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Having a desire to suffer 'n all, and with the Smit London well advanced, I decided it was time I built another wooding boot....So using a bit of the unexpected back payment of a pension I bought this. Why this? I have a set of genooine photocopies of Royal Navy take off from 1837. Knowing how inaccurate kit ships are, I reckoned it would help. Now aircraft modelers are always bitching about the odd mm here and there too little, to much. Hah, It is to laugh. To get the hull profile piece any where near the real thing I've had to get the plans to the right scale (1/53??WTF) and trace off a bunch of new bits to get the bow to the correct size and shape. The stern is worse, a couple of feet short and they ignored the counter completely - the counter is the flat bit under the transom that slopes down and forward, through which the rudder stock passes....I can sort it, I reckon. Oh yeah, as is common in kits and expected, they supply one piece plywood bulwarks, so that when you put 'em on they flare out slightly where they should curve back in, slightly, from amidships and aft to the stern. fun, fun, fun. It'll brush up OK, but really, a total scratchbuild would have been more straightforward. C'est la modellismo, eh?
