GeorgeKapas
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Again, you are too kind! Here are today's photos, hull painted and all. So now we reached present day! so no more lighting fast updates 😭.. Tomorow I'll start with the rigging, hopefully that will go smooth and fast as well. Perhaps it will be ready in a week's time, if no troubles are encountered.
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Guns' completion: We are reaching the present day with this built, these were just yesterday:
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Thank you! It is a mystery why Ι took this built so patriotically. Maybe because there was so few photos of a completed model of this kit, and most were simple assemblies. Perhaps I spent more time on it than this kit was worth it, but it seems worthwhile. Here are the guns!
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Thank you all, once again. I have Drake's Revenge by Lindberg, which is an old repackaged Pyro Kit as well. That one is actually very nicely detailed, far better than this, despite being even smaller. Here are the masts. I had the mizzen mast rebuilt a second time, so it has same difference since its first iteration. Especially the yards are very thin and frail, despite being larger pieces filled down. The rigging should be done with care so they wont bent
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I decided to replace the plastic base with a new one. It was rather poor and scratched the now smooth hull. I took the inspiration from some bases I saw in the Annapolis Collection. The base piece is from an old Heller kit, the cradle is made out of balsa
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Next step was a the planks. I modified a small 0.5 pencil with a spacer, at least to try and make the lines bearable. Then I washed the base enamel with an acrylic to correct the color a bit and set the pencil.
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Thank you all. Yes these vintage kits are interesting. I'm rather young, this one was molded before my mother was born! In any case, here is the painting progressing. Shows a rough idea of the color choice. Weathering and pencil planking is still not applied here. Notice the smooth hull since I sanded all the molded planking out. I also tried to fix the lion with a bit of filler, not sure if it improved much, the mold is as you would expect from a 50 year old kit.
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Painting: The weathering of the deck, the planks and the details there were of particular importance to such a small kit. I had to do my best and take my time there: Also note a tiny diorama of a gun carriage I also made in parallel.
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Hull and various pieces and additions assembled: I had to scratchbuilt 4 ladders, as well as use two more from my parts, as well as replacing most pieces. I also made many deadeys and pulleys, seen inside the water bottle caps.
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The hull wood grain was terrible. Too big, everything was a relief including the lines between the hulls etc. The deck was not much better, but I left that alone. The hull though seemed really wrong. I decided to paint the lower hull as if coated with "White Stuff" Everything had to go. Initially I wanted the planks lines on the upper hull retained, but in the end these were removed as well. Notice that even the shroud plank chains were solid triangles... These had to go too..
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Although I didnt take a photo with the parts as they were, here is a summary at a later time: The masts are rebuilt almost completly. The single piece yards and sails were of no use. I added new yards, striken down, and made a bowsprit from scratch. Built new catheads, the blocks for the pins the cannons and anchors were replaced by better pieces from my pile. The pulkheads had solid stairs that looked terrible, I had them removed completely and built ladders from scratch a bit later.
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This very old and rare kit was provided to me by a good friend. Indeed, I was not aware that such a ship type was available in plastic. The kit is made in the 1960s, and I was very interested trying it out. It is very small is size, but it has proven to be a handfull nevertheless. Its issues are several, but still I tried to make something out of it.
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Sorry for the long wait. I'll continue it here, in the meanwhile, I started and almost finished Pyro's British bomb ketch! I'll make a thread for it as well, post haste!
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Thank you. Indeed the 1660 rebuilt is an interesting one. I was thinking of such an option, but I am afraid the easier route for such a kitbash, is to modify the Prince model, with the galleries and sculptures of Sovereign. It would mean though, that with this way, one of the two kits would be sacrificed, unfortunately.
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Some unfinished work and experimentation: Most of the corrections and additions are done I believe.
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Indeed the whole issues and historical timelines with Sovereign are most perplexing. I have a few historian friends that help me alot. The missing engravings will be either hand painted, or I will print a simple outline of them with my printer on A4, cut and soak them in superglue to solidify them, paint and glue them. I did this on a previous built of mine, a kitbash of airfix's Victory into a 74, gifted to a good friend. The name on the stern was done in a similar fashion:
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The first model, which airfix is based on, is part of Greenwich collection, made in the 19th century. Both seem to represent the ship after the 1650 light rebuilt, during which she had a round tuck (?)
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The round tuck stern issue: I sanded down the corner of the sternpost in order to make it more round. The airfix kit has an inbetween shape. Yet there is no consensus between the wooden kit manufacturers, but certainly a square tucked Sovereign is wrong!.
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I have been rearranging pieces and collecting additional material. The decision to drill all blind gunports proved very problematic, as all the guns had to be made anew The solution from right to left: Lower deck guns (hidden carriages), middle deck guns (hidden carriages), uppen deck guns (visible carriages on the waist, and behind them the hidden carriages), QD, FC and murdering pieces (all visible carriages)
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Very troubleshome place to make a gunport. No wonder I havent come across this fix in other Airfix Sovereigns
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Yes it seems the completed museum model on the top left is missing a gunport next to the top balcony. But thankfully the port is there in the Airfix kit.
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