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About 10 years ago, I assembled a Blue Shadow model from MAMOLI. Then I had few skills and collected everything according to the instructions. The model turned out to be childishly naive, but cute. Mainly due to the rich rigging. Two years ago, I replaced all the rigging with threads of my own twisting, as the threads from the set were covered with dust and began to look not presentable. And he gave this ship to his colleague. For better preservation, I made a showcase, but it did not fit into the interior of my friend and he took it off. And it so happened that the children dropped the model. The results of the crash are in the photo. Now I have to put Niagara aside and do the restoration of Blue Shadow. I'm thinking of making the model better than it was. There is a lot of work to be done: - I've already cut all the rigging. Completely; - I will clear the deck, the deck will need to be cleaned of varnish and brought to the same color, I will add imitation nagels; - I will make a new becket, a pump, make a minimum strapping of guns, modify anchors, replace channels and yufers and blocks (I will make smaller); - maybe I'll add something else. thus, for the third time I take up this model
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Good Evening folks. This one has a bit of a backstory to explain why this kit and why a 3rd build log. This kit was purchased by my wife back while I was building the Phantom. She thought it was cool that I was taking up this hobby and decided to surprise me with a kit she thought looked "really cool". It was on sale from Model Expo and sitting on my desk when I woke up one morning, wrapped like a christmas present (in summer). It has sat on the shelf, not out of neglect, but other builds were in progress so it was queued. She asked me a little bit ago when I was going to get to it, so I told her I would start it up as soon as I got the decking done on the Mayflower. So here it is. It is not a real ship, it is a fictional vessel put out by Mamoli under the guise of a real one. It even has a history and everything. However, despite being a fictional ship it still seems to be an interesting looking one. Since it is already a fictional one I decided to build it but recommision and name it after my wife. So, while the box says Blue Shadow, it will be the Kara June when finished. I have read many comments from all over regarding the quality of the Mamoli kits and have even read a few questions regarding this particular one. So let's get to it and see where this one goes! First: The customary Unboxing. The box itself is actually not to shabby, glossy packaging with the ship well presented. The documentation is interesting to me. The written part is in some places a little rough to understand but they get the gist across. The "plans" are more like giant pictoral step by steps which at first glance at least seem to make it easier to follow via the plans than the written documentation. It does come packaged with some decent variations of wood, well bundled and organized. This will be interesting as I am mainly used to basswood so will have to learn to distinguish between the several varieties included. Oddly, in contrast it also comes with an assortment of various odd lengths and sizes of a variety of woods. This will get even more interesting I think. The plywood parts are pretty familiar looking. They are of good quality, nice and solid and well marked so that is good. A random bag of parts, with one that looked like it is either scrap wood or a part that didn't quite make it. Hmmmmm. Rigging! Nothing much to say here. Here are what I consider the "standard" parts. Some grating, cannons, deadeyes and blocks etc. And here, lastly are the parts which, well. Okay - I don't like these. I have looked at them on the ship and in the box and I just don't care for them. They seem out of place to me. So, I will (deep breath) most likely be remaking them from scratch to make them fit in place a bit better. So overall this doesn't look too too bad. I hope -Adam
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Greetings Friends; It has been over a year since I have posted on this forum. For any who are interested in the travels of fellow captains I share briefly......Following my completion of my USS Constellation Model of which I was quite proud, I was looking forward to my next project. This was delayed by the birth of my first child; a daughter Clara. Apparently it is much easier to sneak away to the Shipyard when the Admiral is sleeping off her third Trimester than it is during the first 4 months of newborn-hood. So suffice to say, sharp objects and bits of wood flying about were not in the plan for me. Then, in mid-summer I suffered a serious accident. I don't care to get into the details but long story short I lost the use of my right eye. It was traumatic for me and there was quite a recovery before I was able to resume my regular routine. I found adjusting to the loss of biopic vision to be quite difficult and still find depth perception to pay tricks on me at close range. By the fall I had recovered enough that I began testing my hand at some of the many activities I enjoy so dearly which require the use of my sight. I began painting miniatures again and found it quite difficult, but not impossible to manage a brush on a 28mm figure once again. I practiced a lot and am almost, but perceptively not quite, back to where I was. Then a few weeks ago this kit fell into my lap. A friend of a friend found it in a garage sort of thing and to my surprise it was 100% in tact with even the receipt (2002?) in the box. My questions as to if I could still manage model ship building with only one eye is about to be answered. All without spending any money up front on the experiment. So without further ado......my build log for Mamoli's Blue Shadow US Brig.
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