New year, new online build. Doggy Industries Triomphante was one of last years' more interesting new kits and as I have wanted to do a battleship of one of the colonial powers for a long time I have put this one to the top of the to-build pile. The kit looks really nice out of the box and as I found some very good pictures of Victorieuse in a white and buff scheme I decided to build her as her older sister.
After looking at a lot of 19th century pictures and drawings I have decided to respectfully disagree with Abdur about the shape of the poop deck and made my own version in evergreen 2020.
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I also did a quick build of the bridge and funnel combination. All resin and PE parts fit very well.
I did lower the funnel as I want to put her under sail with the funnel retracted.
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And the upper deck main guns were assembled. Everything is still loose in these pictures, I want to add some more detail later.
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The hull was given some extra detail around the masts. All pictures I have seen of french battleships of the period show lots of heavy rope around the masts and this was made out of speaker wire.
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And to round off a weekends' work I added the bases for the main deck secondary guns and sent Victorieuse away for a coat of primer.
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