La Renommèe by Landlubber Mike - Euromodel - Scale 1:70
My next model is the La Renommee kit from Euromodel:
This kit has been on my wishlist for quite a long time. I believe someone had a beautiful build log going pre-crash with MSW 1.0. That image stuck with me, as well as the Kenji Nakajima model pictured above. As far as I can tell, the only log going here is from J.P., who is doing a masterful job and setting the bar very high!
I bought the kit on eBay a few months ago. I originally was going to build this after I finished th
First planking is slowly coming along. I have seven or so strakes glued from the keel, and decided to switch and start from the gun deck down. This is what Pete recommended in his helpful Euromodel notes, and was the approach Keith Julier took in his Period Ship Handbook 2 (which has a chapter on the kit).
This is my first time working on a multi-deck level warship. To help ensure that I had a smooth guiding line for the gun ports, I decided to run the top of a planking strake alo
