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New kit from Occre 09/21/2025

rtwpsom2 said:
There's no way a company is going to develope an entire kit and then sell only 700 of them. Maybe if there was some factor like a mold would only survive 700 castings or something l like that. A hard limit to what they could produce. But I don't see anything like that with this kit.
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They did not develop anything. They are selling the same model they produced as partworks around a decade ago. They just added some extra frames and changed them to oak.
 
Admiralty. Arsenal, Museum Quality, etc. It’s just hype!

The term Admiralty Model is intended to refer to the models built by Royal Navy Dockyard Personnel in the 1600’s and 1700’s. Their exact purpose is still debated. Samuel Pepys writes in his diary about wanting one. The classic Admiralty model employed a stylized framing system where parts overlapped to form a solid band partway around the girth of the hull. They were made from classic modeling woods; boxwood and pear. The two recently released Occre kits DO NOT produce anything resembling an Admiralty Model. And, why oak? While builders might enjoy building a model from the same wood as the “real thing,” they are likely to be frustrated with its stringy open grain.

Arsenal Model: Is this a term coined by Ancre for models with exposed framing? Or perhaps the French equivalent of Admiralty?

Museum Quality: Pure nonsense! The only ones that can determine if an offered ship model meets standards for addition to their collection are the museum personnel themselves. On second thought maybe these kits do produce models of a quality for SOME museums; roadside attractions?

Roger
 
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