Model VICTORY by Deagostini, scale 1/84

[Alexander74]

Greetings! I have thought about building a ship model from DeAgostini but have yet to pull the trigger. May I have your opinion of them?4

Bill

HI Bill!
We can talk endlessly about the quality of materials in DeAgostini’s magazines. As a rule, this is not a very good quality material. All parts are mainly made of plywood, which peel and break. Although I saw one assembly only from the magazine, and the result was not bad. I have a different build method. I replace the material from the kit with a higher quality one, making many of the elements myself. I replaced all the parts from the magazines with homemade ones, well, almost all of them. There is one big mistake in the instructions. According to the magazines, the hull offers a transom stern, which is not correct. I had to fix it. Starting from page 3 of my review, I wrote about this. If you have questions about the assembly, I’m ready to answer them.

 

[albertmary]

Rigging is amazingly well done at that scale!

 

[WilliamM]

HI Bill!
We can talk endlessly about the quality of materials in DeAgostini’s magazines. As a rule, this is not a very good quality material. All parts are mainly made of plywood, which peel and break. Although I saw one assembly only from the magazine, and the result was not bad. I have a different build method. I replace the material from the kit with a higher quality one, making many of the elements myself. I replaced all the parts from the magazines with homemade ones, well, almost all of them. There is one big mistake in the instructions. According to the magazines, the hull offers a transom stern, which is not correct. I had to fix it. Starting from page 3 of my review, I wrote about this. If you have questions about the assembly, I’m ready to answer them.

Thank you for responding so quickly! I appreciate it. Your insights proved that which I have suspected.

Bill

 

[oldflyer]

Truly excellent work. Rigging is also perfection

 

[GrantTyler]

Truly excellent work. Rigging is also perfection

true story

 

[Uwek]

I replaced all the parts from the magazines with homemade ones, well, almost all of them.

we can see this - and it is good so

it is every time a pleasure to see your work and progress

 

[Uwek]

I am starting a new project. The same customer provided me with a job again.
This will be the VICTORI model by Deagostini magazines.
The project is long-term, therefore, for a long time.
I will try to make a decent model out of it.
So, let's begin.

Hallo @Alexander74
we wish you all the BEST and a HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Enjoy your special day

 

[dockattner]

Awesome! Happy birthday Sasha! I hope you have a great day celebrating with family and friends!

 

[GrantTyler]

Good evening on your birthday Sasha. Have a brilliant one! Cheers Grant

 

[Jimsky]

Happy Birthday, Sanya!! Health and Happiness!!

 

[WojtasS]

Happy Birthday Sasha
All The Best

 

[Mirek]

Wszystkiego najlepszego Pozdrawiam MirekTort urodzinowy

 

[Alexander74]

Friends, thank you all for your congratulations. 50 years is already a serious date . Tomorrow I'll show you a new web of rigging

 

[Herman]

A bit late to the party but do wish you all the best and hope you had a great birthday celebration

 

[shota70]

Happy birthday Sasha

 

[Chestcutter]

Happy birthday to you. Wishing you many more to show us all how to model with excellence.

 

[Alexander74]

Good afternoon friends!
Thank you all again for your congratulations, it’s a pleasure!
As promised, new photos of the installation of rigging on the fore-Mars-ray.
These are the blocks one of my fellow modelers made for me:

Such disorder occurs temporarily on deck. You have to pull 4 types of tackle, 8 ends at the same time. Therefore, I first pull it, check the horizontal and vertical, after that I just fix the knot with CA glue and cut off the excess

General form

A little more detail on gear and blocks

 

[neilm]

Beautiful work

 

[Uncle Davydd]

Hi Alexander. I don't know whether to laugh or cry after seeing your build. If I laugh it is because it is so truly incredible and detailed that I can't believe it and if I cry it is because I have the same kit and I know at this stage I am not up to that kind of superb work. Truly inspiring and definitely something to aim for. Well done. I now have to go back to the beginning and see where it all started. Cheers and congratulations Davydd

 

[Alexander74]

Hi Alexander. I don't know whether to laugh or cry after seeing your build. If I laugh it is because it is so truly incredible and detailed that I can't believe it and if I cry it is because I have the same kit and I know at this stage I am not up to that kind of superb work. Truly inspiring and definitely something to aim for. Well done. I now have to go back to the beginning and see where it all started. Cheers and congratulations Davydd

Hi Davydd. Thank you. Nothing is impossible. The main thing is your desire to do this. Start from the beginning, I hope you like it