monello

wow, that must have a hull length of 1.5 metres without the bowsprit.

Here are some measurements of the model.

Sounds like a big project  remember once you put the masts on you may need a roof extension  .but the raising workbench seems a great idea . almost got caught in a roofspace with a small door opening ,but you seem to have everything well covered .Good luck with your build i will be following Have Fun!!

Hmmm, good point. I am now FINALLY done prepping my garage. I'm posting pics of all this later tonight. So I hope that when I get to the masts I'll have moved to a bigger place 

Hi Morne.

WOW that is gona be one big model ship.

I an building a 1/36 cross section of the Victory and that's big. But yours will be enormous in size.

One nice thing on building at a large scale is its easy to put in fine details that would have got missed due to being sooooo small.

you will need lots of timber for your build. Any idea of the type of timber you will use ?.

 

Got my chair booked.. Glasses on and ready for your build.

BTW Adobe Illustrator is a brill tool for scanned images and enlarging the scale.

 

Regards Antony

Yes that is mostly the reason for the size. I want to do as much detail as I can and the smaller, the more difficult (as you said). I have purchased a few Whisky barrels (Oak) so am going to use the timber from that to do the main structure of the ship, Keel and Frames (Forgive me if I use the wrong terms, still learning)

When I get to the planking I'm going to pay a place called "Rare Woods" a visit. Another Cape Town based modeler on this site recommended them. 

Adobe Illustrator is still a bit of a mystery to me. I know Photoshop rather well from having done quite a bit of photography (since waaay before Adobe Lightroom) so just stuck with that, and it worked well, but I really should take the plunge to learn Illustrator. Photoshop has the option to enlarge/scale in percentages, so I set mine to 250% from the 1:96 scale.

Well, hopefully you'll have lots of fun and I'll hang around to watch...    You've already used the best tool... your head.  You're thinking things through. 

Haha, true. I do tend to "over-think" things at times but I'm in no rush and want to do it properly.

Good luck, Monello.   You've picked a rather large and complex model to start with.  I'm pulling up a chair and looking forward to your build.

Yup, indeed, but I believe I've done my homework (this time  ) on this. Even though I only start the actual build now, I can assure you that many, many hours of research and planning (and test building some parts) have been done. 

Thank you guys.

Well, I got all my tools delivered today, so needless to say I'm very excited about that. A few of them require some assembly, so this weekend ought to be loads of fun.

Hopefully by the end of this weekend I will have my workbench done. I am a tad limited in space so I had to construct a workbench which I can hoist into the garage roof, between the roof beams. That part works well, but I have to make the entire set-up a lot more sturdy when lowered to working level.

I have now also scaled all my plans to size (1:38), which I did from a set I purchased from Mr. McKay at scale 1:96. So there alone I have already clocked around 150 hours just scaling and tracing these. I originally tried doing it from the Anatomy Of The Ships book, but found it really tough to get the scaling perfect on all the drawings... by no fault of Mr McKay's work! It's just that during the printing of the book lots of detail has unfortunately gone lost and also, enlarging drawings from scale 1:192 up to 1:38 means all lines are 5 times thicker so it just did not give me the results I wanted.

Anyway, I hope to be ready to start the actual build during next week. Some pictures will then start appearing very soon...

Which tools have you found the most helpful? What are your cannot-even-think-about-tackling-a-scratch-build-without-these-tools tools?

So I've done enough lurking and stalking of all your wonderful build logs... the time has finally come for me to start my own.

I have never built a model before and have attempted to start this particular one a few times over the last decade. Every time I start a soon discovered I need something more; a better set of plans, better tools, more patience etc.

I do believe I am now finally ready to take the plunge and start.

• Proper set of plans, bought from Mr John Mckay - check
• Proper tools (no need for make shift tools) - check
• Proper planning - check
• Proper work space - eh... almost there
• Patience - check, check.

So wish me luck, as I hope to start this coming weekend.

M

Hi Isalbert

You are very good at this. You model looks fantastic.

What are the dimensions? She's seems really big. Another person I am following took some photos of his model with Pepsi can placed on one of the decks, would you be willing to do that to put her size into perspective for your followers?

PS: I see your thread was also hit by the last server problems as some of your photos have also gone missing... 

Fantastic build and very informative thread. Too bad that this forum seems to have lost loads of the pictures on some of the pages in this thread, especially around pages 16, 17 and 18. Hope that this time the admin remembered to make backups!!