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Kitkat

Welcome aboard! Check out the logs and a book or two. Then have a go at it - one piece at a time.
 
also from my side a warm welcome here on board of our forum
 
Just starting and would like comments or your reviews on Model Shipways Bluenose ship build. I have heard various reviews about difficult plans, and wrong thread in kit for rigging. I am awaiting for the delivery of this ship. Any thought would be greatly appreciated
 
Just starting and would like comments or your reviews on Model Shipways Bluenose ship build. I have heard various reviews about difficult plans, and wrong thread in kit for rigging. I am awaiting for the delivery of this ship. Any thought would be greatly appreciated
I've not build that kit, but the key is go slow and take your time. 70 % trial fitting and adjusting the shape to fit, 30% using glue to afix the parts. :D
 
Just starting and would like comments or your reviews on Model Shipways Bluenose ship build. I have heard various reviews about difficult plans, and wrong thread in kit for rigging. I am awaiting for the delivery of this ship. Any thought would be greatly appreciated
I can not say anything about the quality or content of the Model Shipways kit of the Bluenose, but definitely you should take a detailed look into our group build of the Bluenose.
It is a PlankOnFrame kit of another manufacturer, but you will get a lot of information about the fittings and especially the rigging and sails of the original ship


Related to rigging maybe directly a hint towards the building log made by @Peter Voogt who is discussing and researching the rigging in moment in detail
 
Just starting and would like comments or your reviews on Model Shipways Bluenose ship build. I have heard various reviews about difficult plans, and wrong thread in kit for rigging. I am awaiting for the delivery of this ship. Any thought would be greatly appreciated
Hi ‘kitkat’. It’s nice that you are going to build a Bluenose.
About your ask for ‘comments or reviews’, in de post #1 of the thread in the next link you can find a list of other BN builds:
It‘s in the YuanQing area, but I have also listed the build of BN’s from other manufacturers. In the lower part also 7 MS builds with the links to those build-logs.
Like Uwe mentioned, the rigging on my YQ-BN is mostly based on the MS-plans. Dean has also based them on that plans.
The next 2 links are interesting MS builds:
—> The Suburban <—
—> Retired Guy <—
We invite you to start a build-log as soon as you start with your build. You can ask there for help of post your questions.
Then I will ad your build-log to the BN-list.
Regards, Peter
 
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Welcome aboard. The Bluenose was (is - since I’m still working on it) my first wood kit as well. I was nervous about planking as well, but it went fairly smoothly. The build logs continue to help me. Unfortunately I probably spend more time looking through build logs than I do actually working on the BN.
 
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