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12-11-2006, 01:31 AM
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H.M.S. Victory-My Way
Over a 25 year period and about 6,000 hours shoptime I built an HMS Victory shipmodel.Nothing really unique there but I did do something a little different in that I turned it into a diorama about a specific event that happened in the ships history.I call my Victory diorama "Drumming Daybreak".
Over the next little while I would like to tell you the story of how I built her and why......to be continued. 
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12-11-2006, 02:21 AM
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Re: H.M.S. Victory-My Way
I look forward to reading it. The pictures of the Victory look incredible...i just hope I can eventually build something half that well.
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12-11-2006, 06:59 AM
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Re: H.M.S. Victory-My Way
What a fantastic ship, looks really good, look forward to your 25 year overview ;)
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12-11-2006, 11:23 AM
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Re: H.M.S. Victory-My Way
A few years back I wrote a short article on this build.See:
http://www.modelshipgallery.com/gal...user-index.html
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12-11-2006, 11:28 AM
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Re: H.M.S. Victory-My Way
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Thanks Mystophales! Don't worry,you can and you will but it does take patience. Cheers! John.
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12-11-2006, 11:33 AM
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Re: H.M.S. Victory-My Way
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Hi JeuneAmelie! I hope you enjoy it. Cheers! John.
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12-11-2006, 12:15 PM
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Re: H.M.S. Victory-My Way
As you can see by the article I wrote above I am now getting on in years (66).
I have been modeling on and off for the last 35 years or so.I say on and off because during during that time I also became interested in woodcarving which I taught myself from books(in the days before the internet) and later taught it to adults for 11 years.Why am I mentioning all this ? Because although it took me nearly 25 years to build Victory I took lots of time off for other things including working for a living.I generally put in about 700-800 hours a year into my various hobbies and Victory took about 6,000 hours from beginning to end. Modeling shipbuilding is the only hobby were I kept an actual log of the build and I am now glad that I did.I would recommend others do the same as it is a really nice way to recover your shipbuilding memories. Life most kids of my era I had build a few plastic ship and airplane models in my youth and made one half-hearted attempt to build a Bluenose solid hull model in my 20's but for some reason I lost interest again. Then one day back in the early 70's i passed a hobby store window and saw a Sergal Victory sitting in the window.I stood for the longest time looking at that wonderful ship.I had never seen anything like it before.I fell in love right there and promised myself to build one just like it one day. Other things were more pressing at the time(like finishing university)but I never forgot my encounter with HMS Victory. to be cont......
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12-11-2006, 04:41 PM
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Re: H.M.S. Victory-My Way
In the latest photo I was about 915 hours into the project around Sept 1978.
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12-11-2006, 06:12 PM
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Re: H.M.S. Victory-My Way
John,This is such a great HMS Victory!!The copper plating is super.I have never seen your weathering technique used on any of the models that I have seen.I am looking forward to seeing your diorama.Walter :xrolleyes:
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12-12-2006, 11:59 AM
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Re: H.M.S. Victory-My Way
University finished,I now had some extra time on my hands and then I remembered Victory.(goodbye to extra time ever since).I set off for the hobby store and plunked down the money for Victory.The store owner kindly interceded and suggested that I start with something a little smaller.He finally convinced me that this was the proper way to go.(thank god)
I started with a plank- on -bulkhead Santa Maria(217 hours) followed by a Aeropicello Bounty(808 hours).Now with a 1,000 hours of model shipbuilding behind me ,I re-plunked down my money and bought the Sergal Victory.I soon found out that I would need all that experience and could have used a lot more to avoid some of the mistakes I made early on. to be cont.....
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