In his book (The 100-gun ship Victory) John Mckay provided these amazing set of cross section drawings that show valuable detail of everything that happens at that slice of the ship. He also provided detailed drawing from the side and top showing clearly the framing of the Victory. I decided the best place to begin [...]
Archive for August, 2009
A visual cross-reference
Posted in Preparations, tagged HMS Victory, John Mckay, photoshop, Ship Modelling on August 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Scanning and Enhancing
Posted in Preparations, tagged HMS Victory, photoshop, Scanning, Ship Modelling on August 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For the last couple of days I’ve been scanning and enchancing the plans from the book. It will be a long process, but seeing that patience is the big key to a project like this I will not attempt to rush anything about this process. The scanning envolves scanning some of the plans more than [...]
Tool List
Posted in Tools, tagged Ship Modelling, Tools on August 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is the list of tools I use. This list will keep growing as I acquire more tools. The trick is to only buy a new tool if you really need it, not just because you think it will be nice to have. When you are thinking about buying the more expensive hardware it should [...]
The first tools
Posted in Preparations, Tools, tagged Ship Modelling, Tools on August 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s been a bit of a bumpy two days trying to get myself a printer and scanner combination that will work with my computer setup. I first tried the Canon MP190, but it seems that Canon should rather stick to making Digital Cameras, as this one was not compatible with Windows XP… that’s probably where [...]
Where to begin
Posted in Preparations, tagged HMS Victory, photoshop, Preparations, Ship Modelling on August 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
At this point all I have is some general woodworking tool and a book called “The 100-gun ship Victory”. Inside this book are more than 100 scaled drawings, in amazing details showing exactly how the Victory is contructed. I used to have all the plans copied and enlarged from this book, but in the years [...]
Morné Louw
Posted in About Me, tagged HMS Victory, Morne Louw, Ship Modelling on August 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have been playing with the idea to build a model of the HMS Victory for a couple of years now. I actually even started at one point about 7 years ago, but did not get very far…
…Keep in mind I have never built a modelship, I don’t even know what tools I need, so this is really going to be a learning experience and I hope also lots of fun, for years to come.
