Hello fellow modellers, welcome to my final post on my Antio build and thank you for following, it's encouraging when other modellers are looking over your shoulder.
My first impression of this kit were a bit mixed, inside the box was mainly white wood strip and ply, all the fittings were in a plain cardboard box, not the presentation that one expects these days. I started but wasn’t initially overly enthusiastic about it. First impressions are important as they set the initial tone of the build, but how wrong I was as this turned out to be one of the most enjoyable models that I have ever built. The plans were excellent, they left you in no doubt what you needed to do and in detail how it was to be achieved, no ambiguity to stress you out like Chinese kits, it was just old school building the only difficulty being the pressure that you put on yourself to get perfection, it was quite therapeutic to build. Antio is not a supper finely detailed model like many of the sailing ships shown in member’s logs but I have grown to love its lines and functional simplicity and at this scale it has real presence. I think that I’ve successfully achieved the look that I set out to create and couldn’t be happier with the outcome.
So now the final pictures, I wasn’t sure how to photograph it so I’ve just shot it from all directions and included the lot. Enjoy.
I’m now at a complete loss as what to build next.
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