Hms Victory by Heller

[Peter R]

Back after two week holiday driving ww2 army truck round Normandy, so not much done, slow restart but got main stay and preventer stay fitted now to start on fore mast shroud.

 

[Peter R]

Bit more done lower shrouds in place, some of the bow rigging done, and lower stays fitted, takes a while but happy with outcome

 

[Alan Smith]

Amazing progress.

 

[Peter R]

Bit more to rigging little bit time consuming but happy with result but looks like formast didn't sit level when I glued it well too far along now to amend it I'm sure it won't ve that noticeable when all done

 

[dafi]

Wonderfully done!

Thimbles and all in place.

XXXDAn

 

[Peter R]

Bit more progress

 

[Peter R]

More rigging added working on formast backstays, starting to come together nicely I think

 

[Peter R]

more rigging fun, think it now gets interesting lol

 

[Jack Jäger]

Looks very good JJ..

 

[dafi]

Woderfully done!

XXXDAn

 

[Peter R]

More progress replaced some of thinner spars with brass rod and tubing and also some from wood turned down in a dremel to add strength, netting done to front just started adding blocks to main yard, see how that goes

 

[dafi]

Nice progress, congratulation!

XXXDAn

 

[Peter R]

Been a slow start to running rigging but starting to get on with it now, got all pullys on yards using Dafi resin printed blocks.

 

[dafi]

Wonderfully done, thanks for showing!

XXXDAn

 

[Peter R]

Once I eventually got started on running rigging I'm finding I am actually enjoying it, heller 1/100 kit at this rate might be finnished by end of Jan (ish), made a few mistakes and had to backtrack a couple of times so far, havnt got top yards on yet, going between 3 different ref hooks and other plans, using Dafi resin blocks and amati ropes.

 

[dafi]

A pleasure to look at!

XXXDAn

 

[Peter R]

A pleasure to look at!

XXXDAn

Thank you and been a pleasure using your products in this build

Cheers Peter

 

[Kevin the Lubber]

You've made amazing progress, getting this far in a year, especially given the high quality of your work.

 

[Peter R]

You've made amazing progress, getting this far in a year, especially given the high quality of your work.

Thank you have only been building this and spend 3-4 nights a week building if possible getting near the end now amd still enjoying it

 

[Peter R]

s fitted, rope coils nearly done, waiting on some replacement flags l, then display base to sort.