Soleil Royal by Heller - an Extensive Modification and Partial Scratch-Build by Hubac’s Historian

Hubac’s Historian said:
Duarte - thanks are truly in order to Andre Kudin. That guy is a true master of the craft!

So, I’m about to disappoint you a little, here. At 1:96, I am not so strong a proponent for rigorously scaling rigging and iron work. My secret? I know there needs to be a graduation of line weights from the lower rig to the upper rig. Main deck guns to upper deck guns, etc.

I simply bought a collection of line in all available weights, and I make these scale decisions by eye; if it looks right, at this scale, it is close enough. That is my philosophy, anyway, and I trust my eye for scale because I am constantly collecting images of models and ship portraits for my archives.

I will pay more specific attention to the stays and shrouds because these lines are so prominent, and one really needs to get as close to scale as possible. I won’t make myself crazy, though, splitting hairs over the smallest fractions. Doing so takes the fun out of the hobby for me. At least on this project.

Already though, Duarte, I can see that you are quickly mastering Andre’s techniques.
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There is one indispensable product when rigging: Burt's Bees Wax. I'm sure that everyone knows that most threads will fuzz up. I use it religiously when building small scale ships (anything between 1/150 and smaller). It gives the builder greater flexibility when rigging.

Bill
 
Hubac’s Historian said:
Hello, Ships of Scale!

My name is Marc LaGuardia, and for the past three years, I have been extensively bashing the Heller kit in an effort to transform it into what I believe is her re-fit appearance of 1689.

The project exists in its entirely, here at Model Ship World:

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Soleil Royal by Hubac's Historian - Heller - An Extensive Modification and Partial Scratch-Build

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The log is quite lengthy, and includes protracted discussions of contemporary sketches and portraiture that are all interesting and relevant to my re-construction. That would all be incredibly tedious to re-create, here, though. Instead, I will open with a photo-montage that brings us up to the current stage of the project.

As I write new posts for MSW, I will also post that same content here.

So, to begin - the project was born of the idea that I could make the Heller kit broader and longer, so that I could increase the number of stern lights from five to six, and create the new quarter galleries that are the focal point of my revised model.

To that end, I cut away the lower hull, and added 5/8” of extensions to either side of the stem (thanks to Henry in Boston for donating his defective hull), and 3/8” extensions to the aft edges of the lower hull and upper bulwarks. I also cut the sheer down, a bit, at the poop-royal because the Heller kit is just a bit too tall to be plausible, IMO; this is partly due to the fact that the height between all decks is exaggerated.

Along the way, I have discovered myriad ways to upgrade the kit and add missing detail. I have made a particular point of representing the iron that holds the dead-works together.

To be clear, my intent here is to produce a mostly impressionistic model that is historically accurate to the degree that it can be, but also accepting of certain flaws, inherent in the kit, which are too onerous to overcome.

The project seemed to languish in the planning/drawing phase for quite a long time, but has really started to come together in the past year.

I have received an incredible amount of help from people all over the world, and remain indebted to their research, their insight, and quite often - their spare parts!

And without further ado, I present Soleil Royal as she may have appeared after her refit in 1689. The montage will begin with the next post.

Thank you for looking in, and happy modeling!

- HH
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Hallo @Hubac’s Historian
we wish you all the BEST and a HAPPY BIRTHDAY
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Enjoy your special day
 
A belated thank you to you all for your on-time birthday wishes. As sometimes happens with this site, my auto-log-in credentials seem to lapse all on their own, and I suddenly find that the mobile app will not recognize what I know is my correct password. Consequently, I was unable to respond while I was still away.

I absolutely love the community, here, but this site is so glitchy.
 
On a desktop, I generally do not have issues. Opening the mobile site from an emailed up-date sometimes leads to these password recognition issues. Because I am opening an update that was sent to my registered email, I should automatically be logged-in, when I click the link. Sometimes, though, it will bring me to the page, but I won't be logged-in, and can't respond or do anything on the page. When I try to log-in, it tells me over and again that my password is incorrect, even though I am absolutely certain of my password.
 
Hubac’s Historian said:
On a desktop, I generally do not have issues. Opening the mobile site from an emailed up-date sometimes leads to these password recognition issues. Because I am opening an update that was sent to my registered email, I should automatically be logged-in, when I click the link. Sometimes, though, it will bring me to the page, but I won't be logged-in, and can't respond or do anything on the page. When I try to log-in, it tells me over and again that my password is incorrect, even though I am absolutely certain of my password.
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sounds like a phone issue, I mean not the actual phone, but rather a buggy OS. To me, it might be the password vault issue. Unfortunately, I don't use the phone to browse SOS, and cannot spot the glitches. Zoly uses his phone all the time for SOS. @zoly99sask Hey, Zol, can you confirm seeing glitches\bugs?
 
Jimsky said:
sounds like a phone issue, I mean not the actual phone, but rather a buggy OS. To me, it might be the password vault issue. Unfortunately, I don't use the phone to browse SOS, and cannot spot the glitches. Zoly uses his phone all the time for SOS. @zoly99sask Hey, Zol, can you confirm seeing glitches\bugs?
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I did not notice any issues with ny phone on Sos,maybe @Donnie can look into this
 
So, from my desktop, I went into my account profile and saved a small change to my password. When I subsequently opened an update link from my email, for one of the builds I'm following - again, I was not logged-in, so I attempted to log-in with my slightly modified password. Same message: "your password does not match what's on file." I absolutely know, though, that I'm correctly entering my passwords because I have made password entry visible on these log-in attempts.

So, then I was thinking that perhaps there is some kind of corruption on my personal cell phone. I used my wife's phone to access the SOS site. After attempting to log-in on her phone, I received the same error message.

From that, I can only conclude that there may be some kind of problem or corruption to my SOS account, as it exists on the server.

I'm at a bit of a loss, here, because I would like to continue building my log from my phone because uploading pics to my desktop, and reserving my opportunity to update my log to times when I am at home, is hugely tedious and inconvenient. I'm just not going to do that. I would also, obviously, like to continue to responding to friend's logs, in the moment, from my phone.

Can an administrator please look into my account and see whether there is some kind of corruption in my account?
 
Well, Jimsky, I would say that is decidedly unfortunate. I don't know that I will continue to post updates on this build log, if I can't do so from my phone.

I've tried everything I can think of. I've tried logging-in with my username, Hubac's Historian, and also my email address. In both cases, it is a password issue that gets flagged.

I'm not going to open a new account and transfer or re-create the log. I might start a new topic on the forum to see whether any other users have encountered this problem, and how they managed to fix it.

I would think, though, that if other people were having this issue, then the site moderators would have heard about it already.
 
Hubac’s Historian said:
Well, Jimsky, I would say that is decidedly unfortunate. I don't know that I will continue to post updates on this build log, if I can't do so from my phone.

I've tried everything I can think of. I've tried logging-in with my username, Hubac's Historian, and also my email address. In both cases, it is a password issue that gets flagged.

I'm not going to open a new account and transfer or re-create the log. I might start a new topic on the forum to see whether any other users have encountered this problem, and how they managed to fix it.

I would think, though, that if other people were having this issue, then the site moderators would have heard about it already.
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This is very sad Marc!

I have never had any problems whatsoever.

I hope you can find a way, I can not even consider the thought that you will stop posting updates on your build log…
 
Unlike myself, who uses only desktop\laptop PC for SOS (perhaps for all other tasks as well), Zolly uses his phone all the time, I suspect he would noticed the problem right away.

However, we can make you create a brand new account, move all of your content from the old one to the new one, and finally, rename your new account as the old one. Then your old account will be disabled\destroed. We have done this in the past.
 
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