la Flore by SigEp Ziggy - Lindberg - 1/133 - PLASTIC - 'Jolly Roger' kit

[SigEp Ziggy]

Well I am going to try 'Start a model and finish it'.  I got the Lindberg 'Jolly Roger' at Hobby Lobby with a coupon for $17.

 

I will make some changes to the kit, add details to the gun deck, improve the masts and spars, make my own sails, and decide on which color scheme use.

 

Improvements:

add birth deck under ladders

add hawse holes

add gun deck capstans

add officers quarters

add galley stove
 

Hope to make some progress soon

 

Ziggy

 

[SigEp Ziggy]

Got a Valentine's gift from my sons....

[SigEp Ziggy]

I am going for this look as far as the paint scheme goes.

 

 

I'll start with the boats and canons

 

[popeye the sailor]

I kinda chuckled about the hawse hole........I've built this model already.  another person was building it and asked the question about the hawse hole,  and I told him the same thing   

I built mine as the Jolly Rogers,  but it can be morphed to be the Le Flore,  just like the Capt. Cook kit can be morphed into the Warppen Von Hamberg.

    there are a few flaws with this kit.....the biggest one is the gun deck not lining up to the gun ports exactly,  when the two decks are assembled and fitted into the hull.  I think I did a log on her......not the Le Flore,  but the assembly is the same.  I also have the Flying Dutchman glow in the dark model......not that big of a hoot     other than the deck issue though,  it is a fun model to build.  are those 1:96 scale blocks?  I did the same thing    you'll like the way it comes out   

[popeye the sailor]

 

[SigEp Ziggy]

Thanks for the info Denis, I have followed your build from the beginning and purchased the kit because of it.  I will build it different than the instructions show by installing the the gun deck first, like the Revell Constitution kit, and the upper deck later, we'll see how that goes, wish me luck.

[Heinrich der Seefahrer]

Great build you stated, as I have got the same kit in the stash. I very much like your article. 

 

[SigEp Ziggy]

Thank you Heinrich for the kind words, I have been working on the small boat and one of the canon carriages.

[popeye the sailor]

doing that,  the only thing you'll find tedious,  will be the pillars.    for an easy out,  trim the pins off the tops of the pillars.  cement them in place so they stand perpendicular and straight.  when you add the spar deck,  just glue around the edges of the deck....don't worry too much about the pillars {unless you want too}.  you won't be doing anything too stressful on deck to matter much     it does build into a nice model.

[SigEp Ziggy]

Still working on the boats and canon/carriages.

 

 

[SigEp Ziggy]

I've been working on the cannons, twenty OOB and ten modified, these may be seen thru the spar deck.

 

 

[pennytimeline]

It's hard to believe it's been almost three years since my last post! 

 

Not much but, the stairs just dangle past the gun deck, so I made an orlop deck from scratch.