HMS Victory, Shipyard, 1:96

[fuchsjos]

This is the building log for the card model from Shipyard (polish publisher). The kit includes more than 6000 parts on 50 pages of A3. The parts are on 36 pages and the rest of the pages are instructions and pictures.
As my English is not so good and it is very hard to translate the special names for the parts of a historical ships (don't know all the correct names in German), I will show more pictures than text. Otherwise I will answer every question to my building log as best I can do.



First step of building this ship was the framing.









I try to get a straight body with the use of a steel wire, diameter 2 mm







Also I use reinforcements of cardboard and white glue







This method wasn't a big success. After inserting all of the five decks the body was curved. So I use more force and a dramatically technique to learn it more discipline.









This brutal force produced some bended frames. They were moistening with wallpaper paste and after drying they stay in their bended form - but the body was straight.









Next part follows soon.

Kindly regards
Josef

[fuchsjos]

Next part was a little piece of deck in the bow. I worked with engraving tools and gauche colors to get a realistic optic.

[fuchsjos]

Doing some additional work to the body.

[fuchsjos]

Next step was working on the cannons for the lowest deck (32-pounds). This work was a little refreshing time for my hurting fingers (cutting of cardboard could cause some irritations to fingers and bone-hinges.

[fuchsjos]

After some working sessions for the cannons I did the first planking to the underwater part of the body.



After that, I worked on the holes for the guns. Some bulkheads were in the way for a correct placement of the guns - so I had to use the cutter once more.



The range over the waterline was planked only provisionally to find the correct positions of the guns in the middle of the loopholes.

[fuchsjos]

Now it was time for the final first planking.













Kind regards from
Josef

[gian7675]

Holy cow...I like!

So you printed the formers and other parts on brownish/red cardboard? Nice idea One wouldn't be worried of seeing white parts when peeking inside the gun ports.

[fuchsjos]

Indeed! That's the idea behind.

Josef

[lriera]

I am always impressed with your outstanding builds. You teach me a lot of new tips and tricks in each build. I will follow you along this build.

Thank you for sharing and teaching.

[Tunny]

Just in dreams I can build this model

[fuchsjos]

Thank you for your attention!

Time for a new session!

It's like magic - I have finished the second planking for the port side.





Some gunwales were not in right place, but this is not a big problem. In the next session I will show, how I have correct the misplacing.





Waterline is in correct place.



To get a feeling for the dimension, I used my daughter in law for a model positional. And please don't ask - it is not possible to get a building log for her.

[kenlwest]

Josef,

Beautiful ship so far! What did you use to fill in the hull?

Ken

[romfolmar]

What kind of tape are you using to hold the parts down?

[B-Manic]

Looks very good. The use of the steel rod with the clamps is an excellent idea thanks.

[fuchsjos]

@kenlwest:
The putty I used, was simple acrylic putty on waterbase. The only place where I used it, was the underwater area to smooth the first planking a little bit. But beforeusing the body filler, I sealed the paper with a special kind of colorless parquet floor paint.

@romfolmar:
This is standard Tamyia masking tape. It is very good, because you can peel it down even from paper without destroying the surface. I used it also to cover the guns in the gunwhales and to protect them against coming airbrush actions (paint-mist).

@B-Manic:
First I also thought it would be a good idea, but the goal was not reached in a perfect way. So I had to correct the straightness of the body with some brutal force.

Kind regards
Josef