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  1. T. Alex
    Rigging the lower and upper shrouds.
  2. T. Alex
    I apologize for the double upload of some of the pics. I'm not sure what I'm doing to cause it?
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    Time for the standing rigging. I decided to not use a lot of the kit's parts for the rigging of the model. Mainly the moulded shrouds, deadeyes. I did use the kit's channels by modifying them. The chainplates were horrible however so those were discarded. I copped out and went with the later chain plate design for the sake of sanity. The deadeyes I used are 3.5 mm (probably to big) but I don't think they look to way out of scale.
  4. T. Alex
    After insuring that all of the masts fit together well I finally glue in the lowers.
  5. T. Alex
    The mast's. I decided to make the jib boom, and upper masts out of basswood as the kit's plastic ones are pretty flimsy.
  6. T. Alex
    Adding a little detail to the ship's boat's.
  7. T. Alex
    Pretty much finished up with the top deck.
  8. T. Alex
    The kit's top deck guns were replaced with the excellent 3d printed carronades from Model Monkey. I regret not fully rigging them now.
  9. T. Alex
    Painting the hull. All of the painting was done by airbrushing using Vallejo colors. With the exception of the Gallery and billet.
  10. T. Alex
    I treated the top deck installation differently than the gun deck. The notorious three piece design wasn't going to work for me so I decided to glue them up and drop it in as one unit after painting. A lot of sanding,filing and dry fitting was done to insure everything would go as smooth as possible. At this point I also dry fitted the mast's to make sure they would be straight and at the right rakes when added. I'm glad I did because they weren't even close.
  11. T. Alex
    Adding the Captain's quarters and gun deck cannons.
  12. T. Alex
    Hello. This is my third experience with the iconic Revell kit, counting myself as a youngster watching my Dad build his back in '69 - '70. I've spent about two years off and on working on it to this point. When finished it will be a waterline display, with sails furled at anchor. First photos of this build log start at the point where I had the gun deck airbrushed and installed.

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