HMS Victory - 1:72 scale
Launched in 1765, she is most famous as Lord Nelson’s flagship in the battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
In 1922 she was moved to dry dock at Portsmouth where she is preserved as a public museum and continues to be the flagship of the Second Sea Lord and is the oldest navel ship still in commission.
The custom display case I built for her keeps her dust free.Also attempted canvas oil background painting.
Overall length - 227 ft. 6 in.
Beam - 51 ft. 10 in.
Crew size - 850
Armament….
Gundeck - 30 32 pounders
Middle Gundeck - 28 24 pounders
Upper Gundeck - 30 12 pounders
Quarterdeck - 12 12 pounders
Forecastle - 2 12 pounders and 2 carronades.
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Completed in December, 2009
The most tedious, and dreaded task has to be tying the rat lines with clove hitch knots equidistant from shroud to shroud.
This ship has over 2,000 clove hitch knots in her rat lines.
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