Adri

Hi! I'm arrived to a final decision, yeah! I'll start with Santa Maria from AL and here is why I came to that decision: PROS: It's a cheap model: 150€ Instructions clear and step by step I can buy the kit including paints a figures Found a spanish utuber step-by-step full tutorial really well done Many choises to buy from CONS: Probably not historically accurate Other vendors may have better build quality FINAL CONSIDERATIONS: Now I would like to be able to concentrate on the construction technique, without having to interpret deficient instructions or having to customize or correct the model. I need some model that helps me to re-enter in this hobby, to get used to it again. This will be a construction of a model where I will probably make several mistakes, so it must be cheap ... I will treasure your valuable suggestions, get stick to Vanguard models, but in Italy their kit are really very expansive! I'll keep their model for whenI'll be more experienced. Next questions: Is there a list of other kit made by Chris Watton, not from Vanguard? Can you suggest me the first tools that I really need to start with? Thank you so much for your help!

Thank you guys! Definitely i'd have to go for the Speedy, but >=400€ mhh let's think about it.

Hi Allan, wow you've been here? Yes I'm speaking of Modena and if there must be something better than a Ferrari or my beloved Captain Nelson, it can only be a good plate of tortellini or tagliatelle! 😀

Hi everyone, I am Adrian, 50 years old, I've been interested in WWII model making for years, then I quit for study and work. Now I'm back, because I recently found the only wooden ship model I made, the Blue Shadow, abandoned in the attic. I will ask some advice to help me re-start!😁 The work-logs are really fantastic! Thank you all for your support for this community.

Good morning everyone!!! I am happy to have found such a well done website and with so many competent members! I built my only wooden ship model 25 years ago (the Blueshadow ). I would like to build something again now. So I am certainly a newbe, but not too much, I have manual dexterity, patience, determination. So I ask for advice. I would like an adequate model to start again, but not really a starter-kit, something that already poses me some challenge, that will not keep me at the table for years. Looking around I'm leaning toward: ( in ascending order of difficulty, I think) 1- Santa Maria 1/64, it seems really an entry level, undecided between two brands: Artesania Latina https://artesanialatina.net/en/gift-ideas/62400-gift-pack-1-65-santa-maria-caravel-model-figurines-paints-and-tools.html This all-inclusive kit would make my life easier, instructions seems to be detailed. (Is it so?) Amati https://store.amatimodel.com/it/modelli-amati-classic/prodotto-scatola-montaggio-santa-maria-b1409.html Is this perhaps a more professional kit? 2- HMS Snake 1/64 Caldercraft https://premiershipmodels.co.uk/product/hms-snake-ship-model-kit-caldercraft-9002/ Pobably it would be the absolute best option, in various stores and forums it is stated as suitable even for novices, of a complexity that poses a good challenge right from the start and I think it would be a good school. Only flaw, does not seem to be for sale in any store in Italy or Europe at an acceptable price, and , mhhh, a model 250€ worth to use for practicing? 3- HMS Endeavour Artesania Latina https://artesanialatina.net/en/gift-ideas/62421-gift-pack-1-65-hms-endeavour-ship-model-figures-paints-and-led-lightning.html I am afraid this one is too complicated and time spending, maybe it could be the second model. What I am looking for, above all, is easy to read, detailed and accurate instructions. Historical accuracy doesn't interest me that much for now, I just want to practice with one/two models. So ... what do you think? Adrian