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As a birthday present I received the Amati kit for the Golden Yacht (in a bottle) which was a total surprise. The box states this will be a Museum quality wooden model. I will be very surprised if I can build any wooden model to be suitable for display in a museum. Once I have completed sanding the Indy hull I will take a short break to have a look at start building this kit, which will become a side project. Having opened the box the parts all look very small. Having been spoilt for high quality pictures and instructions with the various Vanguard Model kits I have built the Amati instructions seem a little bit threadbare in comparison.
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Good day my fellow modellers, I've built scale models since my early teens and also tried out some ships, but nothing more came of it. When I got a copy of the online PC-game "Naval Action" by Game-Labs, I realized, that a did want to try ship building for a second time. My dream ship was (and still is) the american-built topsail-schooner Prince de Neufchâtel from the war of 1812. I even found plans, but had to acknowledge, that building it just with passion, but without experience would lead to a terrible result. So I looked for some ship's plans to practice and found a few. More or less a month ago I started to build the first of them: the private Golden Yacht, owned by the Great Elector Frederick William I. of Brandenburg-Prussia during his last years. The reason, I chose her, was that her plans only took up three DIN A4 sheets of paper - one for all parts, one for the detals of deck and galery and one with standing and running rig. The plans themselves seem to be of turkish origin. As I've already started the build a month ago, I will summarize the work of a couple of days in each post, until I've caught up with the current state. Because of the ongoing pandemic and the resulting shortages in funds on my behalf, I devided trying to use as many parts and materials, I already owned and to buy as few as possible. So for the main mast and bowsprit I sanded the wooden sticks of firework rockets round and conical, for smaller pieces (flag poles, yards and so on) I took toothpicks and carved them thinner using my scalpell. The keel and other parts "with edges" were made of the wooden sticks you use, to stir your coffee, where I glued two or three together, depending on the thickness I needed. The bullwarks and backbone of the hull were made from cardboard boxes, which led to a problem: as the bullwarks were each a tiny bit thicker than the slit in the backbone, the latter was bent horizontally. I mean, the front and rear part were pressed downward by two or three millimeters compared to the middle part. Fortunately I realized it, BEFORE I started planking the hull.. Unfortunately I had already glued in some wood to stiffen to backbone. Result: I needed to rebuild the hull completely. But that was to be work for another day.
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This turned out to be a very rewarding little kit. Definitely made a few mistakes along the way, but it wasn’t bad for my first model build. The directions were pretty specific and told me exactly what I needed to know to complete it. I ended up breaking the mast when I raised it up because a string was wrapped around it and I didn’t catch it until it was too late.
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