Airfix 1/72 Golden Hind

   They are posting ok, so I will add some more.

   I really enjoyed this kit & it goes together very well.  It is a nice size to work with, but at 86 my right hand has gotten shaky & that does make painting & rigging hard.

I primed the whole model with white flat auto lacquer & it really is nice to work with . I used MM7 Tamiya acrylic on the rest. I used Tamiya Deck Tan (gray) & washed it with raw Umber & burnt Umber for the darker deck planks. I had also used a pencil, one of my drafting pencils & an electric sharpener, to darken the deckines & add the plank joints & nails.

    The sails were painted with a mix I make & then sprayed with thin raw umber & burnt umbr to darken thr recesses . I sewed the sails to the spars & monted them on a pre done heavy brass wire. I did forget to clip the wires & touch up the spars. 

Lovely model, Gene.

The sails look just great.

GM, You sraightened me out on not doing the sail thread on an angle. That is when I figured out how to sew them straight with a single thread. Thanks. I had forgotten about you telling me that. 

  Mississippi, I did leave most of the running rigging off because I didn't want to drive myself any crazier than I am. I did enough of that when i had the hands to do it. I do love to build & paint. 

as alway's a beautiful build gene , could you tell me where you got the decals for the hull , or did you make them yourself .

steve

Great work Gene! 

Jim  

  Hi Steve, I just took sheet decal & a divders & I cut the decal with a scapel on a piece of glass. I cut the angles & used one for each side. The white was some very opaque printing decal & it covered the green real good. The blue was some Microscale sheet & it worked fine over the red.

    I made the width the same as the ht. & didn't pay any attention to the marking on the kit sides. I remember now, I cut the decals into little squares & just cut them into the triangles. Use a new razor blade to cut the decals. You get a cleaner cut.

Hi,

That looks great.  It's really interesting to see how colorful some of the old sailing ships were.

Pat

PFJN

how colorful some of the old sailing ships were.

Wich is largely conjecture, some old tapestries, the occasional painting and the like--all often from well after te fact.

Drake's ship was probably called Pelican during its operational time; only being labeld the golden stag after coming home to considerable fame (and with considerable fortune).

Drake pobably had a rather plain, perhaps even drab, appearance, all the better to sneak up on Spanish ships.  So, Drake's ship might have been black and silver-faded wood with nothing but some whitewash and perhaps blue and green and orange highlights.

None of which is a good reason to not to go with all the pretty colors so well executed.

CapnMac, I just painted it off the box colors. I knew they weren't right, but they looked pretty, like you said. I put it next to some of my others & it sure does show up pretty. 

Hi ;

 I like your ship . She certainly is colorful . By the way . Do you know what a " Hind " is ?

 According to my research , it was a type of deer found in the " Kings " forest . Very Fleet and hard to bring down as Game .

 Very apt name for a ship that was probably faster then most . Nice job .  T.B.     P.S. Nice to see that you did NOT make a mistake some artists make .Your flags and pennants are flying in the right direction , instead of aft !

Yes you can see it in that one stern view, on the transom. For some reason the Revell kit has the Royal Coat of Arms, probably because a replica did at some point.

The ship of course has a local history here in Northern California, although a little mysterious. I always thought a nice little dio would be her careened on the beach at Point Reyes.

I'll have to look it up but memory suggests that a little ship purported to be the " real thing" lasted on display for a long time.

GM, let us know if you find anything about the Hind being on display, even tho it's been hundreds of years ago. I stoped ship building for a few months to sell my train things on ebay. I had to start small when I got back in so I built this little Imai 1/225 Santa Maria.

Hey !

 That's a nice little ship too . I am so glad to see folks add a little spice to them . Tis , true though . Ships back then were as ugly and weathered as sin . No coloration to speak of ( It got the Seawater  Treatment ).

And the smell of tar was everywhere . Remember all lines except working lines , were covered with a slush of white lead and tar .to preserve them from the salt environment.

    For instance , the Bounty .The bottom was white lead ( protection against Toredoes or " Drillin Worms " ) And the rest was the black brown slush again .  T.B.

Tanker - Builder

 For instance , the Bounty .The bottom was white lead ( protection against Toredoes or " Drillin Worms " ) And the rest was the black brown slush again .  T.B.

 

Once Bounty was bought by the Crown, her bottom was copper, if not before.

Some plates were found at Pitcairn Island.

According to Wiki, the Hind was around until about 1650, 70 years after the voyage.

Some timber was made into furniture that by reputation is still around. Her lantern was destroyed in the Blitz.

GM, Thanks for the Hind info. No, I am not a Mary Rose plank owner. Since I retired 26 years ago I was into Riverboats & my big train layout & fighter planes. I hadn't built any sailing ships in years until I got started a year & a half ago on plastic ships. Earlier I had built mostly wood ships except for all the first Revell big ones.

LOL, I meant Tanks. It's a thing between us.

You really could build a carrier out of popsicle strips if the mood struck you. Excellent models.

" G "

 Yeah , and you were the Bosun on the Santa Maria , right " LOL.LOL.LOL. You know someone said I was the Plankowner type on the Ark . Was that you ?

  T.B.

Hey " G " !.

   Was it possible that the plates were an early form of " Muntz " Metal ? That stuff turned white in contact with seawater . I really don't recall the Bounty being plated , but I am so old that would've been new technology to me .  LOL LOL

 It's amazing at that . I have heard the " Furniture " thing too .Who really knows ? T.B.

Good day gene1,

Thanks for posting pictures of your model,- nice job!

I'm planning to assemble this kit in future,so it was very interesting for me to look at assembled model...thanks!

All the best!

Kirill

Krill, Thanks a lot, but I know you will do a whole lot better job. Your work is beautiful. This is a really nice kit to build. It is just the right size & that does make it easy, but then I am ancient & size helps. 

Tanker - Builder

" G "

 Yeah , and you were the Bosun on the Santa Maria , right " LOL.LOL.LOL. You know someone said I was the Plankowner type on the Ark . Was that you ?

  T.B.

 

There's a Bounty Museum where I live.

I won't hijack Gene's thread. Look up Pitcairn Island Study Center at Pacific Union College.

Oh Boy !

 Now you're extra special on two counts . I miss my days in the San Francisco bay area .I got at least three rides on the Scow Schooner " ALMA " . The Bounty or another would've been nice .

     Can you imagine cargo piled so high they built a pulpit on a tower for the Pilot/Helmsman ? The only other sail ship I've been near is the " Cutty Sark " before the fire at the Museum .

 " G " Does the IMAI  model of the Steam Schooner that was in the civil war show up much ?  T.B.

 I just mounted the Golden Hind on it's oak base & had to take some finish pictures, although I still have a little to do. It really did make a pretty model & I am very happy with it.

  Well that ought to put you all to sleep. It's not David K, but it was one of the real fun ones. Idrilled all the windows out & put brass diamond mesh in. It is the easiest way to do that. I've had the brass mesh for ages. 

ej, I am 86 now, but I built about 11 last year. All of those except the Golden Hind. I did have some smaller sailing ships in that 11, the revell Nina, Pinta & Santa Maria. If you like WW2 carriers, you would have loved to talk to my brother. He was on the BB Indiana thru 7 major Pacific battles & was with 3 of the carriers when they got hit. He was with the Missouri at the surrender & saw it all. He was a signalman, so had a long glass to use.

Well, you've got 11 years on me. I was aboard USS ESSEX, 1961-64 as a machinist's mate in the boiler division. I'm now the Assistant Treasurer for the USS ESSEX CV/CVA/CVS-9/LHD-2 Association. I do love building aircraft carriers and have built several versions of ESSEX herself at various time periods and a few other ships of the class, plus other U S Navy ships - oilers, tin cans, etc. I also like building wooden boats of various types, and the history of them. Never built a wooden or plastic ship though. I'm afraid, at the rate I build, it would never get off the bench. The real fun for me is modeling with my grandson. He likes unusual armor and aircraft, although I did give him a 1/350 CV-2 kit that I won in a raffle (I already had one in my stash), in an attempt to get him interested in building carriers and ships. I'm amazed at the prolific pace that you build. Must be I get too bogged down in the details or something.