| ModelJShip | 28 Mar 2015 7:54 a.m. PST |
Hello all!
Today I finished a very special custom … my first port in 1/1200!
It is a small port in the Spanish colonies. In this case, I had to adjust the size of the port town to a small box of chocolates.
So I had to separate the external dock and the harbor. Hope you like it, greetings Julián. link |
| CAPTAIN BEEFHEART | 28 Mar 2015 8:30 a.m. PST |
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| Bob in Edmonton | 28 Mar 2015 10:04 a.m. PST |
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| War In 15MM | 28 Mar 2015 12:28 p.m. PST |
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 Yellow Admiral  | 28 Mar 2015 6:16 p.m. PST |
I'm trying to do shore scenery just like that. I will be happy if I wind up with something even half that nice. How did you do the palm trees? - Ix |
| Shagnasty | 28 Mar 2015 6:23 p.m. PST |
Very, very nice. You need a battery somewhere though, to fend off those piraty people. |
| joekano | 28 Mar 2015 8:26 p.m. PST |
That is some beautiful work! |
Volunteer  | 28 Mar 2015 9:29 p.m. PST |
Hmmm….looks a bit familiar!
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| capncarp | 28 Mar 2015 9:30 p.m. PST |
Ay, caramba! The true afficionado knows that best port comes from Portugal! (BTW, love the stonework mole/breakwater) |
| ModelJShip | 29 Mar 2015 4:43 a.m. PST |
Shagnasty: yes, I proposed to my client make a cannons tower but he declined … If pirates arrive…the port is lost! Yellow Admiral: It's possible I make a small tutorial on how to make palm trees in scale 1/1200 Volunteer: your port is very nice.I tried doing a Spanish port with Langton buildings, I think it has not been bad at all.
The church is not of Langton, is purchased in a store figurines.
All: thanks for your words!!! have a nice day
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| ModelJShip | 29 Mar 2015 5:52 a.m. PST |
I add a link to a tutorial on how to make palm trees in 1/1200.
I hope, it helps you.
link |
| whitejamest | 29 Mar 2015 6:36 p.m. PST |
I love this, really really beautiful work! |
| ModelJShip | 30 Mar 2015 6:19 a.m. PST |
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| Yellow Admiral | 30 Mar 2015 1:44 p.m. PST |
Thanks for the tutorial. I would have thought for sure the fronds needed to be thickened somehow to look more like flat, wide palm fronds, but the painted wire looks just fine. Long ago I bought some braided wire (sold as 'picture hanging wire' at local hardware stores) to use as palm trunks. If I can figure out an efficient way to make palm tree tops like yours that can just be glued on, maybe I can use it. Unwinding the braid on the "top" end will add a few more fronds, so maybe I can make slightly less complex loops. Your technique looks doable for a few trees, but a bit too labor intensive for a palm forest of 1000 trees… - Ix |
| ModelJShip | 30 Mar 2015 2:06 p.m. PST |
Yes, make a palm forest is very difficult with this technique. It is only feasible to some loose palms. |
| Francisco Aguayo | 11 Apr 2015 2:27 p.m. PST |
The modeling work is great. But I will suggest that the houses depicted are not from any generic or specific Spanish colonial port. The tiled roofs are too steeped to be somewhere in the Spanish colonies. They could represent a French or English colonial town. Spanish colonial towns, and there are many engravings to go with, have low angle tiled roofs, or flat roofs. The church does look the part. The modeling is very talented. |
| ModelJShip | 12 Apr 2015 3:06 a.m. PST |
You are right Francisco but my client send me those houses. He used ancien houses Langton. Those houses have roof less steeped. I had to work with the client`s houses. If I were he, I would select only ancien houses but its his decision Greetings and thanks for your words |
