Sunday 30 April 2017

Two boats in one....

How to inadvertantly create two boats from one....

Having set about destroying/providing a waterline for a new plastic ship of the line,  I was left with the bottom of the hull.  I stared at this item which was relatively intact. Looks like a ‘long boat’ or ship’s tender does it not, I think to myself.
I tend to get distracted by these little projects, fun that they are.

With strips of styrene to make the rowing benches and rods for the oars glued on and a quick paint job, it looks the part.
Here can be seen the original model and the resultant efforts with some of my 19th Century 15mm Marines for scale comparison.

While it appears to be an optical illusion, the row boat was formerly the keel of the sail ship