America 1851 by MWMooring - Model Shipways - vintage yellow box schooner yacht kit - Scale 1:64 -

[MWMooring]

Brand new to model ship building. Acquired a vintage Model Shipways yellow box kit of the America Schooner Yacht to try out. I've always wanted to build a sail ship and this was a nice inexpensive kit to try out. I know it's different from most modern kits today, but let's see how it goes.

 

I have some experience in woodworking and have a pretty decent collection of tools to get me going. Here's the kit as it arrived, 

As someone has pointed out to me, the included metal fittings are likely lead and so I'll probably need to replace those.

Edited 6 hours ago by MWMooring
picture format

[SaltyScot]

It would be advisable to change the iPhone HEIC format of your images to JPEG. Just send them to yourself in an email and download them to your desktop (if you have a computer). If not, change the photo settings on your phone. As it is, anyone viewing you blog needs to download the image before they can view it. Just a tip for future reference. I am certainly interested in seeing how this build goes, I am fast becoming a schooner fan and like the look of tis one. Did you research the history at all? I will be following along on this one!

[ccoyle]

Mark is on target with his suggestion for photo format. The average viewer will have little interest in downloading an image to view it.

[MWMooring]

Thanks. It should be fixed now.

[ccoyle]

1 hour ago, MWMooring said:

As someone has pointed out to me, the included metal fittings are likely lead

 

Check the kit documentation thoroughly first. When white/Britannia metal first hit the scene, its benefits versus lead were loudly touted by manufacturers. If the kit's metal parts are Britannia, it'll probably be stated somewhere.

[MWMooring]

6 minutes ago, ccoyle said:

Check the kit documentation thoroughly first.

I checked all of the documentation and unfortunately there is no mention of the type of metal at all. I suppose I could get a lead swab test kit and see what results that yields.

 

Thanks, Chris

[Gregory]

America is one of my favorite subjects.   I look forward to seeing your work.
Those plans are a treasure. A great resource for a scratch build.

[Thukydides]

Good luck.

 

Just remember you will never regret going back to fix something you didn't quite do right, but you may regret not bothering.

[MWMooring]

2 hours ago, SaltyScot said:

Did you research the history at all? I will be following along on this one!

Mark, I did do a bit of research. Interesting history with this schooner. It appears this vessel went through many changes in its lifetime.