HMS Beagle - Cubic Fun model

Hellow everyone been about a month since my last post. For those wondering I am indeed working away at my models. Progress is slow but more are on their way. But in the meantime here's a little something I put together over the past few days. It is a 1/76 scale model of the HMS Beagle, the ship that Charles Darwin sailed on. At first I was skeptical on how it would turn out but I must say I am very impressed with how it has turned out. Here are a few photos of the model which not takes pride of place on my windowsill. I hope you enjoy.

View from the starboard side. Really quite impressed with how tough this little model is. 

Bow detail. One small bow chaser on a turntable with anchors either side.

One of my favourite features are these little boats that hang rather snuggly of the stern.

Something else I love about this model is how it can inform all my other ship builds. With regards to how to properly design and layout sails and masts.

View from above. Struggled to get the light on it correctly rather difficult I am afraid.

Close up view of the deck. I placed a model down while I was building to test for size indeed even though this model is 1/76 and therefore smaller than 1/72 you really do get a good sense of just how compact these vessels really are.

Well I hope you enjoyed this post about a ship. A big thankyou to my parents who bought this as a present for me at Christmas. Finally got around to making it. As I said before I am steadily working away at painting up various miniatures, so look out for posts in the not too distant future. In addition my sculpting work continues at a slow but steady pace. Unsure when I will be done with either of the figures but again something to look out for. But until then I wish you all a good day/night and look forward to hearing from you all again soon.