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BlueJacket Shipcrafters Lobster Boat: A Review
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I just finished this kit. I am 73 and have been building models and constructing things most of most of my life singe the age of 8. My father was much better at them than I am but I still try my damned best to do as well as he.
I am a master electrician and when work was slow I have spent most of my time at some kind of craft or another, and do not claim to be a master craftsman at making boat and ship models, but I am much better than any amateur.
My first comment has to do with the person or persons who wrote the instructions for building the kit. They have to be dyslexic at best and have written them with no rhyme or reason. You are always reading some thing and then the image is 4 or 5 pages later and in the next paragraph the image they are speaking of is 4 pages prior. Its obvious that the model the pictures are showing is of balsa and the new kits are made of bass wood plywood and that would be OK if the Chinese who are making the kits realized that it should be manufactured by assembling the wood cross grained, but it is not. On any piece that is under 1 inch wide you can not even brush it with a finger without it braking off especially on things that you have to work around until the cockpit is installed and to that point you have already planked the hull, carved the bow, filled and sanded the hull to a point it is ready for paint so for most of time it has been sitting on the two 1/4 inch pieces that hold up the roof for the cabin. I gusseted them at least 3 times each and worse yet, wait until you put the framework for the roof on the cockpit and then try and glue the roof to it
. The pieces used for the windows in the cockpit will amaze you too. If you even so much as touch the crappy "plywood between them the break into pieces. Along with that if you put any piece on top of the blueprint it is undersized and often not even the same profile. Another thing the computer programmer should know is that you CAN'T PUT I INCH INTO A 1 INCH HOLE! (Talk to a machinist, they will explain what I am talking about.)
Even the display base hat 1/2 inch holes and 3/8 inch dowels meant to fit them. Some of the bulkheads were cut off center and even with the part number on the same side the cut out is not centered. Just **** poor manufacturing.