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Here goes, this is the start of my build log of the Royal Louis 120 gun ship of the line in 1:90 scale, this is a kit from the late Mamoli company.
Due to issues it’s nearly two years since I stopped modelling, my wife bought me this kit for Xmas in an attempt to get me started again. She succeeded as I started the build on Boxing Day.
The Kit. It was bought from Ebay and I believe that it is at least twenty years old. It was complete and in perfect condition, like new with no warped sheets and all the strip wood was surprisingly good.
There are six different types of strip wood in various colours and certainly plenty of it, enough for the many re-does that I’m sure I’ll be needing to do. There is a large amount of cast parts, mostly good and plenty of the usual kit supplied stuff. The plans are excellent, plenty of them and well detailed, three being 1:1 scale sheets much better than the new trend of online guides. The instructions are acceptable/good. ( Italian translated ) but appear very useable.
As I mentioned, I started about six weeks ago and I’ve made quite a bit of progress so initially my log will be trying to catch up with the current state of the build. I’ll do the log as if I’m doing it in real time, mistakes and all, it took some time to get my head around building again so there’s plenty of them. As usual I’ll be building only with parts supplied with the kit, this is my normal way as historical accuracy is not my thing, I just enjoy the build.
I’m a bit nervous about the small 1:90 scale, especially with the smaller parts as I have issues with my hands and have very recently had intrusive surgery which has left my left arm looking like it was bitten by a shark leaving little feeling at the moment, but recovering so please give me some slack.
Due to issues it’s nearly two years since I stopped modelling, my wife bought me this kit for Xmas in an attempt to get me started again. She succeeded as I started the build on Boxing Day.
The Kit. It was bought from Ebay and I believe that it is at least twenty years old. It was complete and in perfect condition, like new with no warped sheets and all the strip wood was surprisingly good.
There are six different types of strip wood in various colours and certainly plenty of it, enough for the many re-does that I’m sure I’ll be needing to do. There is a large amount of cast parts, mostly good and plenty of the usual kit supplied stuff. The plans are excellent, plenty of them and well detailed, three being 1:1 scale sheets much better than the new trend of online guides. The instructions are acceptable/good. ( Italian translated ) but appear very useable.
As I mentioned, I started about six weeks ago and I’ve made quite a bit of progress so initially my log will be trying to catch up with the current state of the build. I’ll do the log as if I’m doing it in real time, mistakes and all, it took some time to get my head around building again so there’s plenty of them. As usual I’ll be building only with parts supplied with the kit, this is my normal way as historical accuracy is not my thing, I just enjoy the build.
I’m a bit nervous about the small 1:90 scale, especially with the smaller parts as I have issues with my hands and have very recently had intrusive surgery which has left my left arm looking like it was bitten by a shark leaving little feeling at the moment, but recovering so please give me some slack.
