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Robert Taylor
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HMB ENDEAVOUR 1768 : OCCRE 1/54 Scale

First of all apologies for not posting this sooner, due to life and work as this was completed back in April this year.

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After 13 months work on my Endeavour, she is finally finished. It's been a great kit & build
I have improvised in a few things like my
17 Hand sewn sails, 550 Reefpoints/gaskets
55 rope hanks, 50 belaying pins, 40 chainplates , Rigging instructions conforming with the AOS ENDEAVOUR book etc... now after 1100 clove hitches, 164 Deadeyes, 250+ Rigging Blocks, 12 Heart blocks & god knows how many miles of thread, she is now ready to set sail.

Wishing Everyone all the best in this great hobby of ours, and keep building those works of art.
I hope you enjoy the pictures as much as I enjoyed building her.

Slainte Mhath Everyone
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30 responses

  1. Wow! That's a museum piece! The level of detail is incredible. A real work of art.

  2. Amazing work Robert , no doubt hundreds of hours work but a labour of love, well done.

  3. That is an incredible piece of modeling skills on display. It is beautiful and truly a masterpiece. I can't imagine the time it took and just looking at it am amazed at all the rigging lines, knots and the sails. It should be in a museum.

  4. Wow! Amazing result after so much quality work, Robert!
    Unbelievable!
    Congratulations!

  5. Exquisite model, it’s museum worth quality plain and simple

  6. I'm totally speechless, Robert @rtmfc1
    So much detail and perfection is visible on this build, I do like it a lot.

  7. Fantastic, Robert, worthy of Captain Cook himself, no apologies needed for not posting her earlier.

  8. CONGRATS! That's a magnificent build. Oh NO! I feel the draw to another wood kit...LOL

  9. @rtmfc1 - WOW! Absolutely amazing work Robert!

  10. I am speechless. Simply awesome and totally far beyond anything I could imagine doing. I read your description above several times and have no idea what any of it means after β€œsails”. Hahaha. You should rightfully be proud of this.

  11. Absolutely outstanding, Robert @rtmfc1. I hate to overuse this word, but it really is a quite the "museum" piece. Your Endeavour is something to be seriously proud of and you have earned full bragging rights!

    • Thank you very much Eric I'm humbled by your kind words and glad you like her. I'm not an expert nor claim to be I just do the best I can if I have a passion for it. πŸ‘πŸ€Ίβš“

  12. Wow, that's a spectacular example or modeling skill. Just awesome!

  13. That is truly way out of the ordinary work. "Museum quality" indeed.

  14. Echoing all the above comments. This is fine art. Only question is β€œwhere’s the bottle to put it in?” LOL

  15. Just came upon you Endeavour model and was blown away with the level of modelling skills it would have taken to build it .A work of art first class. Congratulations on such a fine build. Incidently I was working at Aeronautical Research Laboratories in Melbourne in 1969 when we received 2 cannon salvaged from Endeavour reef which the Lab was asked to restore, I remember them in a reverse electrolysis tanks at the time, they were very much in need of TLC.

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