HMS Victory by Daveruss - Panart - 1/78 scale

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Starboard canons and lids complete now onto the port side.

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[Kelp]

Your model is looking great!  Nice job on the coppering.  It’s worth the time and effort.

 

Can you tell me how many sheets of plans came with the kit?  I’m thinking of purchasing a used kit and would like to have an idea of the number of drawings that should be included.

 

Thanks, and keep on with your nice work!

 

Don

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On 5/7/2022 at 2:19 AM, Kelp said:

Your model is looking great!  Nice job on the coppering.  It’s worth the time and effort.

 

Can you tell me how many sheets of plans came with the kit?  I’m thinking of purchasing a used kit and would like to have an idea of the number of drawings that should be included.

 

Thanks, and keep on with your nice work!

 

Don

Hi Don,

 

The plans are printed on both sides of a sheet so you get four sheets with eight plans if that makes sense. You also get the instruction book and I downloaded the full instructions in English too, although be aware they refer to the kit with all brass moldings and don’t show the new etched ply version which is the one I’m building.

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Have done one side with the netting and it’s a real pain in the **** to get right, probably the worse job yet.

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And onward to the masts. 

[Esap]

Glad to see work continues Daveruss! How are you finding this kit compared to your prior caldercraft kits?

[Daveruss]

Instructions are not as good and lots of things are left to the modeler. Some annoying things like the rigging thread not having any sizes on the spools but otherwise not too shabby a kit. Another thing is this kit is of course considerably cheaper than the Caldercraft one. Definitely need some experience with building model boats to get this done.

Edited January 23, 2023 by Daveruss

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Making headway with the masts just the fore mast and bow sprit to go. People have different ways to do the masts. I prefer to build as much as possible before putting them in place on the ship. The plans hint at putting the masts in first the rigging and then the cross trees, not my preferred way to do it, we’ll see what’s best in the end.

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Trying to get some work done on the masts…😂

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Fore, main and mizzen masts are done now I’m rigging as much as I can before heading back to the hull to finish some small bits it will then be ready for the masts.

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Progress update - mast and tops are finished and ready to be mounted into the hull. Just finishing off the hull, water buckets, rings and dead eyes being added first.

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Foremast is in and I have started rigging the mast.

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Main mast in position and being rigged.

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Still at it, still on the rigging….