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I present to you...HMS Temeraire in all her glory. May she sail safely and sink many enemy ships :)
And how would I recognize the beautiful Temeraire when she's on the table with all the other ships??
Why with a nice custom acrylic base of course :)
This has been a very nice change in subject for me. I really enjoyed building the Langton ship and rigging her up. And then yesterday my hensem brother got me this...
Going to be a good week ahead of reading after completing the Temeraire.
Thanks bro :). And thank you all for dropping by.
Managed to get some more work done on the Temeraire. Didn't do much weathering on the sails as it's my first build and didn't want to screw it up.
Most of the time spent since was on getting the rigging done. It's not as complicated as I thought it would be but neither was it an easy process. But I enjoyed getting the rigging all done up.
What is needed most during this process is a bucket-load of patience.
The fishing thread that I got was supposed to be single thread but experience has shown me that it's not. If you look carefully at my rigging you'll be able to spot some split threads. Also liquid super glue and accelerator is really helpful. Even then you need to make sure to give it sufficient time to dry. After a few disasters and re-rigging,
I decided to be on the safe side and allowed every spot to truly dry before carefully cutting the excess thread.
She should be ready for the high seas by this weekend :)
Thanks for tuning in :)
Continuing my hobby renaissance/getting into historicals, I'm now building Napoleonic ships. I got the 1/1200 British Starter pack from Langton Miniatures. This is the Pack Two set which contains 1 second rate, 2 third rate and 1 fifth rate ships. That's 4 ships in all.
http://www.rodlangton.com/ This is their site if you're interested to start your own fleet.
I decided to build the biggest ship first (the 2nd rate) and have decided to name her HMS Temeraire. This ship was the second ship in Nelson's Weather Column and had quite a history on her. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Temeraire_(1798)
The details of the ship is gorgeous for such a small cast; 6cm long for the hull. Mind you this is the second largest vessel available during that time. The quality of the white metal casts are very good and only minor cleaning is required. The bottom of the mast will need some trimming but overall the parts will fit nicely. Now that's what I call finecast.
By the way, we'll be using the Trafalgar rules printed by GW under their GW Historical banner some time ago. I believe it's out of print at the moment.
That's it for now. I'll share more when the ship is done.
