airfix Royal Sovriegn

Neat idea. The irony is that an overturned candle started the fire that sank the ship.

Hi,

the light bulb looks incandescent.  LED would be a better choice as they burn cooler.  We don't want to repeat history as the professor has stated.  Some dioramas/shadowboxes that created early on, I used bulbs that gave off just a little too much heat and over time made the figures sagged into slightly less than appealing postures.

You don't want your efforts to end up at the bottom of an aquarium.

Peter

Flicker. Always a subject in lighting ships. Anything 18th Century or later is oil lamps and they don't flicker. Not an issue here.

Whatever lighting source you use, for heaven's sake make sure you have a way of getting at it when the model's finished.

I once built a "grain of wheat" bulb into the captain's cabin of a Revell 1/96 Constitution, having been assured by the proprietor of the hobby shop that "grain of wheat bulbs don't burn out." That one did.

I was cruising eBay for old kits the other day. Appar. Lindberg made this ship too.

I used yellow LED's in my Victory.

I thought the o.p. might find this thread interesting..

www.papermodelers.com/.../9403-sovereign-seas-1637-1-96-scratch-build.html

Doris did a great job building "Sovereign of the seas" and got help from Kpt.Kl  in this thread

modelforum.cz/viewtopic.php

A lot of work in these threads, maybe helpful for you?

I put 5 grain of rice bulbs in to light the hangar deck of a 1/700 ESSEX, powered it wrong with 6v instead of 3v, burned out one bulb immediately. What a job to replace it. Left the old one in and ran a duplicate in it's place. Will use led's or that new sheet lighting next time.

EJ

Hi all a small update on this, The transom sticks out past the gallaries on the sides and I didnt like the way Airfix just moulded them flat so I've rounded the edges and reguilded them

also the grills on the prow are not moulded all the way through so I drilled all the holes out.

and I've hacked the candle apart and reconfigured it

as yet have to figure a way to replace batteries when needed, thinking I may make it a waterline model.

An idea. Put the whole lamp assembly on the end of a stick thats painted black. Poke it in there.

I designed a building that had a spire on top, with an FAA mandated red light.

How to change the lightbulb.

I had a steeplejack come in, he sez "either I go get it or it comes down to me. "

So we put it on a halyard arrangement.

GM,

Lindbergh still does make this ship as "Blackbeard Pirate Ship".  It is smaller than the Airfix kit but does have the wood grain molded onto the hull sides.  Lindbergh also has the old solid plastic preformed sails molded onto the yards.  It's not a bad kit by any means (at least the gun ports are opened) but the cannon barrels are molded onto strips in rows to project out of the ports. And, of course, the molded shrouds and ratlines are junk.

Other kits include the Wappen von Hamburg as the "Captain Kidd" pirate ship, La Flore and the "Captain Kidd" pirate ship, and the Saint Louis as the Captain Harry Morgan pirate ship.  I don't know if Lindbergh ever released the Gouda as one in this series.

These kits are not bad at all. Some even have the entire gun decks. They can be built into nice representations of the original ships if you scrap the pirate flags and name plates.

Oh well, I hope that I helped!

Bill

Hi all here is another update on her 

I love what you did with the lights!

Bill

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

I'm really enjoying this build kpnuts ,

Hi all here is tonights update

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 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 made a start on the water effects.

Hi all here is tonights update

Hi all here is a little update on this

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.

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

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.

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 

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.

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

Cheers,

Robert

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.

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

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 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.