Theodosius

Good idear with this tape! I'm again ill, so I'm building in my mind more with you all here on msw, then I can build on my own, so thanks again for all the work you are doin with your build log! 🙂

That's a realy good start! I'm sure you have a lot of fun with this one 🙂.

Hi Peter, it would be a pitty, if you would'nt move on with your log also here on this forum, I will miss your build! Of course I can understand, that it is a lot more work to maintain more logs simultaneous 🙂

It turned out so well, one would not belive, that there might have bin a discussion about planking issues 😉

With all this great progress, I want to ask you, if there is allready a thinking process started for a "next project" after Alert? 😉

your surface painting came out very even, great result! 🙂

gorgeous outcome of the main cabin! 🙂

Well, William turner was an artist. I would _never_ take the colours from an artist's painting as "real/given/natural/true/etc, etc" without an intensive study of his work, his life, his periods of development, etc, etc. Then one would need even more intense studys of the painting in question, to find out, what time of a day/sunlight/wether/ect, ect. it shows, to alter the colours in respect of that. And not finished jet, I need to find out, what impression the painter wants to give, and what he did to receive that. And after that, perhaps(!) it might be possible to get an iear of the appearance of an object, and then I still would not give my solution of my studyies anythink like an legitimazion to say it is the 'right' one. For me, the two sources with the most legitimisation are the scientific research on the real Victory, and the contemorary modells. But for the modells one have to find out, how the colours have changest just because of they're age and possible uv-irradiation from real sun light. My conclusion: do what you like best, as long as you don't want to build an object sold to an museum 😉 PS: very important: this is just my point of view! 🙂

These roundup on the head ledges add so much to the model! I don't know if it has any authenticity, but it looks great! I may 'borrow' this from you for future builds 🙂

This!!!!! And I had only one to do! So: great work! 🙂

I had only one to do, so: respect for your work! 🙂 They look good! I don't know jet, but me and this little buggers might become a love and hate relationship in the future🙂

Great work! The white on the steering wheel is, äh, unusual 😉

I'm a little bit jealous about your craft you show at the back of your model! So smoth curves! I like!

Great model! And your treenails are top! I mean, if you a look at 'real' ships, there just as subtle to see as yours! But I can understand, that one want to see som 'bang' for this lot of work! But I think, what you did, is the more 'pro' approach.

Great work! I like the idear of 'bending' the shrouds with the clamps before you 'use' them. I will copy that also! 🙂

Hello! Cool, a topic, where I can share real experience, because, at the moment I'm also building my first wooden ship model :-). You allready get real good advice from more experienced builders than me, so I can only speak for myself here: I started with Vanguards Speedy. Reasons (for me) why: - It looks so beautiful, even if I have lastly "only" finished the hull, it looks so good, that the admiral is fine with it staying in the living room, even at this stage of my build I think one can't overesteminate the "beauty of the chosen model in the eyes of the builder", because, it will takes a lot of time to build one, and the "liking" of a model ist pure motivation in the long term! - Top notch building instructions, you can download them from the vanguard web-page for free. I'm sure, you allready found that out by yourself :-) - very important for me: the vanguard kits come all with top-notch-quality parts in every way! Especcially the wood! High quality pear, and that is then the basic, you can (I don't know without looking at the shop) go for boxwood for an addional share, but that is perhaps better spend on your second modell :-) - ALL parts are in scale! All guns! All gun-carriages! All deadeyes! All etc, etc, etc. you get the point. And that is not for all ship model kits, but Vanguard is top notch in this regard! - Last two posts: no need to buy aftermarket parts for, well, aftermarket prices :-). So I can say, that the Vanguard kits may(!) look expensive on the first glance, but if you look at what you get, and compare this to other kits, the Vanguard's are very very very fair priced! - phantastic community here, which gives a ton of advice and help! And from time to time, even the developer of the kit looks into the build logs here. If I would start all over again, I shurly would chosse Speedy again! As you can see in my log, I had my share of problems, but I get all the help that I needet to sort them out, and I am realy happy with this kit/modell/quality/community here!

Your log is as good as your SR! Thank's for a lot for sharing this with us!

Looks good!

@Thukydides: thanks for your thumbs up! 🙂 @TBlack: thanks for your comment, much appreciated! 🙂 @mugje: thants for your nice words! I think I need more tools... 🙂 Bending the chamfered strip: The finished result: And both plattforms together: I tryed to cut the round holes in the gunwale to a square again. Well, more practise needet :-). The second plattform is better than the first one, I think on my fifth or seventh ship, then they may turn out good :-). Nevertheless, it was fun to make this little addons.

Still dissatisfied with my fighting tops (?), I looked closly at the drawing provided by @allanyed again to find something to improve. Don't get me wrong here, there is absolutly nothing wrong with the provided plattforms by the kit. I just want 'more' :-). So I added filler pieces at the front and the gunwale at the aft of the plattform. As you can see, my woodworking skills needs to improve further, but at least I have done something just with drawings as a source, that was very satisfieying :-): As allways: the errors are in the macros are much more prominent than in 'real life', but, that's just a poor excuse for poor work, lol. Main problem: as you can clearly seen, my filler pieces don't look that good, because I sanded the chamfer in lack of propper tools. Well, piece of wood in one hand and a sanding stick in the other: the outcome of that setup is clear visible... Well, I have another plattform to do, so I will improve my work there. Because I still not have a planer, what would propably the right tool for the job, I used my disc sander instead: Wow, muuuuch better: Still not perfect, because I was not able to bring an even force over the whole length of the strip to the sander, my strips became a little bit of a trapezoid (?). Does'nt matter at all, because I have to cut the strips much thinner then I needet them to be able to put em on the sander. But if I need at some point longer strips than just a vew cm's, I need a different approach.

Thanks for the detailed explanations, they come quite handy for me now :-).

Beside the money, I would like to know, in the end, if this was more or less work than building a new kit :-). But all the same, I have great respect for what you are doing here :-).

Very good craft!

Thank's to the great advice I got here on the "Masting, rigging and sails" section from @allanyed, @TBlack and @druxey, I taperd the timbers and cut some adds to enhance/enlarge the ribs: Glued em on and filed em flush to the outsides: Problem here: some of them would lock the cut-through for the deadeys iron bands. So I looked again more careful at the drawings that @allanyed had pinned into that fred, I also need to decide what shape my enhancemends need to get. Damn: My plattforms don't have that sandwich construction, that would match the drawing, especialy at the backsinde. You can argue with some enlargemants at the fromt but not at the back. It would make total sense to rebuild the plattforms with all the neded layers. In the lack of materials and to-scale drawings for this particular model, I decided against a new build. But this could be something to do for my next build. In the end I removed my enhancemnd but the ones at the front, taper them and call it a day: Perhaps I will remove the surviving ones also and pack it under the money for nothing category 🙂

Cameras have so much improved over the last decades, that the pictures makes it so easy to forget how smal all this stuff is in reality. I mean, it's so easy to say, that there is a cleary visibly gap at this fat-as-a-thumb-rail, but then in reality that rail is only one(!) mm thick, and on the real thing you would not see anything of a gap! So, yes, realy good job on this beauty! 🙂