Plastic Model Gun 1/1 Scale

[kagero43]

On my phone screen that is a beautiful job. Amazing skill at altering one into the other.
I have up modelling years ago for lack of a proper work space or presentation area. Moved around quite a bit. Looking to move now even. If I find a workshop area or can set up in a garage or even erect one of those little wooden building sheds I might try to do something again. I make saber belts and holsters and some other knick knacks. It would be nice to have work space next to my draughting board and guitar amp set up again. Too little time left for me in his world to do everything I have had to give up top this current time.
I have couple of recently acquired sailing ship models from those folks in Viet Nam who construct a variety of ship designs offered in different sizes. Some huge! They are hip enough for what they are. I got really good discounts on them. I would not have paid $1000.00+ for the larger of the two. I'm half Hollish so when 1/2 price on a Dutch warship model popped up on my phone screen I thought about its for a minute or so and then ordered it. I think this could be habit forming once I have a place to expand.
There is a Maritime Museum in Oxnard CA that is chocked full of models that the resident modeled created over a few decades. His bench is still all set up like he had it before his passing. It is worth a look just to marvel at his set up. I think they have photos of it on line at their website. Google Oxnard or Ventura County Maritime Museum. I think it is one or both of those. Oxnard used to have The Tall Ships stop in on their way up the coast. Ventura also and the local Confederate Artillery battery would engage in cannon salvos at the ships and the ships would return fire. Great fun!
Cheers!

Thank you! Working on the USS Hartford. Long journey on that one. Thanks for the info. Cheers!

 

[Reverend Ron]

If you can rig WW1 aircraft you can probably do anything. I saw where some one had rigged a 1/72 scale DH2 ! Great job on the ship and boat

There are some tricks to rigging both aircraft and ships. I use the elastic fine wire stuff on aircraft it's more forgiving, but rigged most of the sailing ship with thread. Thanks!

 

[Reverend Ron]

No laughing matter. I would be proud to display those at my home or office or whatever. Good work.
About the Pilot Boat. I think I remember reading about the sailors in that boat being issued .58 cal. dowels and hammers to slam plugs into the holes made by defending musket fire from the Albermarle. Maybe that was something else. I read it in Jr. or Senior High School in a CWTI article.
Cheers!

Interesting factoid regarding the dowel plugs being used on the little Union Picket Boat. Really an incredible feat of bravery on the part of those sailors.

 

[Reverend Ron]

On my phone screen that is a beautiful job. Amazing skill at altering one into the other.
I have up modelling years ago for lack of a proper work space or presentation area. Moved around quite a bit. Looking to move now even. If I find a workshop area or can set up in a garage or even erect one of those little wooden building sheds I might try to do something again. I make saber belts and holsters and some other knick knacks. It would be nice to have work space next to my draughting board and guitar amp set up again. Too little time left for me in his world to do everything I have had to give up top this current time.
I have couple of recently acquired sailing ship models from those folks in Viet Nam who construct a variety of ship designs offered in different sizes. Some huge! They are hip enough for what they are. I got really good discounts on them. I would not have paid $1000.00+ for the larger of the two. I'm half Hollish so when 1/2 price on a Dutch warship model popped up on my phone screen I thought about its for a minute or so and then ordered it. I think this could be habit forming once I have a place to expand.
There is a Maritime Museum in Oxnard CA that is chocked full of models that the resident modeled created over a few decades. His bench is still all set up like he had it before his passing. It is worth a look just to marvel at his set up. I think they have photos of it on line at their website. Google Oxnard or Ventura County Maritime Museum. I think it is one or both of those. Oxnard used to have The Tall Ships stop in on their way up the coast. Ventura also and the local Confederate Artillery battery would engage in cannon salvos at the ships and the ships would return fire. Great fun!
Cheers!

There are people on here that have a wide ranging sets of skills, very cool!

 

[Reverend Ron]

On my phone screen that is a beautiful job. Amazing skill at altering one into the other.
I have up modelling years ago for lack of a proper work space or presentation area. Moved around quite a bit. Looking to move now even. If I find a workshop area or can set up in a garage or even erect one of those little wooden building sheds I might try to do something again. I make saber belts and holsters and some other knick knacks. It would be nice to have work space next to my draughting board and guitar amp set up again. Too little time left for me in his world to do everything I have had to give up top this current time.
I have couple of recently acquired sailing ship models from those folks in Viet Nam who construct a variety of ship designs offered in different sizes. Some huge! They are hip enough for what they are. I got really good discounts on them. I would not have paid $1000.00+ for the larger of the two. I'm half Hollish so when 1/2 price on a Dutch warship model popped up on my phone screen I thought about its for a minute or so and then ordered it. I think this could be habit forming once I have a place to expand.
There is a Maritime Museum in Oxnard CA that is chocked full of models that the resident modeled created over a few decades. His bench is still all set up like he had it before his passing. It is worth a look just to marvel at his set up. I think they have photos of it on line at their website. Google Oxnard or Ventura County Maritime Museum. I think it is one or both of those. Oxnard used to have The Tall Ships stop in on their way up the coast. Ventura also and the local Confederate Artillery battery would engage in cannon salvos at the ships and the ships would return fire. Great fun!
Cheers!

I know exactly what you mean. There have been several long periods of my life where because of work and living situations, I couldn't have any hobbies at all. Now I'm retired and build models, reload rifle and pistol cartridges, shoot Civil War muskets, breach loading carbines, revolvers etc. My North-South Skirmish Association (N-SSA) now even has a 12 lb. rifled artillery piece we're playing with. Be patient your opportunity will come!

 

[DixieRifles]

The oldest model I built and still have is the CSS VIRGINIA / MERRIMAC. I think that was a Lindberg kit. My brother likely helped me and we rigged the smokestack. Then I built the small model of the HMS VICTORY with plastic sails and simple rigging.

My biggest accomplishment was repairing my brother LARGE kit of the CUTTY SARK in 1/96 scale. He built it where he was stationed in the Air Force. When he was assigned a tour to Thailand during Nam, he shipped that model home---not pun intended. The shippers placed it in a crate that was about 6 inches shorter than the model. Many yardarms were damage and the rigging (Thread) was rolled up in a ball. I got out tweezers, long pin for picking through the knots, and glue and untangled the mess. I only cut a few lines. I did it! Since I didn't have any instruction sheet, I didn't want to cut too many of the threads.

I found this photo on the Internet.

 

[Kurtlg]

The oldest model I built and still have is the CSS VIRGINIA / MERRIMAC. I think that was a Lindberg kit. My brother likely helped me and we rigged the smokestack. Then I built the small model of the HMS VICTORY with plastic sails and simple rigging.

My biggest accomplishment was repairing my brother LARGE kit of the CUTTY SARK in 1/96 scale. He built it where he was stationed in the Air Force. When he was assigned a tour to Thailand during Nam, he shipped that model home---not pun intended. The shippers placed it in a crate that was about 6 inches shorter than the model. Many yardarms were damage and the rigging (Thread) was rolled up in a ball. I got out tweezers, long pin for picking through the knots, and glue and untangled the mess. I only cut a few lines. I did it! Since I didn't have any instruction sheet, I didn't want to cut too many of the threads.

I found this photo on the Internet.
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I think that Lindbergh kit has been released again but I forget by what company . I built it too way back in the day. As I recall the Monitor and Virginia are different scales. Still they were good kits back then .

 

[rebelatsea]

I think that Lindbergh kit has been released again but I forget by what company . I built it too way back in the day. As I recall the Monitor and Virginia are different scales. Still they were good kits back then .

they were available in the UK, not sure if the were Lindbergh though, unfortunately my Virginia fell victim to our cat knocking it off the shelf ! don't recall what happened to the Monitor.

 

[Trooper "D"]

they were available in the UK, not sure if the were Lindbergh though, unfortunately my Virginia fell victim to our cat knocking it off the shelf ! don't recall what happened to the Monitor.

Not the first or last time for sailors being sunk over a little....kitty.

 

[Trooper "D"]

I know exactly what you mean. There have been several long periods of my life where because of work and living situations, I couldn't have any hobbies at all. Now I'm retired and build models, reload rifle and pistol cartridges, shoot Civil War muskets, breach loading carbines, revolvers etc. My North-South Skirmish Association (N-SSA) now even has a 12 lb. rifled artillery piece we're playing with. Be patient your opportunity will come!

Hey, thanks for the uplifting words. My physical body is messed up to the point of me not being able to participate in much of what I have done in the past so I am redirecting my KSAs to other things within the field. I just gotta get out of town or maybe even the state to find affordable houses and land. It would be great to host reenactments on a piece of undeveloped property with some resources planted about for making breastworks and other field fortifications. A small redoubt possibly or mini star fort I could even envision. Just not here since there are not enough reenactors to put together a corporals guard.
Cheers!

 

[Trooper "D"]

Interesting factoid regarding the dowel plugs being used on the little Union Picket Boat. Really an incredible feat of bravery on the part of those sailors.

Extremely brave. Getting under the firing level of the guns would have been a test on the nerves and then small arms fire from the deck and land sounds like a soil fest in that boat.
Cheers!

 

[kagero43]

I don't want to hijack this but have you tried artists oil paints ? Burnt sienna is a reddish brown and you could paint grain with dark umber.You can blend these to get the effect you want. Practice on some scrap plastic.

Sorry for late reply as I was out of town. Yes the oils are what I used on the grips. Thank you for sharing.

 

[kagero43]

How did you texture the grips? They look really believable. The plastic looks like it has a pretty good faux grain for you to work with. Most of the flintlocks have much smoother stocks and I've found it difficult to get a convincing wood appearance with them. My latest technique has been to spray paint them, then brush and scrub off a layer of black paint onto them, letting it settle in low areas and brushing it in one direction on the smooth surfaces of the foregrip and grip. Finally, I give them a heavy coat of clear gloss spray to simulate the varnish finish. I like to use the stocks of my muskets for appearance comparison.

Sorry for the late reply. Yes the grips were filled with putty and then resanded by with heavy grit and in one direction to give new finer grain.

 

[kagero43]

This is the other Pyro kit I made back in the 60's with the firing replica percussion I bought in 2018.
The percussion is a replica of a dueling pistol so it isn't designed to hold a ramrod.

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wow nice!! I should get that kit.

 

[gary]

I build scale models for a living but also a huge Civil War fan. Here is a palstic model I built. I converted the Pyro kit to make a Confederate Pistol called a "Griswold & Gunneson Colt 36" - often used by Officers and Cavalry Troopers of the Confederate Army and Navy. This six-shot .36 caliber revolver was made under contract to the Confederate government. It is a brass framed copy of the Colt 1851 Navy revolver. The G&G factory, near Macon Georgia, produced revolvers for the Confederacy by enslaved labourers over the course of the war, from 1862 until 1864 producing approximately 3,700 revolvers - more than any other Confederate firearm factory. The factory was burned down by Sherman's troops on his march to the sea.
Based on the Colt Model 1851 revolver, the design of the Griswold and Gunnison revolver differed from the Federal Colt pistol, most noticeably the grip's rearward tilt (which I cut and re-angled it on the frame), and well as a brass frame with iron components instead of steel (using metallic paints). Other mods included re-doing the cylinder so it had no "step", and replacing the hexagonal barrel of the original kit with a round acrylic tube to simulate the G&G style barrel. The rear of the barrel was modified in shape with a new scratch-built Rammer as well to change it to a G&G Confederate pistol. I also had to add more screws to the frame and Rammer as the kit was missing them. I added serial numbers via a metal number stamp, lightly hammered into the plastic. Metallic paints by Testors and Alclad were used throughout (about 15 colours in total to give depth), with finishing done using blue and red shoe polish paste.
It is the best I can do in my interpretation of a real Griswold/Gunnison, but hey, I am not a Civil War firearms expert by any means, and just had fun doing this to practice my metallic model painting techniques! I hope you like it as much I did building and painting this old kit that has been in my stash for some time. Sorry but I will not take this model to a plastic model show. It will only be seen on FB and in my collection.

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Why didn't the kit makers counterbore those holes for the grip screws? As the assembler you might not have that option.

Nice paint job too.

 

[Dusty]

You do very nice work

 

[bankerpapaw]

I build scale models for a living but also a huge Civil War fan. Here is a palstic model I built. I converted the Pyro kit to make a Confederate Pistol called a "Griswold & Gunneson Colt 36" - often used by Officers and Cavalry Troopers of the Confederate Army and Navy. This six-shot .36 caliber revolver was made under contract to the Confederate government. It is a brass framed copy of the Colt 1851 Navy revolver. The G&G factory, near Macon Georgia, produced revolvers for the Confederacy by enslaved labourers over the course of the war, from 1862 until 1864 producing approximately 3,700 revolvers - more than any other Confederate firearm factory. The factory was burned down by Sherman's troops on his march to the sea.
Based on the Colt Model 1851 revolver, the design of the Griswold and Gunnison revolver differed from the Federal Colt pistol, most noticeably the grip's rearward tilt (which I cut and re-angled it on the frame), and well as a brass frame with iron components instead of steel (using metallic paints). Other mods included re-doing the cylinder so it had no "step", and replacing the hexagonal barrel of the original kit with a round acrylic tube to simulate the G&G style barrel. The rear of the barrel was modified in shape with a new scratch-built Rammer as well to change it to a G&G Confederate pistol. I also had to add more screws to the frame and Rammer as the kit was missing them. I added serial numbers via a metal number stamp, lightly hammered into the plastic. Metallic paints by Testors and Alclad were used throughout (about 15 colours in total to give depth), with finishing done using blue and red shoe polish paste.
It is the best I can do in my interpretation of a real Griswold/Gunnison, but hey, I am not a Civil War firearms expert by any means, and just had fun doing this to practice my metallic model painting techniques! I hope you like it as much I did building and painting this old kit that has been in my stash for some time. Sorry but I will not take this model to a plastic model show. It will only be seen on FB and in my collection.

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I built one of these a loooong time ago when I was a kid.