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The Anatomy of the Bounty, by Artesania Latina, first version (~30 years old kit) was finished. Now I am building the Gunboat Philadelphia as part of Olha Batchvarov Facebook group built. Every weekend, Olha built a section, that takes her around 2-3 hours. More or less the same amount or a bit more is what I spend too. That leaves me with free hobby time during the week. The Bounty was completed so..... I need to start another project.
I picked the Bonhomme Richard cross section (pear wood) from my kit stock. This is the full kit version. I bought this kit from a SOS member a few years ago.
There are SOS excellent builts threads. Here is the link to some that I will follow for my built. Nevertheless, if anybody is interested on this kit, I will suggest you take a look to all of them, as i am doing.
DHL delivery from China Today!!! I'll post a few pictures from the unboxing below. Next post, I'll discuss my thoughts on making a duplicate with a bunch of Alder I have from a recent project. First impressions: 1. Kit arrived via DHL in Eight days! It was well packed and looked pristine...
Yesterday I started the first activities on my section model - in order to warm up At the end it should look like this a kit review you can find here...
I have had these kits for approx two years now and I have been holding off starting them, once Uwe started his build log it got my juices flowing so here goes, and by the way I will be building two of them at the same time, I will post some pics of the kit contents in awhile, but for now, This...
Yeah, another one. There are already so many builds, of such high quality, that I'm sure you're thinking we don't need another one. But I'm hoping that my build might provide some interesting discussion, and the build will definitely be from a professional non-perfectionist viewpoint. Besides...
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So, here is my first frame . Wish me fun and a bit of luck HAHAHA
I started to do the bread oven when I realized that it was better to finish the external side of the hull. In that way I definitely will have the full shape and height of the ship. Now I can concentrate on the internal parts and corresponding decks.
The ship shape is cut using a template.
Then I added all the planking and hand rails. There are details that i haven't added yet. This is where I am now :
The bulk of the bread oven is finished. I still need to add a few details. Those will be added when i set it up on the deck.
Hi all, thank you very much for all the comments and likes.
A small update today, that took me a few afternoons to achieve.
I worked this week on 1 cannon. Yes, I only could finish 1 cannon. I used the rigging blocks provided with the kit. But they aren't the correct ones for all the places. Order the correct ones and let see if I order the correct size. Nevertheless, the companion cannon, on this deck, will be done in the same way.
For the first time in my modeler life I did my own ropes with a vertical rope making machine.
Hi all, thank you very much for all the comments and likes.
A small update today, that took me a few afternoon to achieve.
I worked this week on 1 cannon. Yes, I only could finish 1 cannon. I used the rigging blocks provided with the kit. But they aren't the correct ones for all the places. Order the correct ones and let see if I order the correct size. Nevertheless, the companion cannon, on this deck, will be done in the same way.
For the first time in my modeler life I did my own ropes with a vertical rope making machine.
Hi all, thank you very much for all the comments and likes.
A small update today, that took me a few afternoon to achieve.
I worked this week on 1 cannon. Yes, I only could finish 1 cannon. I used the rigging blocks provided with the kit. But they aren't the correct ones for all the places. Order the correct ones and let see if I order the correct size. Nevertheless, the companion cannon, on this deck, will be done in the same way.
For the first time in my modeler life I did my own ropes with a vertical rope making machine.
. Wish me fun and a bit of luck
