HMS Victory 1805 by Darius359au - Artesania Latina - 1:72 - Cross-Section

[Darius359au]

Been awhile since I posted anything with this build ,it's still going but it's on the backburner for now!

After the issues I had earlier in the year got sorted I was going to restart but in July my Father passed away suddenly ,(he had an aortic aneurysm in his abdomen ,we knew it would happen but no idea when!)

On top of this my Father in Law is now on end of life care because of cancer ,he's comfortable but it's only a matter of days now - my boys are are so cut up about it ,their going to lose both their grandfathers within 4 months or so of each other.

I just can't really concentrate on big things like this at the moment ,I may restart this year or maybe wait to next year but I will restart!

 

Richard

[Ronald-V]

Sorry to hear that...I wish you all the strength and love for this difficult time  

[Lieste]

On 3/31/2024 at 8:04 AM, Darius359au said:

It's comes with crew figures so you can show the "guns in action" but theres not enough to make a single gun crew and the figures are cast in metal and are horrible - their worse than early 1980's metal warhammer figures ,atleast those looked like what they were supposed to be!

I'm going to look around and see if I can find actual 1/72 Napoleonic englishnaval crew or maybe pirates repainted for stripped down gunners.

Consider having a horde printed (with a resin printer - bribe a friend or use a printing on demand service if you don't have one) of the naval crew from Alf Scherer who has a set of gunners and a set of officers and crew for 1760-1820 (as well as a variety of earlier periods (rowers for dark age/ancient vessels, and 17th C gunners and crew). They are fairly simple, but I've seen worse from boxed plastic figures.

https://www.myminifactory.com/users/scherera