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Revell Thermopylae
« on: November 11, 2015, 02:13:46 AM »
Hi all we due to the kind generosity of CPNGROATS (a member on another forum who was so impressed by my model ships he gifted this to me from his own stash)I have received this





today.
Thank you very, very much George, very kind indeed.
I hastily opened it tonight eader to start but my missus says NO!!! "you have enough models on the go, cluttering up my house. you finish some of them off and get them out the way". to be fair I do have 9 on the go and bits are all over the place, she's generally ok so I cant complain ( but I have found in the past a bit of sweet talking can bring her round ) so watch this space, in the very near future.

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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2015, 03:26:29 AM »
but I have found in the past a bit of sweet talking can bring her round

The sweet talking didn't go so well...

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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #2 on: November 11, 2015, 05:34:54 AM »
Ha ha ha  ;D

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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #3 on: November 11, 2015, 07:58:49 AM »
During my formative modelling years in the late 60's/early 70's this kit was on my Must have list, you know the Revell Catalogue with all the models you have to have ticked (no highlighters in them days)
It never happened.

So I am really keen to see how this comes along

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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #4 on: December 13, 2015, 03:26:09 AM »
Hi all well since I'm having a rest from the darn Citroen I need something to fall back on (this addiction will be the death of me)I thought what be better than this,TBH I've been looking forward to this since I was kindly given it (I just hope I can do it justice)









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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #5 on: December 13, 2015, 06:28:34 AM »
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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #6 on: December 15, 2015, 04:38:16 AM »
Hi all here is the next update, most of the deck colour is done with pastels























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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #7 on: December 15, 2015, 04:41:28 AM »
You are a deck color-finishing genius  :)
Reddish spots on deck (before being brushed out): are those liquid or powder ?
« Last Edit: December 15, 2015, 05:17:12 AM by finsrin »

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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #8 on: December 15, 2015, 04:21:26 PM »
Pastels sand a stick on 160 grit paper then brush across the grain, I used several colours building up the colour till it was how I wanted.

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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #9 on: December 17, 2015, 03:51:07 AM »
Hi all well I've tried a little experiment, I got some copper and brass leaf with the intention of guilding the copper plates and spraying it with salt water to get the patination of the real plates, well they dissolved so that's out so now I'm thinking I will guild it then distress it with a combination of washes and such my question is ( as there is some debate as to weather it was copper or muntz metal which is an alloy of zinc and brass I think) should I guild it with copper or brass.



















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Re: Revell Thermopylae
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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #11 on: December 18, 2015, 04:03:22 AM »
Hi all I've gone for the copper leaf (needs a bit of patching) but I think its ok



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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #12 on: December 20, 2015, 05:04:05 AM »
Hi all well I've started weathering the copper.







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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #13 on: December 21, 2015, 03:15:23 AM »
Hi all given the green a coat of paint and weathered that and done a bit more to the copper






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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #14 on: December 21, 2015, 06:48:44 AM »
The decks and the plating look great. I wanted this kit (and the Great Eastern) as a kid, but they were beyond my skills at the time. My Dad ended up buying and building both. This brings back good memories.

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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #15 on: December 29, 2015, 01:01:08 AM »
Hi all a small update on this one











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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #16 on: December 30, 2015, 04:09:04 AM »
Hi all here is tonight bit










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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #17 on: January 04, 2016, 09:10:01 AM »
nicely progressing

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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #18 on: January 07, 2016, 03:05:42 AM »
Hi all done a bit more to this one.










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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #19 on: January 07, 2016, 03:11:45 AM »
You gotta be fooling us.  Deck and deck house look so much to be real wood --- thatz what they must be - not plastic.

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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #20 on: January 17, 2016, 08:45:17 PM »
Hi all here is the next update













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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #21 on: February 10, 2016, 04:20:10 AM »
Hi all another update on this one.







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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #22 on: February 12, 2016, 10:14:30 AM »
Coming along very nicely. Those old Revell kits were really very good for their time.

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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #23 on: February 17, 2016, 04:35:50 AM »
Well I'm so cross with myself, went  to do some rigging on this and dropped it, snapped off the rear mast broke the shrouds on the fore mast snapped some of the rigging on the bowsprit, a few of the hatches have come off, broken some of the stanchions round the top of the rear cabin. luckily nothing that cant be fixed but its put me back quite a bit, Grrrr and no one to blame but my butter fingers. I could almost swear, flippin heck, blimey and fiddle sticks (sorry for the profanities there)

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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #24 on: February 17, 2016, 09:40:20 AM »
Me? I would be swearing & cursing loudly & profusely. Well restrained, that man! :)
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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #25 on: February 25, 2016, 03:47:52 AM »
Hi all well repairs made.
This believe it or not was the worst bit ( I glued that wheel on at least half a dozen times)

and made a bit more progress



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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #26 on: February 29, 2016, 04:20:20 AM »
Hi all here is tonight update may I first say anyone contemplating this ship, please read the rigging instructions alongside the build instructions and dont leave them till the end, as you can plainly see I have not done that and still I've made things extremely awkward for myself, there is some rigging from the main mast to the four iron rings in the deck which now I have the belaying pin racks and the foremast shrouds in place will be extremely difficult to attatch.
anyway here is where I'm at now.





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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #27 on: March 15, 2016, 02:12:34 AM »
Hi all here is the next update on this








Baring in mind these are almost Identical scales (the thermop is 1/96 and the soliel is 1/100) I still cant believe how much heavier and bulkier and cumbersom the soliel was (I mean I know she had to be able to withstand cannon fire and such) but she must have been sooooooo slooooowwwww



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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #28 on: March 22, 2016, 10:37:04 AM »
Whoa! I was whittering on about productivity in another thread. The inferred limitations obviously don't apply to you!  :)
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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #29 on: April 05, 2016, 03:08:41 AM »
Hi all well this must be jinxed I went to get an hour in tonight and have had a catastrophe, now I've got several hours of remedial work, it's now back in the outhouse while I calm down.


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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #30 on: April 05, 2016, 08:41:45 AM »
Ouch! :o


Don't give up, though! A guy who can flip from bikes to boats to whatever & put out the photo-realistic results you do can't be beaten by a mere broken spar! :icon_alabanza:
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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #31 on: April 05, 2016, 11:17:44 AM »
Ouch! :o

Indeed! And all that gorgeous, taut rigging  :(

Still, appropriate recuperative medicinals seem already to be on hand  ;)
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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #32 on: April 16, 2016, 04:04:40 AM »
Well repairs made and a small update, I really hope I don't have any further catastrophe's






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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #33 on: May 19, 2016, 03:02:24 AM »
Hi all, well I needed to do something to take my mind off things so decided to start the ratlines  (actually I found it very relaxing) 






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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #34 on: May 19, 2016, 08:27:40 AM »
Interesting, sometimes I find rigging biplanes relaxing, although I've got to tip my hat to the kind of patience and skill it takes to do this kind of work!

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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #35 on: May 21, 2016, 03:57:55 AM »
Hi all more progress on the Thermopylae


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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #36 on: May 23, 2016, 05:34:13 AM »
Looking good!  :)
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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #37 on: May 25, 2016, 03:19:46 AM »
Nice update! That's some truly masterful work!

Thanks for keeping us in the loop on this sloop!

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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #38 on: August 01, 2016, 12:59:55 AM »
Hi all got the rear railings on and made a start on the aft mast ratlines connections.




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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #39 on: August 01, 2016, 01:25:14 AM »
 :)
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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #40 on: June 20, 2017, 01:54:56 AM »
Hi all well this is back on the bench (hoping to finish it by October, a bit optimistic butbi will try)

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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #41 on: June 20, 2017, 07:05:15 PM »
 :)
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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #42 on: June 23, 2017, 01:40:38 AM »
Hi all here is the progress so far.




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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #43 on: June 24, 2017, 11:17:56 PM »
Hi all here is the next update .





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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #44 on: June 25, 2017, 06:04:30 PM »
That amount of rigging almost petrifies me! :o

You're a better man than I am, Brother Nuts! :icon_alabanza:
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« Reply #45 on: June 25, 2017, 06:40:23 PM »
Thanks mate, I've barely started the rigging and yep it's hair pulling stuff (well it would be if I had any)

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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #46 on: June 28, 2017, 03:33:56 AM »
Hi all here is the next update I noticed a split in the vac form mizzen sail and was going to patch it with a stitched square then thought I would experiment with some super glue.

Unfortunately the superglue made the weathering go white but a coat of acrylic white and you would never know.

I've finished all the ratlines on the forecast



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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #47 on: July 01, 2017, 03:37:35 AM »
Hi all here is the next update seems like a lot of rigging on this but it's nothing compared to the soliel royal, and I've barely started this.



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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #48 on: July 01, 2017, 05:17:06 PM »
 :o Good luck, son! :o
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« Reply #49 on: July 03, 2017, 01:45:41 AM »
Hi all here is the next update




I'm actually quite shocked and proud, my missus just said you can't stick that in your junk yard(what she calls my spares room)she said I just can't think where to put it, maybe we could get a display cabinet.

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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #50 on: July 03, 2017, 01:52:08 AM »
Well, there's a win, right there! :)
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« Reply #51 on: July 03, 2017, 07:16:17 PM »
It's  Beauty kpnuts, and you're right to feel proud of it!

I cannot understand why your wife is afraid...  ;D

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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #52 on: July 07, 2017, 03:37:36 AM »
Hi all, well that's one mast finished, only 2 more to go.




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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #53 on: July 07, 2017, 07:24:17 PM »
I'm a drooling wreck curled up in a corner of my study & I'm only looking at the photo's of it! :o
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« Reply #54 on: July 10, 2017, 03:06:32 AM »
Hi all well this is shelved again for a while I've broken the (I don't know what it's called) the bit that tensions the bowsprit, I'm not actually sure how to fix it as it's very thin plastic and superglue doesn't seem to work I'm so annoyed at my clumsiness, this is the fourth time I've broken something on this kit. I will fix it, it's just annoying.


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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #55 on: July 10, 2017, 06:10:42 AM »
Is your CA glue fast-acting or the slow type?  That may help with your repairs.
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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #56 on: July 11, 2017, 06:28:09 PM »
Can you replace the part with brass or real wood? ???
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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #57 on: July 24, 2017, 02:54:18 AM »
Hi all well fixed part so back on it again.



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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #58 on: July 24, 2017, 12:30:39 PM »
Bravo, sir! :)
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« Reply #59 on: July 24, 2017, 03:34:23 PM »
Wow, very nice!

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« Reply #60 on: July 28, 2017, 03:41:10 AM »
Hi all here's the next update got the anchor chains the anchors and populated the ship with sailors.







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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #61 on: July 28, 2017, 06:02:29 PM »
Crew, too! Looking good! :D
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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #62 on: August 04, 2017, 01:29:08 AM »
Hi all on the last leg now.


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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #63 on: August 04, 2017, 03:36:45 PM »
Excellent! :smiley:
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« Reply #64 on: August 05, 2017, 01:49:00 AM »
Well I'm livid I was hoping to finish this tonight (so close and now so far) I picked it up to turn it round to do the rigging on the left side of the second mizzen sail and it slipped from my fingers, if I'd let it fall it would probably landed on the floor on it's stand with no damage instead clumsy me tried to save it I broke the bowsprit (again) it took Supreme control not to hurl it at the wall I've managed to create a heath Robinson collection of weights and threads to pull it all together and get all the rigging true (the dolphin striker will be a bit twisted though) I'm hoping when all set it will still all be true and I won't have to strip all the rigging off and start again. I really am cross, I mean really cross, I came so close to finishing her grrr.

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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #65 on: August 05, 2017, 10:51:14 PM »
Oh, Gawd! :o

However, if anyone can pull off the recovery, it's you, mate! :smiley:
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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #66 on: August 06, 2017, 06:08:46 PM »
Hi all well it's finally finished.
Just one question, I know which one goes on the main mast from the box art but where do these other flags go.










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Re: Revell Thermopylae
« Reply #67 on: August 06, 2017, 11:13:29 PM »
Beautiful!!!  Considering all that has befallen you while working on it, it looks gorgeous and a tribute to your skills.

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« Reply #68 on: August 06, 2017, 11:16:21 PM »
Beautiful!!!  Considering all that has befallen you while working on it, it looks gorgeous and a tribute to your skills.

Great job, Robert! :smiley: :smiley: :icon_alabanza: :icon_alabanza:
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