Since the last update, I have been working on several things.
First, I added a spare topmast and yards to Victory:
Now, I wanted to glue the poop decks in place.
But before I could do that, I needed to add the (visible) figures below that I won’t be able to access after.
So, I made and painted another little series of figures and equipment for the area and glued them in place. Rubble will be added at a later stage.
Redoutable, before the poop deck is installed:
And after:
I also installed (and before that, finished painting) the stair construction.
And Victory, before installing the deck:
And after:
The broken mast and two ladders were painted and glued in place after the deck. Before the deck was installed, I also added a row of fire buckets to the front railing:
I turned these earlier, and had them cast by a friend:
Each received a handle (leather strap in reality) from 0,05 mm copper wire. I tried to paint a simulation of the royal cypher on them, but since the buckets are only 1 mm wide these just looked like smudges so I erased them and left the buckets plain:
In the above pic, you can also see that I added glass to the skylight. I used Microscale Kristal Klear for.
I also tried Humbrol Clearfix, but found it much harder to work with. It was very syrupy, and I couldn’t thin it with water or mineral spirits. It also dried very quickly, making adjustments or removal of air bubbles difficult to impossible.
The Kristal Klear was much more flexible: it can be thinned with water and applied at any consistency you like with a small brush. Before it dries, you can easily add a bit extra or remove a little, poke away any little air bubbles, and you can wash the brush with water.
An overall view of Victory’s poop deck:
Besides filling some gaps around the edges, mast and flag lockers, and touching up paint, I also added some flag pole fixtures and some cleats. The larger cleats were carved from styrene, the small ones cut from leftover PE bits.
The quarter gallery windows also received ‘glass’:
The broken pieces are actually real glass: tiny pieces of crushed microscope cover glass (very thin!), glued with Kristal Klear.
The stern received the same treatment.
Note the lucifer for scale.
Of course, Redoutable also needed glass.
But first, I needed to install the stern. I had kept this as a separate piece until now, for easier access to the balcony (older photo, before much of the paintwork):
So, the stern was now glued in place, any seams filled and the paintwork touched up, and of course the glass added.
After the poop was installed, I also repaired the rail around the poop, because I had crushed it with my fat fingers multiple times.
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