HMS victory build

started to put some of the hammock's on ,[ these were made by dafi ], at the front of the poop and quarter deck's ,

Steve..I may have missed this..but do you have any paintings of the Victory during the time frame you are building her?

Rob

no rob I don't , I have been following a modeler on pete coleman's site , michaelD , but all of his photo's have disappeared , and he hasn't posted in a while , so I don't know what's happened to him .If you have any I would love to see them mate . 

PS- I forgot to mention , that dafi has sent me some very nice images of model's , done around that time , which have been a big help .

steve5

the poop deck hammock's I think are done .

Your beautiful armoire has fallen on hard times.

What did you use for the hammock material?  Looking to do something similar.  Thanks in advance.

Bob

That looks really cool, Steve. Very nice work! I love it.

Luvspinball

What did you use for the hammock material?  Looking to do something similar.  Thanks in advance.

bob , I was lucky , as I had a spare set of hammock's from another kit , I just joined two together , and painted . I know some other modeler's have used milliput .

if you are interested , dafi , has a magnificent set of photo etch for the victory , it's expensive but , well worth it . if you click onto it their is even a PDF for each sprue , on how to apply and modeler's tip's . 

thank's steve .

steve5

started on the inner railing's , which I got off of dafi .

Moving right along Steve, looks fantastic!

cheer's michael , slowly but surely . the waist hammock's are mostly done , a bit of touch up needed , but not too bad .

I need a little help from the learned fraternity please . I found this model of the victory 1765 , and it seems to show that their was ladder's down to the quarter deck from the poop deck , not the landing platform on the 1805 version , am I reading this right guy's

Seems to me Steve it would be a pretty steep angle without that platform, plus you'd be stepping onto the cannon to get to the ladder. The Mcnary model, the Wyille model and the other model at the NMM clearly show the platforms.

Michael D.

thank's michael , what you said make's sense , that model just threw me , 

steve5

I filled in the hammock gap dafi , not sure what you mean about the stool mate , also finished the poop deck hammock's

What a beautiful ship, Steve. It is coming together very nicely. I love it.

thank's mate , alway's good to here from you .

Steve, it gets more beautiful with every picture. I love to follow your posts. My good friend Brian, who enters and wins a lot of the Tokyo/ Tamiya contests, built & entered his big Victory & won first place. He even cast a lot of his own crew. 

 He is my best friend's son in law & I got him started in models. It didn't take long for him to pass me. The last thing I saw him building was a 1/48 B 17. It was a cutaway & was unbelievable. I have got to get some pictures of it from him.

Steve - great work that you are doing on this model!  I really like the color scheme that you have chosen. Very nice !!!

Look at this one. The small stool behind the fore chains is missing. XXXDAn

cheer's for that dafi , I take it , it goes behind the next cannon opening ?

I have attached dafi's knight's head by drilling some brass rod in the bottom , I know the figure head look's nothing like what it should look like . but I could not sculpt it  , I was hopeless , this one was off of the heller kit le superb , I think , I trimmed the wing's off and sanded a bit , it is as close as I can get .

attempted some hand rail's from the poop to the quarter deck , don't want ot lose anyone overboard .

Good thinking, Steve. 

WOW! Your Victory is looking amazing Steve. More pictures please!

Steve

thankyou gentlemen , this is a mock up of the fifth knee , at least that is what I think it is called , it is just being balanced there at the moment , but I like it .

Looks wonderful Steve. I snapped my ensign staff in half...arrrg!, the brown plastic in this kit is so brittle.

Michael D.

thank's michael , that's why I didn't glue it in place yet , I have a tendancy for that 

did a bit of work on the skylight .

got your stools done dafi , thank's mate .

started on the bow sprit , made my own jib boom , it's much sturdier ,