A nautic miscellany: 2011-07-10 - More junks and another ironclad

[Silent Invader]

Impressive!

[Haarken]

Thanks for the tutorial Chris, you make it seem so easy. Love the progress you've made as well, i can hardly believe how fast you are turning these out, the Spar Torpedo boat is especially lovely and tiny too. Keep up the fantastic work.

Haarken

[Lt. Hazel]

You´re insane! What you are able to build with some pieces of wood or just some papersheets takes my breath!

[OSHIROmodels]

Love that war junk  is it scratch built as well 

cheers

James

[Westfalia Chris]

Love that war junk  is it scratch built as well 

Yes - the hull is carved from balsa wood, with added details (guns etc.) from plasticard and plastic rod; the sails were designed in a graphics program, printed as doubles, folded over and glued for stability and affixed to the painted model.

[Westfalia Chris]

Finished two more warjunks, a tiny (mainly decorative) sampan and started another ironclad for the French squadron (based on the "La Galissionère").

[HerbyF]

These aare beautiful scratch builds. Look better than a lot of ships available on the market. I really like the Chinese junks.

[Haarken]

Fantastic progress, you really are turning these out rather quickly. I love all the detail you've managed to cram on to the "La Galissionère". Are you working from plans for these or just pictures?

[Westfalia Chris]

Fantastic progress, you really are turning these out rather quickly. I love all the detail you've managed to cram on to the "La Galissionère". Are you working from plans for these or just pictures?

Mainly photographs. I've got a book with hundreds of side and top elevations for warships from ca.1850-1990, but that one is several hundred kilometres away with my parents. X-D

[OSHIROmodels]

These are great Chris and you're really cracking them out at a fair pace 

cheers

James

[Westfalia Chris]

Painted up the second ironclad:



Another shot of the squadron:

[AKULA]

They look the part Chris - nice work!
 

[voltan]

  cracking

[Mors]

I have not been paying much attention to LAF recently, just popping in now again to view the VSF and Colonial boards and I have missed this thread till now. Fantastic scatchbuilds!!
Through a roundabout way, ie sailing some r/c boats with my boys , then buying a r/c magazine which had some plans and instructions for building a local defense turret ship, then a trip to Pompey and Chatham and the purchase (and more importantly actually reading) of  War  at Sea The Ironclad Age this is my current in vogue subject, alas I also suffer from

most quite abortive due to my flypaper mind and hummingbird attention span, but then again, I often come back to hiatic projects

I was considering my options for commercially available models, and in the end for ease I decided to go with Skytrex Triton 1200:1 range as I thought the Navwar 3000:1 would probably be too small especially after I saw this guys collection (scroll halfway down and futher for close ups)
 http://www.shipmodels.info/mws_forum/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=34442&start=0

The problem with Skytrex is there are very few models for opposition to the Brits(there are some very expensive models available companies like Hai in the correct scale), this thread convinces me to have a go at scratchbuilding, though my attempts wil not be as neat as yours.
Im trying to get a hold of Conways book and also the Black Battlefleet by Ballard as Im interested in doing a few models from the 1850' to the 1890's.
Hope you keep posting updates!