Blackjack77

Completed model dimensions listed for the kit are 1100mm x 700mm x 160mm (43" L x 27.5" T x 6" W).

I was mainly thinking conversion to the Olympic when she was moored with Titanic in Belfast. I think it would be a good use of the kit plus will allow me to show the subtle differences between the two. Plus I can show her repairs from her collision with the HMS Hawke.

I recently acquired the Trumpeter 1:200 Titanic kit and will put my focus on creating a top notch, as accurate as possible recreation of the real Titanic at that scale. That being said, I have in my stash the Minicraft Centennial 1:350 Titanic kit + an extra hull and tons of photo-etch kits. Im not planning on building a second Titanic so my thought is maybe to convert it to the Olympic, or maybe the Britanic. I even thought about maybe cutting her in half and converting her to a display of the Titanic Bow wreck site. Not sure yet, but of those options, converting her to the Olympic seems the easiest conversion, needing just to make some minor alterations and name decals. Does anyone have any experience in this or have links to a build of something like this? Another thought was to maybe build the kit as a waterline model and recreate the collision with the iceberg.

Really, really wanted to build this ship from Model Shipways and even went as far as ordering her, but once I thought about her size at roughly 4' from stem to stern, I had to cancel the order as I simply dont have anywhere to properly display a ship of that size, but I really wanted to build a Connie so I comprimised and am now building the Revell 1:96 kit which comes in about a foot shorter in length which would fit perfectly on my mantle .

Those Trumpeter 1/200 scale models of Arizona, Bismark, and Mighty Mo are humongous! I'd love to build one of them, but cant imagine where I'd keep it, lol.

I just ordered a set of these plans. 'JAWS' is my absolute favorite film ever, seen it a thousand times probably. I've never scratch-built before, but have always wanted a scale replica of Quint's ship, so I'll definitely be cutting my scratch-building teeth on that one once I get around to actually building it.

I just got a 1976 issued kit of the Revell 1:96 Connie off of Ebay. Looking forward to following your build log once I get around to actually building her.

Jerseycity, I'd say that interest in pirate culture was at a frenzy from the early 2K's to 2k10 or 2k11 thanks to Disney's 'Pirates of the Caribbean' films, but interest in pirates in general has been very strong as long as I can remember, and if you ask anyone to name a real-life pirate from history, 7 out of 10 (or more) are probably going to say Blackbeard (although I'm conviced some will first say Long John Silver or One-Eyed WIlly). That being said, of those people that say Blackbeard, most (if any) won't be able to tell you the name of his ship (or the names of any real-life pirate ships for that matter as most would probably name fictional ships like The Black Pearl or the Flying Dutchman or real-life non pirate ships like The Bounty), despite the likely discovery of the wreck of the QAR in 1996 or the years of relic recovery and museum exhibition of those artifacts. In fact, most people who dont already have a vested interest in historical sailing vessels probably didnt even know the name of Blackbeards ship until they saw the 4th PotC film, and have probably since forgotten the name of the ship. The problem that really arises is that no one actually has an accurate description of the appearance of the ship outside of the fact that it was originally a British Frigate built in 1710 known as the Concorde which can only give a vague idea of what she might've looked like. Then you have to take into account modifications done to the ship by the French and then finally by Teach's crew. I've read varying reports that Teach did nothing to the ship whatsoever (as reported in 'A General History of the Pyrates'), to reports that said he modified the ship to carry as many as 26 additional guns (added to the 14 guns she was rumored to already have), but there's really no way of actually knowing, which means that anyone could probably just build an early 18th century British frigate, modify some extra gunports and guns and slap Blackbeards colors on her and call it the QAR. Although I think it'd be great for a reputable company to put a kit out there, as long as it does the legendary ship justice and is as historically accurate as it can be made based on the sparse evidence that we have avilable on it.

Wow, that link helps a ton. Thanks!

Hi, this is actually my first post on this forum. Been into ship/plane modeling for most of my life (mainly plastic), but I got into building wooden ship kits about 2 or 3 years ago. I've never scratch built before, but have been wanting to create a decent sized (26" to 28" from bow to stern) plank on bulkhead replica of Blackbeard's flagship, the Queen Anne's Revenge. I have a 1:60 HMS Endeavour Bark 1768 kit from Artesania Latina that I received from my father as a gift some years back but haven't built yet. This seems like it would be a good kit to start from and modify into the QAR. Does anyone have any thoughts on this or recommendations or warnings or anything? Also, I've had a devil of a time trying to find anything definitive on how the ship would have looked outside of the basic info (originally a British frigate built sometime in 1710 as HMS Concorde, and was eventually captured and became a French slave ship before finally being captured by Captain Ben Hornigold and turned over to his Quartermaster Edward Teach (Thatch), "Blackbeard", who renamed it QAR and made it the flagship of his 4 ship floatilla before running it aground in North Carolina. If anyone could point me in the right direction as far as plans or anything to help me out or has any advice it would be greatly appreciated.