Le Superbe by Daan - Heller - PLASTIC

[Daan]

Hello fellow builders and lurkers,

 

Though not quite new in modelbuilding, this is my first ever 18th century sailing ship. I am using Boudriot's 74 gunship as reference but I mainly try to get a feeling for the technics used for the scale and what I can and can't do.

The build will be slow because I will try to not burn myself out on it.

 

First of all, I used to colours that Heller suggested, but I am open to suggestions!
The carriages are in the red that Heller sugests

I cleaned the gunbarrels after I painted them, Maybe next time I'll do it before.
I decided to divert from Heller's sugestion and painted the guns black and add a bit of gunmetal with drybrushing, still not sure if it looks okay
Guns, Guns, Guns

And Carriages

The guns completed, only the small caliber has no drybrush

 

In Boudriot's work I found the way the cannons are rigged. I think that on this scale the small blocks, tacks and cables are maybe not realy necessary but I did try to do some fitting for the heavy ropes. Not sure if this is the way to go. Again I am open to suggestion
Cannon with rigging

Next, I tried my hand on etching some planks in the lower deck. I am thinking of adding some interior instead of only the heavy guns. It is absolutly not my best work, but it was my first try on a place that is not clearly visible in my final work. I also braided the cables for the anchors, just to do something different.

Etched deck and dryfit

 

So, this is all I did last month, just to give you an idea about how slowly I am going .

 

Tips and sugestions are more than welcome!

 

Kind regards

[ccoyle]

If this is the 1/150 kit, then I'd say yes, to-scale gun tackles would be ridiculously difficult to create.

[Daan]

I did a lot of things the last couple of weeks. For the first time ever I did some scratchbuilding. Also, a lot of painting has been done.

 

To start with the scratchbuilds:

The riding bitts

Oven and cable hatch

 

Next, as you can see in the last photo, I did try to do some light ropework on the guncariages:

 

And now for the paintwork. I kept it safe for the hull:

For the topdeck, the first partially visible one, I followed greenskins' explanation. I loved thre visual effect of his work, so, I made a step by step. After a leather brown layer of primer I heavy drybrushed with beige brown

Next, still quite heavily, drybrushed with Iraqi

Next was black, thinned to a Ink, to fill the crevises. I found it very scary at first because black looks so definitive

Used my fingers to spread it and then used papertowel to remove the excess

Then a new drybrush with vallejo Iraqi

Thanks for the explanation @greenskin!

 

Slowly arriving at the point of rigging. Still feel a bit overwhelmed by all that work

[greenskin]

Thanks for the appreciation! I never thought anyone would follow my advice. Great to see it working for someone else!

 

Keep up the good work - this kit, although challenging sometimes, is really fun to build. At least for me. I wasn't brave enough to make rope work on the cannons, I'm looking forward to seeing how your Le Superbe turns out.