Timothy,

It does look large, any reason why you increased the size?

Mark

Timothy,

Bummer about the damage during the installation, been there done that. Hang in there you gone a long way to quite now.

Just step back and let it sit for a while don't push it. During my build of the Kirishima it sat for two months due frustration getting the main mast in place. When I went back to it that damn mast fit right in the first attempt, go figure.

Post some photos when you get a chance. Like see how sail installation turned out.

Mark

It'll be my luck, once Victory is finished, I'll trip on the stairs and and turn it into a pile of plastric & thread!


Cheers,

Tim

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It'll be my luck, once Victory is finished, I'll trip on the stairs and and turn it into a pile of plastric & thread!


Cheers,

Tim

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Please don't destroy all that beautiful work Tim

I think even all your followers would cry if that happened!

Tim May I ask why you are glueing the yard in place. Isn’t it supposed to move up and down the mast, go as low as the slings allow. Parrals are used to keep it against the mast. Or are you glueing it in place for display purposes. I’m unsure which way to go but I’m still building the hull so have plenty of time to ponder.

Tim your model is looking great. Saw the Reagan the last time I was across your side of the pond. We were berthed next jetty to it. It is massive, constant activity 24/7.

Amazing work as always, Tim!

Nearly at the finish line!

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Amazing work as always, Tim!

Nearly at the finish line!

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Yes, but that finish line is about 20 km (12 miles) away!

I was wanting to ask you Russ, I think before, you said you were an industrial designer? If so, where did you go to school, and was there a particular field you studied?

In other news, I tried to undo the knot that had captured 2 rigging lines - I got the first knot undone ok, but the second one wasn't cooperating, so I decided just to cut it off, and install a new piece of thread. Being careful, of course, not to get those 2 lines caught up in the knot! It's very problematic trying to grab a piece of white string, against a white background, with a bunch of other white threads hanging around. Really is hard on my depth perception! I also re-glued the main yard today, using some Testor's glue - I tried some liquid cement before, but it wasn't holding well, so I used my "tried and true" stuff.

I need to iron out the puckers on the mainsail, install the reef lines & cringles, and then attach the mainsail. If I put my mind to it, it might actually get done before the end of the month! (Fingers crossed!)

As always, thanks for stopping by and having a look. I noticed the other day, in one of the ads that are here on the website, there was a company selling wood sailing ship models, and they had HMS Victory (in 1/72nd scale, I think) as one of their offerings. Only wanted 1400 USD for it! But it was a doozy - some 56 inches long, and it came with 2400 individual copper pieces for plating the hull! Something to dream about, I suppose....

Cheers,

Tim

Hi Russ! Yes, I thought you were the I.D. guy...I studied I.D. for a while at university; didn't finish, though. One of our professors had been taught by someone who had gone to school at the Bauhaus.

I could see myself doing that wooden HMS Victory, but like you said, it would be 200 years before it got completed! And I doubt if I could accurately tack down 2400 individual copper plates on the hull!

Tim

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Hi Russ! Yes, I thought you were the I.D. guy...I studied I.D. for a while at university; didn't finish, though. One of our professors had been taught by someone who had gone to school at the Bauhaus.

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hehe, yep, that's me! No shame in not finishing, Tim: It's a very tough course, we had a 30% drop out rate in the first year alone... I think the hardest challenge was that assessment was on practical work not on exams and as such the work loads required week in, week out in order to succeed were exceptionally high... From memory I think only about 30% of my original class mates graduated at the same time...

The Bauhaus hey? Quite a connection... The only one I've got, and it's a cigarette paper thin connection, is that I share the same surname with Charles

Can I ask what was it you ended up doing instead of ID?

To give you a bit more back story, it was the Star Wars movies that got me into ID. After seeing them as a kid all I wanted to do was to work on studio models in the same vein as the guys n gals at ILM... Then along came cars to add to the mix and hey, whadya know?

Now as the industry winds down more and more in Australia, I find the desire to get into restoring classic cars and hot rods growing more each day... ultimately leaving ID behind...

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I could see myself doing that wooden HMS Victory, but like you said, it would be 200 years before it got completed! And I doubt if I could accurately tack down 2400 individual copper plates on the hull!

Tim

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I reckon you'd do an exemplary job, Tim!

My wife reckons I should move into wooden sail ship building too, but if the price isn't enough to put me off, I've got the problem of where to put the thing

TBH, I like to live vicariously through other people when it comes to wooden ship models as there's always a very strong presence at our annual national IPMS show down here in Melbourne... Well, normally. Not this year though

Hello everyone!

Well, since there's an effort afoot to re-vamp the website and consequently its forums, I have continued the rest of this blog in the new "beta forums", under the category of "Sail". The title is "Continuation of build blog HMS Victory". I'm told that this old forum will, in the future, become a "flat" HTML file (I guess flat means "static",or non-interactive).

So for now, my latest post(and future posts)is over in the beta forums area. Should you want to post over there, you will (essentially) have to create a new user account; if no one else has taken your username, you can probably use the same one, but your password is now mandated to be 10 characters, if it wasn't already.

So, hope to see you in the new forums!!

Cheers,

Tim