heller

This build log was started on modelshipworld.com where I posted for about 5 months from February-June 2025, until I had to put the project on the backburner due to moves. When I picked it back up again earlier in 2026, MSW was gone :/ I managed to resurrect the content via the Wayback...

I started a build log on MSW in December 2023. Of course, that build log has (apparently) vanished, so, what to do except start another build log! I will begin with several short posts to show how I got to this point, as there were several - "course corrections"! I will then pivot to "now". In...

"Le Suroit" The research vessel used by oceanographer Robert Ballard in the search for the Titanic.

to the hobbists I just purchased the plastic scale mode HMS Victory 1/100.. 80897..and have lots of questions before I start it. But before I begin with my questions let me give you a background of some of my experience. I am 73 years ..a retired lineman from New York Telephone co. I had put...

recently started Heller 1/100 HMS victory after picking it up over a year ago been reading up on other builds and videos, built this once many years ago but that wasn't built for me and fancied having another go this time with many added extras, new wood deck, ropes and wooden rigging blocks...

As it was said, the time had come to complete Columbus' fleet and add the missing ship to it. As is often the case with Heller, the sight of frames with elements does not raise any major objections until we take a closer look at them... The plastic sails need to be replaced with ones made of...

Here is a few photos on the way

I'm partly using Google translator, so it may be a bit wrong, sorry For various reasons, I did not keep a construction diary, so I decided to at least show the final results of my work. This is not my first sailing ship, but the first with folded sails. I've been thinking about this form of...

Hello, I don't have the kit (or material to modify it) yet, but since it's confirmed, I'm preparing the thread. My plan is to do my interpretation of the initial SR using the heller kit by modifying it quite a bit. The modification are based on the multiple thread/document I found while doing...

I've been working on this one for about 12 years between other models and client models as well as a job. I retired in Feb. and promised myself I'd finish her up this year. and drop her in a case. I bought the kit back in 1999 and although Katrina wiped us out, I was able to salvage about 90%...

Greetings captains. While I rest from my long build of Black Pearl (which I'll post later) I decided to "quick" build this little ship. I saw a couple of great builds here of the wooden version and have some ideas about what I want to get in the result. It's interesting that Artesania Latina has...

just thought i'd post a minimal build log to show what the heller soleil looks like with a more feasible hull....managed to build a wooden hull from plans provided by neko in model ship world....and painfully matched the plastic forms to the wooden hull......

So, on this log I am in the very early process of modifying and building the ship as close as possible to what it would have looked like in the spring of 1671 when the ship was to make its maiden voyage along with 4 others for the king's visit at the new Rochefort shipyard, which he cancelled...

Hello everyone. As I said in introduction I've started this model in august 2021 so this will be quite long post. Hope you can withstand. I based my painting on model in Paris Museum. Painting in some places is a little bit off but at this point I can't fix it, because I wold trap myself in...

Hi, I started building this model way, way back, after a break of about 40 years since the typical adolescent modelling experience. I then parked it for quite a few years as there were more important things calling on my time, but picked it up again proper earlier this year. This coincided with...

Hello all, I would like to share my works on the Heller Soleil Royal. I’m building this for several time now, after some time I get tired and need a break! Last stoppage was back in April 2020, I resumed it now in August 2021. I correct some very well know aspects of the kit that were...

On the tour through my model ship world, I showed the galley “La Reale”, alongside the “Soleil Royal” and the “Chebec”, one of the flagship models of the French company Heller from the seventies. I built the model about ten years ago, and since then I have actually managed to save the extremely...

At the same time I started La Flore, I also started on Glorieux. The initial build process didn't last long. I just wasn't feeling it at the time, so up she went on a shelf of doom where she remained for two years. While I was at sea a year ago, I came across a painting of the French 74 gun...

Yes, it was a hell of a ride through model makers universe that I was taken through out the last years. Right from the humble beginnings straight forward obb down to the heavy seas to the Arsenal Exhibition in Rochefort, as mentioned by Uwek in another thread. Yes this build started to have a...

Looking for a little help from anyone who has used Shape Ways for detail parts... I ordered these side galleries balusters in 1/100 scale but they are too small. The designer has yet to help with how to go about getting some that are more to scale of the model. Don't get me wrong they did...