First ship build: HMS Victory

Thanks to some bad weather over the weekend I was able to put some extra time in to the Victory. All that is left is to finish is the masts, do some touch up work, and tie up the rigging.

Finally! After days of shaving and test fitting the poop deck and rear panel are finally in place. There are some gaps that I need to sort out but overall it's coming together nicely. I'm starting to loose my faith in the Quality of this kit. The rear section of the ship had quite a bit of warping to contend with so it took some time to get it together.

I was able to put in an hour or so on the Victory last night. But I'm running into more snags on the overall quality of the design. I've had to do some small modifications to the parts so that they'd fit right and I had to touch up those areas. and this thing has plenty of small parts. The poop deck and rear panel are giving me some trouble but should have it sorted out by tomorrow or over the weekend.

thanks to all those who have posted and given feed back. I'll keep the pictures coming as I work on it more.

Here's some work that I was able to get done last night.

the figurehead was a little difficult because it's about the size of a dime, it's not as detailed as the original but it works.

Gerarddm wrote:

Wow, most people don't jump into Victory first thing, so buona fortuna to you. You might want to pick up C. Nepean Longridge's definitive book on modeling Victory to help your rigging quest ( and trust me, it is a QUEST).  :-)

Thank you, and thanks for the tip. I've got plenty of time before I start on that(rigging) beast so hopefully I can find a better deal better than $65 on the book.

searat12 wrote:

Looks like a pretty good start... However...... I notice that you have painted the decks yellow... You might want to re-think that, and go for something approaching a light wood color......

Yeah like I said I followed the instructions that came with the model and the colors were not correct. I didn't realize that this ship was still around until I had finished putting the hull together. So I stopped so I could do some reseach on the ship before going any further. I don't think going back is going to be much of an option at this point because I would have to redo the lower deck. And that would mean I'd have to dismantle the hull. I was used to doing cars and typically anything goes with those color wise. But thanks for the heads up. it's definitely one of the things that I'll be correcting on my next build.