HMS Revenge 1577 by GrandpaPhil - 1/64 - CARD - from Victory Models Plans

[GrandpaPhil]

Thank you both very much!

 

Jeff,

  The green will match the head and the stern.  I’ll use the same paint on those as I did the base.

[GrandpaPhil]

I took a lesson-learned from the Sampang I made a couple weeks ago, and got the rest of my pieces that would have been laser-cut photocopied and glued down.

I am running with the sizing. regarding assumed thicknesses that I now know to be incorrect, that I have been using up to this point to maintain consistency through the rest of the build.

My next build will have correct thicknesses of material.

 

Next time I am going to copy all parts in sufficient numbers before I begin cutting and construction.

[GrandpaPhil]

The railings are made and installed:

Next up is another round of gap filling, paint touch ups and sealing.

 

And, it is about time to build the stern.

 

The stern and quarter badges are already made.

 

The stern bulwarks for the Admiral’s walk are already made.

 

The frames for the stern windows are made too.

 

The main stern decoration which consists of Elizabeth’s coat of arms still needs carved.

[GrandpaPhil]

One red dragon blank drying after I glued it together again:

This is out of a cedar grilling plank.

[72Nova]

I really love the color scheme, she's coming to life.

 

Michael D.

[GrandpaPhil]

Thank you very much!

 

Here are the results of several hours of cutting and carving, I’m working on getting them roughed out so I can glue them down to a piece of wood and final carve them:

 

Both pieces are getting broken down into multipiece carvings.

 

The tails and second legs will be each their own carving.

They keep breaking so I work on one until it breaks then carve on the other until it dries.

 

Then the center shield piece with the crowns and Elizabeth’s monogram will be broken down into several pieces too.

 

This will be done similarly to my Victory figurehead.

 

I am enjoying this build immensely.
 

I am very excited that I can finally see it taking shape.

Edited January 22 by GrandpaPhil

[Canute]

Looking very good, Phil. Waiting to see your red dragons completed.

[GrandpaPhil]

Thank you very much:

The Red Dragon of Wales is rough carved out and glued to the carving board.

 

The Gold Lion of England is nearly roughed out, but drying again.

Edited January 26 by GrandpaPhil

[GrandpaPhil]

The main part of the dragon:

[GrandpaPhil]

Both the main parts of the lion and the dragon are carved out:

They look better in person.

 

You can’t really see the relief portion of the bas reliefs in the picture.

[GrandpaPhil]

The other leg test fits well:

It is out of 1/8” basswood.

 

I am going to buy a few sheets of better wood for carving the carvings on my next build.

 

The cedar seems to be better for detail work, but the cedar that I have is nearly 20 years old and has gotten brittle.

 

I am thinking either cherry or cedar.

 

Now to glue down the leg on a carving board and finish it.

Edited January 26 by GrandpaPhil

[GrandpaPhil]

The other leg of the dragon is an acceptable fit:

It is time to glue the leg to the carving board and finish it.

[GrandpaPhil]

The hard part is done:

Time to make the shield, the crown and the scroll.

 

Then paint everything and assemble it.

Edited January 26 by GrandpaPhil

[GrandpaPhil]

Most of the stern carving is either carved or rough cut.

 

The top and bottom pieces of the shield are soaked in superglue like I learned about from some of the other card modelers.

 

I will carve those in the nearish future.

 

I am not even going to try carving that middle piece.

 

I am going to treat it like a paint by number and very carefully paint it.

 

I also discovered that I broke the back part of the dragon’s tail off and lost it, so I’m making another one out of basswood.

 

Soon, I will be doing a lot of painting.

 

Then I will glue this all to the stern.

Edited January 26 by GrandpaPhil

[GrandpaPhil]

The carving is carved:

Using superglue to shore up the card so it could be carved worked well.

 

It added a few difficulties but I think that I could figure them out with time.

 

I will use the same technique with the bow scrollwork.

 

The scrollwork, the figurehead and two heads that go on bitts are all the carvings I have remaining for this build.

 

Next up is painting the stern carvings.

 

I’ll probably paint the stern window frames and stern/quarter badges at the same time.

 

About the time that I install the primary stern carving, I will have to do all paint touch ups on the rest of the model and then seal/highlight the model.

[GrandpaPhil]

And painted:

Not perfect, but it will work quite well.

[GrandpaPhil]

The stern gallery is glued down!

This is the first set of stern carvings that I have ever made for a model.

 

I am sure that I will get much better over time, but for a first attempt, I am happy with these carvings.

[Baker]

A very nice result  👍

[GrandpaPhil]

Thank you very much, Patrick!

 

All touch ups are done and the model is sealed:

 

The bitt on the poop deck and the stern boom is in place:

Working on the Admiral’s walk bulwark now.

Edited January 28 by GrandpaPhil

[GrandpaPhil]

Admiral’s Walk is on and decorated:

Here is the ship side-on:

I am very happy with how it is turning out.

 

Next up is another round of trimming, touch ups and sealing.

 

Then on to the head!

Edited January 29 by GrandpaPhil

[GrandpaPhil]

Time for another round of parts to include the head timbers.

Also cutting out the crosstrees, the supports for the mast tops and some other miscellaneous fittings, while I’m at it.

[Meriadoc Brandybuck]

You work too fast.

Looks great, but I can’t keep up. 

 

Meriadoc

[GrandpaPhil]

Meriadoc,

  Thank you very much!

 

 

[GrandpaPhil]

Still working on the head.
 

Question for everyone: the seats of ease are not marked on the plan set.

 

Would it be safe to assume that the seats of ease in a late 16th century English ship would have been in the usual location on the head grating, on either side of the head?

 

And that each one would have seated two?

[GrandpaPhil]

The head is taking shape:

The head timbers are lot more square and straighter than they look in the pictures.

 

Next up is to cut out the head gratings and the sides of the head.  
 

I also need to make the scroll work.

 

I was going to use card, but I want to try making it of wood first.  
 

I think it would look better.

[Baker]

10 hours ago, GrandpaPhil said:

Would it be safe to assume that the seats of ease in a late 16th century English ship would have been in the usual location on the head grating, on either side of the head?

For me, yes.

 

10 hours ago, GrandpaPhil said:

And that each one would have seated two?

For me, no.

Just one on seat on each side.

[Baker]

 

Either it's my eyes, or it's an optical illusion of the photo.
but something is not in a straight line.

 

Just finished a few gin and tonics.
( could also be the reason 🤣...)

Edited February 3 by Baker

[GrandpaPhil]

Patrick,

Lol!

 

The angle of the camera made the bend look a lot worse than it was.  
 

However, there was a slight angle that I straightened out.

That’s one downside to card, it needs additional support a lot of the time.

Good call!

 

Everything should be fixed in place once I add the gratings.

 

Also, thank you very much for the information on the seats of ease.

 

I try to be thorough with my models.

 

Edited February 3 by GrandpaPhil

[GrandpaPhil]

Working on cutting out the head grating:

It’s slow going and double layered, but it will look really good when it’s done.

[GrandpaPhil]

The head grating is between glass and drying now:

Time to get the entire head touched up and resealed.

 

For the newer folks, the head is one of the trickier parts of the ship with many fiddly parts that have to be precision made and fitted with a lot of guesswork involved.

 

This is actually one of the first times that I have had a set of head timbers that I didn’t have to make based off measurements from the deck plan and the outboard profile utilizing typical structures from a given time period and nationality.

 

This one has bulwarks instead of head rails which makes this a LOT easier than what I am used to.

 

I will probably completely finish the head, to include the figurehead, before moving on.