Hi Guys!
Just started building a 39year old Airfix kit of the Royal Sovereign... very brittle kit due to the age, lots broken off from the figurehead, to railings, but repairing as I go along.
I have tried 2mm blocks to match the kit scale but they are far too big for the gun rigging. Thankfully I got some etched brass 0.3 mm eyelets for the tiny gun carriages, but the blocks need to be scratch built... causing interesting issues.
I know the awesome Rex Stewart has built her (Sovereign) and done such an astounding job mine will be somewhere in the shadows, but using wood decking and hull sides, I wonder if you experts have any advise of the shrouds (and ratlines) - jig verses the rubbery mess in the kit?
Hope to post some photos soon of the chaos i am making.
Just started building a 39year old Airfix kit of the Royal Sovereign... very brittle kit due to the age, lots broken off from the figurehead, to railings, but repairing as I go along.
I have tried 2mm blocks to match the kit scale but they are far too big for the gun rigging. Thankfully I got some etched brass 0.3 mm eyelets for the tiny gun carriages, but the blocks need to be scratch built... causing interesting issues.
I know the awesome Rex Stewart has built her (Sovereign) and done such an astounding job mine will be somewhere in the shadows, but using wood decking and hull sides, I wonder if you experts have any advise of the shrouds (and ratlines) - jig verses the rubbery mess in the kit?
Hope to post some photos soon of the chaos i am making.