Sovereign of the Seas- Mantua 1:78 scale

chriswi

chriswi

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Hello everyone,

I've been modeling for almost 60 years now, whether it was plastic cars, boats or airplanes, I've also been building and flying RC airplanes for years but I was always fansinated with wooden model ships, so when I got the itch to build one I started with the Artesanea Latina Swift then the Occre Corsair, Occre Diana, Artesania Latina King of the Mississippi and I also have started the Model Shpways USS Constitution and found the ships to be much more rewarding than any other type of models I've bult, also got itired of crashing the RC planes:(.
Unfortunately when I changed phones about 3 months ago during the transfer of data some of the Sovereign of the Seas pictures got whipped away.

So, please enjoy and make any comments you like, more pictures to come. Hopefully I will finish it befor the heat arives hear in Arizona because I can't work out in the garage over the summer.



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Perfection !
no other word to describe your ship
with all of the SotS here one day i will try to build her myself .
Such a beautiful ship !
 
 
Very nice !!! -- always great to also see other logs building this ship as well. Indeed a beautiful model.

Looks great

Regards,
 
One note: the double and triple blocks hanging from the tops are upside down since the lines wouldpass through the block below the sheave when rigged. If you are careful, you can use a Dremel to drill holes above the existing ones and correct this without having top cut and re-tie the blocks. Far better tp catch this now instead after the lines are rove!
 
DARIVS ARCHITECTVS said:
One note: the double and triple blocks hanging from the tops are upside down since the lines wouldpass through the block below the sheave when rigged. If you are careful, you can use a Dremel to drill holes above the existing ones and correct this without having top cut and re-tie the blocks. Far better tp catch this now instead after the lines are rove!
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That's something I've seen done both ways and never gave it a second though but now that you pointed it out I did some investigation and found you're correct, I'll definitly correct that, Thank you for your inpute.
 
chriswi said:
That's something I've seen done both ways and never gave it a second though but now that you pointed it out I did some investigation and found you're correct, I'll definitly correct that, Thank you for your inpute.
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I took a look at the ship and realized that most of the blocks are done the wrong way, some not. way to many to fix so I may leave them but new ones I'll do correctly, I also was looking at the instruction book and they have a mismatch of the correct and wrong way.:mad:
 
chriswi said:
I took a look at the ship and realized that most of the blocks are done the wrong way, some not. way to many to fix so I may leave them but new ones I'll do correctly, I also was looking at the instruction book and they have a mismatch of the correct and wrong way.:mad:
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Fix what you can, but don't worry too much, because your next model will be better. I've made this same mistake when starting out, and many others have too. It's part of the process. The cheap kit blocks only have hole per sheave, and the nicer blocks have two, which removes this problem entirely. Many modelers replace all the blocks in kits, knowing it will cost more.
 
Many Thanks for showing us your work on your Sovereign - very accurate and clean work :cool:
 
Bravo! Your obvious top-rail construction skills aside, allow me to congratulate of a first class job of painting and staining. I will certainly be watching the progress of this build with great interest. As my RA progresses inexorably I pursue the model shipwright's craft more and more vicariously. I'm sure I'll enjoy doing so here. Tight lines, chriswi!
 
You are doing a marvelous job! However, I have one question. On early British ships of the Line, weren't the upper bulwarks painted black instead of blue? I know that the Spanish and French used blue, but every depiction of British ships show black. I'm curious . . .

Bill
 
DARIVS ARCHITECTVS said:
Fix what you can, but don't worry too much, because your next model will be better. I've made this same mistake when starting out, and many others have too. It's part of the process. The cheap kit blocks only have hole per sheave, and the nicer blocks have two, which removes this problem entirely. Many modelers replace all the blocks in kits, knowing it will cost more.
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To paraphrase both The Bible and The Byrds, "To everything learn, learn, learn . . .". Nothing is more apropos for ship modelling.

Bill
 
Beautiful shipmodeling, however when I read Sovereign
of the Seas I immediately thought of Donald MacKay
Sovereign of the Seas clipper ship built in Boston
Mass, 1852, I am a clippership modeler most of my
time, but I was nor disappointed by seeing your
excellent work on your model, thanks for sharing
your pictures to all of us, members of Ship of Scale.
 
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