¹⁄350

Building The HMS Mary Rose, 1916

Even in 1/350 the ship is only 9 ½ inches length over all, so I was careful to not overawe the ship with the sea height.

After the first couple of coats of paint the hull appeared to my eyes a little flat and featureless; upon closer examination of photos of M class ships showed visible plating runs as well as eyebrows( rigoles) above the portholes.

The eyebrows were fashioned from very thin copper wire, these were made by wraping the wire around a suitable drill shank to create a ‘spring’, cut longitudinally and the cut again on the bench, after careful selection they are attached to the hull using clear matt varnish.





The waterline was marked using the faintly visible join as a guide.