Today I'm going to show a television story about my modeling work, since many years ago when I started building miniature boats, to this day in the construction of cars and carriages, surely my friends do not understand what I say in Portuguese, but you would like to see my work in the various areas of modeling, this was my last boat, a very interesting frigate made from the plans bought at the naval museum in Lisbon, and built on the 1/96 scale. a very interesting T.V. report, I hope you enjoy watching.
Following the construction of the trunk carriage, I will show you how to make the roof seats and also the first layer of primer on the body of the carriage, plus some photos to elucidate this work.
The various stages of construction of the seats
Fine quality leather is used to give a more perfect and flexible finish.
Metal nail heads painted black are used to give the effect of buttons on the cushions
The first coat of primary paint before the final paint, which has 2 colors, black and yellow.
Since the 3 seats are different in size and configuration, it is necessary to make a mold for each one, after finishing the welding of the railings it is convenient to give a primer coat in order to protect the iron wire, in order not to oxidize, some advantages of this material used in this construction, for the first time, due to the lack of brass wire, is that it receives the paint better and is firmer in the moldings and curvatures, however requires harder wood molds, such as oak, also already built the chock of the wheel, as can be seen. in the following photos.
