Hello everyone! I have just finished my Escampavia Pilar 1865 from the lesser-known Carthagonova company.
It has taken me about a year of intermittent work. Still, I must say that the instructions and how the kit is prepared require the modeller to plan in advance. Sometimes, more than one might like, to look for alternatives out of the box, both rhetorically and physically, as the bits and wood supplied and those listed differ quite a bit. I want to think that it was just my case, but let it be a heads up.
Anyway, apart from showing it to all of you, I need a bit of help to build a suitable and adequate base for this model, as the one supplied by the kit is way too simple, even if painted or dyed. After some time reading threads and watching models, I have seen many bases made from scratch, so I would love to get some ideas to try to build the best one for this kit.
I hope you like it.
And here you can see the basic supplied base.
It has taken me about a year of intermittent work. Still, I must say that the instructions and how the kit is prepared require the modeller to plan in advance. Sometimes, more than one might like, to look for alternatives out of the box, both rhetorically and physically, as the bits and wood supplied and those listed differ quite a bit. I want to think that it was just my case, but let it be a heads up.
Anyway, apart from showing it to all of you, I need a bit of help to build a suitable and adequate base for this model, as the one supplied by the kit is way too simple, even if painted or dyed. After some time reading threads and watching models, I have seen many bases made from scratch, so I would love to get some ideas to try to build the best one for this kit.
I hope you like it.
And here you can see the basic supplied base.