Heller Royal Louis *WIP 11/21*

searat12 wrote:

Looking good ( I really like your treatment of the decks!!)!  I have one of these in a (very!) delayed state of build, but decided to do a different paint scheme from that suggested (too dull!).  I went for a black and light yellow version........... I know a lot of people have trashed this model before, but as this is the third time I have built it, I can say I get fonder of it every time!

Thanks searat! I'm hoping that after I weather the hull it will bring out the yellow and darken the brown a little. I've been trying to keep wit the paints that came with the kit but i haven't been that impressed with them on tone and color quality. I don't see why people would trash this kit. so far the only issue that i've had is that i had to file down the two upper deck pannels so they would fit properly. but that's not enough to discourage me.

Love to see that someone else has tackled this kit.  Your build is so clean and precise.  I have been building on this kit off and on for about 10 years.  Rigging in this scale can be challanging because Heller's plastic for the masts and spars is not the stongest and requires a lot of patience when rigging the shrouds and ratlines because the mast will flex which means a lot of tensioning and adjusting.   Still beats trying to use the jig though.

I did wonder why they only included half the complement of guns on one side.

I have pics at my photo account website.  Again great build, might inspire me to finish mine. 

Scott

Looking good ( I really like your treatment of the decks!!)!  I have one of these in a (very!) delayed state of build, but decided to do a different paint scheme from that suggested (too dull!).  I went for a black and light yellow version........... I know a lot of people have trashed this model before, but as this is the third time I have built it, I can say I get fonder of it every time!

man how time flies, at this rate i might be done by christmas, though i doubt it.

Just thought that I would show some of the progress that was made over the last couple of weeks. nothing stellar but it's getting there. I decided that it was time to test my patients and how well i can work with small parts. i decided to replace the plastic pieces that are supposed to be the dead eyes with actual dead eyes. I bought these from model-expo. they are 2.5mm and made of walnut. i just need to add the last layer of guns to the deck. these ones are pretty small compared to the others. Thanks for looking

 

that's the tricky part. I was going to mix some yellow and browns together for the oak. then pin wash with blacks and browns on the darker brown planking. but as far as the whit i think it'll be a mix of yellow's and white's to give it a slight tint. at least that's the plan.....

Nice start to the build enemeink. Your deck looks good with the weathering done . How do plan to do the outside of the hull?

cheers,

Julian