HMS Victory by dafi - Heller - PLASTIC - To Victory and beyond ...
Late summer 1805, the sun is burning inexorably from above, the wind is completely asleep, the sea is smooth as glass. The dispatches have already been exchanged. The master of the small cutter has just returned to his tiny vessel. Behind it there is towering the enormously massiv silhouette of the huge black and ocher striped three decker. Through the open gunports the lashed up guns can be seen. Also the officers' cabins ports are wide opened by the order of the Captain's to ensure an optimal
Thank you Sirs, very appreciated!
And before the admiralty kills the buoy believing it is a cockroach with hairy legs I prefered fixing it fast :-)
There it hangs on the shrouds ...
... the ropes in nice turns ...
... under the influence of modelmakers gravity ...
... down to where it is fixed on the anchor.
And lucky too I was, luckily :-)
When I made the buoy I just guessed its size using pictures of the Vic in P. and gave it 1,5 m. Then got pa
