That looks great!
You posted a photo of the manual earlier and it says Billing Boats, only difference i see is that your ship has a different scale. Yours seems to be 1:64 whilst mine is 1:60. I can't find anything with your scale with the search combination "Billing boats" "scale 1:64, so perhaps it's an older release? Either way they are different soI have a hard believing it is the same model from the same company….Your beak is totally different than mine. Thank you for posting these. They will surely help!
Cheers,
Dave
Thanks! I didn't do any staining or aging during layering of the hull. For the deck i used two layers of dark oak varnish (2 layers max), and for the hull i used a lighter oak varnish (4/5 layers). I did the white water line with the kit instructed paint but it's terpetine based so i did everything else with games workshop paint after that. Using waterbased paints just gave me more freedom for detailing. I used to have decals on the side of the ship, which i painted on thin strips of balsa wood but i removed them later because i didn't really liked the end result. And of course the Mayflower emblem on the back of the shipI love your colours. Did you paint or stain your hull? I see pots of GW paints in the background.
Dave
Is the exact location not shown in this drawing (this is all what I found in the web)?So here are some issues I have run into. The stern spar is supposed to be fastened to the deck and goes through the “wall” but I have a bulwark extension right in the middle. Is the drawing off or is the build incorrect? It looks like I will have to butt-join the spar to the hull.
Please let us know what you will use and if it worked the way you intended. I have the same problem on my Esmeralda. I wiped down with acetone and did som light scraping. It did improve some but I am willing to try anything and learn a new method to correct my mistakes.Progress is slow and not very exciting to talk about but I have given the hull some stain (3 coats of mini wax Golden Oak) and a coat of Bull’s Eye Shellac. I will give it a second coat tonight and a light sand and see where to go from there.
I noticed that the stain is splotchy due to the different woods and wood filler. It looks worse in the picture but I may just give it a wash of something to even out the colour.
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Thanks for looking.
Cheers,
Dave