Although I have been a frequent visitor to the ships forum, and even left a reply or two, this is my first time for posting my own work. Feel free to comment, and offer advice etc. One of my reasons for posting this is that I couldn't find any threads specifically about the Pamir with pics (which I was hoping to find to help me along).
This is my 4th build for sailing ships, and obviously I still have a lot to learn, but felt it was good enough not to totally embarrass me here. This is not really a build log but a review of the problems I ran into, i.e. the quality of the model.
Overall I was really happy w/ the detail and fit of the pieces. There were some problem areas I will show down the line here. Very little flash and no injection points that were an issue. The instructions were very clear and easy to follow with the exception of the rigging. I actually ended up leaving off about 1/3 of the rigging, not being able to interpret what should be done exactly and the amount of rigging at this scale was frankly a bit beyond my skill and level of masochistic tendencies. I had originally planned to rig her w/ out sails, but decided that with this class of ship, its real magnificence shows in full sail. (you can view the rigging plans here: http://manuals.hobbico.com/rvl/80-5629.pdf)
Problem areas:
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Finished and some general build pics:
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I added the boats from the racks that I cut off to the poop deck (?). Seemed wrong to have only two boats for the entire ship, and they don't seem out of place there. the position of the davits for the forward boats doesn't make any sense to me, but the ones aft worked out pretty well.
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I added the crane hooks with some copper wire that I bent to shape and ended up repositioning the crane arms so that the sails would fit.
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this kit did not have any rigging blocks so I used some brass crimping beads I found in a craft store, the crane hooks and blocks are certainly not to scale, but felt it was a good trade off for the overall effect. if you look close, you can see that the shrouds at the top did not have enough length to fit correctly. This was the same for all three masts. There was no getting around it that I could figure out.
As I said, feel free to comment and could someone tell me how to post pictures so that they can be viewed in the post and not just as links?