"Marine Landings and Jolly Boats" Topic

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Cacadoress	03 Nov 2025 7:55 a.m. PST
So has anyone found a better means of replicating a jolly boat? ‌ I bought three of the above Zvezda "Medieval Lifeboat" models, cut off some of the hull and replaced it with card. Because the card base has to be bigger I made waves out of filler plaster, painted them and covered them with P.V.A. This is the result: ‌ I know you wouldn't necessarily need a mast at all, but since it looks better, I reorganised the rigging for the 19th century by lowering the boom and lengthening the mast.
deadhead	03 Nov 2025 9:35 a.m. PST
Really clever to transform the look of this to a more modern style. That takes expert knowledge to carry it off. I try to do the same with carriages for 1815, but usually find it is the reverse needed, a return to an obsolete look.
DevoutDavout	03 Nov 2025 9:42 a.m. PST
I think that looks great. Mast does make everything better looking. There was a lot of variety to the working boats so plenty of leeway. If it's Zvezda wouldnt it be that cast foam? If so you could also do things like cut out the grating in the back, replace with decking level with the rest. For variety. It might be possible to cut a slice out of the middle to shorten one a bit as well. But honestly doing two more just like that would be pretty great. As far as better, have you looked at printing. Its a huge pain but in some cases worthwhile to make things hard to find a base for.
Cacadoress	03 Nov 2025 1:12 p.m. PST
deadhead "Really clever". Thanks. Duuno about "expert" – just copied some pictures. I've sailed a dinghy, so guess that helps with which bits are supposed to move! At least they're kits, which makes it easier to cut components and then glue them somewhere else. One thing you've got with the older carriages is that they look simpler. Though maybe that makes them harder to make from later versions.
Cacadoress	03 Nov 2025 2:19 p.m. PST
DevoutDavout 03 Nov 2025 9:42 a.m. PST "I think that looks great. Mast does make everything better looking. There was a lot of variety to the working boats so plenty of leeway." Luckily the Royal Navy, at least, had no standardised cutter shape. However, I made them all the same. Creative energy was put into the plaster waves. theminiaturespage.com‌ ‌"TMP link "If it's Zvezda wouldnt it be that cast foam? If so you could also do things like cut out the grating in the back, replace with decking level with the rest. For variety. It might be possible to cut a slice out of the middle to shorten one a bit as well. But honestly doing two more just like that would be pretty great." Dunno about making one shorter – they're only three inches. Longer maybe. But good idea about variety. I could have one with its jib up. They're injection-molded polystyrene kits, so certainly I could have left out the grating, like on this Greenwich Museum model of an 1835 jolly boat. Or reduced it to a bailing hatch. Where are the oarlocks? theminiaturespage.com‌ ‌"TMP link … or put it in the front, like this replica 18th century one has. Or indeed messed about with the rigging. They could do with a folded up gib as it isn't on the bowsprit – which I extended. They're assuming the marines took a mast and sail with them in case their rendezvous with the ship was a bit of a journey. theminiaturespage.com‌ ‌"TMP link "to make things hard to find a base for" How do you mean?

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