Oh, you definitely got me wanting to build a ship model or two, but I’ve never done it before. Got any suggestions for a good “entry-level” ship model?
Santa,
thanks for the extra pictures of the royal louis. I really need to finish mine. it’s been on the shelf for almost a year now. a Model shipways Phantom (finished) and Prince De Nuefchatel (current build) have taken it’s place on my work bench. and pretty soon the Acheron will most likely sideline the Prince for a couple for a month or 2.
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Santa, Happy to see you on the Skytrain here in Bangkok a couple of days ago and glad you have all the staff you need at the moment! Now about the Revell Cutty Sark. Wow. I built and rigged one years ago, 1960, and promptly had to give it away. Does it have chains attached to the booms as part of the lift tackle? Have you ever seen another fully rigged example? I lived in Springfield Virginia and wonder what happened to my ship. I had to give it to a neighbor because of the movers. Thanks for the posts. Fantastic! Paul Venne/Bangkok-Revell Kearsarge 1874 Marin refit in progress.
My Prince de Nuefchatel is a wood kit from model shipways. I don’t think that i’ve eer seen a plastic kit for this. but then again i have only been modeling tall ships for 2 years or so.
I would also say that i second your opinions on the lindburg kits. they are pretty good kits for a cheap price. I picked up 2 of the “jolly Rogers” at my local hobby shop for $10 each in the discount bin. I’ve been wanting the pick up the soverign of the seas and the Wappen von hamburg but i really shouldn’t add anymore kits to the stash until i thin it out a little. granted i don’t have a lot but it would make my wife happy.
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Airfix Victory is 1/225
Member here posted an analysis based on own collection of Victory plastic models.
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do you remember who produced the kit?
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Welcome to the forum and thank you for your beautiful contributions. There does seem to be a limited few of us who build and show these kits and the more we do, hope to inspire others.
Scott
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Nice, but why do You use a plastic sails instead of usual cloth sails?
Plastic sails does’nt look good.
cloth sails are a hard thing to work with when using plastic. also note that the strain from the weight of the cloth sails have a tendency to pull on the spars and masts and cause the rigging to have an un-natural looking sag to them. at least this is what i’ve found when i’ve tried to use cloth. prof. tilley has a silkspan method that he uses for furled sails that looks great. i have yet to try it though.
I don’t agree with you. There are so many techniques of making good loocking (not pulled on the spars) cloth sails, that use of plastic sails is a little bit unseriuos.
For me is un-natural to see plastic there, where can natural cloth be. Do You ever try to use batist for cloth sails making? Sails from batist weights as plastic, no more.
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Very funny.
Yes, my english is not perfect, but i at least can speak and understand people in 5 languages, not in one, as most americans do 
I way of Your thinking can say, that if plastic kit does’nt have any paints in box, they can be not painted…
If You want to make a good model, you will make only thinks, that You get from Your kit box? I’m not. Model from wood can be worth of nothing and with cloth sails, and model from plastic model kit can be made to a top model with additional parts. Don’t agree?