued on the older deck a new piece of brown paper :


commencing to draw the planking ( or better said : the caulking ):


caulking done :


the next step here is to put some dope on the paper , to waterproof it .

Pictures of the whole model :









I did an attempt to highten the railing of the "monkey bridge" , but I didn't succeed , I'll have to rip everything off and make some new railing , that later will be covered with canvas



Regards ,

Laurent

[Reid]

that is sooo cool great job!!!!

[Avery Boyer]

Beautiful

[Andy G]

The shots look stunning, Laurent. I love the overall look of the ship.

Andy

[Torpedo]

Excellent work! Keep on! I admire your accurate soldering...

[Edward Pinniger]

Very nice work! The shrouds + ratlines look great - I'd never have thought of soldering them up from brass rod, but this must make them much more resistant to damage on a working R/C model. And the overall model is looking very good now.

You might be interested to see these photos I took of "HMS President" (ex-HMS Saxifrage) on the Thames in London a couple of weeks ago. This was a WW1 "Flower" similar though not identical to Zinnia. It certainly looks a lot different now, but you can still see the shape of the original ship.

[Laurent]

Hi EPinniger ,

I knew about HMS President , she is so far the only WW1 sloop that has been preserved .

She was a part of the Anchusa class , and as you say , she is similar to Zinnia , but the hull form is different , I have no idea if the engine room specifications were the same either , but I guess it was .

About the ratlines , I thought this was the better way to get them right , I did some trials with sewing thread on an earlier project , I even did try nylon fishing lines but it didn't work out ...

Regards ,

Laurent

[Laurent]

Hi Guys ,

my work for this afternoon

I built up the signal boom and put it into place on the front mast , I also began with the soldering of the railing on the wheelhouse deck :











the railing is still twisted & bent for now , I have to adjust the stanchions length , the whole will then be covered with paper to reproduce canvas ...

Regards ,

Laurent

[Jimmy Conway]

Laurent: when doing canvas take a look at viewtopic.php?f=4&t=32917

Nice regards: Jimmy

[Laurent]

Hi Jimmy ,

thanks for the link !

I thought to use tissue paper , but that vegetal dough paste looks like a good system .

I should check in my freezer , I think I still have some rice paste , very thin and translucid like the stuff the portuguese armor guy used ...

Reminds me my CIC loves asian food , should make some springrolls for her

I also have some translucid drawing paper at home , will take a look at it either ...

By the way , I have no difficult shapes to render here , just plain canvas wrapped around railing , that's it ...

Regards ,

Laurent

[Jimmy Conway]

Hi Laurent,
nice to me to give some help, you are always welcome.
Like very much the way you are doing "Zinnia" and I'm following the thread, thanks for sharing this .
Nice regards: Jimmy

[ingura]

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[Laurent]

Hallo Peter ,

just answered your thread before I read this one ...

waiting for some answers before I go on .

Zinnia is on the shelf for now , as I began another project , a commission I got .

There is a modelling event at Brussels next weekend , I'll build the hull during the exposition , three full days to plank a hull , should do the trick

it is this ship I have to model :


http://users.telenet.be/kamina/

got two years to do the job , plenty of time ...

after the next weekend's event , I'll work further on "Zinnia"

Cheers ,

Laurent

[Laurent]

Hi all ,

following Ingura's post in the tips & tricks section , I built the canvas railing around the monkey bridge and around the bridge deck .

I used therefore , instead of silk paper , thin kitchen aluminium foil ( about 0,1 mm thick ) to represent the canvas . the stanchions , which were supplied by Ingura , were soldered to 0,3 mm brass wire ...







Really easy to do , some care has to be taken when working on the aluminium foil , it is very fragile ...

Regards ,

Laurent

[Jimmy Conway]

....looks like real canvas.........

[Laurent]

Hi Jimmy ,

Thanks !

indeed , I think I got it right ...

For now , I'm busy with the scratchbuilding of cowl ventilators for the two boiler rooms and the engine room . They have a typical Royal Navy shape , with a large rounded mouth but a little tube , I ordered some on line , but no one satisfies me , too "german" ( read : Kaizerliche Marine ) for my liking ...

Pictures of that build will follow , with a "how to" article in the tips & tricks section ...





Regards ,

Laurent

[Avery Boyer]

Whoa, that is some stunning work on the canvass, it looks so real! Very well done, keep it up!