mtdoramike

Well, the Victory is finished and safely placed in her display case, ready for her maiden trip to the Library. I'm looking at first or second week of December for delivery especially since I'm coming off a case of the flu.

MIke 

Thanks for your helpful response regarding the plywood.

 

If I understand correctly, it is partially cut through via laser but not completely. I once built a model where I got sheets of wood with lines printed on them and nothing more. I had to cut them out with an xacto knife (having nothing more sophisticated). The result was not exceptionally pretty.

 

Skip

I too built a couple of models with printed lines rather then laser cut. The kits were from the 50's and 60's. I used a coping saw and though a bit time consuming, once I got pretty good with it, the result was quite good.

mike

Thanks John, Im planning the delivery of the Vic on the first week of December. I would have rather made it a bit sooner like next week. But im going through some medical treatments for the next couple of weeks, which leaves me a might puck afterwards.

Mike

The W. T. Bland Library in Mount Dora, Florida. My home town This has been a bucket list item for me for quite some time and since I'm getting a bit long in the tooth with a bad ticker, there was no time like the present, especially since I knew going in that the Victory would take a minimum of two years to complete. Here is a link to there web site:

http://mylakelibrary.org/libraries/detail.aspx?id=1

mike

Oooooooo, nice looking kit and contents. Yep, the MDF would have to go, god bless them for trying though. It looks like they have included a lot of rigging line, which is a plus, most kits don't include enough. So before completion of a model, I'm stuck scrounging around trying to find appropriate rigging line to supplement what was sent with the kit.

mike

Yes I will post some finished pics as well as hopefully get some pictures of the donation ceremony at the Library.

mike

Thank you for the kind words J and G. I'm getting down to just a few more hours left on her. Mainly attaching the lifeboats and the tidying up a few loose ends and then giving it a good dusting and cleaning. I also have to make up a release and waiver form turning over ownership of the model & case to the City Library. I'm also including the book "Anatomy of The Ship 100 Gun Ship Victory", which I used as research for the model, which will give anyone who wished to learn more about this majestic ship the ease and opportunity to do so.

mike 

Thanks George, now, I hope to get it to the Library in one piece

Well, I'm figuring about 5-6 more hours on the Vic and she'll be ready for her maiden voyage to the local Library.

mike

Join the club hahahahaha.

Well, lets get to refreshing and start that building. I'm waiting. It would be nice to see the box and contents

mike

I'm back from vacation and ready to get back to the Vic!

mike

A little tease of a picture from the bow towards the stern. I'm still plugging away at the rigging, taking a break for a day or two in between. Rigging is something that I love and hate to do at the same time and can be a REAL headache. So I need a lot of breaks in between especially when I have days like yesterday when I was rigging only to realize I had a couple of lines twisted and wrapped around some other lines and while redoing them, I popped a couple of other lines. So I spent about 3 out of 4 hours doing and then redoing rigging lines. I was like two steps forward and three steps back.

Thank you for the kind words Paul and Jp, that does help with keeping the momentum going.

Yes, this could very well be my last build depending on how my health holds out. But if the good lords willing and the creek don't rise, I might, just might mind you build one more model. I have an OcCre Montanes waiting in the wings That I would really like to build and donate to a childrens hospital or some other type of charity for display or to auction off for funds. But, we'll have to wait and see.

mike 

here is a bit of an update.

Absolutely stunning work. She is looking like the prettiest girl at the ball already

mike

No, no billows to speak of. I have tried in the past to billow sails from using molds to placing in front of large fans and spraying them with hair spray, which gave a hint of a billow, but also turned the sails a brown tinge after a year. I have in the past sewn into the sails a thin wire, which helped to hold the billow once the sail was molded, but that was during the sail making process. These sails came pre-made and a sight better than I could have done with a needle and thread.

mike 

By the by, the sails on the Foremast hav not been tied down to their belaying points yet. I'm in the process of rigging them first before I start belaying them. Yep I know, confusing isn't it? It looks like a pile of spagetti.

mike

Heres a few pictures of the rigging and where I'm at right now.

mike

Yep, they would be a perfect thing to have.

Hey Paul, your right, but that is one BIG piece of plexi to try and manuver into place. The way to probably avoid it would have been to place the plexi into the grooves of the top and then place the wood framed top onto the cabinet and then screw it down. But, the only way that will work, is you would have to use some type of strap and wrap it completely around the entire cabinet length ways in order to keep the corners from spreading out towards the top of the cabinet and the side plexi from coming out of the grooves. It's one of those where the more hands the better when assembling it.

mike 

Thanks George, I usually hang all the sails in one section like on the Foremast, I will hang all three sails and run the rigging, before tying anything off. It can get a bit confusing, but it seems to keep me from belaying lines, only to have to go back and rebelay them because they are criscrossed or binding on another line. I hate the looks of binded lines.

Bit more work on the Vic the last two days. The Sprits are just about mounted and tied down, then off to the fore's. Have my reference material laid out just in case

Spent a little time on the Vic over the weekend and yep, I cleaned off my work table.

Absolutely beautiful work.

mike

OK, I had to do a slight modification to the display case. I found that while placing the top plexiglass panel in, it twisted slightly enough that it fell into the display case. Fortunately, it was a dry run and no model was inside the display case at the time. I decided to drill a few holes just below the rabbit that was routed by the factory for the glass panel and then I glued in a few dowels which will act to catch the glass panel if it happens again and keep it from falling on top of the model, which would be devastating and would require a good cry and a slew of expletives. I believe in an ounce of prevention versus a pound of cure.

mike