Artesania Latina Anatomy of Lord Nelson’s HMS Victory Trafalgar 1805

[TonyJ]

Thanks for the heads up Allan, appreciate the information. To be honest it will be my first attempt at doing copper plates so I want to keep it as simple as possible, so I intend just to butt them up. The plates do not come with the Kit, they are the Caldercraft plates used on their 1/72 Victory. So they will be slightly oversize on my 1/84 model. They were easy for me to source here in Australia and a good price too. Plus being slightly bigger I need less. The detail appear to be just raised dimples. If I succeed in getting the plates down as well as AlanOES then I will be a happy man.

 

[AlanOES]

Nice tidy work as usual Tony
Just one thought, I hope the extra height you’ve add around the cables doesn’t effect the way the ship sits on the display base, where I assume the cables will have to pass through to reach the switch bank

 

[TonyJ]

Nice tidy work as usual Tony
Just one thought, I hope the extra height you’ve add around the cables doesn’t effect the way the ship sits on the display base, where I assume the cables will have to pass through to reach the switch bank

I've checked the base it should be OK, but thanks for the heads up.

 

[AlanOES]

I've checked the base it should be OK, but thanks for the heads up.

As I was writing it I thought, I bet he’s checked it I know you’re usually on the ball with things

 

[TonyJ]

Video 22 - Part 2
I decided to paint my Victory in what many people would call the 'traditional way'. I fully understand that science has proved that at Trafalgar she was painted in a more terracota colour but I like the old yellow ochre scheme so "My Model" .










Taking AlanOES's sensible advice I set up Victory on her stand on our kitchen bench and using some shims of paper under the stand to get her to sit square.


Then I marked out the waterline.


Then came something I had been looking forward to but not without some apprehension... the copper plates.

The plates I am using are the Caldercraft ones used for their 1/72 Victory so slightly oversize. The reason being that they were easily accessible here in Australia at a good price. Plus being slighly oversize I needed less.
For reference I used the plating plans AlanOES had used as a rough guide. But because my plates are larger it is only a rough guide.


Apart from damaging the paintwork the first 3 rows went down well.


I did find that running a strip of tape along the pencil line made marking and trimming the plates that needed cutting a lot easier.




A couple of small fiddly bits to cut but I will probably leave all the small fiddly bit until the end.




So far so good.
Thanks for looking
T