airfix Royal Sovriegn

Really great job.  The sails came out well and the whole model and setting is very nicely done.  You should enter it in a show and have a trophy to go with it to it's owner.  He should be very happy with it.

You have done a beautiful job on her. Congrats and Cheers Mark

Hi all well its done (just hope Rolf likes it)after all he's paid for it.

Looking good. 

on the last leg on this one now

Hi all here is an update on this one

Hi all as a note People keep asking me how I do these sails, well here is a short guide, they are so easy.

First you need the white spirit you clean your brushes in ( you know the jar or bottle or whatever that all the sludge builds up in( I keep mine topped up in a little bottle as I use it for other things too)

you  get your vac formed sails , your brush and your white spirit.

then you get a good brushfull of the sludge in the bottom of the bottle and scrub it all over the sail(both sides)

allow it to dry and give a second coat if required

then with a downwards motion wipe the muck off till you're happy with the effect

and there you are, see how easy it is.

Hi all a small update

Hi all another update.

Hi all a little update on this one, I've done the anchors and dirtied up the flag a bit as it was pointed out it was a bit clean compared to the sail.

One of the things the makers of those loom-a-line  never tell you is that, if you make the shrouds in pairs , which are then seized to mke an eye, you have to do that before the top masts are afixed.

If a body tries to tie the shorouds across the  cheeks is that the thread piles up in the gap in an unrealistic way.  Which leaves only the alternative of make tiny eye siezings either one shroud at a time, or spanning port & starboard shouds around the mast.  Neither is particularly easy.

Hi all well now its going to be paid for I thought I better make more of an effort to finish it.

Well I know it's not finished but it's sold, my boss's husband came round to show me his car (some little horrors standing on a bridge lobbed a rock as he drove under and stoved in his drivers pillar and windscreen (the cars only a fortnight old £90,000 worth) he spied it and the Reale and said the Reale was too big for his new seaside house but he would buy the sovriegn.

Looking forward to seeing this bird upon completion. Great work so far.

Cheers,

Robert

Hi all well I've decided to plug away at the rigging and here's where I am now, I've discovered I can do more than one set at a time with this thingy, thus saving loads of thread.

Hi all well the amati Loom A Line is total rubbish, the airfix doodah is brill though, so that is 10 quid down the drain, the airfix whatsit was free with the Wasa.

Rigging is deffinitely not my thing, I am thinking maybe take the top mast off just leave the lower masts and have it as its having a refit, don't know 

What a beauty. Glad I came across this thread.

I'm also glad Round2 is still pushing out these kits under the Lindberg name. In fact they are reissuing some in new boxes (with of course pirate names) but nonetheless we can get our hands on them easily and build.

Thanks for the comments, you give me more credit than I deserve, I hope I do your faith justice.

This is going to be a spectacular model. I admit I had some initial reservations about the way you were doing the "sea," but now it looks great. It has much of the character and color of the old master seventeenth-century marine painters - just right for this particular model. The various "waves" look almost like the brush strokes in a Van de Velde painting.

Personally I don't like vacuum-formed plastic sails, but I like what you've done with this set. Again, it's consistent with the character of the rest of the model.

With, I'm afraid, one exception. This is the sort of thing that you'd probably catch yourself if you weren't so close to the project. Sometimes a fresh pair of eyes picks up things that the modeler doesn't.

The ship is making quite a few knots in a choppy sea, creating a massive bow wave and leaving quite a wake. The wind is obviously blowing pretty briskly to kick up such a sea. And the ship is moving pretty fast. But Airfix molded those sails as though they're almost becalmed, with just a breath of air catching their bellies.

There are several obvious solutions, the best of which might be to use the vacform sails as patterns for a scratchbuilt set that's being really blown in the wind. (Given the state of the sea in the base, I think she'd look natural with only the foresail, fore topsail, main topsail, and spritsail set - and the others furled.) I've never tried it myself (my personal preference is for furled sails), but I suspect a convincing set of sails could be made out of artist's vellum paper.

Whether you do something about this is, of course, entirely up to you. I have no idea how many viewers of your model would catch the problem. But I strongly suspect you would  have - without my help - when you started setting those sails.

Since I'm alread being rude, I wonder if I might make another, much smaller suggestion. The title of this thread has a conspicuous typographical error in it (the sort I make frequently). The name of the ship is, of course, Royal Sovereign - or better yet (as I mentioned early in the thread) Sovereign of the Seas. The goof could be fixed in a few seconds, but the only person who can do it is the post's originator.

Again, this is going to be a great model. Do keep us posted.

Hi all here is a little update on this

Hi all here is tonights update

Hi all made a start on the water effects.

Hi all here is an update on this one. All the guns in place (still got to tie some down) all the closed gunports glued in.

I've discovered that the slots in the grating for the bowsprit tie downs are not there so had to make them.

Hi all here is tonights update, I've tried to do the cannon anchors and the ammo boxes.

also tried an experiment with the vac formed sails

which looks most realistic

Hi all here is tonights update

I'm really enjoying this build kpnuts ,

Hi all here is another update on this lovely little kit, it really is a joy to build.

I love what you did with the lights!

Bill

Hi all here is another update on her