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looks, promising, How what wil be the final size, 1:72 seems pretty big for her. You are so lucky to live near her, I always wanted to visit her, the story behind her is so amazing.

Today I couldn`t do much as I am waiting on some tools that I bought on ebay, I only started to paint some things:

I am still not convinced of a brass boat, do you think that it is worth buying a little kit in wood? I didn`t finish painting it yet because I am not sure if I will use it.

I also started to paint the figurehead, but my brush isn`t great, as there is a light split in the middle of the hair, will have to buy new one.

Finally I also started to paint the cabin, but I am not sure which color i should take for the decorations. (Now they are still plain metal). I am hesitating on gold, light brown or very dark brown, does someone have any suggestions on the colour?

I wish I could scratch buil the cabin but I don`t have the tools for that, so I will just go with the brass one.

Hi there, I have gotten this Kit for my 16th birthday back in January. If someone would question me why I wished to have a model ship or how I came on the idea of model shipbuilding, I could not answer it. One morning I just woke up with it in my mind. It might have been a model that I have seen once, or some photos on the internet that gave me the Idea.

Anyway I chose this kit because it was in a good price range and it was the only one with 2 mortars in the front. Once it had been ordered I searched eagerly on the web for more pictures of the finished ship. (a little late maybe    ) Unfortunately there were only a few pictures and I only found two build logs (one in Russian and one in Portuguese). I might have taken another ship if I had known this before ordering it. I was wondering what other ship were available and this is how I stumbled on this site. Only after reading through build logs did I come on the Idea of modifying the kit. I never thought to improve it  , but now that I have a log I will try to do modifications .

This log may not be worthy of this site, but I hope to get excused because it is the only build log of this ship here.

Anyway here are some pics:

The first planking I did was terrible, because the instruction weren`t very clear, so I used lots of wood filler  

Now I just finished the second planking and started to cut out the gun holes (is that what they are called?)