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Ian B
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It is amazing what a few days avoiding housework, gardening and DIY can do to my model I have fitted the small cannonades and the rest of the hull detail and bow sprite , the mast is just mocked up as it still needs lots of work. Yes it is a billings kit. I did see comments about too much plastic in it but there is only the anchors (which I finally got around to ordering the metal Caldercraft ones) and the main cannon carriages. I also ordered some lanterns for the stern a ship does not look right without them. So now it is on too masts and rigging yippee.. -
:)I love the idea of flattening soldering wire for banding.. I could use that for all sorts of detailing...
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Keep up the detailed pictures they are so useful to someone like me, I find them absolutely fascinating, I have already incorporated some of your changes into my build
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Hi I thought I should share my build as reading other peoples have been a great help and inspiration. Here are some pictures of the early stages, for a new person I spent the first week or so reading and re-reading the instruction book and plans which for this kit were extremely vague for 99% and the obvious bits had excellent detail! As I have nothing to compare it too I don't know if this is typical for wooden kits? I did buy several books on the subject to help --one on planking, one on rigging and a general making model ships books which were excellent. I have posted some pictures which dates from Jan 2014 to date. I have stuck closely to the plans but the jolly boat in the kit looked wrong to me so I used the Caldercraft jolly boat kit which has loads of detail which I will show in another posting (when I have painted the oars etc.) I shall also be ordering better anchors as the plastic ones even painted looked out of place.
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I am building the Billings Bounty-- and that has answered my question I am building my first ship ever and could not work out why every model picture I saw of it was painted differently .
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