HMS victory build

This is why I don't begin my Heller 1/100 HMS Victory - It would drive me to drink! (I mean, of course, more booze than I ought to be drinking .

Steve, you're a brave, talented model builder and my hat's off to you. The scratch building, modifications, and the general repetitiveness of doing what must be done to achieve a satisfactory looking end result (I'm referring to the cannons when I mentioned repetitiveness) would be beyond the scope of my skills and would probably send me off the deep end of the sanity chart were I to attempt the project. Nonetheless, I'm certainly transfixed with this thread and will be checking in on your progress for sure.

thankyou mike for the nice word's , I seem to get bored with the smaller model's , over too quick , though thinking about it , it might explain some of my drinking habit's

while I was in the cutting up mode , I had a go at the poop deck by shifting the skylight hole back a bit , and adding some beams , as per dafi's recommendation's , I think I'm getting a bit cocky with this modifying lark  , dafi also explained that the top wale is too narrow, see how I go expanding it .

one side done , now for the big task of sanding the copper plate of off of the bottom , and cutting in a landing entry

Looking good Steve, as you've found out, once you get rolling the mods are not that difficult, just a lot of them.

Great!

I am not sure, but I do believe in 1778 the anchor shoe was not yet fit.***

XXXDAn

***PS: As the chains are placed one deck lower the shoes make no sense there anyway ;-)

thank's guy's , damn , I missed that while studying michael's photo's ,

Hi Steve;

 Listen , I need to remind you to paint the gun decks below the main deck in red . Why ? It was done to lessen the shock of seeing the blood of a crewman or even yourself after getting hit by those murderous splinters a good hit would generate .

 Tanker - Builder

thank's TB , was going to do it in red anyway , but didn't really know why they did it , that way . now I know , cheer's .

michael , dafi , do you still have to extend the channel's , when they get lowered one deck down ??

steve5

really don't know where you get this repetitiveness thing from mike LOL ,

Hi Steve,

The only modifications I did was to relocate and reduce the amount of deadeyes on the Fore and Main channels, the Mizzen I believe were fine.

WOW! I do not know how I have missed this thread Steve, but I've subscribed to it now. Beautiful work so far. Keep the pictures coming.

Steve

michaelD

 dafi has sent me some old sketch's , and some photo's of a model they show , 10 shroud's on the fore , 12 on the main , and only 5 on the mizzen , I am basically going by your beautiful model build , but I don't have any pic's of it with the shroud's , ratline's done , only the hull , { which I'm very grateful for , after what photobucket did } . in the model supplied kit they give a large ,and a small channel , for the backstay's , but I noticed the 1765 one had only 1 large one , with the backstay's also on it . am I correct in this mate .

steve

great to have you aboard , I'm pretty sure I'm going to need your help , with this mate .

steve5

Steve,

I'm working on setting up an account on post image, so I'll have some updated pics soon.

According to the 1/48 scale draught I have of the ship, there are 7 Mizzen shrouds, 11 Main shrouds and 10 Fore shrouds along with the small back stay stool/channels, this is the approach I went with.

All of the models I've seen except one represent this configuration.\and just adds to the mystique of how she was actually fitted.

Michael D

michael D

thank's for that , I just went back over what dafi sent me , what I took as back stay's were in fact 2 extra shroud's , sorry about that . 

steve5

started mucking about with the , repositioning , of the channel's , filled in the heller holes for the lower dead eye's , and I will redrill them ,

Hey Steve, nice work sir. Cool project too. You have a lot of patience with all those canons too!

For the chains, to be correct, it should have 3 links instead of two as in 1803.

But I do not believe that someone will realise apart from "chain-link-counters" like us ;-)

Great work!

Daniel

thank's daniel , I was looking at michael's and wondering , when you sent the pic through ,I also wanted to ask michael , is the grate's on the forecastle deck , around the wrong way ? , you seem to have changed them !!

steve

Steve I did switch them around based on what I saw on the McNary model along with painting the channels black and if I remember correctly had I left them i would be cutting some of the grate anyway shortening the deck. My goal is to preserve as much as the plastic as possible using very little wood as possible,IE: Lateen yard, deadeyes and Qtr deck grates.

Keep up the good work Mate!

Michael D.

had a go michael , turned it around , added some styrene under it to lift it up a shade . just got to work out how far to cut the deck back .

Looking good Steve, I removed a 1/2" of the deck aft the fore mast. I have a measurement of 11mm from the fore leading of the grate to the center line of the fore mast opening, hope that helps.

Michael D.

this is where I am up to guy's

Hey Steve, I love it. You are really banging away this.

Wonderful!!!

XXXDAn

Already one remark for later on: The small scuttles on the lower gun port lids have to be cut off, they were introduced only much later on.

I'm sorry dafi could you elaborate please , not sure what you mean ??

thank's dafi , I still have a lot to learn about marine lingo 

I thought the carronade's , should have some sort of wheel's under it , so it could slide side to side , so I cut an old connon I had from my soleil royal , and glued them on . I think they came out OK .

could anyone please give me a brand name , for a PE blackening agent please ,I have one that is made by master , but the slightest touch and it flake's off , thank's in advance .

steve5

Steve I see you're going for a later date using those carronades? 1780 I believe they were in use.

Michael D