prototype build HMS Sphinx 1775 by James H - FINISHED - Vanguard Models - 1:64

[Glenn-UK]

3 minutes ago, chris watton said:

 Initial production run will be for 40 kits.

I will be buying one of these kits when the order goes live.

Edited June 24, 2021 by glennard2523

[Old Collingwood]

Looking Absolutley Stunning  - like a  Museum  model.

 

OC.

[Neill]

16 minutes ago, chris watton said:

 

 

Initial production run will be for 40 kits.

Will keep my eyes peeled😀

[KentM]

Fantastic kit.  Price seems fair.  I am ready to purchase it.    What's next?

Kent

[chris watton]

3 minutes ago, KentM said:

Fantastic kit.  Price seems fair.  I am ready to purchase it.    What's next?

Kent

prozac!

[Oboship]

Absolutely breathtaking, and I envy your skills, James! Great build log of a great design!

Uwe

[BobG]

Wow!! 😳

[Oboship]

1 hour ago, Oboship said:

Absolutely breathtaking, and I envy your skills, James! Great build log of a great design!

Uwe

James, while you work with both hands on the model, who is taking the pictures anyway? She or he deserves a big Thank You, too!

Uwe

[Old Collingwood]

Just now, Oboship said:

James, while you work with both hands on the model, who is taking the pictures anyway? She or he deserves a big Thank You, too!

Uwe

All the expert builders have Three hands,  how do you think they do such wonders.

 

OC.

[Mike_H]

3 hours ago, James H said:

Remember those cannon port lids? Here they are, finally installed.

And very, very nice they look, too.  Will you be documenting the rigging, as well James?

 

Having just spent a day at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, can I say that this model would look entirely at home in the museum there.  Exceptional work by Chris and James.

[glbarlow]

4 hours ago, chris watton said:

Initial production run will be for 40 kits.

So 39 for everyone else😊

[Glenn-UK]

6 hours ago, glbarlow said:

So 39 for everyone else😊

Make that 38 with 2 required for the two Glenn's. 😀

Edited June 25, 2021 by glennard2523

[paul carruthers]

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Edited June 25, 2021 by paul carruthers

[Clark]

14 hours ago, glennard2523 said:

I will be buying one of these kits when the order goes live.

Is it already possible to send an advance order?

Clark

[Malcolm Greig]

Spectacular update. 

[chris watton]

3 hours ago, Clark said:

Is it already possible to send an advance order?

Clark

Only once I have cut all parts and have everything except plans and manual (as these are done locally). If there were any problems with the PE or anything else after taking people's money, I would be devastated if I had to delay the release. Hence waiting until alI is with me and have checked everything over. 

Edited June 25, 2021 by chris watton

[captain_hook]

Wow, you‘re a very fast and clean builder. Is it all depending on your own high building skills or does the kit go together that easy?

[James H]

20 minutes ago, captain_hook said:

Wow, you‘re a very fast and clean builder. Is it all depending on your own high building skills or does the kit go together that easy?

 

It's designed to be as easy to build as possible. With a couple of builds under your belt, you should have no problem with this. I'd say that in comparison to Flirt or Duchess, this is no harder....there's just more of it. There's also refinements in these designs as they're released, and also during this specific build. There have been numerous changes that I've discussed with Chris and he's implemented them, reducing as many of the possible pitfalls as you can on a wooden model.

[Clark]

3 hours ago, chris watton said:

Only once I have cut all parts and have everything except plans and manual (as these are done locally). If there were any problems with the PE or anything else after taking people's money, I would be devastated if I had to delay the release. Hence waiting until alI is with me and have checked everything over. 

Thank you very much for the quick reply. It is more than understandable that you want to be on the safe side. I will exercise patience then. Good luck and success to you and James with the wonderful model.
Clark

[Jasseji]

This is so astonishing !!!

Best would even be a laser etched lower Hull for those who suck at planking ?  

[Captain T]

6 hours ago, Jasseji said:

This is so astonishing !!!

Best would even be a laser etched lower Hull for those who suck at planking ?  

 

Well, let's not get carried away.  😆

 

[Old Collingwood]

Needs a crew  to  really give it that special touch  - "cough cough"

 

OC.

[Jasseji]

8 hours ago, Captain T said:

 

Well, let's not get carried away.  😆

 

ye  One can always cooper-plate to hide the mistakes

[chris watton]

Just received my order of 3-D printed lanterns for Sphinx, which I had specially made for the kit. I shall send a set or two off to Jim, to add to the model...

[James H]

Those will look real nice in white/ochre!

[Vane]

Personally I really like the new materials that Vanguards are using to  improve and make things easier to assembly. But from a traditional point of view I get the feeling that shipmodelling always had try to distance itself from the plastics modelling world. Kits have strictly been limited to wood, rope and metals. Now when I do both wooden ships and plastics i see that the both worlds have alot to learn from eachothers. 

[chris watton]

Meant to say, I will have these lanterns on my website soon, for individual fittings, I have 12 and 15mm sizes for this new design.

[chris watton]

21 minutes ago, Vane said:

Personally I really like the new materials that Vanguards are using to  improve and make things easier to assembly. But from a traditional point of view I get the feeling that shipmodelling always had try to distance itself from the plastics modelling world. Kits have strictly been limited to wood, rope and metals. Now when I do both wooden ships and plastics i see that the both worlds have alot to learn from eachothers. 

I think it is very important to make the kits as easy as they can be. It really doesn't matter what experience some have, or have not got. It is a kit, so it should include as many pre-made parts as possible to give everyone a fighting chance.

 

There is always much room for improvement, depending on each modellers experience and preferences, and those that can, will still make their own stamp of the kits. At the same time, I am hoping that those who perhaps may have been a little scared off by other kits in the past will feel confident enough to tackle such subjects. For most, the kit is complete, but for a few, it is a blank canvas and only the start of what they plan to do to it. For example, you don't have to use the pre cut and etched lower side parts, as I will include enough pear strip to plank from bottom edge of the blue painted sides down, the choice is yours. 

 

Regarding the plastics, or resin, which is what I use, after having to use white metal for the best part of two decades, I would choose the resin every time - easier to use, bend, file, better definition and next to zero shrinkage - with zero shrinkage for 3-d printed parts like the cannon barrels, figurehead, boat beam brackets and lanterns. If the material suits the end result, I will use it. But never again white metal...

[Oboship]

I second what Vane and Chris stated, and to work with white metal is no fun at all. I recently gave up to rig studding yards because I could not manage to glue the 0,5 mm tip of a brass rod to a white metal ring. Maybe wrong cyano or maybe too clumsy fingers, but my current build will have no studding sails. I think Chris' approach to new materials and techniques is a great step forward and a benefit for the hobby

Uwe

[James H]

...I hope you lot are enjoying yourselves while I'm making masts in my sweat-box of a man cave!