ROYAL LOUIS - HELLER - 1/200

Ben M
Holy cow this is amazing

Spanjaard
That looks simply fantastic!

Treehugger
Congratulations 🙂

The Admiral
Thank you very much my friends, a very Merry Christmas and all the best for 2022 👍🤺⚓🍻

Benoit
Magnifique !

Torsten
A top performance. Beautiful model that was worth every step of the work. Absolutely 😎

Robin (WhiteGlint)
Beautiful!

Lochsa River
so many details! better photos please....we would all like to take them in.

David Taylor
The dogs.

Thomas Bischoff
gorgeous 👍 👍 👍

Rui S
Looks great 👍 but the photos don't do it justice .(

Villiers de Vos
Very nice.

John Hughes
I have three sailing ships in my stash. If they turn out half as good as this, I'll be a happy man!. What material did you use for the sails? I have some irish linen in storage, which was originally old technical drawings from around 100 years ago, (I've had them over 30 years). I soaked them in cold water & the resin & ink washed away without a trace, leaving a perfect thin cloth for a job like this. I am considering using this and laying it over the vacformed sails from the kits, then starching them to the correct shape. Not sure if it will work, but I can only try! Another trick I learned many years ago to age and stiffen fabric sails is to brush on strong cold black coffee! I still have the old Hornby Golden Hinde which my Father build over 40 years ago, although a refurbishemnt is in order.

The Admiral
Hi John

Sorry for the very late reply as I dont get notifications of messages posted on thisas well as being very busy atm.

The material I used for the sails is quite simple, its basically cream coloured pillowcases on which I measure , draw, and cut the sails from after taking the measurements from the plastic ones, then I hand sew all the detailed stitching on to them.

Hope this helps my friend.