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  1. I've decided to pretty drastically update this log, as all of the early construction posts were eventually rendered obsolete as I changed my mind and started the model over a few times in order to attempt to make it a little more accurate. The model currently doesn't resemble the mini-mamoli kit a lot, although the original core of wood is still in the center of the ship in most places. I'll probably also stay with the early lateen sail plan, although I'm toying with the idea of alterning the masts to reflect the voyage across the Atlantic. Alan
  2. Before I started with my first real Kit, the Optimist I already did a Mini Mamoli Kit - the Goletta Elisabeth, a nice little two master. As my first ever wooden model kit I thought the Mini Mamoli Kit would be perfect and indeed it was. The Kit comes with preshaped hull, some laser cut parts and some metal parts as well as material for sails. I was a little bit surprised the sails were not already done. Will be interesting to do them on my own. The Kit: First steps were sanding the hull and attaching the deck with glue and rubber bands as well as gluing the stand and paint it with primer and black colour. There were not a lot informations in the description about colouring so I decided to stain some parts in mahagony like the railings, masts, bow spur and cabin parts. Adding the deck went well and the cabin parts are coloured and glued together pretty fast. Bending the railings was a little bit tricky. Soaked them in boiling water for like 10 minutes and did a form with nails to fit them into over night. worked well. There is a small rear part on the railing which needs heavy bending as you can see in the picture below. Couldnt figure out how to do that yet. Also I already painted the water line. Below in red and above white. The paint job with brush was not that clean as you can see, maybe bubbles or not enough fine sanded hull? dont know really why it came out like this. Drilling holes in the deck for anchors for the rig was easy and fast done. Net mistake was to try to paint the metal pre formed dinghy with the acrylic wood colours. Yeah that did not work, learned from that and ordered some new colours, so the dinghy will be added later.
  3. Hi all, Recently I've become fascinated by floating things with tall poles and giant sheets of woven materials. I'd never cared much about ships but have always been interested in aircraft, and especially small plastic representations of them. I've built a few of them in the past and enjoy modelmaking, as it has taught me patience and the enjoyment of working with my hands to create a displayable piece. When I was young my father purchased a large plastic model ship, which ended up with us ditching the project after hand painting the deck and being unsatisfied with the results. While I hadn't much of an interest in ships, I had always admired the models of them. The seemingly endless amount of tied off strings and craftsmanship that went into creating wooden models seemed far out of my skill range and I figured I would leave it to the "experts". Specifically the rigging is what turned me away, thinking I barely had enough patience to do basic necessary tasks such as cleaning parts or waiting for paint to dry, so there was no way I would have the dedication to connect every tiny line that a sailing ship demanded. Recently however, I've caught some bug that has left me enamored with sailing ships, their history, and just how cool and interesting they look. I decided to test the waters of ship modelmaking by purchasing the Academy 1/350 Cutty Sark. I promised myself if I completed the model, I would purchase an entry level wooden model. After about a month's work I arrived at the below result: The rigging was painful and resulted in quite a bit of frustration, since I seemed to repeatedly have issues with the line sticking to the tweezers and not the boat, line not being as taut as I'd like, etc., but after a few days work I called it complete. While not perfect, part of my modelmaking journey has been learning to cope with imperfections and accept that the model is not destroyed just because there are paint chips and excess amounts of glue. Every screw-up on one model is an opportunity for a better next model. Enter the model that just arrived at my doorstep: I intend to hold this build log as an accountability partner and I welcome any and all suggestions/tips. I will be starting with the stand, as I have minimal woodworking skills/tools and lack a vice. I look forward to posting here! Chase
  4. Decided on this from my small stash of models as it looks like as fun build without too much detail. As you can see, it's an older version - This is NOT the Dusek version which is much better. Box contents - not a huge amount! Solid hull will need some shaping. Wheel all wrong, added 1 ships boat, eyes, pins and 2 more ladders to the contents. The slotted pieces usually used for gratings are meant to be the guard railings. A small start, but much to do to get a reasonable shape 😅 With a bit of luck I may be able to pull this off - Lets see!
  5. Hello, This is a side project for refreshing. I'm working on the HMS Bounty's precision hull fairing from old Sergal kit. On the contrary, this kit is designated for relaxing and fast build. So, please sit comfortably and relax while watching. Hull fairing... pass! I made some deck planking. It is considered an easy and fast build. I added gratings to cover my mistake on the lower deck. Easy and fast build... Yeah. It was easy to plank the hull. But the hull fairing made it difficult... After some trial and errors, mass production! Easy and fast! I figured out the quarter galley parts are not in the kit. I downloaded some free HMS Victory 3D models, edited them, and printed them using a 3D printer. The details are horrible, but this is an easy and fast build. 😎
  6. I never worked on this small scale before, looks like fun. This how it should look when finished.
  7. Due to COVID pandemic me and my wife have to work from home, so my workbench became an office desk for her and I could not work anymore on other project, America. I have to adapt and I got smaller builds. Here's Gozzo vela, from Mini Mamoli (now part of Dusek Ship Kits). The kit is quite simple and fun, but there are several problems with it: Some wood sizes mentioned in instructions are missing or are not enough The pre-carved wood hull has some flaws (see below) The instructions seems translated with some automated tool (I read English, not sure about original Italian) The instructions doesn't seem very detailed, basically there are no details, just enumerates some steps, quickly Most wood used is walnut, but is very thin and is breaks so easily I made some mistakes: I tried to fix hull creak with filler, but it was broken and it raised over surface which was mean to be smooth, so then I decided to throw away that part and fill it. Then glued the board on the hull instead of top of it (I let the walnut strip 48h in water and I used a plank bender, but it still broke). I unglued it and used some strips I had at home and I think it looks better. The strips used for keel need thinned. Is VERY hard to make them follow the groove, so did the best I could and then just glue and trim-fit it. I painted using brush (no airbrush yet) and some shellac at the end
  8. I thought I'd take on another relatively quick project and picked up a Mini Mamoli kit for the HMS Victory off eBay. I had been excited to hear that @Daniel Dusek was bringing the Mini-Mamoli kits back, but didn't have the patience for the supply pipeline to get rolling again. For the moment, they seem to be fairly available on the second-hand market and hopefully, Daniel gets the new kits rolling along soon. The Mini-Mamoli kits are billed as being for complete beginners, but while they clearly aren't full-scale models, I'm skeptical that many people would finish in the 15-20 hours that I've seen claimed. I'd spend that long on just the painting! But, in theory, I should be able to advance to the rigging reasonably quickly - and then we'll see how long that takes! Another thing for which to be prepared - The instructions are pretty poor. They are translated from Italian which doesn't help, but I'm pretty sure that even in Italian they leave out a lot of details/steps. So, be prepared to be a little innovative. Hopefully Daniel will be able to improve on the instructions with the new kits. Also - I feel like doing the project "right" requires more materials. The kit comes with a single diameter manila cordage, but the kit will look a lot better with some varied thicknesses of black cordage. I've ordered some from ModelExpo which hopefully should be here soon.
  9. Starting out with a small scale build was a very wise choice. I seem to be spending a great deal of time tearing down and rebuilding. (He says with a smile.) The instructions, to my mind, leave a great deal to be desired and the right tools are an absolute necessity. I'm sure that any small amount of knowledge on the subject of ships would be helpful as well. All in all I'm finding the build to be thoroughly enjoyable and challenging and I am confident I will arrive at its end with a handsome ship that I will proudly display (with any defects carefully camouflaged).
  10. This is not only my first wood model sailboat I’ve built, it is also my first build log so bear with me. I had always been fascinated with models and built numerous plastic ones as earlier as ten years of age. In fact my very first model, a B-36 “Peacemaker” was built by my father and given to me when I was just 7 or 8 years old. I think that was his first and only model he ever made. I suppose that’s when the bug bit. I always chose the more complicated ones so I ended up making WWII military ships. The cars and planes seem to me to be too simple. I usually never looked at the instructions and was able to put them together without too much of a problem. I think all I had was a pair of tweezers for tools. My models neat and clean but weren’t painted. I let the color of the plastic provide all the realisim. As I got older I started to paint. As I look back on it they probably weren’t great models but I had fun. Most if not all ended up being blow up with firecrackers. Hey, I was a kid! I graduated to the Guillows scale balsa and tissue paper planes and built them as static models. They were fragile and over the years they too met their demise. All this is leading up to my very first adult build, the Model Airways Albatross D.Va, a WWI German fighter; a “museum quality model.” It’s the plane that the Red Baron got most of his kills in. I chose that kit because it had the most number of parts for the fighter plane kits being offered. To build the kit, I started to accumulating materials, tools, etc., and a lot of what I purchased I bought from Model Expo. During one of those buying sprees, Model Expo had a deal whereby if you spent X amount of dollars they gave you a free model kit. I received the Mini Mamoli schooner Evergreen. According to the box cover this is a circa 1920’s British racing yacht. This particular kit was offered to customers by Model Expo for around $30 in 2006-7, but I haven’t seen it since nor have I been able to find anything about the actual boat on the Web. After completing the Albatross, I was a novice when it came to knowing the ins and outs of a sailing craft. I didn’t know the nomenclature, nautical terms, the mechanics of how a sail boat operates, etc., but I jumped into the water so to speak and started the kit January 2008. This would be my training wheels project for I had spied my next project even before I started this one. I wanted to build the Mamoli Rattlesnake. The Evergreen kit had the bear minimum of instruction and in some cases the picture on the box did not match what was in the box. Even some of the instruction illustrations contradicted each other. The final product as shown on the box cover left something to be desired which I shall explain in the build log.
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