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Houston, we have a problem.
I am opening Pandora's box.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news Vol, but you are flying the wrong ensign and national flag.
The Union did not take place until 1801, so the red saltire would not be included during the Breadfruit mission of 1789.
Rob.
Impressive ship, photos and scenery. Looks beautiful, Vol!Quote:
Originally Posted by Volunteer
Very nice detail work, Rob.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bligh
Here is today's offering. A Saint Lawrence iconic statue in a niche.
Tomorrow hopefully the fore building drawbridge and endless flights of steps.
So ot wasn't the white ensign after all? I wondered about the jack, I couldn't quite make it out in the painting well enough to be sure. So it would be the original jack then. I will get them changed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bligh
It was still called the white ensign just did not have the red saltire.
Rob.
OK so no jack at all then. Easily removed. And I now realize the white ensign I used is also post 1801. Not sure if I have the earlier enaigns. Pandora is wrong as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bligh
Thanks Rob, you are a scholar and a gentleman!
You can find them in the hobby section of the files Vol.:happy:
https://sailsofglory.org/downloads.php?do=cat&id=4
Rob.
Here is the fort now completed and undercoated.
Rob.
Darned close on both flags, Vol. Just ditch the diagonal red stripes and you're home!Quote:
Originally Posted by Volunteer
Ok Rob how is this?
Bounty
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Pandora
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Just checked the ensign on my HMS Captain and it is the correct pre-1801 flag. Guess I just wasn't thinking with these last two ships.
That's a beauty Vol.
I remember her with fondness,:clap: although not so in the case of Mr. Christian!
:pistole::Arrrr:
Bligh.
Fort painted yesterday. Now just the guns and flag to add. I wonder if I should do the 1802 version of the French flag?:takecover:
Rob.:wink:
https://sailsofglory.org/attachment....id=57834&stc=1
Wow the fort looks amazing Rob. I would never have imagined it from the initial photos at the start.
Oh and thanks for the added rep points sir.
You more than earned the rep Vol.
Today I started roughing out the headland to place the fort and juxtapose it with the Dubrovnic old town.
Also thank you for the return of Rep Vol. I just discovered your posting.
Rob.
Wow! Dubrovnik is spectacular Rob!
Thanks Vol.
The Old town is almost complete now. Just a few more buildings and flights of steps to add, and then I can put in the planting around the buildings and age the whole thing. Then it is on with the last two supporting tiles at the right side of the town as you look at it. Only a bridge and a few outerworks there though.
Rob.
Todays work comprised a bit more terra forming around the fort and a few more walls taking shape, but tomorrow I'm back to making loads of steps.
ob.
Great seeing this project, Rob, unfold one step at a time. :wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by Bligh
Now I'm working on a plastic kit. It is a Pyro 1/190 scale HM Bounty. I need help identifying a couple of peculiar bundles strapped down to either side of the deck. Does anyone have an idea what they are? I can't pait them if I can't ID them.
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Hard to tell without context, and with the very soft detail. Judging from the slightly clearer Revell kit, this seems to be associated with the four 4pdr guns - and I would expect that they are *intended* to be rammers, worm, spunge etc for the artillery.
Thanks Paul.Quote:
Originally Posted by ShadowDragon
It is a three stage project with the two bits of mainland added. The hardest part was the town as you may have guessed, but now that Brigade Models are up and running again, I just received the last of my houses and a few more bits to complete that part of the works, so I currently have two parts in progress simultaneously.
More about the parts from Brigade when I get my camera out later today.
Rob.
That would be my best guess also Dave, although they look more like shovels than mops and worms, but as you say they are not very well defined.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lieste
Rob.
How about oars for the ship's boat? I'll bet Bounty had more oars than rammers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Volunteer
They are present explicitly in the ship's boat on the Revell kit, with these two sets of tools present on the deck, they are on that version just forward of the first gun pair hard against the bulwark on the quarterdeck, while the ship's boat is in the waist. They are also shorter than the sweeps supplied by a significant amount, but are of a suitable length to serve a 4pdr gun.
Each should include two rammers, two spunge, two worm and perhaps gunner's ladles. As they are to serve four guns. On larger ships I would expect to see these afixed to the bulwark, but both kits seem to show them stowed in this clamp on the deck.
Thank you gentlemen, you have answered my questions. I will paint them accordingly.
Here are all the stairs and bridge which I have added over the last two days.
Rob.