In April I bought this kit from ZHL for its beautiful carvings and extremely detailed hull and rigging. The model I am building is the version including masting and rigging with carvings in box wood. There are several version out there which vary in 3 different wood sets for the carved part being pear with minor color deviations, pear selected to color and the boxwood version and version with and without masts and rigging.
I started the build in June and already made some medorations to the kit model. I have added the stern cabin to the model which will be decorated like the state room in the middle of the vessel. Secondly I have changed the shape of the stern as the stern in the model is completely flat and to far to the front (This accoring to the drawings which come from the book Anatomy of the Ship). And at the moment I am tree nailing the hull by drilling +/- 6000 0,8 mm holes and adding blackened beechwood cocktail pins. See below already some pictures during the process.
During the coming days I will add more photo's from the progress over the recent months.
Hope the log will be an interesting topic providing you with new ideas as well as myself for creating a very nice model which is certainly possible with this excellent kit as a basis.
I started the build in June and already made some medorations to the kit model. I have added the stern cabin to the model which will be decorated like the state room in the middle of the vessel. Secondly I have changed the shape of the stern as the stern in the model is completely flat and to far to the front (This accoring to the drawings which come from the book Anatomy of the Ship). And at the moment I am tree nailing the hull by drilling +/- 6000 0,8 mm holes and adding blackened beechwood cocktail pins. See below already some pictures during the process.
During the coming days I will add more photo's from the progress over the recent months.
Hope the log will be an interesting topic providing you with new ideas as well as myself for creating a very nice model which is certainly possible with this excellent kit as a basis.