Looking for 1/75 Artesania Latina Bluenose II kit 20500 (OLD) sewn sails set

[Schaye Goldcwaig]

Hello, I have the artesania latina bluenose ii kit, 20500, old kit, and wondering if someone or somewhere I can get a sewn sails set for that kit.

Thanks.

[Keith Black]

 I searched around, nada. 

[allanyed]

Schaye

You may wind up having to make your own sails, but that would be a big plus not using pre-sewn cloth sails.  Assuming this is their 1:75 scale kit, sewn sails are so far out of scale that they are not a good choice anyway.  Even for larger scales to 1:48 or smaller, sewn sails cannot be made to scale.  You can try using a super high TC cloth if you are set on cloth but not sewing anything as there is no way of making the stitching to scale.   Better still, consider using silk span.  There has been a lot of discussion here at MSW and on the internet on making realistic sails using silk span that you can find with a quick search.  There is a wonderful booklet on making sails available from Seawatch books for $5.  Techniques apply to any sail making. https://seawatchbooks.com/products/swan-iv-sail-making-supplement-from-the-revised-and-expanded-edition-by-david-antscherl?_pos=1&_psq=sail&_ss=e&_v=1.0   

Allan 

[Schaye Goldcwaig]

Thanks Allan, I will take a look.

[allanyed]

Take a look at the below.  It will give you a great amount of information as well.

  

[Schaye Goldcwaig]

Great, Thanks!

[mcb]

Hello Schaye,

Its funny, I recently completed the same old kit.  I had fun with it. 

I am pretty sure that I disposed of the cloth sails that came with the kit but I will look again.

I agree with what Alan said above about silkspan.  I would get more than you think you need as it is relatively inexpensive.

I made about 20 silkspan sails to get 8 that I liked.  

The thing does look nice with sails though.  Just don't look too closely.

 

Good Luck.

mcb

[Schaye Goldcwaig]

Yes, looks very nice with the sails, specially with silkspan.In the mean time will look for that.Thanks.