Airfix 1/72 Golden Hind

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. 

Lovely model, Gene.

The sails look just great.

   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.