gjdale

Well, here we go with what you might call the "Executive Summary" of my build log. I started this log when I first joined MSW in Sep 2011. At that time, the model had been under construction for 15 years, although the last six years had been a complete hiatus while work, family, and life in general got in the way. This is state of the ship around the time of joining MSW: Form here I'll just focus on some of the key events of the last 18 months or so. First up was a decision over hammock netting. We had quite a discussion over whether to use black or white (or other colour) netting. After many, many trials, I settled on black netting made from Tulle (comes white, but painted black). Here's a shot of the completed netting: In Jan 2012, I decided to take a little side-road to scratch build one of the ship's boats. I settled on the 34ft launch, using lines from AOTS and guided by a mini-practicum by Bob Hunt. Here's a photo-essay of this little journey: A little bit further down the track, I became dissatisfied with the look of the Stern and Quarter Galleries. Although I'd already made a mod to the kit some years ago, my experience here at MSW convinced me that I could do better. Danny came to the party too, providing detailed drawings and long distance e-mail support, guidance and mentoring along the way. I owe a great deal to Danny for the way this turned out and this whole exercise summed up for me what this wonderful site is all about. Enough blathering, here's a little photo-essay of this adventure: I'm not sure about limits to pictures in one post, so I'll just break this one off here and continue shortly. Cheers, Grant

Nice to see your log back Rob. Cheers, Grant

So glad to see your log back Remco. Seeing some of those pictures brings back memories of some of the conversations and "challenges" along the way. Cheers, Grant

Hi Daniel, Nice to see your entertaining log back up.

Glad to see you back Anja. Cheers, Grant

Great to see you back up and running Sjors. I'll try and do the same later today. Cheers, Grant

Nice to see your log back Andy. Cheers, Grant

Nice to see your log back up Augie. I'd only recently found your previous log and had enjoyed reading it through from start to finish. You've been doing a great job on this model and I look forward to seeing further updates. Cheers, Grant

I've been building this kit for some time now - almost finished the Standing Rigging. I had a build log here, but like all the others it seems to have gone up in smoke. To answer your question, while I would not particularly recommend the Mamoli kit, it is probably no worse than any of the usual kit manufacturers. If you are prepared to a bit (or a lot) of kit bashing, it will make into a nice model. If you decide to go ahead, I can give you a few pointers about where the instructions might lead you astray early on. Cheers, Grant