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HMS VICTORY 1/72 diorama
dolly15
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Posted: Saturday, May 22, 2004 - 10:32 AM UTC
By way of introduction to this forum, if you would like to read an article on building a 1/72 scale HMS Victory diorama titled Drumming Daybreak see the http://hsfeatures.com/hmsvictoryjr_1.htm website, click on Feature Articles,then click on Armour-Maritime 2003/04 then scrool down to my article.Cheers! John


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Posted: Saturday, May 22, 2004 - 02:27 PM UTC
Here is the image of the HMS Victory
husky1943
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Posted: Saturday, May 22, 2004 - 03:51 PM UTC
John,
What a beautiful ship! I salute you and your craftsmanship. Outstanding.
Rob
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Posted: Saturday, May 22, 2004 - 07:28 PM UTC
John,

that is some exellent modeling your shared with us. I'm going to show this link to my dad, who's also into scratchbuilding those Big Ships of Yesterday. Actually I have one of his ships standing in my attic...it's the V.O.C. tallship "Prins Willem"... almost 1.5 meter long and 1.1 meter high....

Excellent modeling ! Thanks for sharing this with us.
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Posted: Saturday, May 22, 2004 - 08:40 PM UTC
I salute you sir:
on such a fine example of modelling at it's finest!
dolly15
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Posted: Sunday, May 23, 2004 - 08:24 AM UTC
Thanks guys,I really enjoyed that build.But I am afraid that for me it was once in a lifetime.Theairplane dioramas that I do now only take about 2years each.Cheers! John.
kitbasher
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Posted: Monday, May 24, 2004 - 09:24 AM UTC
brilliant stuff

lots and lots AND LOTS of patience! my partner and i are considering one of these (larger) kits, alot of work, but as your example shows, well worth it.

kitbasher
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Posted: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 - 02:45 AM UTC
Thanks Kitbasher.Yes ,it was the most rewarding thing I ever did in modeling which says a lot from a guy who spent his life in aviation.I wanted to tackle what I considered the most complicated subject in modeling,a fully rigged ship.I am glad I did because it gave me the confidence to explore other artistic endevours.I kind of said to myself ,if I can do that ,then I can do this,and so on.I knew nothing about ships when I started except that I have always loved the majestly of the fully rigged ship.if you decide to build one the best advice I can give is get the best references possible. The best thing about doing Victory is that she still exists.Just be careful about references though as she was rebuilt many times over her lifetime.I have seen artwork by people who should know better where Victory was depicted in their paintings of her at Trafalgar as she was in the 1700s. Thanks again.Cheers! John.
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