After many, many months of dry dock, I finally got to come back to this build and have started on rigging. Slow and tedious work, but definitely settles my nerves 
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Airfix Golden Hind 1/96 - First REAL ship build
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I am just about to start the Airfix golden hind myself! I'm still reading about stuff and deciding on paint schemes etc. However I'm a bit confused. You say yours is 1/96 scale and it looks the same as mine which claims to be 1/72 scale. I know they may not be accurate and maybe 96 is closer to the truth? Where did you get your figure from?
Thanks!
I am just about to start the Airfix golden hind myself! I'm still reading about stuff and deciding on paint schemes etc. However I'm a bit confused. You say yours is 1/96 scale and it looks the same as mine which claims to be 1/72 scale. I know they may not be accurate and maybe 96 is closer to the truth? Where did you get your figure from?
Thanks!
You are absolutely right, and I never paid attention! It is indeed the 1/72 scale Airfix. Wonder if I can edit the title…
Your model looks great so far. A very good job of painting. I find many of the colours on GH models to be too bright for my liking but from what I have read, bright colours and geometric patterns were common. Nevertheless, I might do mine in more subdued colours.
Did you do anything to the hull and deck to get nice wooden effects?
Also, I was just reading in Battson's book on "Modelling Tudor Ships". It is definitely a book of its time! e.g. when discussing sails he says to go to all your female friends and talk pretty to them to try to persuade them to stitch your sails for you! I also liked his advice on painting sails:
"To begin with, resist any temptation to decorate the sails with elaborate designs sometimes proffered, whether of lions, Royal initials, Tudor roses, or an other improbabilities. By the sixteenth century, such lower school vulgarities had disappeared from English ships, though occasionally affected by aliens, who would naturally know no better."
Well I say phooey! I bought the beautiful GH sails form HisModel and I am gonna use them because I think they look spectacular
Did you do anything to the hull and deck to get nice wooden effects?
Also, I was just reading in Battson's book on "Modelling Tudor Ships". It is definitely a book of its time! e.g. when discussing sails he says to go to all your female friends and talk pretty to them to try to persuade them to stitch your sails for you! I also liked his advice on painting sails:
"To begin with, resist any temptation to decorate the sails with elaborate designs sometimes proffered, whether of lions, Royal initials, Tudor roses, or an other improbabilities. By the sixteenth century, such lower school vulgarities had disappeared from English ships, though occasionally affected by aliens, who would naturally know no better."
Well I say phooey! I bought the beautiful GH sails form HisModel and I am gonna use them because I think they look spectacular