Hello everybody!
I'm new to the ships forums, but yesterday I got to photograph the model I'm working on for like five years now, so I thought I'd give it a shot. Here are the photos:
This model has an interesting history. It started as Artesania Latina ("Artist in the latrine") HECEPOB kit, about 1990. It was bought by an older gentleman, a grandfather of my work's colleague's wife (almost a family to me :-))). He started to build it as his first ship model, was later incapacitated by a stroke, and eventually died. Before his death he managed to assemble the keel, the bulkheads and the plywood false deck, and started to plank the hull. I got this kit started about 2005 from my work colleague. I tried to keep as much of the original work as I could, as a kind of a tribute to the original modeller, but I had to install new filler blocks in the front and rear of the hull, and remove the old, unfinished planking and start it over.
The kit itself is something of a rip-off the "Katy of Norfolk" - with a plank-on-bulkhead hull and lots of bugs added. The one I got didn't have sails (althought versions with sails were also available).
As I went on I started to see things in the plans, that I just couldn't accept. Here's the boxtop of the kit I have - just take a look at the chainplates to see what I mean:
It's like a contest - how many factual errors can you spot in the photo above?
I went on to study the books by Wolfram Mondfeld, George Biddlcombe, and Charles G. Davis, and also relied on Model Shipways instructions to try and debug the kit - I probably still have a lot of bugs in it, but I feel I took some more serious ones out. I made my own sails and now I try to finish the model.
I also have a question - could somebody give me a tip what kind and size of anchor - if any - would this kind of ship carry? That's the detail I have most problems with at the moment. I would be grateful for any help.
Thanks a lot for reading, have a nice day
Paweł