Nelson's Fagship HMS Vanguard

 

This is my version of Nelson's fagship HMS Vanguard, as she appeared at the Battle of the Nile on 1-3 August 1798 in Aboukir Bay near Alexandria. The colors are based on Rod Langton's book, Reference 2

The hull is a 3D Arrogant class 74 from Simon Mann, printed in 1/450 scale.

I actually painted the hull several months ago and built the masts. But then they were set aside for WWII naval projects. Then the working season hit, and I spent little time in the

dungeon. Several super hot days were spent inside, and Vanguard was screaming in the wings to be built.

Tracing out the cloth sails

Creating the furled sail mold

finished furled sails

This is the point I realized the sails are too small

The template I used was for a large frigate!

The correct 3rd rate sails are traced

All of the previous spars and sails have been removed and salvaged

New spars cut

Spars with stuns'l spars prepaired

Ah, now that looks like a third rate

Standing rigging started

I didn't have a jig large enough for the main shroud/ratlines, so I had to makea jig from two expired sandwiched insurance cards

Ratlines applied

Here are the beauty shots with the running rigging on.

Looking for Feedback

 I am just looking for some feedback in this post. How do these aircraft flight markers look?

Looking for constructive criticism 

Thanks

The Last of the British Fleet

 These are the last 1/2400 scale British ships I needed, all destroyers and escorts. On the top are 6 Hunt class destroyer escorts. Next row left to right: 5 S-class destroyers, 4 E-class, 1 Tribal class, 5 A-class. Bottom row left to right: 5 Town class, 5 M-class, and 5 N-class destroyer built for the Royal Australian Navy.

I now have 7 more US ships and 58 more Japanese ships left to finish, plus a few French and Italian vessels, and some more merchant ships. After that I need to think about what to do for the aircraft squadrons.

1/1200 HMS Aeolis 32-Gun Frigate

It has been four years this month since I completed a 1/1200 scale sailing ship. I used to knock these little guys out one after another, no problem. This was hard! I suppose I have become somewhat spoiled by the larger 1/700 scale sailing ships I have been building since then. And it's been eight months since I've built one of those. 

I finished rigging this little ship today. Not my best work, but hey.

There are six more 1/1200 ships to finish: two needing spars, sails, and rigging; four needing just rigging.

1/3000 Scale Isengard Diorama

The tower of Orthanc at 1/3000 scale is pretty small, just a bit over two inches. So I decided to build the entire Isengard compound, with flaming pits, timber towers and cranes of the uruk-hai.

The tiny tower of Orthanc on my template

The basic foam shape

The cavern cutouts

Vinyl plaster covering

Starting the enclosure. Wall sections are foam and bastions are fired cosclay

Making the bastions

Firing the bastions in my heat gun powered makeshift tea tin oven 

Making the wooden towers

Adding an uprooted tree

The cranes are in place and the tree root craters are done

The foliage is complete

Finished shot with the wooden base

This was a fun build