kedes1

Hi Kedes, i like it, and also i plan to make a small project like this, with my nice, when she stay with me, else i go back to my Sovereign. How large it is? Do you have some plans? Can you sand some plans to me? All the best, and see you soon Cristi

Hi, the kit is about 25 cm by 25 cm. I had a 28 pages manual and a plan. If you give me somes days, I could scan and photograph the 2 items for you. Unfortunately the plan is not at scale but give a lot of dimensions. Since it was a kit, some pieces were precut and the only way to scratch build it, if you want, would be some pictures of the leftover wood sheet with a ruler. I can also do that. Hope I was helpfull. Have a nice day.

do you have a build log for this?

No, I did not write one for that project. I took some pictures during it but never posted them. 

Nice one Kedes1. I enjoyed my build of this interesting project. You have made a fine model.

 

mikeaidanh

Thank you very much. That was a short project between two ships and i was able to try different things. I really liked it. Now back to my Mantua "Le Superbe".

PS. I have other pictures of the contruction or i can even take some new ones of specific areas if that can help you. Dont mind asking me.

Hi Janet

Thank you for your comment. I tried my best and had a lot of fun learning the trade and getting to the finish model. One thing that i should say is that i didnt want to build an historical model so when i had some problems i just find new ways to do it that please me and yes i ran into some.

First, i had some bent pieces but those were easy to fix. I didnt have any other real problem untill i got to the rigging. There i found two major problems: the plans werent specific enough when it came to which line were connected to the blocks i had to put on the deck and the kit was missing single blocks. I had to decide which line i should connect to the deck and that took me a little while to figure out and i had to use double blocks instead of single one a lot of time during the rigging (but at least i had enough double blocks to do it).

Since it was my first completed build i suppose the learning process had a part to play in the time it took me to overcome those little difficulties. My final thought on the kit itself is that it was a great one. The explanations and the plans were really good except for the rigging part i spoke of. The quality of the material (compare to others kits i now got) was great. I would do it again.

Have a nice day

Keven