Revell Black Pearl 1/72

Fantastic work on this here's beauty!! She's a fine ship and by the looks of her, she's weathered quite a bit and has come thru the storms. Great build, Captain!
 
First, I have to say how beautiful your model is. You did a fantastic job! I have to ask though, how did you make the sails for the model? I'm working on the same model and I really don't want to use the plastic sails they provide. Thanks and once again great job!
 
azog said:
First, I have to say how beautiful your model is. You did a fantastic job! I have to ask though, how did you make the sails for the model? I'm working on the same model and I really don't want to use the plastic sails they provide. Thanks and once again great job!
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I am sorry not to have gotten back to you sooner--ugh, too busy. Thank you so much for the kind words!

The sails were aftermarket on eBay. I have very mixed feelings about them. I think they look OK, and I really enjoyed and learned from the experience of working with cloth, but there's an important downside: all that material obscures all the beautiful, hard work you did on your decking, guns, stairs, etc. etc. In some ways I think the best display of this kit has the sails furled, or partly furled. In retrospect, I kinda think that if you're going to do anything "custom" on this kit, maybe make your own ratlines, buy wooden blocks, stuff like that. I most enjoyed scratch-building the staircases (and I'm still irritated that the kit completely failed in mirroring the films in this one regard when they got many things right). Anyway, thank you so much again!
 
One more year gone, so we can celebrate once more.....
Hallo @scottmillerssu
we wish you all the BEST and a HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Birthday-Cake
 
scottmillerssu said:
It's a lot of years since I built a ship model, but thanks to so much help from forums and YouTube videos, I'm basically really happy with this. Learned so much!

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Hi
Very nice work indeed. I do have two questions, though.
Did you go with the blanking out random panels with masking tape for the decking?
Also, did you contemplate using the more accurate ropes on deck guns rather than the block and tackle ones that come with the ship? I ask as I have seen a few people using one bit of string on each gun to mirror the movie, but it does not look as nice (ones I have seen anyway)

Thanks
 
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