GrandpaPhil

Very cool concept!  Excellent execution!  A Maori War Canoe is a very neat subject!  Very well done!

Hi, I'm Phil.  I'm about ten months into my build.  I've never done a ship of the line before, so this is a learning experience.

I chose to build the HMS Victory because I wanted to do a ship of the line.

I bought it off of E-Bay on an auction.

The kit dates back from 1991.

I've had a few difficulties due to the age of the wood and my relative inexperience (compared to most of you guys) in wooden ship modelling.

I am very patient.  I am very stubborn.  I have lots of experience with other types of models to draw from.

I have finished the rough work on the hull.  Both layers of planking are on.  The stern and quarter galleries are built and painted.  I have the base color scheme painted on.  I am going to be coppering the bottom of the hull.  I have 3/16" copper tape, a pounce wheel and Gene Bodnar's article on making copper plates using self adhesive copper tape (thank you very much, Gene, for writing that, as well as the other articles that you have written), that I pulled off of this website.  I plan on making very good use of all three .

Here's where I'm at right now:

Very cool build!

I've been building models for a long time now (well over 20 years).  I'm currently building the Mantua 1:98 HMS Victory.  I'm going with Lord Nelson's Trafalgar color scheme.  I'm pretty happy with how it's turning out.  I joined the site to learn.  I'm hoping to break over into scratch building in the near future.