1/700 Sailing Ships

[zak]

Meanwhile, while I try to model serious stuff, this was a bit of light relief.

[MSea]

Are you sure that's not wind relief - hohohohho

[zak]

Are you sure that's not wind relief - hohohohho

Do you mean yo ho ho and a bottle of rum?

[MSea]

Yes you are correct again

[zak]

Here is a brig and together with the Frigate.

[Bigkev]

Are these like the
Serapis and the Bonhomme Richard you made before.
Bigkev

[chriswil42]

They look good. How big are they?

[MSea]

So life like I am feeling sea sick

[zak]

They look good. How big are they?

The frigate is about 8cm long.
They are smaller than the Serapis and Bonne Homme Richard.
They are by Warlord Games and come under the heading of Black Seas.
The ships are a small plastic kit, hull(2 halves) deck masts, figurehead, stern, anchors, boats and so on.
They have to be rigged,
The ratlines are printed on clear plastic and it doesn't show if the light is right.

[chriswil42]

Neat.

[Bigkev]

Hi Zak,
Thanks for the update.
They look great, and until you said about the ratlines, it took a further much deeper longer look to see how they are represented.
Are you now 'Nelson' for the time being....?
I'll turn a blind eye if you are, Oooops sorry! 'Nelson'
Bigkev

[Red Lancer]

Great!
Did you ever do the Airfix 2/- ones from years (decades) ago?
I did them all when I was a kid, Cutty Sark, Victory, Golden Hind etc.
I think they brought them out again recently!
I used to mainly do Sailing ships when I started out modelling, rigging with cotton
pulled through candle wax, then watch the masts bend as it shrank at different rates at each side!
No Albion Alloys in those days, Tony.
I did the Revell Cutty Sark, the big one, when I was about 16, that was a long time ago now.
 (Cut out the remmannicsingcing and get on with something useful you old s*d0

[Bigkev]

Hi Howard,
You made more than me, but I did have a great sense of enjoyment from those I did.
Was it a quick simple build, that looked like the real thing in a smaller scale, yet very quickly.
Very enjoyable nonetheless.
Bigkev 

[zak]

Great!
Did you ever do the Airfix 2/- ones from years (decades) ago?
I did them all when I was a kid, Cutty Sark, Victory, Golden Hind etc.
I think they brought them out again recently!
I used to mainly do Sailing ships when I started out modelling, rigging with cotton
pulled through candle wax, then watch the masts bend as it shrank at different rates at each side!
No Albion Alloys in those days, Tony.
I did the Revell Cutty Sark, the big one, when I was about 16, that was a long time ago now.
 (Cut out the remmannicsingcing and get on with something useful you old s*d0

I did them too, I recently did some on the East Yorkshire theme.
Great memories, but maybe not the models, they didn't half attract the dust though,

[MSea]

Yes the rigging ended up twice as thick with the dust after about a couple of weeks - the "good old days"  -- -