Unboxing Corel Ponte Berlin SM48 1/25 Scale

Kurt Konrath

Kurt Konrath
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I recently purchased a kit of ships section or diorama of the Berlin.

This kit is made by Corel of Italy and is catalog # SM48 and is 1/25 scale build of stern deck with helmsman and office on the deck wit one cannon.

Lots of fine details in the build.

I will post photos of the unboxing to show what is in the kit.

This should make a good small build.
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Kurt
 
OK, here goes the kit unboxing

The kit when ordered from eBay showed up about a week later. Cost for me was $35 USD plus shipping of $8.80, good price for a nice size kit.

I got a small box in good condition, no rattling or moving inside the box.
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Once opened it had a bubble pack with all kits items packed inside for safe shipping.
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so now I opened the bubble pack and reveled what was packed inside.
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Inside the bubble pack were two pages of instructions, a bag with wood parts, a bag with small parts and a post card of finished build as an example of how to kit will look when done. Next a breakdown of items.


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The roll of main wood parts shows good quality work with 3-4 different wood types

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The parts bag had three separate bags of item broken out

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one zip-lock bag of small wooden detail parts

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A second zip-lock with ropes, pins, blocks, posts and small casting parts

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Last bag was larger castings to include two crew figures.

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Here is close up of the kit info from instructions. These are multi-language instructions.

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Sheet 1 page 1

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Sheet 1 page 2

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Sheet 2 page 3

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Parts listing

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Close up of one section of instructions, repeated each page in multiple languages

Instructions Jig.jpg
The kit comes with a building jig to get spacing of floor frames and and ships structure properly spaced

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Instructions have multiple full scale views of construction of deck and hull sections.

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this shows how deck is a bit above base on kit, with ladder going down below and different heights of hull sections.

One thing I didn't see in the kit were recommendation on size of display base needed for building the kit on.

From setting parts out on my cutting mat, a 9" x 12" wood base of nice wood is needed to display the kit.

Hope you enjoyed this review, I think this kit will be a fun small detailed diorama of workings on the ship.
 
Kurt, Many thanks for showing us the content of this nice kit .....
 
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