America by Cbrand02 - FINISHED - Mini Mamoli - Scale 1:140

[Cbrand02]

The wooden stand is protected in a poly satin finish and the ship is mounted to it permanently. At some point the old tiller was lost, which I had created by taking a 1x1 and cut notches in to bend the pieces. However, I couldn’t re-create this without splitting the wood, so I decided to carve it out of basswood scraps. It’s my first wood carving and I’m pretty proud of it.

 

Edited October 18, 2022 by Cbrand02

[Cbrand02]

As an update, I haven’t given up on this! I think I got a little too excited with trying to over-detail my first kit with a set of proper rigging at this scale, so I’m going to dial it back a bit. I will report back once progress has been made.

[Cbrand02]

I’ve wondered how other projects were taking around a year, but now I think I understand! Masts, gaffs, and boom created and (almost) painted/stained. The masts aren’t permanently stepped yet.

 

 

Edited April 24, 2023 by Cbrand02

[Roger Pellett]

I just happened on to your post.  Earlier you mentioned a discrepancy between the plans and your model’s hull.  These solid hull model kits are furnished with the hull rough carved by machine.  It is assumed that the model builder will shape the hull to its final dimensions.  This is usually done with the help of cardboard templates made from the hull shapes shown on the plans.

 

Roger

[Cbrand02]

Bowsprit painted and attached along with the anchors. Need to sand down the filler used on the splintered wood created by drilling the hole for the bowsprit.

 

Not a huge fan of the mast staining I did. Tried to sand them down to get rid of the stain but they’re starting to get too thin, so might just paint them.

[Cbrand02]

Topmast attached and painted, bow cleaned up after sanding, and first block attached! Masts have not yet been stepped. I’m just looking at pictures and eyeballing everything.

[Cbrand02]

Foremast fittings completed

[Cbrand02]

Starting the running rigging. I haven’t glued the masts in place yet as I have no idea how I’d get to any of this more intricate stuff.

 

[Cbrand02]

More rigging on the mainmast, about to glue them permanently. Goofed by laying the mainmast in a puddle of thin CA glue, had to redo a large chunk. The joys of modeling!

 

Edited July 9, 2023 by Cbrand02

[Cbrand02]

Almost there! Need to do the shrouds and make some rope coils and I’m calling her complete. Took some creative liberty in a few areas, such as cleats becoming small sanded pieces of basswood and some rigging not completely right.

Anything glaring that I’m missing? Eager to finish this up but would like to know if I am missing a main piece of rigging or something (other than the shrouds)

 

 

 

Edited July 10, 2023 by Cbrand02

[Cbrand02]

Aft shrouds attached.

 

 

[Cbrand02]

And at that I’m calling my first ship done! HUGE thanks to @Stevinne for the help and posting pics of his build and to everyone else. I was close to calling it done here:

 

But pushing through the fear, taking my time, and messing up and redoing lots of things, I was able to achieve this result:

 

 

Still far from perfect but that’s part of the process I’ve learned. Now I can move on to other models!

Edited July 12, 2023 by Cbrand02

[JacquesCousteau]

Nicely done, congratulations on the build. It looks great, and despite not building this particular model, I've learned a lot from the build log!

[Cbrand02]

55 minutes ago, JacquesCousteau said:

Nicely done, congratulations on the build. It looks great, and despite not building this particular model, I've learned a lot from the build log!

Thank you, I’m glad it was helpful. Your trajinera log was excellent! Loved the history and personal touches.

[JacquesCousteau]

1 hour ago, Cbrand02 said:

Thank you, I’m glad it was helpful. Your trajinera log was excellent! Loved the history and personal touches.

Thanks, glad to hear it! Looking forward to your lobster smack build log, as I recently ordered that kit for myself. I'm also curious about some of the Mini Mamoli kits of Mediterranean fishing vessels, although from your experience it sounds like they may have some issues with the instructions.

[Cbrand02]

6 hours ago, JacquesCousteau said:

Thanks, glad to hear it! Looking forward to your lobster smack build log, as I recently ordered that kit for myself. I'm also curious about some of the Mini Mamoli kits of Mediterranean fishing vessels, although from your experience it sounds like they may have some issues with the instructions.

For a beginner they were less than ideal. The translation from Italian was confusing, the line drawings were confusing, the plans were not to scale, etc.. I ended up using a different larger model’s plans that I linked earlier in the build.

 

However as I got more comfortable the plans began to make more sense, so someone going into it already knowing what they’re doing would have much less trouble. I eventually went with the “if it looks good then it’s right” philosophy

[Stevinne]

Very nice job, it looks great. You really did a lot with that kit.