1/72 HMS Victory Cross Section

[wotan]

Excellent ship building Jim.

John

[Steve Jones]

That is so nice! You are indeed quite the craftsman. Great to see this one is still giving you so much enjoyment. Keep up the great work my friend

[Jim R]

Hi all
Once again thanks for your support :thumb2:
Progress is steady but slow. The next few steps are quite fiddly. Now HMS Victory had her hull, below the waterline, clad with copper plates ( at least for part of her life). The kit does not provide these plates although they are easy to buy from ship modelling sites and they are pretty cheap. I thought they would look good so bought some.


The first problem is cutting them. A knife is no good as they are a bit thicker than normal PE and scissors cut but distort the plate edge. They need to be cut accurately as filing them is very time consuming and also easily distorts the plate. So out with my Steve J recommended guillotine. I made a placement jig with Dymo tape.


Worked a treat. Next issue was what glue to use. I found that Gator Acrylic Hobby Glue did fine. So set to .....




Until after many hours ...




Next up are the midshipmen's hammocks - another fiddly bit :tongue-out3:

Thanks again guys
Stay safe.
Jim

[scottie3158]

Jim
Looking superb.

[Neil Merryweather]

Now that's NICE!

[BattleshipBob]

Cracking Jim, lovely skills

Bob

[Jim R]

Cheers guys :thumb2:
The next job is to fit out the orlop deck because it will be hard to reach once the lower gun deck decking is in place. This area has the chests (made earlier) a few buckets and the midshipman's hammocks including their hanging brackets on the beams. There are also deck support columns to go in plus deck beam reinforcements.
Deck support columns made and stained


Piece of card for positioning


Fitted






Next up were the hammock supports. Lengths of 2mm dowel with notches filed into a flattened side. Painted white and fitted to the beams.






Metal brackets reinforce the gun deck beams. Thick PE is hard to cut so out with a Stanley knife and a new blade :tongue-out3: Painted and fitted.








I think that's enough for now - getting too photo heavy :rolling: I have actually just about finished the hammocks but I leave that until they are fitted.
Thanks guys. Don't eat too many choccie eggs :smiling5:. Off to see the granddaughter tomorrow - first time since before Christmas :thumb2::thumb2::thumb2:

Stay safe
Jim

[Tim Marlow]

Just caught up with this Jim. It’s looking fantastic. Love the copper sheeting, and the Orlop deck (is that correct?) detail is coming on a treat. Have fun with the grand daughter. We are seeing our daughter next weekend, and that’s the first time since September!

[Neil Merryweather]

A very enjoyable build, Jim. And very neat work :thumb2:

[JR]

Fantastic skills there Jim, has to be one of the most interesting models I've seen. Worthy of an early dogs award.

[David Lovell]

Sorry Jim very late to this one only found it this morning got half way through before they started banging on the door asking how much longer I was going to be in there ,anyway great work this has to be one of the most interesting and original builds on here. Dave

[Jim R]

Once again thanks for your very encouraging comments. I got "a dogs" as well - it's like an Oscar :smiling5:

I am plodding on with the hammocks - honest, but the next job is to fit the pumps that come up through the pump well. They are provided as metal castings (white metal?). Casting seams have to be filed off.




All done


The instructions tell you to join sections with CA. I thought that epoxy would be stronger and would also fill gaps better. I glued them against lolly sticks to ensure they were straight.




Just one casting had a bend in it. I left it alone as I read somewhere that this metal is very brittle and it likely to snap rather than bend straight.


The 4 chain pumps have to be fixed in a 'V' shape with temporary wooden spacers.




All the pumps are painted white. The chain pumps have black rings.






Now the chain pumps fit into rectangular holes in the bottom of the pump well


..... but they tell you to lift them into position and glue against deck beams :rolling: That would mean they were hanging with a very small glued contact area. I fitted a small section of styrene rod on the base so that the pumps were at the correct height but resting on their bases.


So all pumps fitted and glued to the deck beams - finally :tongue-out3:




Sorry the post is so picture heavy. Hammocks next (actually they are done and just need fitting :tongue-out3

Thanks again - moggel on and stay safe.
Jim

[David Lovell]

No probs there Jim you can never have to many pictures, keep it coming fascinating build.

[scottie3158]

Jim,
The fine work continues on this very interesting build.

[rtfoe]

Keep the pictures coming Jim. It's always very refreshing to see another genre of building. Very interesting it's been so far.

Cheers,
Richard