This is an oldie but a goodie that originated as a Pyro kit that was subsequently acquired by Lindberg, I'm sure I built it as a teenager but I don't really recall how it came out. In many ways, for a plastic sailing ship model, it is pretty good. It's main drawback as far as popularity goes is the lack of detail with the hull and deck. Similar to the situation with the Lindberg clipper ship Sea Witch. For the hull I decided to use copper tape to copper the bottom of the hull in a similar fashion to the way I coppered the bottom of the Model Shipways NY pilot boat Phantom. The most difficult task was marking the waterline and getting it symmetrical on both sides. I masked off the lower hull and painted the upper portion black using Floquil engine black. Once I was satisfied with the waterline location I ran a strip of 1/8" copper tape along the edge of the black portion of the hull from bow to stern. Then I started from the keel using 1/4" wide strips overlapping them about 1/16" much the same way you would plank the hull. After that was done I took a length of masking tape that I had reduced the stickiness of and marked it like a ruler at 3/8" intervals. Then I laid it over the first strip of copper tape and marked with a mechanical fine pointed pencil the 3/8" intervals the copper. Then I moved the masking tape to the next section staggering the marking line and continued. After finishing with the masking tape I went back and made sure each copper plate was marked from top to bottom. If I get a pounce wheel I'll add rivet detail. Coppering the bottom instead of just painting it copper went a long way toward making the model more attractive.
The deck only has raised lines indicating planks so I used a technique suggested by Revell for painting the decks of their big sailing ship models. I airbrushed a thin coat of black paint before airbrushing the deck with Tamiya desert yellow. Then I went back with some very fine sandpaper to highlight the raised detail such as it is. The rest of the model should be fairly straight forward except I won't be using the Lindberg rigging plan. I have a couple of wood topsail schooner kits and will be using their rigging instructions. I will be installing eyes on the Lindberg blocks and using them. Here are a couple of images of my current progress.
The deck only has raised lines indicating planks so I used a technique suggested by Revell for painting the decks of their big sailing ship models. I airbrushed a thin coat of black paint before airbrushing the deck with Tamiya desert yellow. Then I went back with some very fine sandpaper to highlight the raised detail such as it is. The rest of the model should be fairly straight forward except I won't be using the Lindberg rigging plan. I have a couple of wood topsail schooner kits and will be using their rigging instructions. I will be installing eyes on the Lindberg blocks and using them. Here are a couple of images of my current progress.