The red color paint continues to be used for the cable tier of warships long after its use has been abandoned on other interior surface of warships. It seem unlikely that the cable tier needed extra camoufalge against blood. In anycase, deck is where most blood would end up, and there was no evidence that the deck was ever painted red. I read somewhere that red of simply the natural color of the cheapest common water proof, hardwearing paint.
My girlfriend got me the Longridge book for Christmas from a used book store. All the drawings are intact but I didn’t want to keep folding them in and out as I needed them so I took it to work and copied the foldouts onto heavy paper. She also ordered the McKay “100-gun Ship Victory” from Amazon that I should be receiving shortly. Unfortunately I’m putting it up in dry-dock until spring since I can’t do any airbrushing here in the winter. I’m still going through piece by piece to get anything painted by brush as I can. I’m feeling a lot more confident about the rigging with all the extremely detailed illustrations and text in the Longridge book. My only concern now lies with the sails and what to do with them. I’m thinking the vac-form ones may not look so bad once I airbrush them with a convincing canvas color. Ideally I’d like to only put out the tops’ls and t’gallants and have the main and courses furled as if for battle. I don’t even know if I want to bother with stays.
I need to put forth my huge recommendation for the Longridge book. I don’t think you’ll find a more useful resource for building a model of the Victory, or any ship-rigged vessel, anywhere. The only thing better would be to live near Portsmouth and have the Longridge book. Even skimming through parts of it relevant to where I’m at with my model now made me feel much more at ease that I’m doing things right.
I personally think sailing ships models look more impressive with sails furled.
Just added a thread in the tecniques section for a quick and dirty ropewalk:
Where or what do you use for the ratlines? given that at this scale, I’m looking for a thread thats 0.1mm in Dia!
I know I could use thin wire for this, but I also want to produce lines in the 0.5mm range so need the fine thread for the ropewalk. (the electric shaver ropewalk is working so well, I can’t believe it!)
So, 0.1mm thread, anyone?
I have started on Heller’s HMS Victory but do not intend to rig it with sails. So can I assume that standing rigging is all that I would need to worry about or should the running rigging be attached? The instructions assume the plastic sheets will be used.
You could just rig the standing rigging but that in my opinion would be a shame. It is usual even on ships without sails bent to show a fair amount of running rigging - braces, lifts, clues, tacks, etc.
I would suggest you obtain one or both of two books on the subject:-
The Anatomy of Nelson’s Ships - C.N. Longridge
The 100 Gun Ship Victory - John MacKay.
how do you post images i really cant get it ???please help me sumone.