HMS VICTORY 1798, 1:96, Shipyard

[doctormax]

I am thinking two things one this build is one of the best I have ever seen and two what other ships have you built and any chance of us seeing photos them? Keep going this is officaly my favourite thread on here.

[DORIS]

How to prepare wooden look of decks?
I use self-adhesive plastic foils with wooden look. Foils are adhered to impregnated paper base. Usually I use sharp knife for cutting narrow stripes of foil. Finally is useful to warm up glued-up foils for perfect adhesion. Of course I use colors/acrylic paint for improvement and antique look.

I used parts from Shipyard´s model, but next two layers I made by my own for perfect surface, so there are four paper layers altogether. Top layer is impregnated by acrylic clear varnish and next I used primer filler for car-body. Grinding was necessary of course. The last layer is made of narrow foil strips with wooden structure.

On these photos there is only first layer of planking.

[DORIS]

Doctormax: Thank you very much, I´m very honored!

Originally Posted by doctormax

....what other ships have you built and any chance of us seeing photos them?

Yes, there are another models in my collection and no problem to show some photos of them:
HMS Bellona 1/96, Shipyard


All photos from process:
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RMS Titanic 1/330, my own model (one of the oldest ones, which I kept)


Next photos:
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[DORIS]

Cutty Sark 1/150, Maly modelarz


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"Pinka" 1/120 - my own model and first ship, where I used self-adhesive foils for wooden look


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[Blackronin]

Doris:

You are a fantastic artist. Beautiful work.

[DORIS]

GPM models 1/200:
Bismarck


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Roma


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[birder]

You have a great collection of ships Doris and beautifully built. Your Bellona is very pretty to my eye of course, how did you find that one went together? You may have explained but are the wood like patterned adhesive strips available in the US do you know? I have not seen such a nice build of the MM Cutty Sark, great job on that in a small scale, too.

[doctormax]

Astounding work Doris, The lights on the titanic really look great almost feels like its night and she is sailing again.

[hancocp]

I just gave up paper modelling. There is no way on earth I can ever make something like that so every model I make from now on is just going to depress me. The Victory is my favourite ship and that model is just out of this world. A million thanks for showing us the best model I've ever seen, if ever there was a POTW this is it.

Bye.

[doctormax]

Originally Posted by hancocp

I just gave up paper modelling. There is no way on earth I can ever make something like that so every model I make from now on is just going to depress me. The Victory is my favourite ship and that model is just out of this world. A million thanks for showing us the best model I've ever seen, if ever there was a POTW this is it.

Bye.

don't give up, its inspiriation really thats what the ladies work is. I am sure doris seen some model that had her go oh wow I could never ever make one that good same with everyone in this hobby we look and we learn. We get inspiration and then we look for tips and doris is giving some tips on how to do things.