HMS Victory-Mamoli 1:90 Bruce Ives Build log

[BruceIves]

Well. It has been a while. Summer and grandchildren explain it all.

At the moment there are no grandchildren so I just spent a couple of hours continuing to work on the rigging. My friend with whom I visited the Victory in Portsmouth sooo many years ago is coming to visit and he keeps asking what progress I have made. And of course I rediscovered why I have so much trouble mentally and physically working on the rigging!

I have to change my attitude!! Working with the wooden and metal bits ( on every model I have worked on ) has given me much less trouble and has been much more satisfying. The problem is that there are very few of these left to do on this one …. and I do want to finish it.

So I am going to start a new model alongside and see if that helps. I will let you know how successful this strategy is.

 

[AllanKP69]

So I am going to start a new model alongside

Now you have us curious...... What ship? Yeah, I know about curiosity and cats

 

[BruceIves]

That is a good question which I have set about to answer. It must be small because I don’t have much ( any ) room on my workbench and it must have minimal rigging. I have not yet built the Muscongus Bay lobster smack from the Model Shipways trio kit. I also have a vintage Midwest Maine lobster boat but it is too large.

The third option may disappoint you - I also have the Occre kit of the Lisboa streetcar. It may fit the bill perfectly. It has lots of bits and pieces to paint and assemble when I reach rigging overload.

I am going to think about it and let you know. What is certain is that I will continue with the Victory no matter how slow the progress is.

I hope it is ok that what I write here is more like a diary than a build log. It helps me a lot.