HMS VICTORY by Kevin - FINISHED - Caldercraft - 1/72

[Piet]

WOW, what a beautiful sight she is Kevin.  You are making great progress and am curious to what your next build will be.

 

Cheers,

[Sjors]

A sloop Piet     

 

Sjors

[Kevin]

Piet

 

would like to build a 5th rate at a bigger scale =, if i find a base model to build HMS Melampus

[Piet]

Ah yes, Kevin, that would be great!  You can then add a lot of detail too.

Thanks Sjors for reminding me, I'm going daffy at my old age, old timers disease

 

Cheers,

[Kevin]

Good evening

spent a lot of time on the build this weekend, - I may have to re-do the main mast again, as I forgot the fire buckets, have managed to put then in now but they are not rigged with handles, Mizzen mast shrouds now going in

[WackoWolf]

Nice work Kevin. Your chair looks a lot like mine LOL

[Heinz6672]

Hello Kevin,

 

I really love your Victory. There seems to be so much "live" in it. 

 

Especially the first picture! WOW!!! Want to make it as my background image on my mac :-))))

 

Best wishes for you and your good work!

 

- Heinz -

[Kevin]

Thankyou  Lawrence,

Im really enjoying the build again, I got so close to just giving up on her last year, but once the masts started being worked on my attitude to the build changed, But hopefully I can progress quite a lot this year and get her to the completed stage, the final decision has been made on my next build, after lots of changing my mind, the money is set aside, just dont want to buy it yet in case that gets started and delays this,

 

It will be the USF Confederacyhttp://www.cornwallmodelboats.co.uk/acatalog/model-shipways-confederacy-MS2262.html

[Kevin]

this fiddler than anticipated 

[Beef Wellington]

Really nice work on the mouse(s) Kevin, serving looks great.

[Kevin]

well my first attempt at lacing 

[mobbsie]

First attempt looks pretty good to me Kevin, I see no reason for a second attempt.

 

Nice to see it done properly and with care.

 

Be Good

 

Mobbsie

[mtaylor]

What Mobbsie said, Kevin.  Lacing looks excellent.

[Kevin]

Good evening everyone, I pinned a stub 8mm spar to the formast to practice rigging the Jeers, but without much success, the lines keep dropping in and crossing over them selves within the cleat, will try again with a thicker thread, as a result the jeer blocks are at different heights

 

[Robert29]

Great build Kevin, I will go through it again in more detail and steal some ideas if permission is granted.

 

Robert

[Kevin]

Robert, I doubt there is anything here worth taking, but by all means - after 4 years i am still only on page 4 of Gil Middleton build

[Piet]

That rope work looks great Kevin and perseverance always wins - - - in the long run

 

Cheers,

[Kevin]

Good evening everyone

 

although I have been absent from MSW I am actually Boat building in my spare time, I read in one of the post not long ago, to attempt to do one thing per night on a build even if it is tying one knot,

Now as I am working out of a temporary man cave, I am trying to avoid swinging her around a lot, so have decided to to work on the bows and see how things go

 

I made up a quick spirit sail yard  as I try to work out where all the lines go, and have adopted the approach of not guessing, but try to work out what each line is trying to achieve - making it much easier for me anyway,

[Piet]

Wow Kevin, that's a very busy bow area and what a fine looking sprit sail yard.  Small steps at a time is fine with me, leave those giant leaps to others

 

Cheers,

[gjdale]

Lots of small steps is the way to go Kevin! Looking good.

[Robert29]

Looking really good Kevin.

 

Robert

[Kevin]

well I actually feel i am getting somewhere with the build, although not checked i quess that I have spent more time on her this year so far than the whole of 2015

the bow now seams to be looking tidier and so far i am happy with it, but with limited build space, it is a bit of a handful

tomorrow i hope to lave the main stay and preventer stay

 

 

Edited March 12, 2016 by Kevin

[alde]

Your Victory is beautiful. That sure is a big ship. 

[Seventynet]

Kevin you have done a masterful job. Stunning representation of the Vic.

Best, Ian

[Robert29]

Beautiful detail Kevin.

 

Robert

[Kevin]

Hi Lawrence

Yes I will be adding stuns to the build, which will mean 36 sails I think, presently sourcing the cloth to build them (well the wife will be)

Im still enjoying the standing rigging stage, just a bit more difficult than it needs to be, due to being in the conservatory rather than the man cave

 

Now 7 months old Dobbie is growing up fast and hopefully will allow me to go back into the man cave soon, at present to try to spend to much time keeping an eye on what we are doing, and the British weather makes that impossible, so that was the reason I moved into the house

 

thank you for looking in, hope you are well

 

 

Edited March 14, 2016 by Kevin

[pompey2]

Hi Kevin

 

She is looking magnificent, great work.

I see you have left the Boomkins off for now.

Let me say that is a good idea, wish I had done the same.

I managed to break one off completely, they stick out at a very 'easy to catch' angle.

It meant a bit of careful knighthead removal and replacement.

I'm curious about one thing (hoping I haven't missed something)

The extended eyes you have on the bottom of the Sprit Sail Yard?

 

All the best

 

Nick

[dafi]

Wonderfully done!!!

XXXDAn

[Kevin]

Dafi - what a compliment from the Victory master, Thankyou so very much, that means so much to me

[dafi]

Well deserved :-)

 

XXXDAn