Beautiful paint job Niels.
Now that I have finished the Le Glorieux drawing, I can get back to work on the English man’o war build.
Sence my last post, I moved from Placerville California, to Oregon. As soon as I am settled here I will begin working on the Revell English Man"O War-Reborn, agen.
Niels,
To where in Oregon have you moved?
Mike
Neils,
Excellent job, as usual!
Bill
I am working in Tualatin, but I haven’t found a place yet, so everything is still in u-hall storage.
Grate to here from you agen, it’s ben a while.
Niels,
Glad to see you back working on this. I can hardly wait to see what you are going to do next on her.
Did Placerville get too expensive and gentrified for your taste? One of my older brothers lived up in Grass Valley before he passed away last year and one of my best friends lives up in Lincoln so I know how the area has changed over the recent years and not for the better in my opinion.
So please post when you get settled and start modeling again.
Steve
I love this Kit so am watching this one with great Interest. Great work so far on her…Cheers mark
OK–I have repaired as much of the damidge photobucket did as I can.
Neils,
It looks to me like you have cut down that very high stern. Could you please describe a little of what you are doing? I know that, “A picture says a thousand words.”, but I am a little confused.
Thanks!
Bill
Santa, I think you are one of the most interesting builders on the forum. I love to follow your work. I’ve been building for over 75 years and it is still fun. There are so many great guys here.
Neils,
I couldn’t agree with Gene more! I would still love to read a description of your work with the high stern, though. One frequent criticism of this kit is that the stern is much too high. You seem to have reduced it nicely to make the model more proportionate. I am very interested. As John Tilley used to say, you are truly making a ship model out of a sow’s ear!
Bill
I gess this is a question for John Tilley—What real ship dues the revell 1/72 pirate ship resemble ?
Dr. Tilley wrote this on December 3, 2013, in reference to both the Revell kit and the identical Zvezda Black Swan kit:
"What we’re talking about here is a question that we’ve discussed several times before in this Forum. Whether you like that kit or not really depends on your approach to modeling. The kit obviously is not intended as a scale model of a real, eighteenth-century prototype; there was no real Black Swan. And the idea of a mast growing out of the middle of a capstan is, in terms of scale modeling, ridiculous.
On the other hand, the ship in the movies did have that feature. If you’re trying to build a replica of the movie ship, it makes sense to include the capstan around the mast.
On the other hand again, though I’ve never had the kit in my hands, I’ve seen pictures of it (in the box, in progress, and completed), and it looks to me like an extraordinarily well-detailed and ingeniously-designed kit. The hull looks as though it’s based on a genuine design for an early-eighteenth-century warship (probably English), the detailing appears to be excellent, and some of the rigging components look like some of the best the industry has produced yet. I personally can’t live with injection-molded sails and shroud/ratline assemblies, or molded deadeye lanyards, but otherwise that aspect of the kit looks as good as any I’ve seen.
To each his/her own. Lots of science fiction enthusiasts put tons of skill and effort into models of objects that never actually existed; ship modelers surely have every right to do the same thing. (I do think every purchaser of that kit is entitled to know that that’s what he’s buying - not a scale model of a real ship.) My own fervent wish is that Zvezda would direct some of its obviously ingenious and knowledgeable efforts toward some genuine scale sailing ship kits. I suspect the company has made a lot of money from this one."
He’s unfortunately not with us any more.
