Good evening fellow modellers!
I start this thread to show you how I’m making this incredible ship of the line, representing it as it fought in Trafalgar.
The kit itself has many weaknesses due to, I suppose, commercial reasons so I take the instructions as “suggestions” and really follow the documents and information that I get from some experts, the internet and the MNM (Naval Museum of Madrid).
One of these experts is Alejandro Yáñez who, time ago, wrote a monograph about the Nepomuceno that is truly useful, besides, is free to download for everyone who was interested in it!!!
I started the kit in October 2016 and devoting 2-3 hours a day average, but I spend lots of time thinking in how to do things better and repeating parts that are not satisfactory.
I’ve discarded most of the die cast parts, in my opinion are terrible, not only in their awful shape but in the quality of the metal.
Here you have the first round of pictures of my work. Please ask whatever you want and feel free to criticize as the better way to improve.
Greetings
Jaime
I start this thread to show you how I’m making this incredible ship of the line, representing it as it fought in Trafalgar.
The kit itself has many weaknesses due to, I suppose, commercial reasons so I take the instructions as “suggestions” and really follow the documents and information that I get from some experts, the internet and the MNM (Naval Museum of Madrid).
One of these experts is Alejandro Yáñez who, time ago, wrote a monograph about the Nepomuceno that is truly useful, besides, is free to download for everyone who was interested in it!!!
I started the kit in October 2016 and devoting 2-3 hours a day average, but I spend lots of time thinking in how to do things better and repeating parts that are not satisfactory.
I’ve discarded most of the die cast parts, in my opinion are terrible, not only in their awful shape but in the quality of the metal.
Here you have the first round of pictures of my work. Please ask whatever you want and feel free to criticize as the better way to improve.
Greetings
Jaime