Elisabeth by Boerscht - FINISHED - Mini Mamoli - 1:122

[Boerscht]

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.

 

 

 

[Boerscht]

Added the mahagony coloured masts and bow spur. As you can see the back Part of the railing which requires heavy bending is still missing.

 

next up I added some white painted thin decor strips on the builds which give a little nice contrast. Not included in the instructions. Also glued the golden thin frame beyond the railing which looks pretty nice. Back railing still missing.

 

 

next up was gluing some hooks for rigging on the reiling. Measured the distances between and marked it beforehand.

 

 

The provided material for the sails must be cut and sails self made. Instructions said just gluing the edges and paint the sailing structure…was a little bit too simple so I asked my Girlfriend if she can do some magic with this material and her sewing machine. And wow the sails turned out amazing I think and give the whole Mini mamoli a great touch and optic…

glued the edges before sewing because of the thin material. Sail making and doing knots at the end of the stitchings took us two days but was worth it i guess 

 

thats how they look now:

 

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The rear railing is now done. Bending the almost 90 degree was not that easy and it still doesnt fit perfectly but I take it like this.

 

 

as you can see the rig is done. The selfmade sails fit perfect and the rigging was easy done. It looks great and i am really happy with it for my first model.

Added some rolled ropes on the deck for the mainsheet. Therefore glued the rope and rolled it in my fingers, worked pretty well.

Also added an anchor chain with rope and added the now colored dinghy.

Goletta Elisabeth by Mini Mamoli Scale 1:122 is finished! Yeaha did my first model and happy with it…

 

 

 

 

Edited August 20, 2023 by Boerscht

[ccoyle]

Nice result!

[Boerscht]

15 minutes ago, ccoyle said:

Nice result!

Thanks a lot, appreciate it! 

[Knocklouder]

Awesome  looking ship, very nice. 

   Congratulations        . 

[Boerscht]

4 minutes ago, Knocklouder said:

Awesome  looking ship, very nice. 

   Congratulations        . 

Thanks 🫡