bellona

I built this model before Sussex. Construction took 1.5 years. On this model I learned how to cut threads and understand drawings. This is my first model not from a kit. There are not very many photographs of it, since the model was purchased before I had time to photograph it.

Today arrived a future build in the Dockyard. So I thought apt to give an unboxing and small review of my own personal opinion of the parts. This was technically bought second hand but nothing has been used, so every piece of wood, brass, cast metal threaded etc are as New. While the...

This forum looks like a good place to create a build log and to share progress and to learn and to share problems and solutions. After a couple of kits, the second being HMAT Bounty which was significantly kit bashed, the scratch build bug bit and a 1:75 HMS Surprise model has been completed...

The HMS Bellona is no doubt one of the most appealing subjects to modelmakers, the original model once being on display in the NMM in London is frankly breathtaking! So far all we had was the rather aged Corel kit and also the card Shipyard kit in the same 1.96 or 1:100 scale. When I heared of a...

Book Review: The 74-Gun Ship BELLONA - (Anatomy of the Ship) by Brian Lavery My copy is the original version published by Conway Maritime Press in 1985, the revised version has an additional 1:96 scale fould out plan in the book cover Hardcover: 120 pages Publisher: Conway Maritime...

Hi everyone, I've been a card modeler for years and almost always stuck to Great War aircraft. I saw a few Shipyard builds in the past that were oh so inspiring that I had to give it a go. Of course I had to choose the Bellona as my first ship and promptly figured out that I had bitten off...