Antiques or replicas DB?
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Now working on the main harbour fortifications. Hope to get the fort completed today.
Rob.
Thank you for the reputation, Rob.
Bahama
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A better picture of the stern.
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Note the details of Simon’s model. It’s the 1:700 model printed in 1:1000.
Replicas, amigo. :) With TWO exceptions, I won't have anything in my Arms Locker that I didn't build myself. Exception One is my old duty sidearm which was built by a friend from my mom's company gun club Back In The Day, Exception Two is a general category for things my girlfriend and I build together or she builds at my bench and I store for her.
I do know a guy way up north almost to the BC border who has a HUGE collection of vintage frontstuffers including IIRC a Trade Gun from the Lewis & Clark Expedition and some pre-Crockett Kentucky Longrifles, though...
MUCH better than the official release. :) Jealous here.
Rob, fort's coming along nicely.
I would love to be able to see those early historic guns in the flesh asit were DB.
Rob.
That is really odd Vol, because I can see them!
Rob.
Here is my first fortification now ready for undercoating, and thanks for the Rep Vol.
Rob.
I probably won't be getting into that for a while, but I'll see if Andy's good with sharing pics of his table-o'-smokepoles from one of his old Mountain Man reenacting sessions. :)
Okay, my prior isn't entirely accurate... there are a very few Not-Built-Here that if I could somehow track them down would be welcomed home. Grandpa's old Air Force service 1911, and Uncle Frank's bringback Garand and M1 Carbine. Kinda hard to find them since I don't have the serial numbers to look for, though...
No there is nothing there except the text now. Well here are some more for you to turn. I don't understand why they are lopsided when they aren't on my device or anywhere else I post them. Weird!
Now there are some lights added
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DB, my dad and I hunted with muzzle loaders for years. I have several, including my great grandfather's old muzzle loading shotgun. One is a home built 50 caliber percussion that an old hunting buddy built for me.
A first rate wreck…
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These outerworks are now complete and re4ady for the building complex inside them to be made.
Yesterday's work comprised of completeing the building complex within the outer works.
Rob.
Wow that is turning out amazing Rob!
Thanks Vol.
It is actually turning out to be the most difficult bit of model work I have taken on simply because of the amount of scratch building I'm having to do to get even a semblance of accuracy to the actual town.:shock:
Rob.:wink:
Which makes it all the more impressive to me Rob. Oh and your post was the first email notification I've received since before Christmas.:happy:
Huzzah, notifications are working again here too! *cannon salute*
Better pic, I hope, with latest arrivals... looks like I'm gonna have to write off most of the case's standard foam, at least the last 2" to make room for the long barrel.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...116_174759.jpg
Tools in the lid organizer, forgot to move the grip over from the project box for snapping this. Funny story here: list price was on the case was $40, website price was $28, with a 25%-off-anything coupon it walked out the door with me for $21. Even having to spend an extra $10 to buy a better shoulder strap (half-off Daily Deal at a camera shop) that's still coming out ahead. I don't know whether I should have taken it as a compliment or an insult when my gal told me "you powershop like a girl"...
Glad to hear that Gents.
I have not been getting them for a couple of weeks now, either here or on the Drome. I hope that my service will soon be resumed also.
Rob.
That is definitely a compliment DB! I live with three "Power Shoppers".
Meanwhile, back at the ranch someshopping of my own today.
Arrived on overnight delivery my large Plasticard sheet for the base of the town, and ordered some more wall and towers, as all this double walling has just about run me out of curtain wall for now. So for tomorrow I will be mostly building more of the significant large buildings whilst I await my delivery.
Rob.
Here are the ones I managed to get done today.
You may spot them on the other picture.
Can you put a ruler on that town photo Rob for a size perspective please. Did you print out a map of the town, is that what I'm seeing? You have been calling the material platicard, but it looks like what we call foamcore, is that the same thing? This is really going to be something!
The blue is foamcore, but the white material used alongside the cream resin(?) and white metal castings is sheet or rod plasticard (styrene) glued together and cut to match the style of the existing resin walls where non-stock parts were needed, and to add elements to surgically altered castings.
Here you are Vol.
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Today I filled in time with a bit of work on the Harbour frontage and defences.
Wow, only 13 inches diameter. It appears much larger. It really does look great.
Today I completed as much of the walls as I had remaining bits.
I will now have to go back to the three remaining scratched buildings until fresh supplies arrive.
Rob, too bad we can't get Ares to either make or 3rd-party-license town kits like that...
It would certainly add something to the ambience of the game especially if Ares are bringing out the Pirates line DB. Just imagine sallying out from Port Royal, Nassau or Tortuga on an adventure, or carrying out a raid on Portobello, Havana or Panama.
Rob.
I would be happy with somebody making several different 3D models that could be combined to make things like this.
This is brilliant! Thank you for the continuous updates, it's fun watching a town grow in front of us.
Today I began work on my church, but got sidetracked by the bowls games on TV.
Rob.
I finished the booknook just in time to present to my oldest daughter for her birthday. Now my younger daughter wants one for her birthday. I could have built 3 or 4 ships in the time this thing took!
There is a short video on my blog that shows the action going on inside the nook.
https://volsminiatures.blogspot.com/...erent.html?m=1
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Rob, this time I even went into my device and rotated the photo 90 degrees to the right before I uploaded it and it is still lopsided to the left.
https://www.sailsofglory.org/attachm...5&d=1642838330
This time I left your picture in Vol. Just in case mine did a magic trick again and vanished.
That completed model is a wonder to behold Vol.:clap:
:question: I wonder if I could do one for the gundeck on a Frigate?
Oh no! That way lies madness.:shock:
Rob.:wink:
I can see your sideways on view and my own correction.
Please let me know if anyone else can see Vol's pictures.
Rob.