Not sure about bragging rights? In Pompey we are very protective about Nelson, Trafalgar etc (and recent BLM style threats to the statues, we had volunteer guards!) But as Pete Goodwin once said propping up the bar 'if she was a woman I wouldn't give her the time of day, fat arse and ugly!'
He's referring to the Black Lives Matter group in the USA, who are essentially communists disguising themselves as a civil rights organization. They caused a riot and burned many small businesses in Minneapolis, Minnesota not far from where I live. They also targeted many historic statues in the south, destroying them not because they promote racism as they falsely claimed, but because they believe history must be destroyed in order for people to forget it and accept their viewpoints and agenda.
The UK is in a mess. There is a genuine culture war at present. The woke are mostly to blame. There are children's books in schools claiming 200 years ago this was a black country. Hospitals are employing "Diversity Managers" and teams at vast cost (my local hospital has an MRI scanner but no money in the budget to get somebody who knows how to use it!) The Cenotaph war memorial in London and the statue of Winston Churchill were defaced during race demonstrations..... Utter madness!
oh ok. that is serious stuff. sorry i didn't know that acronym,
ok, but what is so special about this ship that requires making a limited version for twice the price of others on the market? a pure money grab, just like the company's HMS Erebus
I would guess that the cost comes from the extra work put into the fittings, better quality wood, research in developing a historically accurate design, and especially detailed instructions, assuming the kit is actually worth the high cost. Those are areas that make kits expensive. If the OcCre kit is a limited edition, it's probably because they don't have the ability to make this model in the long term. Now if the price is higher than Caldercraft's Victory, OcCre better make the kit enhancements worthwhile!
Gun ports!!!!!!! I just sold my kit of OcCre's Santisima Trinidad for that reason & also for the scale, which I now find too small. I have a Panart 1/78 Victory to build, but am still not sure whether I really want to build her.
. I realized I had no room for all those!
You don't like cheap cast metal gun ports? after all, these models are of high quality, apparently people recommend them (sarcasm)
You're correct! They are awful, I binned them from my Le Superbe, according to information she did not have visible external port frames. The same goes for several kits of Victory, including Panart. IF I do go ahead with Vic. I WON'T be using them..
I don't agree with this. HMS Victory is THE ship from sail era. One must understand that any kits manufacturer has or wants to have this model in its catalog.
If I bought any HMS Victory kit, it would be the one with the older open balconies and decorations. Kroum Batchvarov is right about the later, simplified galleries being rather ugly in comparison. As for models of Victory that are available, there are plenty, and it would be nice to see models of other ships, especially ones that have not hit the model market yet.
