ROYAL CAROLINE 1749/1:40/scratch build

[Don Boose]

Such beautiful work!

Don

[romanmodels]

looking good like the pumps

[Phillip Wingrove]

Hi Doris. The Natural History Museum in Oxford has some amazing models of ships at the moment. Did not have my camera with me at the time, but if anyone is visiting and can post, these might interest you. The several different designs of frigate were particularily interesting.
Best, Phillip.

[spear]

Has anyone had any contact with Doris recently?
She used to also post on Model Ship World but hasn't been about since the server crashed and the site had to re set.
It may just be real life getting in the way but people over there are wondering if she is ok particularly following the floods in Prague.

[Usonian]

Hello all,
My first post on this Forum. I recently bought my first wood ship model kit, then somehow bumped into this site... and Doris's work... and now I'm thinking I should have gone paper! I will build the wood armed schooner model (Artisian Latina kit), but I think I will also get the paper Baltimore Clipper from Shipyard and work them side by side. Ultimately, I would like to work up a scratch built HMS Beagle, paper or wood as my abilities dictate. My research finds that this hugely important ship is not well represented in any model kit. But now I've gotten years ahead of myself.

Today, one of the many basic things puzzling me is, how does Doris make her cannons? It appears she forms the tapered barrels from a rolled paper trapezoid, and the reinforcing rings are slivers of paper wrapped around the barrel. But that's all I can get from pictures on Doris's other builds.

Doris, how do you form the trunnion -- a toothpick? dowel? wire? How is the cascabel formed (the knob at the breech end of the barrel) -- a bead, clay? How do you achieve that perfectly convincing metallic bronze finish? Doris's threads on this site are lengthy. Perhaps I've just missed something.

I do hope Doris's absence lately has to do with gardening and teaching duties, and nothing more serious than the obligations of making a living.

[DORIS]

Hello dear friends!
Thank you very much for your comments and kind words, I appreciate them a lot and I am glad, you like my work.
I have to excuse I was not here for a long time. Several months the work on Royal Caroline was frozen, I have had health problems and

moreover I am sorry to say, but there are some jealous and grudging people in our country who discouraged me from modeling.

In autumn I have started to assemble some plastic kits from Revell
Queen Mary 2 1:400 Revell - YouTube
ModelForum • Zobrazit téma - Queen Mary 2 + Aida/1:400/Revell

and found again pleasure and desire to work on RC, so now I am continuing with other fitting and details on decks and also with interior of cabins. I really enjoy this kind of work. Here are pics, so enjoy them. The furniture is made of wood or paper covered with self-adhesive foils with wooden look. Decorations are hand made from modeling clay.











Kind regards,
Doris

[thorst]

Unbelieveable... If I could only come close to this quality...

[DORIS]

Thanky you, Thorst!

At Royal Caroline I have finished other railings and changed red colour of the roof above the main cabin - now it is natural wooden colour:





Making furniture for the rear cabin

[DORIS]

Pics from the cabin:

[DORIS]

And other furniture and details: