densships

Hello All,
I build ship models from scratch, the first tool I use is the scroll saw to cut out the frames for the hull. Here is a few photos of some of my ship models.
Thanks,
Den

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curiousgeorge

Welcome to the forums, Den. I tried my hand at ship modeling once but never attained your level. Beautiful ship! Where do you get the plans?

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Dr.Zook

Welcome to the Router Forums Den. Amazing work you are doing. Great photos.

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challagan

Simply amazing. That is cool and some fine fine work!

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duckarrowtypes

Very attractive. Did you gild with gold leaf or did you paint those features?

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densships

Hello All,
Thanks for the warm welcome, and for all the kind words. All the gild work on the British Ship (300 hours) worth is Testors gold model paint. On my current model I am going to use 23Kt Genuine German gold leaf, http://www.densmodelships.zoomshare.com/12.html

Thanks,
Den

Glenmore

Den I visited your site. I have to say you are wood working artist for sure. You do some fine wood working on your ships if I had 1/8 of your patients all I got to say is wow.

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Den,

You sure do good work!

You're going to use real gold... at this very moment, the gold spot is only $946 per ounce! That's going to be an expensive ship!

I'm curious... do you use a router & template / patterns to prepare some of your ship parts?

Thanks for sharing... Fantastic work!!

densships

Thanks for the kind words Sir,
The 2 ship models above were built from scratch, no patterns or plans I sort-of
play it by ear, piece by piece. I do get ideas from books and other ship models on the web, that helps out alot.
I thank you all for the comments,
Den

duckarrowtypes

I gild leather using gold leaf. A book of 25 leaves is about $70 but it goes a long way. Good thing!

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