Last year my girlfriend bought me a model of HMS Victory to build, because she knows I love painting miniatures, but I had no job and thus no money to spend. However, because of many things (lack of time, laziness, procrastination — okay, just the last one really) it’s lay pretty dormant since then. I did paint one of the decks and half-painted that deck’s cannons, but other than that, it’s been left. I then realised I needed some black spray paint (to undercoat — for the uninitiated, painting colours straight onto plastic doesn’t work very well, so you use a darker undercoat to allow the newer layers to coat better) so I went out and bought some, and right now, the two sides of the ship and the upper deck are drying.

Now, mainly to encourage me, I thought I’d blog my ship-building efforts. I can provide pictures for anyone interested. Details as well, if anybody wants them (scale or whatnot).

This introductory post is just to know whether anyone would like to watch my progress, and laugh at my poor efforts at trying to paint a realistic wood effect onto a plastic ship with average painting skills, a severe lack of brown paint variety, and a miniscule model. This will probably end in disaster. Anyone wanna watch me sink?