On Wednesday evening I had very intense hobby session. Mrs Monty and the girls had gone to bad and our livingroom was deadly silent. Thus I took the nearly finished 1/1200 HMS Royal Sovereign and a skein of rayon threat and started to rig my first ship:
The ship is from Langton Models' excellent 1/1200 range. It comes with a hull of two or three parts and seperate masts and sails. I decided to take white metal sails which are thicker but easier to assemble than etched brass sails.
After assembling the small ship I painted the hull and the masts seperately and glued them together afterwards. As usual I used Vallejo Model Colours and some Armypainter washes.
Finally I covered the whole ship with matt varnish and made the rigging of rayon embroidery threat. Probably the rigging is not correct in the details but for a landlubber as I am it's satisfying I presume. Unfortunately I hit the main mast with my forearm yesterday so the rigging sags at some points. Clumsy me!
Typing these words I realize that I forgot to assemble the ratlines. I'll have to catch up on that this weekend.
Wonderful stuff Monty, absolutely wonderful. Great work on the hull and sails, and your sea base is terrific as well. Nice subtle waves and a nice deep blue. Just a cracking paintjob :-) Next though you'll have to keep those sails out of 'arms way :-P
ReplyDeleteThanks Blax. but the base is by Langton as well. So I only had to paint it... ;-)
DeleteLooking good. I love Langton ship models.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful work on this tiny model, Monty. Amazing dexterity to rig the sails too!
ReplyDeleteJust beautiful Monty. I love to see models of these ships. My father used to build them and I remember the difficulty in doing all that rigging.
ReplyDeleteWow, you certainly have more patience than I do Stefan!
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately patience doesn't get things finished... ;-)
DeleteYou did a great job on this model Stefan! Always as I should do it! That's why I don't buy this kind of sets!
ReplyDeleteGreetings
Peter
Wonderful stuff! You don't see ships too often in gaming! Which is a bloody shame considering how amazing they look.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful job Stefan! I don't trust myself to start collecting these as I know it will be the beginning of the end...
ReplyDeleteGreat work on this Monty!
ReplyDeleteVery nice work! She's a real beauty of the seas.
ReplyDeleteVery nice indeed. I do love these little ships.
ReplyDeleteShe's a beauty! And mucho respecto for making that rigging. That's usually a pain in the....
ReplyDeleteOn with the ratlines, they'll give her the last finishing touch!
Nicely done Monty. I've found the metal sails to be the better choice for Langtons - The brass ones look nice but are difficult to work with and are that durable on the table top.
ReplyDeleteThe rigging looks great and is more than I usually add for table top models. If one was to do an "accurate rigging" you'll need approximately 15-20 control lines per mast - that's just crazy talk!
One trick I've learned with cotton thread rigging is to wet the thread is a 50/50 water / white glue mix - sagging lines will be greatly reduced.
fantastic work - but be careful, those Langtons are very addictive!
Thanks a lot, Miles.
DeleteNo chance that I'll do more rigging on those tiny ships. Although I really enjoyed the work on this one more is just pain in... well... you know where.
A good hint with soaking the line. Actually I thought of something like that either with white glue or with super glue but then the mischief happened...
And for the addiction to Langton ships... Too late !
For now I have five other vesels and a couple of rowing boats but the enjoyable work on the HMS Royal Sovereign planted the idea to recreate the Lee Column of Trafalgar in my head...
Cheers
Stefan
Many thanks for the kind feedback, chaps.
ReplyDeleteSuperb painting Stefan, especially like the off white effect on the sails.
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