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Le Soleil Royal by Bill97 - FINISHED - Heller - 1/100


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Ok all my MSW friends that were there with me, and for me, during my HMS Victory build. I will soon be pulling the plastic off my next adventure the Heller 1/100 Le Soleli Royal. Both of these Heller models grabbed my attention when I first saw them. I had an incredible experience building the Victory.  I could not have done it without all my friends here on MSW.  Please feel free to begin filling this blog with your suggestions and advice. It will probably be a couple weeks before I start it. I must first build the display case for my Victory. 

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Cracked open the box today. My first impression is Wow there are a lot of pieces!  Not sure but I think more than the Victory. I have not attempted dry fitting anything together but it appears the parts are beautifully molded, including all the figurines. I am impressed. One thing that struck me immediately is the shape of the deadeyes. They are more triangle or pear shape maybe. And as many have said the ones included with the kit will have to be replaced. I have many round wood deadeyes I purchased during my Victory build but see they will not work for my SR. 

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If I measured them correctly I will need to shop for 4 sizes of triangle wood deadeyes 7, 5, 4, and 3 mm. I am finding 7 and 5 mm online. Still looking for 4 and 3 mm. It is interesting on several of the sites for after market SR parts they show using round deadeyes for the two smaller sizes. 

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Great!  Glad round deadeyes are OK!  Marc would you want to guess at the correct sizes needed in wood round deadeyes?  The Heller kit has four different sizes as I mentioned above. If they would work I would maybe like to get Daniel’s etched chains I used on the Victory. Wood deadeyes really fit great in his chains. 
 

Looking at the Heller deadeyes it looks as if they would have you glue a front and back together to make a deadeye with a groove the thread would fit in. Marc was your’s that way?

 

Yes mine is all the same color plastic. I wondered when I saw the other ones on line that were in the different colors like your’s. I wondered if maybe Heller improved the molds they use as well to correct some of the reported issues. I guess I will see. 
 

My kit also came with the new instruction book which is so much better than the Victory instructions. 

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Popeye are you using deadeye clamps or chains or whatever you call the little piece that goes around the deadeye and down through the channel?  If not what are you using for that part of the rigging?  If you are using an after market piece what are you using and where did you find it?  Popeye I am going to read through your blog to see if you have addressed this yet. Marc I am going read through your’s as well to see if you address it. 

 

I am obviously doing a lot of pre build research before I get started. 

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7 hours ago, Bill97 said:

Popeye are you using deadeye clamps or chains or whatever you call the little piece that goes around the deadeye and down through the channel?  If not what are you using for that part of the rigging?  If you are using an after market piece what are you using and where did you find it?  Popeye I am going to read through your blog to see if you have addressed this yet. Marc I am going read through your’s as well to see if you address it. 

 

I am obviously doing a lot of pre build research before I get started. 

I made my own iron strops and chains for the deadeyes from wire that I soldered and blackened.

 

Regards,

Henry

 

Laissez le bon temps rouler ! 

 

 

Current Build:  Le Soleil Royal

Completed Build Amerigo Vespucci

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Another follower here Bill, sorry I'm late, I got caught up on some chaps' finale on Victory 🙂. Wow, this kit looks far better than I was expecting, I wrongly had the impression that the mouldings were quite poor now, but they look at least as good, if not better than, Victory's. Didn't Daniel show how he made chains for Victory?

 

Anyway, eagerly watching to see how it goes.

Kevin

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/ktl_model_shop

 

Current projects:

HMS Victory 1:100 (Heller / Scratch, kind of active, depending on the alignment of the planets)

https://modelshipworld.com/topic/23247-hms-victory-by-kevin-the-lubber-heller-1100-plastic-with-3d-printed-additions/

 

Cutty Sark 1:96 (More scratch than Revell, parked for now)

https://modelshipworld.com/topic/30964-cutty-sark-by-kevin-the-lubber-revell-196

 

Soleil Royal 1:100 (Heller..... and probably some bashing. The one I'm not supposed to be working on yet)

https://modelshipworld.com/topic/36944-le-soleil-royal-by-kevin-the-lubber-heller-1100-plastic/

 

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“What you are aiming for is what you see on the Frolich model of L’Ambiteaux:”

 

Marc in the photo you attached the chain looks like a solid rod attached at the deadeye and one chain link at the bottom where it attaches at the hull instead of several chain links going from the deadeye to my he hull. Am I seeing it correct

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I follow too.

I built the heller SR a very long time ago. beautiful kit, you will have a lot of building pleasure with it

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Hi Bill - I recommend you take a look at this section of Popeye2Sea’s log, to get a better sense of materials and process.  4 Gauge is going to be much too heavy.  I haven’t really figured this out yet, myself, but I think 28 gauge is the biggest I would go.

We are all works in progress, all of the time.

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Marc I actually ordered 24 gauge brass wire. It measures close to the .5 mm Daniel for 1/100 scale. Will see how it fits my deadeyes when I get it. Now to get smart on soldering brass wire. Daniel and Popeye each have a nice instruction section on making the chains. 
Today while waiting on the stain to dry on my Victory display case parts I am digging into my SR box. Anxious to get started painting and gold leafing some parts. Also separated on the cannon barrel halves to put in little zip lock bags. 

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