HMS EREBUS by Heinrich der Seefahrer - OcCre - 1:75 - from the HMS Terror kit

[Heinrich der Seefahrer]

Hello guys, 

 

due to the fascinating Franklin Expedition story I reached the icey shore of all these books about the HdSstrangly collapsed Franklin expedition from a german manga towards deep scientific books during the last few month.

 

And it all started with tgus NMM booklet. 

I don't want to overstrech my abilities again and do start the kit of HMS TERROR by OcCre. Due to the fact that HMS EREBUS is also a bomb ship and only 3 feet longer I think about altering the kit from TERROR towards EREBUS by the inlay of a (304,8mm × 3 {length}) / 75 {scale} so 12,192mm{exactly} making a  12,2mm thick bulkhead. Cutting the centerboard and deck inseting the bulkhead beaveling the hole thing into shape with sand paper - sounds easy but is it like this? I also need to fill the space between the bulkheads at all to get a proper surface for the planking. By this I will earn a pair if surfaces I can glue the lengthening bulkhead inbetween. So the hull hopefully is a sold thing to work with again.

 

The kit is quite rough in deck detail and the changes will be planed from the

 

survived model in the NMM with the correct colour sheme of 1845 and some books about wrecks with deckplans inside. 

We also habe some beautyfull renderings from the recent situation of the wreck coming from sonar pictures 

 

and photographs of the real wreck. 

 

 

So is this a possible way to go? Or am I on a completly wrong track? 

[clearway]

welcome to the terror club- albeit erebus, keith s and i are having fun making the occre terror actually look like hms terror nevermind changing identity! there were some structural differences on the deck fittings/ boesprit too. the plan in the book (i have this also) is actually for Erebus.

 

Keith

[Keith S]

Hi Christian, 

 

I think that's an excellent idea! I was thinking a while ago that it would be fun, although extremely time-consuming, to build TWO kits and convert one to "Erebus". I'm not going to do it, but I'm happy someone is taking on the other ship!

 

As luck would have it, I have a very nice copy of one of the National Maritime Museum's draughts for these ships, which shows details of both Erebus and Terror. The most obvious difference between the two, other than the slightly different length, is the location of the bowsprit. On Erebus, it is mounted further forward, and penetrates the deck very close to the stempost. While Terror, as you can see by the kit, has the bowsprit "partners" back close to the foremast. 

 

If you like, I will get out my plans and study them for any more details about the differences between the ships. 

 

I'm excited to see you get a start on this.