Shar2 Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 Sailing Ship Pamir1/250 Pamir was one of the famous Flying P-Liner sailing ships of the German shipping company F. Laeisz. She was the last commercial sailing ship to round Cape Horn, in 1949. Outmoded by modern bulk-carriers, and having severe technical difficulties after her shipping consortium was unable to finance much-needed repairs and recruit sufficient capable officers, on 21 September 1957 she was caught in Hurricane Carrie and sank off the Azores, with only six survivors recovered after an extensive rescue effort.The Model The kit comes in a quite large open top box with a painting of the Pamir at sea under full sail. On opening the box there is actually a lot of space as the kit only takes up only around 2/3 of the volume of the interior. The four sprues and the hull halves come in different colours reminiscent of the old Matchbox kits. The mouldings are nice a clean with no sign of flash or moulding pips. The moulded detail is nicely done and quite refined throughout. The hull appears to go together with ease and would need just a swift swipe with a file to clean up the seam. The only additional things for the modeller to do are open up the portholes, and back them with clear acetate. Moulded in a medium brown styrene the decks come on their own sprue. There are some deck houses and hatches moulded onto the decks, each of which has moulded wood grain which is a little regular and out of scale, but once painted should look ok. The second brown sprue contains the main masts, mast steps, fittings, spars, boat cradles, goose neck cranes, The next sprue is in white styrene and provides the main deckhouses, gunwhale fittings, cargo cranes, winches, ventilators, bollards, and mezanene decks for the cranes. The remaining sprue is moulded in black styrene and contains the foredeck netting, ratlines and the three part stand. Since this is a windjammer, there must be sails. These are in the form of three vacuform sheets and each sail must be carefully cut out and shaped. Decals There is a small decal sheet provided with the ships name in a choice of colours depending on where the ships was registered, either Lubeck or Hamburg. There are also a number of flags for the different owning companies and ensigns. A paper sheet of code flags and pennants is included to add to the rigging as required. Conclusion Although this model is in an unusual scale it look like it will build into a very nice model of a very attractive ship. It will take quite a bit of work and care to rig it correctly, but the instructions are pretty clear on where the provided thread is to be used. If you want to try something different then I can certainly recommend this kit.Revell model kits are available from all good toy and model retailers. For further information visit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richellis Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 It looks nice, I did wonder about the huge box when you collected at SMW! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fidgeh Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 Crikey, do they still make this - I'm sure I had (but not made) this kit some 45 years ago! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shar2 Posted December 2, 2011 Author Share Posted December 2, 2011 Crikey, do they still make this - I'm sure I had (but not made) this kit some 45 years ago! If that's the case, then the moulds have held up very well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookiemonster Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 In my Fuselage is a copyright which says the Kit is from 1995. First released as Passat. That is a very good kit. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevehnz Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 I'm sure I'm right in thinking the Pamir sailed under the New Zealand flag after being taken as a war prize early in WW2 until sometime after the war. I don't 'spose the markings would cover for this but it'd make for an interesting variation. Steve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andre B Posted March 16, 2021 Share Posted March 16, 2021 (edited) On 9/30/2012 at 2:25 AM, cookiemonster said: In my Fuselage is a copyright which says the Kit is from 1995. First released as Passat. That is a very good kit. That's accurate... In fact it was the sisterships Passat and Peking. Pamir wasn't sistership to Passat and Peking and didn't look like them until 1951 when Pamir was rebuild and modernized as Passat... Strange some importen parts are missing or forgotten. The ancorcrane/derrick is missing. Some railings are missing to (cowbridges and midshipdeck) and there are no binnacles. So this shipmodel can't be built right out of the box as Pamir before 1950... Sheers / André Edited April 1, 2021 by Andre B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andre B Posted March 16, 2021 Share Posted March 16, 2021 On 9/30/2012 at 1:49 PM, stevehnz said: I'm sure I'm right in thinking the Pamir sailed under the New Zealand flag after being taken as a war prize early in WW2 until sometime after the war. I don't 'spose the markings would cover for this but it'd make for an interesting variation. Steve. It was an expensive affair for New Zealand and it was returned to Eriksson and Åland after two, three years. The NZ-crew for exemple once blew all sails in lack of experience. Sadly, this kit can't be built as Pamir NZ as the ship at the time didn't look like Passat, Peking, Padua and the other P-liners... Cheers / André 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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