H.M.S. Victory Revell 1/225 in the new / old colours

[racedees]

After a modelling break of about six years, I recently picked up the hobby.

I decided to build the Victory after reading the book: Batavia written by Peter Fitzsimons.

So I started with collecting some reference pictures and discovered that after a scientific research the colours on the ship were incorrect.

Sadly these colours aren't readily available, so I will have to try and mix them myself.

 

The colours as they are familiar:

The new colours as Lord Nelsom himself should recognize them:

Then the model itself:

LOADS OF FLASH. But hey, the molds are from 1959. So I will call it German nostalgia.

After cleaning te parts sltill a lot of attention is required to make the parts fit in a nice way.

 

Here my work thusfar:

All sprues primered

 

Hull, quarterdeck and uppper gundeck

 

Hull inside:

 

Cannon with drilled barrel:

 

Dryfit:

 

Soon more.....

Edited June 9, 2020 by racedees

[Alan P]

Good start!

 

104 drilled barrels later...😵

[Courageous]

I know very little about sailing ships but I find them interesting being built. A good start with boring out the barrels. Best of luck, let's see what you can do with her.

 

Stuart

[racedees]

A little bit more colour on the upper gundeck.

 

Those beams with no: 103 don't belong on the Victory (anymore)

 

Before mod including some nasty looking bulges for the lanterns.

 

After mod:

 

I also painted the upper gundeck cannons.

[racedees]

After a long time of no progress, due to circumstances, I finaly made some progress again.

I only forgot to make pictures of the progress.😮

But the hull is glued together.

Here pictures of how it is now:

 

 

Hopefully soon more progress.

Edited December 3, 2019 by racedees

[ArnoldAmbrose]

Gidday Daniel, She was certainly a grand old lady. It looks like quite a few of the gun trucks you worked on won't be visible, which is a pity. Anybody who tackles a build like this has my admiration. Regards, Jeff.

[Murdo]

Looking very nice.

[racedees]

Did some corrections to the striping. I wasn't satisfied with them.

 

I also mad some progress with the build itself, but time was to short last night, to make pictures of it.

 

 

[racedees]

Here the progress I made last weekend.:

 

 

 

And her the differences between the model and the original.

When I place the part the way I did on the picture, no 1 is correct, but no. 2+3 are not.

 

The model:

The original:

 

So next time I will remove these en replace them. Then I will allign no 2+3 and modify 1. No 1 will end to high in comparison to the deck, so I wil cut the part that is exceeding the length it has to be.

 

To be continued

[Jeepboy]

Brilliant!  I have this one tucked away - you are inspiring me to get it out 🙂

 

[racedees]

After a break of 6 months, finaly the courage to do some modelling again.

Corrected the bowsection:

 

Added some cannons and fitted the poopdeck:

 

Painted the aft but needs loads of work, before I'm sattisfied with it.

 

Placed some more parts on the decks

 

Painted the panels of the gun ports (I see in the first picture that I forgot one)😮

 

I also filled some holes in the masts and bowsprit.
Hopefully soon some more updates and more often.