I work very neatly; no sawdust, wood slivers or parts laying around. The whole thing gets put back away in a cardboard box when I'm done with it. Oh, and it helps to be nearsighted.
If that was your first kit, it was a fairly difficult one because of the shortcomings mentioned previously in this build log. A proper kit should be easier to work with.
What’s a brown filter? Please explain the process for me.Nice little project Kurt and you are moving along rapidly.
Clear coat, brown filter then clear coat all with the airbrush will balance the patchiness out but you can't do that in a hotel room
The small size, poor instructions and cheap wood make this kit more of a challenge than larger, better kits. Good luck!
It certainly was not my first modelkit. An almost lifetime experience with cardmodelling, plastic modelling, some balsa planes, and lately lasercut modelling: designing and production. So many basics were already there. Mainly new to me was bending de hullplanking using an hot solderingtool.
Very good progress, nice work. I suppose the question is how a newbie would get on with it and with your experience you are able to work around pitfalls that may trip up someone new to model ship building and possibly put them off.
| Main top mast – 2.9” | Main boom – 5.4” |
| Fore mast – 5.6” | Fore yard – 5.0” |
| Fore top mast – 2.75” | Fore topsail yard – 3.75” |
| Bowsprit – 2.9” | Fore top gallant yard – 2.9” |
| Jib boom – 2.8” | Fore gaff – 2.8” |
Thanks Martin! My instructions have no mast plan. It's good to have first hand dimensions. You've saved me a lot of research and calculations. Do the mast lengths include the length in the sockets in the false keel below the deck? I noted the large dowel as being too big as well.
