little Victory

I see what you mean by the copper plating , are you going to rescribe them ? . this should be good to watch , alway's been worried about doing a small scale ship , too fiddly for my big hand's .

Oh My !

 Don , a waterline version at rest is just fine .

Discovered a major problem yesterday.  The instructions call for inserting deck into one hull half and then gluing the two hull halves together.  I figured that would complicate painting, so I did what I always due- glue halves together and then insert deck.  Didn't realize deck includes four guns sticking through gunports on quarterdeck!  Hull sides are not flexible enough to get deck in easily.  Broke one of the guns and stopped.  The hulls are joined at a partial gun deck.  I am going to carefully cut the seam partway along, to make it easier to get deck in. 

For anyone else building that kit, either follow the instructions, or else realize this problem and take some other action, like maybe cutting those guns from deck and replacing later.

I bought one of these kits out of curiosity and was very disappointed.  I then wrote to Revell that we modelers still would rather have larger and more serious kits. I gave the kit to my grandsons. Oh well . . .

Bill