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My condolences Lyle for your loss. I hope you can find some enjoyment/distraction in taking up your lovely Bounty model again.

Wow, Greg, you touched a nerve there! 😆 Love a “Fugly” anything you build!

Hi Dan, I will be following along, I built the Caldercraft version years ago, but it is not the same quality as the Vanguard one, so it will be interested to see your develop.

Fantastic Alan, they all came out very well. The detail is amazing at 1/700!

Blowing the cobwebs off this build log. My mast-less Bounty has been sulking up on the shelf of shame for many years on and off. 😞 When I last left it I had just about finished the hull and had started building the masts, but then my interest in it just left me for various reasons. Lately however, I have had to move it around in the garage to get at other stuff and got around to looking at it over the last few weeks. I think the reason I left it was that I was not happy with the paint job or colour scheme, like many I suspect, I followed the "Anatomy of the Ship" series book by John McKay, but having done that scheme and then read a bit more into the subject, I came to the disheartening conclusion my Bounty looked like a Georgian Dock-side tart! And that I think is where the rot set in and even though I did start the masts, my heart wasn't in it. It also didn't help that I discovered Vanguard model kits.... 😆 Funnily enough, that last point is oddly the catalyst for me to finally finish this damn thing off! Sometime in the not too distant future Chris is going to release his HMS Surprise, and then I know this kit will once more be dead to me for many more years and it runs the risk of the kids putting it in a skip, unfinished, when I kick the bucket! - so it's now or never! So my plan for this autumn/winter if to polish off the Bounty and get back to the Sparkler, before Surprise lands. - No mucking about this time, the race is on! 🤣 So whilst I have been rummaging around in the garage trying to find the plans, instructions (for what they are worth!) and the few remaining parts to finish this off, I have also been revisiting that paint job. Not easy given how cluttered the model is now, but on this I am a little more content and have the enthusiasm to pick up where I left off. Below is a selection of pictures of where I got to and her new paint job. Hope some of you tag along again on this final push!

Great job Richard!

Congratulations Richard on a fine build!

Another lovely build in miniature, well done Alan!

Wow Alan, it will be nice to have some pictures of your Tribals together at the end! 😁

There are also very good articles on the topic in the Mariners Mirror. I forget the sources, but Red Ochre was removed from the approved Admiralty list of paint pigments in 1807. So for the “real” Surprise red would be fine if you chose to model that. But for the “fictional” Surprise many of the stories are based around historical event in the 1808 - 1817 time frame. So like Chris I will be following the Lavery/Hunt book as my reference. Will be nice to see something different to red ochre! 😁

Also glad to see you back, wonderful work!

Congratulations Dan, what a lovely looking Ship in the sunshine! 😎

Really nice Jack! Love the little details you added.

Looking very good Alan, that PE mast is more than a “bit” of an improvement!

That copper plate work has come out very nicely David. 👏

Wonderful work again Chris, and such an attractive colour scheme!

Great painting Alan

Now that is what I call a Workshop! I hope you have many happy hours in there and look forward to seeing Victory and Triton updates soon! 😀

Welcome to MSW!

Centurion/Agamemnon, you absolutely have to do one, erm no, you have to do both of them! As to Russell Crow at 1/64 scale, with my eyesight passing for human will do! 🤣

At least hundreds, but not too many I don’t want Chris retiring before he has done Centurion! 😆

Very tidy Dave, looks great!

Thats a good reference you shared Alan, it is difficult looking at b&w photos to have guess at what the actual colours were.

Another amazing miniature Alan, you need to do the old trick of showing a matchstick next to your builds to show their scale!

Welcome to MSW!