Happy Birthday Nigel. May it be as enjoyable as your modeling is good. Cheers GrantHi Nigel
I wish you all the best and a very happy birthday.
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Happy Birthday Nigel. May it be as enjoyable as your modeling is good. Cheers GrantHi Nigel
I wish you all the best and a very happy birthday.
Well, look at that! You and I are Leo’s from different parts of the geosphere, and only a few days and years apart. Happy Birthday, Man!
No, no - I’m sure it was the case that your mother’s womb could no longer safely contain the big cat lurking within.I know Marc and my wife celebrated her's two weeks ago as well.
Kind of feel a fraud, I was born by emergency cesarian two months premature, so really I should have been born in October.
Hallo my friend,Hi All
I was determined not to buy any more kits as I have enough projects and pastimes to keep me going beyond retirement. However this release changed all that, I simply HAD to build it. Not because it is an amazing model straight out of the box but more a case that I realised the potential of the kit.
The kit supplied decoration has far more than a passing resemblance to the late Michel Saunier's model.His build is shown on MSW and Gerard Delecroix's forum.The quality of the castings is far greater than the one's you get in a current Mantua group model.It also includes some very fine photo etch details for bow and stern.
The biggest issue is that whilst the bow and stern are done well, everything in-between needs a redesign if you want a model that follow's French practice of the period. The gunport spacings are wrong, the deck Sheer is wrong and all the decks are enclosed on their ends, these would have most likely been open.
When the marketing video first appeared it stated 1/65, now the box and catalogue state 1/72?? So which is it? Working from the height between decks, this works out at 1/65.You cannot work from the model's length, the design for some reason has been shortened and the model is far too short for either scale.Given that the original is stated as having a length (gun deck) of 160 French feet, this model is at least 100mm too short.
It is my intention to redesign the kit's false keel to make the model the correct length and space out the kit bulkheads to compensate.The last few bulkheads at bow and stern will remain stock spacing as not to interfere with the kit decor.I am hoping that this "stretch" shall maintain the hull profile and just make the transition of curves a little more gradual.
I have already started to draw out the revised side view of the ship and have enough information established to start on the keel.The picture below shows the kit keel dry assembled on top of my work in progress drawing.In the next post I will show the extended version
Kind Regards
Nigel
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Why does everything you do look perfect?
Oh, I know. Because it's perfect.