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[wallace]

many thanks Footski for all your kind and helpful comments.

[Stavros!]

I honestly wish i Had your skills to do what you are doing WOW this is Modeling of the highest museum quality to say the least  Watching this with AWE








Stavros

[wallace]

  Stavros  what can I say to your wonderful comment about my build, really Im just a old man who enjoys building ships it used to be R/C ships mostly in plastic ,I gave it all up a good 10 yrs ago with a un- finished  r/c ship which is 90% done stated looking at it 4 yrs ago  and my girls saw me doing little bits to it  so they got me this wonderful model HMS VICTORY all wood 2 yrs ago for xmas  and since then they got me another one to build which will be my last I'm coming on 80yrs young but I really enjoy doing it ,I have over the years had alot of help and lovely comments on here ,but im one who takes his time and I am only building around 3 or 4 hrs away so many thanks  once again.

[wallace]

Few more on the mast.

[wallace]

At long last I got around to put the hinges onto the rudder hope they look OK and the rudder is in place onto the Victory, to me it looks fine happy with my first time at many things on this build, onto many other parts ,the next is the hull looking at it im not too happy.

[wallace]

As I stated earlier I was not happy with the hull after the rudder was fitted, so out came the sandpaper 80/100/180 grade then two nice coats of Tamiya copper acrylic paint and once again all hand painted as the whole ship has been never used a spray gun or air brush in all my time of making models always hand painted yes you use alot of paint but thats me the old days they never used spray guns to paint and when I was in the Royal Navy  the ship was always hand painted, also my time on the Royal Yacht the dockyard always hand painted the side side and what a job they done.    Well Im happy with the rudder and the hull so while the ship is upside down its time to touch up.

[wallace]

Ladders fitted to both sides of hull and a dry run on the cannons to be fitted, also the ladders are fitted in the gun deck also been touching up on the paint, its coming along so cool.

[wallace]

My new toy, its a 12inch turntable set it up my my working tops and the Victory and stand sit just great no more lifting the ship to turn it around.

[wallace]

More building parts onto the ships side nearly all done on both sides then onto the little job of the masts.

[Footski]

Coming along beautifully. Now onto the rather complex matter of masting and rigging. Done well, this will really make the model. Remember that all the masts and spars were tapered. Doing this can be difficult. I used the top of a broken bottle for some and then changed putting the mast or spar into the jaws of an electric drill and used sandpaper to get the tapering right. Good luck.

[Backerther]

First of all, I'm awfully sorry to post many pics concerning my experience to make a tapered brass mast( for replacing so weak a plastic one for rigging) for 1/72 HMCS Snowberry just for your information.  I don't have a lathe and just used a drilling machine for tapering work. I tried several times previously to make a good tapered mast and found how to make a so-so level of tapering as seen below.    Everything is "Seeing is believing",isn't it.!!??    Perhaps easier for a wooden mast..??

Hope this helps.!!!

[wallace]

A little message to Backkerther good looking ship, so onto masts all my masts are wood and I do it the old way by hand and lots of sandpaper.