mtdoramike

Just remember when building, there are no mistakes, just happy coincidences

I did the same thing and bent them with my fingers. I doesn't need to be much. I built this kit close to 15 years ago now. It's a great kit to build, but I would make a few suggestions, GET RID OF THAT CHEEZY wood that is painted great to simulate copper plating and use real copper foil tape. Secondly, get rid of those metal casted windows and make some from wood, they will look much better in the end. Lastly, contact the Constitution museum and ask for some wood from the real Constitution that they sell in their gift shop from past refits and have them mail it to you, then use it to make like Mast heads, crosstrees, anchor davits and such. If you decide later to sell it, this makes buyers dig deeper in their pockets when you tell them this.  

The San Francisco By Artesiana Latina is a beautiful little kit that finishes off very nicely in natural wood. I built one about 10 years ago and gave it to my brother for his birthday. 

I'm getting a little long in the tooth and just wanting a nice kit that will give me a couple of years of enjoyment and heart break to build while I still have the fortitude to be able to do it.

I love Constructo kits especially for kit bashing. They have great materials, but the instructions SUCK. I always go strictly by the plans and throw the instructions away, they will get you in trouble. Also sometimes their accuracy can be a little off so if your a purist or perfectionist Constructo kits may not be  for that type of a person. But I rather like them and was glad to see them come out with a Victory kit.  

Here is the Constructo Mayflower that I built several years ago. I sold it to a guy up in Canada

I have built this same model in the past. It's a great build. You are doing very good work and really cooking on this model.

I've been looking at some of the newer versions like Constructo, Mamoli and some of the others. I've been out of ship modeling for about 7-8 years and getting the itch to do one last model before I get too old to see the riggin lines. I'm looking for a grand project. 

I have built around 20 models in the past 15 or so years and have sold most all of them. But this next project will more than likely be donated to a library or something similar if nothing more than a remebrance of me.

So any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated.

Great work so far, may I ask which kit manufacture this kit comes from? It looks like a great kit from what I can tell.

Thank you very much.

I have built Two Constitutions the first was the Mamoli kit and the other was the Model Shipways kit

I have built a number of the Constructo kits including: Mayflower, Bounty, Pandora, San Mateo & King of the Mississippi paddle wheeler and the Cutty Sark.

I also built the America which was a Leclur kit and the Bluenose which was another Model Shipways kit.

I have built the Mamoli L'Orenoque

These are a few others. 

The Constructo Mayflower was my third build. I love Constructo kits, they are very detailed and the kit contents is better than average.

Are you asking for the person who built the model or the company who manufactures the kit?

The Constructo HMS Bounty was my first kit build. I left mine natural wood color with just a varnish finish on it. At times, I do wish that I had painted her the colors of the movie version of the Bounty. When people who visited and saw the model, they would always ask why it didn't look like the movie version with colors. I just preferred the natural wood look.