Don't do it, it will take years out of your life.



Put some more ribs on the main ship, added the keel to the launch, filled, sanded and primed the launch for 5 days, also added the fenders somehow (I don't want to remember this part, sometimes I wake up screaming in the night)

There's some potential left for improvement, but I already sanded myself a fine hole in the hull on day 3 and I don't really want to do that again. So I declare issue 8 to be done. All that much of the hull won't be seen in the finished build anyway.

Coming along nicely, looking good....

Regards

Alan

Thank you all

Issue 9

Filed the oar slots into the launchs gunwale and installed a bow brace which promptly cracked during the process. Turned out to make the whole thing infinitely easier. Would recommend.

Also we've now got some colour. And a tiny anchor.

That's a very nice looking launch, if you keep that standard up you will have a pretty fine Victory

Thanks everyone.

Jotikas Admiralty colours turn out to be much better than I expected after seeing some reviews. Most people complain about their high liquidity and bad coverage. And they ARE a little bit too thin for brush work. But by the third coat coverage is actually pretty good. I can't complain so far.

I actually like the peach beige quite a lot. I just don't trust changes. The admiralty colour set has been used for a long time by a lot of modelers. The peach beige is just too new for me. Where do I get it? How well does it brush? How well will it keep it's colour over time? Nobody knows. Not gonna touch that one yet. Maybe in Victory 2.0.

That's true too, I think I'll be building bigger forearms from all the stirring.

No, but really, I've got a Tamiya stirring stick, which is awesome as you can scoop up all the actual color that tends to sit down on the bottom of the vial.

With issue 10 the Victory has now reached the full length of her rib structure.



Work has now also begun on the interior of the ships launch

Looking good Greyhawk's

Issue 12

Got more ribs. We're slowly but surely reaching the end.



I whittled the windlass, placed it and outfitted the stern with rails.

Don't know what the corner blocks were intended for, certainly not my boat. Had a try at getting them to fit, almost broke one, lost them three times on wood colored flooring, got fed up, screamed a little (silently, it was deep in the night) and just plonked them on there, because no one is going to see this anyway with the boat being stowed. I may or may not fill up the gaps at a later date. (Probably will do it tomorrow knowing myself)

Can't wait to get to work more with the actual ships wood, which isn't prone to break by looking at it closely.



Still waiting for the first delivery of the cross section. It's been over two months now, the Victory is 10% finished and I've heard nothing from the distributer but bad excuses yet.