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    Bluenose II Artesania Latina or Model Shipways

    in Wood ship model kits

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    I am hoping Santa will bring me my first ship kit for Christmas this year, and so I have been reading up on the subject a bit in an effort to help him bring me just the right kit.  I have the book, Ship Modelling simplified, and it states the AL Bluenose II as a good first build.  Other places on the web suggest the Model Shipways version.

    Are there any opinions out there as to which would be a better starting kit for an English speaking beginner?

     

    I do have modeling experience, RC airplanes back in the day as well as RC sailboats, but I have never done any sort of planking type thing before, and that has really been the part that I always thought would be really fun.

     

    Regards, Guy

    Bluenose II by Dimitris71 - FINISHED - Artesania Latina - 1:75 - first wooden ship build

    in - Kit build logs for subjects built from 1901 - Present Day

    Posted · Edited by guycnicholas

    Greetings Dimitris, I am looking to get my first model, and yours was one of the suggested models.  Would you mind giving it a rating for a first timer?  Were the instructions clear?

     

    Another ship I liked was the HMS Snake by Caldercraft, but I am concerned it may be a bit much for a first kit (http://www.cornwallmodelboats.co.uk/acatalog/caldercraft_hms_snake.html)

     

    Regards, Guy

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