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The safest still is to create your own website and place the pictures there and just link to them. So you are safe of all the providers stupidities and unreliabilitys! Great build and a pleasure to follow, Daniel

🙂 🙂 🙂 That´s the spirit! XXXDAn

Wonderful work 🙂 XXXDAn

Wonderful work!!! The positions of the nails are correct, but still there are some rows of nails missing. Have a look at AOTS, the page with the deck beams. There you can see all the missing beams. As the decks were an integral part of the stability, all the beams should be nailed on a real ship, not the carlings and ledges and also not the curved pieces in the area of the masts as far as I know. All the best, DAniel

Hello Moarein, great build, I love it 🙂 Concerning the nameplate: Nothing is really known. There are several orders that can be dated. The order from 28 June 1771 stated "in letters a foot high, and inclosed in a compartment", Bugler precises "painted in yellow". That was the version originally displayed in Portsmouth until some years ago and being shown on the Heller kit. In 1772 the order was changed into "without compartment in letters as large as the counter would admit", (Laughton: Old Figureheads and Sterns) and was officially kept until the end of the century. In Keppels fleet the names were dropped in 1778 to avoid giving information to the enemy. This contradict some models and paintings like "Barfleur", 1740, "Royal Oak", 1741 and others where the names were shown much earlier or later. These models give a hint upon letter style used spacing, have a look at the NMM. But this could have been for identifying the model or depicted ship and not following the real ship. What does this mean for the Vic? If one builds the Vic as she is displayed in Portsmouth, I would follow the actual version, it fits better the contemporary evidences. As the ship appeared completely different in many aspects at Trafalgar, I strongly believe, she had no name on her that period. Neither Turner or Livesay or other contemporary sources indicate this, possibly for the reasons Keppel gave. All the best, Daniel

Coming along very nicely 🙂 And you are right, if a side entry port is added, then on both sides. All the best, DAniel

Depends on how long they were fixed. When first set, they had a litgher tarred tone, with every layer of more stockholm tar, color became darker 🙂 Nice to be seen on Hermione 🙂 Nice build!!! XXXDAn

Simply great! XXXDAn

Very simple, the 2 brown sprues where you find the carronades are the ones that are for all the double parts, or dividable by 2. Thats why these 2 brown sprues are identical. The guns have their own sprues as there are that many 🙂 Simply a question of how often parts are needed. XXXDAn

Wonderful Job! I think Stuart could mean the 2 carronades that come from the brown sprue in contrast to the others being black plastic. Once painted all are black 🙂 XXXDAn

Welcome to the club of Vic-builders 🙂 Cheers, DAniel

Coming along very nicely, XXXDAn

Wonderful build this is, congratulations 🙂 🙂 🙂 All the best and keep on going, Daniel PS: Thank you for the kind comments 🙂

Very enjoyable build! Well done, XXXDAN

Never again I wanna hear that plastic modelling is boring 🙂 Wonderfully done! XXXDAn