Working on the Revell 1/72 sailing ship, and their instructions had me rigging from the top down, fore to aft, what a pain. Watching you video makes a LOT more sense😀
Gorgeous, but nervwrecking!!! My greatest respects for your patience and skill there mate, you turn this old kit into a gem. The rigging is extraordinatry, but i love the paintjob and wood grain effects on the ship too.
Thanks Michael... it was a labour of love. I had not made a large sailing ship in nearly half a century so it was very enjoyable to get back to building one.
Harry: I'm so pleased with my work Me: as you should be Harry as you should be You could easily believe this was a museum quality 1/50th wooden ship the way she looks Harry. Simply stunning with so much attention to detail
@@HarryHoudiniModels even in 1:1 scale the bounty was a small ship let alone 1:110 scale you did an excellent job on her Harry i dont know how people could spend years sailing the world on such small and slow ships
Great example of what can be achieved with a basic kit. Loved watching the build and have picked up some good tips when it comes to frigging in the rigging.
Well that has been worth the wait. She is Magnificent Harry, Gold medal material, but please don't take her to your club, photo's only, Into the display cabinet and admire. 🥇👍👍👍👍👍
It is a tiny sucker... Bask had to help with the rigging, her paws are much smaller than my hands, but she just ended up dropping all the string to the floor and playing with it.
Great to see this finished , prob the first vid I found you with . Great no not great super super fantasmigorical build . If you remember my 1/35 MTB its 18 inch long not to big , but almost a scratch build on the detail of which there is not a lot , also they are painted black , that's a challenge in its self but having fun . Super stuff can't wait for the next exciting installment , whatever that may be . Cheers Harry . Goday cobbler. Tom .
what a fantastic model you have built harry.i have seen all the build videos of the bounty.how the hell you do it i dont know wish i could.looking forward to your next build.enjoying the waffle it makes me laugh out loud.all the best to you and bask take care tom.
Well she turned out just fantastic! In some oil those shots, the only thing missing were people working on the deck...!! 🙂👍 It may be an older kit, but good grief, you've turned it into a stunner! 😀 Thank you for this series of incredible instructional videos...beautifully done, and full of that lovely wry humour! 🙃
Thanks Steve… it was a lovely kit just in need of some TLC and scratch additions. Sits in my display cabinet near my recliner in the living room, so I can enjoy looking at it every night.
beautiful chap!!! well done. makes me want to build annother sailing ship! thanks for the instructional videos! anychance we can get the how to on the rat lines with that jig you made months ago please? or have i missed it when i was offline for a month moving house? thanks again bro
hi great finish to the bounty, capt bligh would be most impressed, why revell dont supply rear lanterns is a shame so will have to trawl through the internet for some,i also have the book on the bounty, its like a service book really great
Harry A wonderful build -very impressive. Enough said I feel as you seem intent on a waffle free zone. PS How many was a normal crew? Regards and stay well.
Thank you. A crew of 46 seems small for such a significant ship. The skill is knowing when to impart knowledge and when to provide the background canvass. I hope you keep up the great videos. Best wishes
Cheers Harry. Looks fantastic 😊 Great job and I'm sure you've had a great time building it. 🖒Also nice rework to the brand there, well... until you mentioned the wombat piss 😂
You've made a plastic model kit look like a real wooden one , Bloody well done Harry, I've totally loved watching all the build. Can't wait to see what you can do with the bigger one.👍👍👍👍👍
Yes compared to most sailing ship models it’s half or less the length. I took a photo of my Heller 1:100 Victory Hull next to it just to show how tiny it was.
@@HarryHoudiniModels I've always has really bad experiences with revell models. Not afraid of clean up or a bit of scratch building. But bloody hell they needed melting and recasting. that's a great kit and you've done a belting job
Well done, Harry. What was your reasoning behind not weathering the ship? Asks me, who wouldn't know what a weathered ship looks like. Again well done.
I considered it, but I wanted to go the route of a wood ship model and have it looking spanking new. In fact I may just post it on a wood ship FB page and see if anyone realises it is plastic LOL
Watching you rig the model, it also strikes me how much skill and effort it took to come up with the design in the first place and the skill it must have taken to sail these ships. I hope we'll see the final version flying a red ensign (from the stern apparently) and a red pendant :)
Ah, she's finished! What a lovely passage you have taken us on. Always enjoy your videos, they teach you to have fun when you are building. But what now? Now we want to see wooden ships - or have you scrapped it? Or will it be the famous V? Hej from Sweden (we celebrated mid-summer yesterday!
Thanks for this series of videos. I also recently started building this kit, even though I'm not a ship builder. So this was a great way to get to know some of the ins and outs of ship kits. Thought it'd be a relatively simple job, but now I find myself scratchbuilding most of the parts.
@@HarryHoudiniModels Hah, after rescribing the entire deck and the copper plates... then scratch building the helm, flag locker, rudder housing, all the grates, the windlass and the capstan I'm hoping there's an end in sight soon.
I loved watching this series! You shared a lot of really great tips and tricks! I look forward to more of your upcoming ship builds! It's amazing the way you made this plastic look like real wood. This ship looks amazing!
Fantastic job! And very understandable and useful tips. I will try to use them. I am currently working on the "Royal Louis" in 1:200 from Heller, which I bought over 20 years ago, but never finished. Greetings from Cologne to Australia.
Thanks Markus. I have the Heller Royal Lewis 1:200 kit and even thought it is a smaller scale to my Bounty, it is a much larger and much better detailed kit. Should be a joy to build.
@@HarryHoudiniModels That's right, it's a very nice ship. However, I am not sure whether I am perhaps too confident in myself. It's actually been decades since I built my last model. And I've never rigged a sailing ship before. But let's hope for the best. :)
Been an absolute joy watching this build and what a beautiful ship she is, I have learned so much from you about rigging, Thank You so much for sharing your Talent, Best Regards, Pete, UK
@@HarryHoudiniModels Yes I have watched the first 2 vids and will watch the rest, Really Enjoying, I am new to this hobby and have just started the Airfix Golden Hind 1/72 so watching your vids are a great help, Thank You for all you do and please dont stop, Regards, Pete
An excellent build and you made the videos fun, as well as educational. I've been intimidated by these types of sailing ship models, but now, I feel more confident. Thanks very much!
A really nice job, I admire your patience. I'm tackling the Revell 1/225 HMS Victory, and hope to replace the nasty plastic shrouds and ratlines, but the prospect of doing even that gives me palpitations. I'm not a confident rigger
I'm thinking of mounting a piece of wood inside the bottom of the hull for screws to go up through the bottom of wood plaque, gluing the block to one side of the hull then to other side as I fit the hull with the deck, then final drilling would work anywhere along it for mounts. Can you guess this is my first mount of a ship on anything but the plastic stand it comes with? I really want it to be solid it so it doesn't fall over during the build after hull painting.
It is a very light plastic model. Not a heavy wooden metre long ship build. So only needs a light mount to the base. See my other comments. As long as your pedestals are secure in the keel you should be fine. I added no internal bracing at all.
Hi Harry, Great build, it's always good to finish a model. Just one point that let your build down to a degree in my opinion, OK I am picky, was the amount of "fuzz" on the lines, when I was building the Heller 1/100 Victory (on hold for the last 20 years) running the line through bees wax or candle wax then running over a candle flame removed all the "fuzz" and may even preserve the material to a degree, I thought you did a little instructional on preparing rigging lines earlier in the build.... The Bounty will look good next to your Victory as a size comparison. Keep up the great work. Cheers, Stephen.
I did wax the lines, but the Revell supplied cordage just seemed to fur up again. I switched to some Imai cord and it was much better. I even rewaxed existing lines on the model, which looked good for a day or so, but eventually furred out. Won’t use that Revell line ever again.
Yes I explain the basics in rigging in the earlier videos in the Revell Bounty series. Even in part 1 where I show the instructions I talk about basic rigging.
Every video has been chaptered in the description, so you can easily see the list of topics. Find the one you want then click on the timecode in the description to jump to it in the video
@@HarryHoudiniModels Nice one! I am in the midst of building Revell's 1:96 scale "English Man O'war" where I am giving the colour scheme a complete overhaul amongst other things. The ship has a few characteristics of an English Galleon(Revenge-4 masts) but is basically a reproduction of Revell's "Spanish galleon" of the same scale, which is more accurate in terms of authenticity.
@@HarryHoudiniModels It's a waterline model of a three gun decker (HMS Victory) about 20 feet long. I thought you'd enjoy the challenge of building and rigging her :) www.flickr.com/photos/thedcms/6731860545. This was the version I saw when I visited back in 2011. They've improved the presentation and moved it to a better location since.
@@HarryHoudiniModels It's a fantastic museum. They still have a working rope making building, which makes an interesting tour. HMS Gannet is well worth visiting as well.
