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Now I produce the two reserve anchors which have to be attached at the tail of the ship.

The anchors are made of metal. The fastening you can see on the first picture. They are painted black and fixed on the ship together with the anchors.

Regards Joachim

I think the last time, I doubled the post .. but I dont know how...

Nevertheless, now a few small things - life preservers. Build with small wooden rings, a small cord around each ring, small white paper stripes around the rings to fix the cord.

Regards Joachim

The next post concerns the pins and the pin rails (hope it ist the right word??).

Originally, the kit contains the big pins from Krick. Years ago I used these pins, you can see them on the first picture. But now I don't like them any more and wanted to have more suitable ones.

So I decided to build them for myself. First I build a metal shape and milled the wood. I tested several woods to find the suitable, in german its name is "ramin" but I don't find a translation for it.

After producing 150 pieces and shorten them, I could produce new pin rails. The result show the pictures.

Regards, Joachim

The next post concerns the pins and the pin rails (hope it ist the right word??).

Originally, the kit contains the big pins from Krick. Years ago I used these pins, you can see them on the first picture. But now I don't like them any more and wanted to have more suitable ones.

So I decided to build them for myself. First I build a metal shape and milled the wood. I tested several woods to find the suitable, in german its name is "ramin" but I don't find a translation for it.

After producing 150 pieces and shorten them, I could produce new pin rails. The result show the pictures.

Regards, Joachim

Thank you Gary!

Fortunately, I had the chance to see the Amerigo sailing. Since I was on the university, I am sailing nearly every year, mostly in the north of Germany (e.g. baltic see) or on the Mediterranean. And during these cruises I was able to see the Amerigo. I can tell you, it is a really impressive moment! Of course, I visited the vessel also during great sailing events which take place every year, but a really great moment is, to pass the vessel on sea or sail nearby! These moments had been the reason for building this model.

I had a look on your Soleil Royal, a really wonderful work! I put it in my list for following it. Due to my own work on the small boats I can really understand your remarks to your own boats. But, looking to your impressive model, I am sure, you will succeed also with wonderful boats.

Hope, my english is not too bad to understand...

Regards, Joachim

Hello,

thank's a lot for all your kind comments!

Concerning the boats of the Amerigo, they are still the original from the beginning (this told my a guy who stayed on the Amerigo for a few months). The boats are manly used for training and representation, for rescue they have a lot of liferafts.

For the kit the manufacturer obviously simplyfied the plans of the boats and use them also for different other kits. I saw (compared pictures with the plans) that the hulls of the boats are very close to the original one but the rest was partly different and too simple. Therefore I took the hull as a basis. Also I took many pictures, compared them with the Amerigo or people, or... which are on the background of the pictures and could approximate the dimensions for all the parts.

Unfortunately after I just got new pictures, I realised a few mistakes, so I have to rebuild partly the windows of the motor boats..

Now the question, how much time it took up to now to build the model, is very difficult to be answered. Looking back to all the years, I think it must be more than 1000 hours and less than 1500 hours.... My plan is, to be ready within one year.

So far, regards Joachim

Hi Ben,

thank you very much for your interest

Regards, Joachim

Thank you very much, John!

Now, the complete fleet of the four similar boats are ready. They are build in the same way as the first prototype. There are a few differences between the boats, eg. two of them have additional boxes in the bow of the boats.

At least there is missing the equipment of all the boats, but this I will do step by step.

Regards, Joachim
 

Hi Michael,

you are doing a really wonderful work!

By the way, in another forum I got the following link to a video of the vasa. Although it is spoken in swedisch, the video is wunderful!

But please be careful, there are parts, which are not good for young children.

http://www.vasamuseet.se/Om/Aktuellt/Filmen-om-Vasa/

Regards, Joachim

Hi Michael,

during the last few days, I looked sever time to your Vasa. And I would say, it is a really great job you do with the model, excellent.

Especially I admire your courage for the difficult modifications of the kit based model, but the result is outstanding and absolutely worth to be done!

If you need other informations beyond the pictures I send you, don't hesitate to contact me! I will follow your build log also in future.

Best regards, Joachim

Hello,

now I would like to show you one of four similar boats. These are rowing boats, but also they have 2 masts with sails. First of all I produce one of those boats as a prototype.

Due to the fact, that the plan in the kit was totally wrong, I could referre only to pictures of the real boats. Based on the pictures I had to draw own plans of the boats.

In the pictures you can see some details of the construction of this boat, step by step.

After this one boat, the next step will be to construct the other three boats of the same type. And then they need of course paddles, masts etc..

Regards Joachim

Hello,

today I would like to post some pictures from next boat. It ist the captains barcasse.

Also for this boat I had to add a few details to the one which was in the construction kit, e.g. propeller.

Regards, Joachim

Hello,

the second boat is a rowing boat which is placed in the tail of the Amerigo.

Because of plans which did not correspond with the real boat, I took the pictures from the existing one and build it according to them.

Regards, Joachim

Hi,

the next thing to do, is to build all the boats of the Amerigo. And they are a lot. In total the Amerigo has 11 more or less different boats.

I build them similar to the big ship on frames. The hull mostly has to be painted.

Due to a few pictures of the real boats, I modified the kit based boats and added a few things to them, e.g. propeller,...

First I will show you pictures from one of the motor boats.

Best regards, Joachim

Hello,
after the warm welcome in this forum and the interest on a build log of the "Amerigo Vespucci", I will start it now.

As you may know it is an Italien sail training ship which was originally build 1931.

The model bases on the Mantua-Kit, which I tried to optimize according to pictures of the real Ship. I started to build the model in 1994, but just shortly after the begin, I had to disturb the building due to job, wife, house building, kids, ... A few years ago I restarted building the model again.

Some data:
Mantua Kit
scale 1:84
length 1,25m
hight 0,75m

In a german forum I have already started a build log of this ship a few months ago. Therefore, first I will present as an overview also the steps which I have done since this time. Unfortunately, I have got no pictures from the earlier steps, so I will start with a mostly ready body of the ship and show you first some detail pictures.

Hope, you enjoy it.
Best regards, Joachim

Hi,

in earlier years I build the Corel-Wasa Kit. Some pictures from this model I put into a german modeler site:

http://www.segelschiffsmodellbau.com/t1308f99-schwedische-Galeone-quot-Wasa-quot.html

Maybe it helps you a little

Regards, Joachim

Hallo Ilhan,

you build an excellent model, my gratulations!!

Just one short question: which plan did you use for this model?

Regards Joachim