Heller 1/75 La Reale De France

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Dun da da da,da its finished


I will post better pics tomorrow but here she is.


I few suggestions for anyone building this, don't glue the trumpets on the angels on the stern till the kit is finished( cant count the number of times I've knocked them off). do not glue the side railings on till the end they were constantly getting in the way making it difficult on numerous occasions, and most annoyingly including the rigging stage, I know you tie some of the rigging off onto it but you could always tie off to the framework some where temporarily.


other than that it is a great kit and all goes together well.


will post some better pics in the finished section tomorrow.


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I would like to thank everyone whose kept me motivated on this kit, especially takeslouseyphotos who without his help on getting missing parts this kit would never have been completed.

[takeslousyphotos]

Ken, it was a pleasure to be of help and to watch this being built........ You`'ve done a superb job mate. Stuck with it and turned out a stunning build........ Now, did she have a sister ship you could build to go along side it? You could make it into dio....... Perhaps a fleet of five or six would be amazing

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Actually I would happily build a fleet, if I could afford it, it really is a great kit, my only reservation is on model ship world a chap last week said he was inspired by my build and bought the kit and it is missing all the sprue's my kit was, so heller have a problem with this kit, it's such a shame as the moulding is phenomenal.

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Ok so I've reguilded the damaged guilding and the actual damage is not as bad as I feared the worst bit being he broke one of the side arms off and I cant find it anywhere os will have to try and scratch one(those canons are tiny, maybe a stretched sprue or a matchstick in the lathe, it's also now missing one of the flags (which I also cant find) nothing I can do about that so will just touch up the paint where it was snapped off.


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