First Pirate Ship

Alot of holes dont match up or no hole at all, tons of plastic skin on parts, instructions are not horrible but also far from good. I had to look at other builds to figure some stuff out.

Example, you get all the cannons glued in place only to find out the cannon port holes are really small so you have to go back and break the cannons loose and re-adjust them so that they all fit when you add the main cannon window piece.

There are times it should tell you both sides but they forgot. Also the top and bottom floors were both slightly warped and had to bind them together overnight to get them in sinc to glue up as the posts did not match.

But i am making progress.

I dont understand why the color insignia red for some of the parts, ill google it maybe pirates had a reason for the red.

I would like a suggestion of how i can easily accent the black hatch cover with the two doors. ?

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As far as i can find, pirates wore red because the dye used to make that color was expensive, so you had to be well off to own or use red anything. So when they painted items in their ships red or wore red scarfs it was seen as a sign of prosperity. :)

Now days its not scarfs, its $1500 cell phones they wave around to say "im important". I think they are stupid for paying that much for a stinkin cell phone.
 
Superglue the cannons and mounts. Once you put the sides on, many of them are impossible to put back unless you break a hole in it, see pic first port, ill disguise it as battle damage.

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And hereis my attempt at seam repair.

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ok its seemless, battle damaged and 3 color (white, black, brown) washed. Here are the results.

I do wish i knew how to make burn marks on it, ill check youtube.

This part of the process took forever, between back and forth black then brown repeat like 10 times due to shacky hands, priming sanded parts, washing, and cannons falling out left and right lol

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durangod said:
ok its seemless, battle damaged and 3 color (white, black, brown) washed. Here are the results.

I do wish i knew how to make burn marks on it, ill check youtube.

This part of the process took forever, between back and forth black then brown repeat like 10 times due to shacky hands, priming sanded parts, washing, and cannons falling out left and right lol

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Coming along nicely!

The only plastic sailing ship I built was the USS Constitution. That was a blast. After that I switched to scratch built wood ships. You have more control over what you build and it's not as hard as it sounds. But I would still try another plastic kit if I found one that looked really fun.

As mentioned above, rigging the ship is an adventure. I didn't go blind, but it does take a while. And - if you're obsessive like me - you might go over some historic drawings of sail plans and discover rigging that was left off the model and add it yourself. :)
 

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