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Plan to Buy Vanguard HMS Indefatigable Kit Soon

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bowwild

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I've pent several hours studying the creator's build log and another builder's log on the Indefatigable. It seems to be an amazing ship kit. I want to suspend my building of the HMS Victory and start on this one instead. Is there any advantage of buying the kit from one vendor or another?
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It appears the price is pretty much the same around $1,699 - $1,800 , unless I'm missing something?
I did notice in the 2022 creator's log references to various different planking and deck wood boxwood vs. pear wood for example. One vendor here in the U.S. lists Red Alder and Limewood as the planking material.
 
bowwild said:
I've spent several hours studying the creator's build log and another builder's log on the Indefatigable.
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There are also a number of high resolution plans from RMG on the Wiki Commons site as well. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Ship_plans_of_the_Royal_Museums_Greenwich
I just sent a note to Buckler's Hard asking if they have a copy of the original contract for the Indefatigable and/or Agamemnon, both being Ardent class 64s. Hopefully they have one or know if the National Archives in Kew has one, which could be a big help for anyone researching her.
Allan
 
I recommend buying from Vanguard, as I did when this model was first released. The model is beautiful, but I had questions about some of the building details which were promptly answered. I purchased the pear wood option with the laser decks. I am pleased with the results. It gave me great pleasure to work on this model.
 
Well, I just applied 5 more 1st layer planks to my HMS Victory. I'm going to keep plugging along. Maybe I'll simply go ahead and build this kit that I've had for nearly 30 years. I am impatient though to try either a Vanguard or Syren. Probably not an HMS Victory though since I'm working on this one.

Wow, I am sure doing a lot of waffling and have been wearing out the net and YouTube researching various ship kits. I'm even starting to taking a liking for the PO Frame models (like at Syren), but I have to have masts and full rigging because that's my favorite part of the build on these things.

I see a lot of folks build up quite an inventory of future build kits. It is tempting to do so, but I have so many other hobbies that get in the way. I don't want my wife wondering someday what to do with all these unopened ship kit boxes.z. She'll have enough to off-load with my left-handed recurve bows and squirrel rifles.
 
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