Brannaren by drobinson02199 - Caldercraft - Scale 1:48

[drobinson02199]

After a break from ship building with the Jupiter locomotive, I've returned to ships.  But the HMS Victory really maxed me out on ratlines, so I was looking for something different, and wanted to build a cargo ship.  The Caldercraft Brannaren looked like a good bet.

 

Included here are the tranditional "what's in the box" pictures.  The hull is pre-formed since Caldercraft intends this to be a RC model if desired -- but I'm going to build it as a static model for display.

 

I pulled the manual and quickly realized that sparse is perhaps an inflated description of the written instructions.  So I went looking in the box for a bunch of how to build diagrams -- but no dice.  There are a few charts -- I've included an example of a master chart -- but for me at least there was a real gap in figuring things out from the instructions.  I think Caldercraft's philosophy on this model is best summed up by the following excerpt from the manual:  "Piece by piece descriptions of placement of the remainder of the fittings have been deliberately omitted, as it is
thought that the drawings and photo pack adequately describe and show all placements of them."

 

I read this and thought:  great, where is the "photo pack".  Not in the box.  Did some preliminary web searching for pictures, but didn't find much beyond the single stock picture on the kit page at Caldercraft or Ages of Sail or others.  Wrote Caldercraft about the "photo pack" but no reply.

 

So I bore down on Google and searched really hard, and finally found a set of pics from several sources that will provide adequate guidance for construction, painting, etc..

 

I don't mean my tone above to indicate to any of you that this is one to steer clear of.  Far from it:  with the pictures I've found I'm now feeling confident and looking forward to the build.  With that in mind, if anyone following this log decides to take on the Brannaren, I'd be more than happy to forward the pictures I found, as I think they are essential.  I'm not going to post them here as I don't want to clutter up the log or confuse followers as to what I built and what others built.

 

Regards,

David

[Jim Lad]

Looks like she'll make a very nice model, David.

 

In your search, did you find the web site, https://srcmbc.org.uk/2020/06/21/brannaren-a-baltic-coastal-tanker/

 

John 

[drobinson02199]

John:

 

Yes I did.  It's the source of some of the most useful pictures I found.  Thanks for sending it along.

 

Regards,

David

[yvesvidal]

Caldercraft Kits are among the best. Excellent choice.

 

Yves