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GeorgeKapas
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As for the base, the solution was thusly decided: An old wooden photo frame was reused, plus some modeling cardboard and balsa wood.
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Gradually color edges and details are painted. Here are the stern galeries being done. Again some back and forth with the colors due to the fact that this was a team project. Yet the result was very satisfactory.
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Painting sceme. The choice of colors was conservative. A lot of back and forth with the filler on the deck, even at this late stage. I also built custom gratings as the ones on the kit were rather poor. I wanted the ship done with launching flag poles and all, but this was not desired by my friend.
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Here, most modifications are complete: Decks widened, side ladder and gunports modified, shroud planks remodeled with added knees, most open gunports closed off with a screen behind them as per request of my friend. A lot of filler used everywhere to correct mistakes.
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The bow gave me much grief, as not only I had to reduce it in height and length, adjust the beak for the new figurehead, but all this while manipulating the bow rails as well. The cheeks knees of the bow aparently differ much in their position between a first and third rate, as I found out.
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The new figurehead was from an old Heller Royal louis. Progress was fast initially, but when the decks had to be widened, it stagnated.
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This is a commision I undertook for a good friend last year. We had a correspondence through Facebook, whether it was possible to turn his Victory Kit, which was still unopened into a 74. Several ideas and plans were put into consideration. The ship would have no sails or masts, and it would be a kind of "Admirality" type, just the hull sitting on a base resembling a launching cradle. With the exception of the Heller's Superebe and Glorieux, there are no other 74 on the kit market, certainly no british, and seems nobody had done something like that either. The plan was as follows: Rezze Victory by one deck, which was rather troublesome, especially because the bow and rails had to be remodeled. Increase the width of the decks, as they now sit one lower into the tumblehome. Remodel the quarter deck. Remove some gunports, turn the entrance into a gunport and reduce with width of the side ladders. I made it in a relatively good time, and he was very pleased. Here is the built log, I'll slowly updload them all today and tomorow, as I have to work on the bomb ketch as well! Here is the planing, in MS paint:
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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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