spider999

I glued the deck planks in place, good old fashioned brick pattern, thinking it would look ok, big mistake. I went to the naval dockyard in portsmouth when we were down in devon on a family holiday a few years ago ,( the ticket includes the Victory, the Mary rose and all the rest of the ships, sheds, harbour trip, armaments depot tour etc etc) only to discover that the planks were all wrong... Too late, they aren't coming back off. It is a model , not the real thing, it will be what it is. I am still gutted though.

quick one before i go. I posted on another site - modelshipbuilder.com, about 7 years ago, then we moved house, so haven't been back on till today, here is the link to my posts on there, if it works : http://modelshipbuilder.com/userposts.php?0.forums.1643

Hi guys, many thanks for your kind replies. I had another close look at some of the pics i posted and i can see what you mean about the closed off lower gum ports. I kinda worked out after starting this post that they were probably gonna be dummy front ends. phew!! I certainly aren't gonna start taking decks off, too far in for that. I should be able to manage to get the upper deck cannons in place, got some nice long tweezers that i used to use with some of my more grumpy scorpions. Name's gary but after keeping upwards of 20 or so different types of tarantula and quite a few widow spiders as well as a whole host of buthid, centroides and leirus scorpions under the cover of my dangerous wild animals license I kinda like the nickname. Er indoors hates it, so Spider it is!!!!! Canberra eh?, we tried to get in but couldn't get any points for my job/s so we gave up and she wanted to be a mum, so the rest is history. Wanted to live where they had some decent respectible wildlife. I love snakes as well, having kept rat snakes, corns, garters, grass snakes, dusky pygmy rattlers, and a couple of boas, who wouldn't want to live in a country where they are in your back yard... I was an AB in the UK merchant navy but they ran out of ships in 86 or so, so i went ashore, been airport fire and rescue now for 28 years. 10 to go till retirement, then full time on the boat ....... am at work at mo so will sign off and post more again in morning from home. night lads S

looking at a few of my pics a bit closer I think I may have answered my own question, the lower ones seem to have solid backs and I am now wondering if just the front of the cannons go in the metal openings, shall have to dig out the relevant instruction sheet.

Hi there, I am a former Merchant Seaman in the UK. I made a plastic model of the Cutty Sark over 35 years ago on my first trip to sea, and about 12 years ago decided I wanted to do another one, a bit more adventurous this time though.. I bought the mamoli 1:90 scale plank on frame model of the HMS Victory.......... I am about 90 hrs into it, I know, that's no time after all those years, let me explain: My son was born 13 years ago and I bought the model on the weekend of his 1st birthday. I set to and put the frames together and started planking the decks, and the first layer of hull planks. all was well, till 9 years ago my daughter came along, and I haven't really done much to it since.. We moved house 5 years ago and when i had got my "boat-shed" set up I told "Er - indoors "I am now gonna be able to get back to building the boat, to which she said " yes, you can, when the bathroom and separate toilet room are knocked into one, the log burner is fitted, the kitchen is extended and the kids bedrooms are done, oh and i also want the loft boarding out...." Well, all done, I am about a month away from finishing the house, just got to build my son a new set of wardrobes for his new bigger bedroom (we dont need the dining room at the front as we have a large kitchen diner at the back of the house now!!! so he is moving downstairs. madam just needs a bit of plastering in her room and bingo.. here are a few pics of my boat so far, many many more to follow. I have recently watched a youtube video of someone building same boat, different kit and I realise with horror that I may have dropped a big clanger. he put his guns on each deck as he went along, I just followed each instruction page step by step. My question is: SHOULD I HAVE READ FURTHER INTO THE INSTRUCTIONS BEFORE FIXING EACH DECK AND PLANKING THEM, HOW DO YOU GET ALL THE GUNS IN PLACE NOW???