Bowsprit

Various reports I have seen on the web suggest Mamoli had a serious fire in late 2014 and, sadly, went out of business as a result.  Here in the UK many of the kits are still on sale by retailers.

Hi Nigel

Others will have a better idea of quality.

However, let me say I have one of these all packaged up in a box in my garage.  What has prevented me from building it, so far, is the size - 49 x 33 x 18 inches.  We just don't have room anywhere in the house for a finished model of that enormous size.

Best of luck if you do go ahead - and please do start a build log to let all of us see your progress

Do you mean this one?

http://modelshipworld.com/index.php/topic/1916-friesland-by-aj-mamoli-scale-175/?hl=friesland

Theo

Thank you for what you have posted so far;  as someone who is coming back to modelling after a long layoff, I find your build log to be most helpful - indeed, inspirational.  I look forward to any 'updates' you can manage in due course.

That's an interesting idea.  I don't know how a whole build log could be saved/copied in one go, but it might be possible to copy individual web pages from a log to an external repository such as 'Evernote'.  Has anyone tried this?  Given that build logs can run to quite a few pages, this might become quite a task in itself.  

The questions of copyright and asking permission beforehand are very relevant.  Indeed, is it against forum rules to make any kinds of copies at all?

If you can't get isopropyl alcohol, might you consider surgical spirit, instead?  I've always understood it to be made of much the same primary ingredient, but with added extras (ie to make it smell less pleasant, and also to make it undrinkable, etc.).  I've bought it in the past from chemists quite easily for such as modelling and cleaning purposes.

Excellent video.  Many thanks.

Looking forward to it.

Here's another link - it's a rigging calculator :-

http://shipmodeling.net/vb_forum/downloads-file48.html

Bowsprit

Perhaps not exactly what you want, but it might get you started - have a look at this thread and the MSW download mentioned:-

http://modelshipworld.com/index.php?/topic/2417-rigging-sizes-in-relation-to-scale-of-model/

Regards

Bowsprit