Heller 1/75 La Reale De France

[Guest]

Hi all well since I've nearly finished the Spits and the Lanc I thought it was time to start back on the Corvette and this little beauty that I've just taken delivery of, I must say I thought the 1/6 bikes box were huge but even they pale into insignificance when compared to this beast.


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That said the box could be half this size


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The moulding is beautiful


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the instructions need a lot of work though all in french apart from one page of english written instructions


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I have taken a big chance and bought a guilding kit just for this kit (never guilded anything before)


so will I ruin this kit and waste the gold, watch this space to find out.

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[takeslousyphotos]

Now this, I have to watch ............ That ship looks really impressive.

[papa 695]

I'm joining Peter and watching this one Ken.

[monica]

move over lads so will I be keeping a watch on this one,looks interesting,


do like all the figure heads,

[Guest]

Thanks glad to have you all along. As I said I've never guilded before should I paint the blue first then guild over that or should I guild the part first then paint the blue over it, and if painting is first should I use gloss paint guild over that then matt coat the blue.

[Guest]

Well here is my first attempt at guilding.


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I am quite pleased with the results, dont know wether to do a wash to highlight the detail, or will it kill the shine on the gold, if I did what colour should I use .

[Guest]

well I've got to the first problem with guilding, getting a crisp line, mind you I still yhink it looks good


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[Guest]

Well here is todays efforts, got to say this will be a long long build, but unless I ruin it, it will be a beautiful ship.


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[Alan 45]

That is proper cool Ken and a great start one day I'm going to tackle one of these old sailing ships

[Guest]

It's huge too Alan 33 inches long if it turns out half as good as I hope it will be a keeper, even the missus says it's pretty.

[Guest]

well I've got to the first problem with guilding, getting a crisp line, mind you I still yhink it looks good
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Awesome gilding, this is going to be epic!

[Alan 45]

It's huge too Alan 33 inches long if it turns out half as good as I hope it will be a keeper, even the missus says it's pretty.

I think the size might make it easier to do the rigging as the space between the masts will be bigger allowing you to get your fingers in there

[Guest]

Damn me if that's not a big ship with lots to paint.


scott

[Guest]

Hi all here is a bit of an update. I have a big problem with this kit and dont know how much further I can go with it. there is supposed to be 2 sprues number 17 and 2 number 18 but there is only 1 of each, I have emailed Heller and asked for the missing sprues to be sent but have no idea what their customer service is like I'm hopeing they will send them as the kit is useless without them and I will have to bin it otherwise. so will do what I can and hope they will send the parts sooner rather than later.


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[papa 695]

Nice work so far Ken the gilding looks impressive