georgek

more photos showing the progresss.....

hi,

i have been working on her four years by now. Ι am uploading more photos with the braces almost finished and i will be uploading new photos showing  the progress.

hello to everyone,

I am learning from this forum for a long time by now. Since i begun the building of the Hms Victory i have been looking for help on this forum all the time and everytime i found what i have been looking for. WIthout this forum the buid of this ship will be very difficult (don't forget that i choose this model as a first build). i am posting some photos of my first build. The ship is almost completed. I will continue to upload photos of the ship until the comletion. The kit is Mantua Hms victory but as you will see i have made many additions and i am making the rigging following the Jotika plans and instructions. Now i am making the braces. As you can see i have furled the sails on the yards. I wanna ask for your opinion: should i put a furled sail on the driver boom also?  As i can see the jotika plans does not have the nesseccary blocks for the buntlines and leechlines (if there are any) for this sail.

thank you very much for your answers.Now i must remove the already furled sail from the crossjack.

hello,

I am finishing my hms victory model. I will upload again all my photos showing the progress from the beginning. I have the mantua model but for the rigging i am following the jotika plans whith are much more detailed. I am making the rigging these days and  the  furled sails. I wanna ask why the jotika plans does not have the necessary blocks on the crossjack yard which are needed to rig the crossjack sail? I saarch the net for photos of the victory with sails (furled or not) and found that the ship does not have the crossjack sail.The victory did not have a crossjack sail? Why ?

hello,

 I am finishing the hms victoy 1:98 scale model. I am trying to find figurines at that scale (or close to that scale) but i cannot. Do you know where i can find the figures for that ship size?

thank you

george