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Recovering from a health problem that kept me away from my studio since june, I decided to start a small project that will hopefully allow me to slowly find my feet. I've had this little kit from MarisStella for some time now, and I decided to build it because it should perfectly match my expectations: a simple model without any headaches that should be a pure pleasure to build and yet give a nice looking model. The kit Batelina is a 4 meter flat bottom boat used since the early 1900's as a small fishing boat. The name "Batelina" is derived from the Italian word "battere" which means to hit, this was describing the sound of the flat bottomed boat hitting the waves. This vessel is now found throughout the entire Croatian coastal region. The kit is at the 1:10 scale. The wood supplied is of excellent quality and can be used without needing to be replaced. The box also contains a laser board with a precise cut and without too many traces of burn residues. There is also a base provided (which I do not think used because the laser board is plywood) A 1:10 scale plan and an instruction manual richly illustrated with color photos describing the different steps complete the box. The manual is written in three languages (English, Italian and Croatian) Rabbet The rabbet is already drawn on one side with a small laser cut. You just have to remove the wood inside the tracing with a small wood chisel. I photocopy the plan to simplify the drawing of the rabbet on the other side. The plan is cut out and the rabbet area is removed so that the rabbet can be traced on the blank face. A wood chisel will allow me to hollow out the rabbet. Bow Filler I photocopy the original plan again so that I can have templates to trace the part of the bow fillers that needs to be beveled. Once the two fillers are beveled, they are glued to the keel with the first frame. Time to move on to the next frames...
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Welcome to my official first build log and first ship build. After careful consideration, and thanks to many of you, I have decided on the Batelina as my first ship build. I was told this would be a good choice to get me going, so, I picked up this kit from Rick at Modeller's Workshop. He also hooked me up with Zoran from MarisStella, both are really nice guy's, going out of there way for the hobby. Now to the kit itself, I noticed how nice a quality the wood was, properly bundled, no warping whatsoever. The laser cut plywood parts are equally nice. The step by step manual looks complete and readable, good pictures and a full scale plan with all the views needed. One more reason I picked this kit was the two build logs I found on this forum. Both have super detailed build pictures and extra info not found in the kit. Here is the one from Zoran http://modelshipworld.com/index.php/topic/11779-news-and-info-from-marisstella-ship-model-kits/?p=420044 And this one is from donrobinson http://modelshipworld.com/index.php/topic/14153-batelina-by-donrobinson-finished-marisstella-110/?p=438912 I'm not sure that I can add much to what has been done. This will simply show how a first timer can do at this kit. All that I can hope is for mine to turn out half as nice. Here are some pictures after a few nights. Slow but steady.... Here you can see my home made Keel Clamp. Rudimentary but it works...
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Hello all and welcome to my build log of the Batelina by MarisStella. I have just completed this kit that I started about 2 1/2 weeks ago and I will now show you the complete build. I decided to hold back on a log thinking it would save some time as I went along, and to give a complete log in a couple of days. I took on this build after seeing it being built in MarisStella's log here on MSW, and as all my other builds are months if not years from completion I wanted a "completion" in a short time so the Batelina fit that bill. If you are looking for a real bang for your buck this little kit has it all, the materials are excellent and the skills needed to complete her are far from the beginners level. She is a great little kit to practice your planking skills on and short of rigging and cannons has pretty much all the challenges of a full size ship just at a different level. The past couple of weeks have been a lot of fun building her and I have defiantly not only learned new skills but have also honed other ones. I think anyone needing a break from the more complex builds in your life and looking for something on the lighter side this kit is your ticket. And, no, I am not a sales rep for MarisStella The kit comes with walnut planks to complete the boat and although they were perfectly fine to use I decided to do a little changing and used cherry wood on some parts, and I also added some little extras( I think just to further stall from going to my other builds) The contents picture is missing a couple of bundles of planks which I missed putting in picture \ I am not sure why all these pictures turned out blue as they were taken outside. Test fitting the frames and transferring rabbet line to port side. My daughter and granddaughter were not near as excited about boat building as me....???? go figure
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