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    July 2009
Posted by Publius on Sunday, February 6, 2011 7:48 PM

Fabulous piece. Maybe he knows something we don't? Sure gives you the spirit of a clipper at sail, doesn't it? Thanks for the link, Paul V Bankgok.  PS My Kearsarge is on the bench. Rope supplyers on strike. No progress.

How does this work?

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    February 2003
  • From: Lacombe, LA.
Posted by Big Jake on Sunday, February 6, 2011 6:56 PM

That Constitution  looks like it was modidfied to look like the United Stated I've never seen the double aft quarter cabins before

 

 

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  • From: Formerly Bryan, now Arlington, Texas
Posted by CapnMac82 on Sunday, February 6, 2011 5:59 PM

Can't be any odder than the Constitution with what looks to be a walnut deck.

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  • From: Carmel, CA
Posted by bondoman on Saturday, February 5, 2011 1:23 PM

http://www.revell.de/index.php?id=905&L=1

Don't get me wrong- I have nothing but awe for modellers at this level. It's just that the genesis of the whole exercise, as pointed out, is kinda wierd.

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  • From: Lacombe, LA.
Posted by Big Jake on Saturday, February 5, 2011 12:52 PM

Can you post the link?  I tried to find it but could not.

Thanks

Jake

 

 

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  • From: Groton, CT
Posted by warshipguy on Saturday, February 5, 2011 12:33 PM

Why not just take the Revell so-called Thermopylae and convert it into a so-called Pedro Nunes? The Thermopylae kit had the parts to do so. That is all Revell did with the original kits anyway! Neither truly represents what they purport to be.

Bill Morrison

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  • From: UK
Posted by Billyboy on Thursday, February 3, 2011 2:52 AM

It's one heck of a model though- the rigging is very good.

The Revell Pedro Nunes is kit, like that company's Thermopylae, a clone of the Cutty Sark kit with altered deck arrangements, http://www.modellversium.de/galerie/5-schiffe-ww2/1529-pedro-nunes-revell.html. I suppose it is even more of a nonsense than the Revell Thermoylae, given the inevitable differences between Thermopylae as a sail training ship and as a ship-rigged clipper!

I suspect no one at Revell Germany has even the slightest inkling that the kit is a nonsense!

Will

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    December 2002
Posted by Dreadnought52 on Wednesday, February 2, 2011 10:17 PM

Perhaps because you have a well developed sense of irony.

 

WS

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  • From: Carmel, CA
I don't know why I found this funny....
Posted by bondoman on Wednesday, February 2, 2011 8:47 PM

Searching the RoG website just now for instructions, I read a banner article about the "Model of the Year 2010". The builder won an award for building a 1/96 model of the "Thermopylae", using the "Pedro Nunes" as a basis and making modifications.

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