HMS Bounty 1:60 scale scratch build

[Uwek]

As my Argosy carrack is in the final stage, requiring just s dozen or so hours more for finishing touch, I suddenly got an inspiration for the next build, the ship I wanted to make for a long time ago - HMS Bounty.

This will be another scratch build, chosen scale is 1:60 which will be quite a relaxation after complicated work small parts of1:100 scale Ragusian carrack and would let me to make all details with more accuracy. Also I expect to finish this one in a shorter time, I hope in less than 12 months before jumping on another one.
I was reluctant which version to build, open hull to show interior, or fully completed mode, yet as a modeler of the old school, although open hull models are interesting showing interior of the ship, fully completed model is more of an "old school" and artistic so I decided to make it that way, with all the rigging and sails.
Construction is "plank on the bulkheads" type and I already finished all bulkheads, keel, and keel support parts as well as the main deck.
I took just a few pictures to post now, the more will come in the next days.

Hallo @s.solajic
we wish you all the BEST and a HAPPY BIRTHDAY

 

[lesterpalifka]

Im building a 1/48 Bounty from plans

 

[s.solajic]

Hello everybody. After a long, long pause due to some real life issues and obligations, now, being retired and being able to organize all my newly accounted free time I returned to build my HMS Bounty.. Thankfully In our new house I managed to arrange and well prepare two nice rooms for my small workshop, also equipped it with a bunch of new tools including Algolaser Alpha 22W laser cutter/ engraver and Bambu Lab A1 3D printer. Winter time... ideal opportunity to keep working on almost forgotten project.
Here are some of the pictures of the recent work: I created the 3D model of the Bounty figurehead and printed it on 3D printer. Also instead of purchasing cannons I designed them and printed cannons on 3D printer.
The real challenge for a scratch builder was stern: Windows and particularly stern decorations are a bit challenging if you want to do it by hand and in the scale 1:50. So I started looking for the pictures of the real size replica of Bounty as well as some documentation, admiralty models and I created and drawn the stern all by myself, made a few test cuts and got finally the result I liked. I hope I will keep posting the progres from now here regularly.

 

[s.solajic]

Well although at the first sight I liked my stern decorations and windows design, the more I looked the less I liked so I re-designed it a bit, and I think it's much better now. Besides, the work continues... Added stern lanterns, and more decorations, rigged ship's wheel and rudder, made anchors and stained to resemble a bit of rust and aging, both ship's boats finished and secured in place, ...

 

[s.solajic]

Some daily progress on HMS Bounty scratch build:

 

[mtbediz1]

Very nice!

 

[AllanKP69]

Nicely done model s.solajic. I think this is the first time I have seen a coppered bottom that looks realistic. Nicely done!
Allan

 

[s.solajic]

Thank you very much. yeah, I prefer to build my models to look as much as possible realistic. Although the most of the models built today are awesome, clean lines, colorful, with sortiment of various wooden materials and parts to show more details and look nice, I tend to build models weathered, realistic with as much as possible the time stamp of their era.

 

[s.solajic]

Very nice!

Thank you sir

 

[AllanKP69]

I love your signature. Historia testis temporum, lux veritatis, vita memoria, magistra vitae, nuntia vetustatis est. History is the witness of times, the light of truth, the life of memory, the mistress of life, the herald of antiquity

Further to this phrase is the 1905 aphorism by George Santayana ,,,,,,,,,,, and I paraphrase a bit --------those who ignore history are condemned to repeat it