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Even though too big for my own build, I could not resist to finish this small kit ... ... and the best: It came with two sets of decals :-) One in original english production and one as frensh bounty. As the second was rather uncommon I decided to opt for the english version. But me and decals ... ... but with loads of softener I finally succeded :-) XXXDAn

I do strongly believe that there is the decal sheet missing in this after market kit: "Not to be used in rough seas" "Attention content my be hot" "Open here" "Oven with care" "Only one Pizza at the time" "Insert coins here" Have to contact the dealer ... XXXDAn

Almost as important as the small mobil but too big forge is the surrounding bits (after Goodwin): Beside the gunsmith, his helpers, anvil and hammer was needed: - 3 man on the elm tree pump to pump and to keep clear the house to the forge - wetten deck nicely and spread sand - 3 buckets full of sand - 3 buckets of water for emergencies and to harden the goods - keep the fire small - the 3 fireman have to man the pump until everything is off for sure and all the ashes are lowered overboard in an iron bucket to the lee side - check everywhere if any hazards could be still found Cheers, Daniel @Keith: weevils were out, so he had to take the bug-less pizza ... @Mark: Ah, it was him who bit the waiter ... @Joe: Be asured - and thats a threat!

Your wish - my desire :-) Here the Tic-Tac-shot. One can see the bellows underneath, just the handle broke off, still find the attachment on the left side. XXXDAn

What a wonderful comparison! Love it, Daniel

The chief wants to have a pizza ... ... matchwood was made ... ... and one door remains shut, we do not need family size ;-) But what will the gunner say about the ill use of his portable forge ?!? Cheers, Daniel

I love it :-) XXXDAn

Jan of course gave the right direction, Frank got it on the spot. It is the small mobile furnise as seen on Vic today. It was never presented as it ended up to be some 10 % to 15% too big ... ... the funnel hits the deck beams - no good idea. Will do another one in time. Perhaps this one will find a place on a 1:90 or 1:72 Vic, the size would be better for those scales :-) Cheers, Daniel

...hihihihihi... ...took long to be discovered, it´s there already since March :-) First guess in the other forum was bar-b-q grill ... ...hihihihihihi... ... more precise guessings? XXXDAn

... unfinished business, don´t go into the light ... ... still have to fix the outside of the side tackles ... ... but tell me how, yes how?!?! All easy? The hook already being fixed on the tackle, but the eyebolt still missing. Ok, sticky business ... ... once through the hull and ramming the sting deep into the meat! Better than drilling and no mess :-) Maneuvering the eyebolt deep inside of the hull with the help of some thin tweezers ... ... and juggle the hook with other pointed things into the eyebolt. Almost like a bottle ship - just omit the bottle and take a deep-deep hull instead ... XXXDAn PS: Hurra, there is a light at the end of the tunnel ... PPS: ... another train? PPPS: ...

Thank you very much Gil !!! Cheers, Daniel

If you look closely at the Flore you can see the lower rope just being one sided. This was an oledr Version on securing the rudder: The rope went through the hole in the rudder and was simply stopped by a knot. Plenty of old drawings show this. But as all the things I learned in the years of research - there was always more than one version to be correct, depemnding upon the nationality, the year, dockyard and the captain ... Still looking for some other hints on fully rigged contemporary models and drawings. I believe some more precise hints are still awaing us out there :-) XXXDAn

That would not have been a chop, that what have been a slip from the slipway ... ;-) XXXDAn

Thank you guys, do not worry I am already back to the path of virtue, just finished the half lids ... ... there still will come some coils over the eyebolts. Good news, the fore channels are "only" 3 mm too narrow ... ... so have to find the least messy way of fixing that as all the irons are in place and well fixed ... ... but in the meantime next parts are in preparation to be fixed ... ... and are by now waiting in the blackening soup :-) XXXDAn

One should always stick to his original plans ... ... in a moment of fancy and craziness I decided to move the date of appearance of the model from mid August to the first minutes of the battle. "... cathead shot away ..." sounded quite interesting and with a well aimed and highly qualified chop I severed the cathead and the result was just as I wanted it to be :-) But then the disillusionment, yes even panic: I did not read the source to the end, as it was "... starboard ..." :-( OKOKOK, glued back the cathead and returned to plan A, where I know the sources better ... ... better it is ... ... ... jo! XXXDAn

Victory! What a joy to see! You managed something that many-many other builders did not achieve: a finished HMS Victory :-) Wonderfully done, thank you for showing all the details and letting us all take part, I really enjoyed your trip. And the result is outstanding. Many thanks for sharing, all the best, Daniel PS: By the way - only 19 years !?! I will beat that! Be asured ;-)

Oh please guys, go back to your builds :-) One can never have enough Victorys! Make Nelson proud, I know for sure each of you will do a great representation of this wonderful ship. And by the way, there are still some builds out there that could make me put my own one down ... ... but I will continue anyway ;-) XXXDAn

Be my guest, you are welcome! :-) :-) :-) Cheers, Daniel

@Kevin : Here :-) #810 XXXDAn

Thank you Sirs, very appreciated! You made me blush! @Keith: Be assured, all of us liked your kind words! Appearently the draught marks were made of lead, so I tried it out and colored them grey. Fits to the ones from the Royal George http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/63420.html Looks cute :-) And as I am famous for jumping from one extreme to the other, now something completely different: After the extrem aft, now the extrem front ;-) Also colored the draught marks ... ... and build the lids of the small port. Rectangular looks different ;-) Painted ... ... placed and marked the holes of the fittings ... ... and stuck them provisorily into place. Yo, even the old witch´s house in Ludwigsburg´s fairy tale garden looks more rectangular ... ... really! XXXDAn PS: Can´t you see the witch - can´t you see the witch by my side? http://maerchengarten.de/Rundgang_Märchen.html Look for the pic of Hänsel & Gretel PPS: Can´t you see the witch - can´t you see the witch by my side? Rattles

Wonderful updates ! Love it, Daniel

I think they do coincides because Longridge´s description is based on the Vic in P. ;-) To me it looks strange that so much chain would drag in the water ... Dirk/Dubz started a interesting conversation about the use of chains in our german forum. He realised that Lees was taking on page 130 first about about chains and then, on the eyebolt/hook beside the stem already talks about the pendants. He found Steel also saying the same - witch contradicts the contemporary models. Here are the parts that Dirk pointed out: Lees p130: Rudder pendants Chains were shackled to eyes in the rudder, coming up each side of the rudder to under the transom. - chains To the end of the chains large rings were fitted and into these rings were hooked the rudder pendants. - chains These pendants had a thimble in each end with the hooks set round the thimbles. - change to pendant The hooks were moused. - pendant The pendants were seized to eyes or hooks set under the transom — one by the side of the rudder post, one half way along, and one under the quarter gallery. - pendant The end of the pendants were seized to the after end of the mizen channels. - pendant When required, a long tackle was hooked in the ends. - pendant The fall hooked to an eyebolt in the mizen chains and led in through a port Steel wrote (CS.234) “RUDDER-PENDENTS hook to the ring, in the end of the rudder-chains; the hook is moused; then stopped to hooks driven in the counter, over the rudder, at the quarters, and one between. A long tackle is hooked to a thimble, spliced in the ends of the pendents, and to an eye-bolt in the mizen-chains, and the fall leads in, through a port, upon the quarter-deck.” Steel, p. 77 Rudder Tackles hook to the rudder chains or pendants, to steer the ship in case of accident to the tiller or rudder head. Steel, p. 172 PENDENTS. Large, but short, ropes which go over the mast-heads, and to which are hooked the main and fore tackles. There are, besides, many other pendents, with a block or tackle attached to one end, all of which serve to transmit the effort of their tackles to some other object: such are the BILL-PENDENT, BRACE-PENDENTS, PREVENTER-BRACE-PENDENTS, BURTON-PENDENTS, FISH-PENDENTS, GUY-PENDENTS, MAIN-STAY-TACKLE-PENDENT, PENDENTS OF TACKLES, QUARTER-TACKLE-PENDENTS, REEF-TACKLE-PENDENTS, RUDDER-PENDENTS, STAY-TACKLE-PENDENTS, TOP-ROPE-PENDENTS, TRUSS-PENDENTS, VANG-PENDENTS, WINDING-TACKLE-PENDENTS, and YARD-TACKLE-PENDENTS. Steel, p 178 RUDDER TACKLES are composed of long tackle blocks, and single blocks, strapped, with hooks and thimbles: they are used to save, or direct the rudder, when any accident happens to the tiller. Steel, p192 RUDDER-PENDENTS are doubled and cut in the bight; they have a hook and thimble spliced in one end, and are served with spunyarn over the splice. Luce Text-Book of Seamanship, 1891, Luce, S.477 RUDDER GONE. If the rudder head only has been carried away, the rudder remaining shipped, it can be used for steering by means of the rudder chains. In view of this possibility, the rudder chains should be stopped up so that their ends are accessible in case of need. The possibility of having to use rudder chains for steering purposes has sometimes been overlooked; the chains themselves are difficult to get at, the fastenings on the rudder have not been sufficiently far down, and only common bolts have been inserted instead of a stout metal strap, which should clasp the after part of the rudder. The rudder chains should have pendants spliced into them, leading up over the taffrail where they can be got at. In using them to steer the ship, the rudder head being wrenched off, lower the cross-jack yard on the rail, lash it there, and lead pendants from the rudder chains through blocks at the yard-arms, hooking tackles into the pendants. And now the question to our nativ english speakers: Are we misunderstanding or misinterpreting the lines? That is followed by the question how the delta to the contemporary models can be explained? Was the length of the chains not standardised? Cheers and thanks to Dirk, Daniel

To commemorate Trafalgar Day my little display was featured on the daily german model makers blog Modelmarine :-) http://www.modellmarine.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4044:linienschiff-hms-victory-1100-hellereigenbau-von-daniel-fischer&catid=491:daniel-fischer *happy* Cheers, Daniel

Please do NOT make me go red Robin! Old flatterer ;-) Thank you, Daniel

Still owe you the solution of the "What the hell is this": It is simply the wooden lock to avoid the unshipping of the rudder! Here in place ... ... and as it looks too nice, the whole ensemble :-) Cheers, Daniel