Golden Hind 1578 by Knocklouder - Airfix - 1:72 - PLASTIC

[Knocklouder]

Last year before my uncle passed away he had bought me a this model.  He never had a chance to send it, my antie sent it to me earlier this year.  I looked at it, and decided to put it in the stach , thinking  some day maybe,  I have been modeling for four years now, mainly  wooden kits. And for the most part I have been having the time of my life,   learning how too build and  to tie rigging was and is the one of the  most rewarding thingI did for myself.  From my first attempt  making the Santa Maria  from Amati  and my first posts I was hooked, @Louie da fly told me back then the my first  planking looked like Roo Doo, , lol actually  he said I should re do my planking, it was pretty bad lol. . He provide me with information about planking,  and directed me to MSW Data base, and I have been trying to learn how to plank ever scence.   Rigging is a different story, I love it, don't know why  but ratlines are my favorite.  

Building and rigging is  a lot of fun, if you have instructions,  I love  kit Building  but bad instructions are the worst, that is why it will come as no" Surprise " which model I buy next.

  But in the mean time,  the lack  of instructions  and the most enoying  rigging diagrams  I have ever seen, I find myself  needing a break, and  Building  a plastic  ship that look fairly easy to glue together and  a very complicated  paint job that will give me a lot of enjoyment  learning how to paint it.  I have been painting for over 50 years, but never an airbrush,  and the model paint is some what different,  and the brushes are very  very small lol. I now have a brush that has only three hairs on it for painting eyes on figures  😳. 

 So, Step one, the stand and hull. Next step two add a few more pieces,  then start painting. 

 Looking at the logs for this ship , and  I have booked  marked 4 so far I am sure there is more but I read slow.  . Ok opening  statement  out of the way, time to learn about the Hind, one thing  so far no one knows what' colors she  was.

 Looking forward to learning about this ship,.

 Thanks for looking in,   

Bob M.

 

 

Edited Tuesday at 08:36 PM by ccoyle
corrected log title

[JimO]

Thats the kit ship I built a few years back and then used to reverse engineer my cratch build 1/35 scale GH.😅

[Louie da fly]

I still have trouble with planking . . . 

 

Steven

[Knocklouder]

I am letting my inner

child build and paint this model. And he is having the time of his life again . We started Easter weekend  and had to decide which colors to choose.  First off,  I primed everything. 

Then decided to paint it as I see on the box, lol the instructions say #33 black for the cannons  that's it. You pretty well have to paint it as you like or think. This will be what we think it looks like. 

I tryed a little painting on the front wall , pretty shakey but will get better. Then  I painted the sten wall , made up the four cannons  and got the crew ready to paint.

But they herd about the white out in Winnipeg and got thier  sticks and want to join the team lol.

Painted up the hull and sealed it, then jumped to the sten wall. Not bad for a shakey old 70 year old kid .

 She going to be a very colorful ship when she finished.  

I pretty sure some changes to the rigging,   deadeys , sails and ropes will be needed to be replaced. Excited about making my first sails . As far as the kit gos. Some of it is just to plastic  lol. I wanted to build this for fun and to see what changes I will make. 

  Talk soon my friend's 

Bob  M .          

 

Edited Wednesday at 12:06 AM by Knocklouder
Typos

[Knocklouder]

The kit comes with five figures,  four workers and one, Sir Francis Drake the she Captain, and the new supervisor  for the ship lol.

 

The masts went really well. I Have a 

couple of spots that need to be touched up, but overall I am happy with them

Only four cannons to rig, the rest are dummy barrels. Today I painted gun port lids, pretty easy with speed paint,

Now it just a matter of cutting them off the rack glue them on and just a small thouch up will be required. 

So now I just have one more coat on the green then start painting the white.

I may get to the ratlines by the weekend. I can not use the kit supplied deadeyes and lanyards. Even the channels have to be changed I think , so progress  will slow. That's OK, it only has been six days so far for this build, and it is cup season so that will definitely put a slow down on things 

This build seems to be going pretty fast, I am even looking over to my Bluenose I , I might just start the hull while waiting for a Surprise to sail this way.

Talk soon,  don't blink, you'll miss it lol

 Knocklouder. 

 

 

 

[GrandpaPhil]

I’m looking forward to this one!
 

The Golden Hind is another of Drake’s ships (along with the Revenge) and is one that I have had a strong interest in.

 

I actually used pictures from below decks on the reconstruction of the Golden Hind in London as part of my reference material regarding gun carriages for my Revenge.