Amerigo Vespucci 1/150, Heller [COMPLETED BUILD]

[Czesiek]

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 implementation for a long time, but there has to be a first time...
I debated even longer whether to show this model at all, because I am not a master modeler and I know that I made many mistakes and shortcomings here. However, the overall impression of the rigging itself is so attractive to me, as an average person, that I couldn't resist showing a few photos.
I hope that experts on the subject and colleagues with extensive practice will not "beat" me too much, and those with experience similar to mine will look at it even more favorably.
Of course, I also expect critical opinions, because they always motivate me.
P.S. In the near future, davits and lifeboats will be added and I will try to correct any errors and faults I notice.
Regards

 

[Buster]

I like it, it looks great.

 

[Gilbertm]

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 implementation for a long time, but there has to be a first time...
I debated even longer whether to show this model at all, because I am not a master modeler and I know that I made many mistakes and shortcomings here. However, the overall impression of the rigging itself is so attractive to me, as an average person, that I couldn't resist showing a few photos.
I hope that experts on the subject and colleagues with extensive practice will not "beat" me too much, and those with experience similar to mine will look at it even more favorably.
Of course, I also expect critical opinions, because they always motivate me.
P.S. In the near future, davits and lifeboats will be added and I will try to correct any errors and faults I notice.
Regards

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beautiful
congratulations

 

[Czesiek]

Thx,boys

 

[Uwek]

Looking very good, especialy knowing about the very small scale - well done

 

[Czesiek]

Looking very good, especialy knowing about the very small scale - well done

Thanks Uwek, you're absolutely right. Scale doesn't help, and not just in rigging. I'm trying to find a way to hang the shaupes on the davits I made. They are 3 cm high and making some tiny circles to match their size is pure masochism.
I can't buy them that small anywhere.
I found a nice way to assemble it, but I can't do it without wheels...
So I'm looking for another way...
Any ideas?

 

[Czesiek]

It's good that once a friend of mine kept admonishing me: "Don't throw away modeling scrap."
And that's how I found such wheels in the depths of "waste". The photo shows how huge they are. There's enough of them for all the lifeboats, so "let's get to work!"

 

[Czesiek]

I installed the missing lifeboat and gangway. The same thing needs to be done on the port side. The final is getting closer, just some corrections and... I'm thinking about some pennants, which of course are not included in Heller's set.
Maybe I'll try to make something from the photo below...

 

[Czesiek]

Replaced the missing lifeboats and gangways... As best I could, I also added a few pennants. And here I came across a problem that I can't solve, hence my request for help.
It's about the flag, the Italian flag for the training ship. Of course, Heller didn't deliver it (it would have been too beautiful) and I have no idea what to do with it. It's begging to hang such a flag on the stern, but if there isn't one, maybe a few pennants as well? Maybe some ideas, advice, tips?

 

[Czesiek]

Guys, thanks for all the likes, it's really uplifting
I will try to fight this unfortunate flag. Maybe I'll copy something from Google and paste it on both sides? I don't know, but I have to figure something out...
There are still some rope coils to be made, especially at the base of the masts. My "very nimble" fingers don't get excited about this thought but... maybe...

 

[Czesiek]

Well, as I wrote, making the coils of the rope and the flag will be problematic. I'm struggling with this stubbornly, I don't know how it works, but I hope that maybe somehow I will succeed...?

 

[kuba91nt]

Now it's time for the wooden model, this one looks great

Marnujesz swój talent na plastiku, myślę że bez problemu dasz rade ukończyć każdy model z drewna. Zaczynałem podobnie, praca z drewnem cieszy jeszcze bardziej.

 

[Czesiek]

Thank you very much for your opinion, but it is probably a bit high. Nevertheless, thank you!
Wood? It's not that easy in my situation, although I would really like to try it. However, this is currently impossible...

 

[Czesiek]

Gentlemen, I consider the model finished and I am posting a small gallery.
If you would like to show me the mistakes I made and which could still be removed, I would be very grateful, as well as any comments regarding the model
Regards

 

[SZKUTNIK]

Ahoj!

Czas na drewno.

 

[WojtasS]

Cześć
Moją opinię znasz. Nie wiem co z mniejszych detali możesz poprawić. Ogólnie, na przyszłość olinowanie ruchome to skombinuj sobie coś beżowego, może jakiś bardzo jasny brązowy. I wyblinki przydało by się dorobić jako supełki a nie przyklejone nitki.Mam też nadzieję, że to nie ostatni i coś jescze pokażesz

 

[Czesiek]

Moją opinię znasz. Nie wiem co z mniejszych detali możesz poprawić. Ogólnie, na przyszłość olinowanie ruchome to skombinuj sobie coś beżowego, może jakiś bardzo jasny brązowy. I wyblinki przydało by się dorobić jako supełki a nie przyklejone nitki.Mam też nadzieję, że to nie ostatni i coś jescze pokażesz

I did the colors of the rigging and gluing instead of tying the clips with full intention, because I followed the example of the workshop I mentioned in my report.
Will it show something... Something will be released in the next few days, but I have to figure it out somehow...

 

[Uwek]

Congratulations also from my side - very well done
I like your model very much
And now? After model is before a model ....
Do you have already a new project?

 

[Czesiek]

Do you have already a new project?

Well...As I mentioned, I don't have room for models. With great difficulty I will put another little one in, but that's probably all I can put somewhere...
Plans? Simple and uncomplicated... I have made Pint and Nina from Columbus's fleet. It would be unforgivable if I did not complete Santa Maria (Heller, 1/75).
I just need to somehow solve the problem related to the water diorama (that unfortunate lack of space again1). But somehow something will come up...