Stratomonkey

I shall look out for that

This morning has seen the false keel glued on, the bar is a steel 12". I knew I had this book somewhere, it was bugging me so I had to tear the flat apart to find it but I found it last night languishing in the bottom of a box in a cupboard. "If Carlsberg did books"........ I found it in a charity shop for a couple of quid. The drawings and diagrams as well as loads information on the hull planking and decking dimensions are priceless.

Im glad it has had that effect on you. There's nothing more influential for me than to watch others build these things and that gets my building juices, namely the glue, flowing, so much so that I will updating my build later on today. Im going to check out some other builds going on in time too. You have also reminded me that waiting in the wings (for some years now) are the Tamiya 1/25th Chieftain & Centurion and the Revell Apollo 11 Saturn V 1/96 scale but right now Im not really much interested in getting these done. My main focus is the Victory.

Thank, I'm most definitely interest, I have been looking through it and will be going in depth a little more deeply over the coming weekend.

Now it's my turn to tune in to what you're building, how far down the road of progress and just enjoy watching beautiful vessels come to fruition. So far Ive been through the whole build and its impressive! I am now convinced I need two things, apart from a lot more sense of what I taken of course and a ! I need a planking clamp and some kind of small thumb plane I'll keep watching as this is super interesting

That's very kind, I appreciate that, thank you Thank You

I totally agree with what you say and its good advice. I am so far enjoying this very much and taking the time and space I allow myself to make sure I get what I build as good as I can make it. The only problem I have is the competition, which is myself. I am a very hard taskmaster to myself and my standards are high. I am also a Semi Pro musician and have been writing and recording a series of demos for an album which I have walked away from for a while because of the very reasons that you mention here.

@Ray, @Jon & @ Bertie I shall try to answer you all here in one go. I too am confined by space and my skill set is better than it was with my two previously failed attempts I had the Artesania Latina HMS Bounty Longboat which was a disaster and I tried the HMS Victory partworks (Artesania Latina) a few years ago and got tired of waiting for bits to arrive every four weeks. The main reasons I joined this forum and put this one up here is because it can be a bit boring doing this on one's own. Secondly, I am hoping that it may be interesting enough for fellow modellers to have a look at that it might provide me with the drive and enthusiasm to go all the way through with this build. Also I might need a little help and guidance along the way too. This essentially is a "Bucket List Build" and I am very excited about doing this kit and ever so looking forward to doing it, hopefully to a standard befitting of the quality of this kit and of the standard I should be capable of. I am expecting this to take, over time, about a year or two. I am not looking at weeks or months, I haven't even considered weeks! I have a very intense job and I am using this build as a thing to do to unwind, however mad that may seem. Oddly enough I had just acquired the Shipyard HMS Victory paper kit which I was going to do. The day after I ordered that I found the Caldercraft kit going on eBay.

Hi and Thanks, Dennis. I wish I was good at doing those kind of models

Thank you, well, neither do I Thats why my first two attempts failed!

Hi thanks for the welcome, Im almost new to wooden ships but I do have a couple waiting to be built. I will add those to my signature.

Thanks, I shall try and figure it out, I may even read the FAQ's

Hi, I thought I did write one, I'll have to write one if I didn't. The kit is very much available, its pricey but I found this one, untouched and intact on eBay find from a chap who was moving house and couldn't take it with him, so I rescued it and promised him to keep him updated when building it. Yep, it's certainly big! but I like big models, curiously I find them easier to build. Next to the amp is the Revel 1/96 scale Cutty Sark, next to that is the newly re-issued Airfix 1/24 Hawker Harrier kit. I like big models I have done a bit of research on HMS Victory and visited her a few times in the past. I have a great book for reference (Can't remember the title but it does HMS Victory in it which is a good thing) which I really should dig out and start going through. it has some wonderful drawings and plan layouts in there.

Thanks, I hope that I can get this thing done. Im in no rush to do so but I do salute anyone willing to follow and watch this particularly insane journey I have decided to undertake. Where this monster will go after she is built is something I will worry about when she is built. If I had thought about that when I decided to get the kit I wouldn't have got it!

Hi Troy, Thanks for the welcome. It's much appreciated. Thanks for the photo info. I'm using hobbyhost for hosting my photos, My first log has gone up on Maritime - Work in progress. I haven't yet delved too deeply into the forum yet but I do intend to. I'm still a newbie here

Hi, I know that there are other HMS Victory's on here but I just wanted to post the build here. It will not be a quick build, it will not be a great build but it will be my build and I fully intend to make it as good as I can make it. This was a totally untouched kit that I across on eBay a few weeks ago. Just had to have it! Where to start? Well, firstly I had to call into action and rejuvenate my building slipway (dry dock) building board, I built one when I tried building the Artisan Latina Partworks HMS Victory. That failed because I lost interest in having to wait weeks for the parts to arrive so already I'm on my second model of this ship. With that done, the next task is to think hard about how I'm going to tackle it. Started with the Parts list and checking everything off. This takes time so my patience is already being tested here. With that done the next step was to think about the main keel and bulkheads, how will they fit. The keel is 5mm ply and warped! This is all dry fitted right now. I have unwarped the main keel and fitted all the bulkheads Its just a matter now of ensuring that this as it is I straight and true, the masking tape was used to try and aid sighting it up. Spirit levels and set squares are standing by for when the glueing is done.

Thank you, if you do watch. I will post as soon as I can. I wish I did wooden boats and ships years ago. BTW, I arrive here at this place with two previous failures so this time I bought a really big one to make sure I make the effort!

Thanks for watching but I make no promises this will be a quick and successful build Reckless, I couldn't agree more! lol So far I have, I believe, unwarped the keel (5mm ply). I have all the 20 bulkheads dry fitted and the rather ample false deck dry fitted on my build board or dry dock. Im thinking about gluing all that in place but I want to wait a bit and see how stable and straight the keel stays before I do glue. I've also done a lot of thinking too about how to tackle this

Thank you for your Welcome, Bertie. Well, feel free to call me insane but I've taken on the JoTiKa Caldercraft HMS Victory. An eBay find a few weeks ago, untouched since the day it was first bought. Had the money, had all my planets in alignment and had all my ducks in a row so I had the kit! The build itself will be going up as soon as I have figured out how to get photos on here.

Thanks for the welcome Pete, its much appreciated. Yes, these ship things are definitely a challenge, I have, however, taken a very deep dive in to the first model I'm attempting. It's rather complicated and could possibly have one of two endings! either it will be or

Hi to all here. I'm Noel, I live near to London in the UK and am a long time ago model builder going back to the '70's & 80's of (mostly) plastic model kits. Motorbikes, aircraft, tanks, and all sorts of models went under my knife and glue and layers of dodgy painting. My professional career and my semi professional music career (yep, it didn't work out) kind of took over and my hobby went to the wayside. Recently I have started up again and my interest is most definitely in the wooden ship kits that are "floating around" these days. This has piqued my interest and I have taken the dive into this exciting and new aspect of model building. Thats pretty much it really, except to say that I fully intent to start uploading my build logs as I would like to share them with everyone. Many thanks Noel