Man O' War

It depends on what you mean by 'sloop'. If you want an 'HMS Surprise' you can cobble a decent injection molded one together by taking Lindberg's 'Jolly Roger' kit (actually a 1780's french frigate concept "La Flore" - JFKennedy had a large model of her in his ofice by the way - not the Linderg kit, though) and removing a longitudinal section (~ 2 guns worth), building up the bow to eliminate the "beakhead bulkhead" using Evergreen, filling and sanding. Scale is advertised at 1/133. The kit is a fairly decent kit, but requires some filling and sanding to get rid of the raised "wood grain" texture in the hull and will require some scratch building to do decent channels and stays. One of the best parts is the price of this kit, I've picked up three at ~$10 each.

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The Man of War is/can be the same as the current Revell Spanish Galleon. The Xbec is a rare version from Entex / Heller. A few companies make a "sloop" but in smaller scales. One more rare model is the Heller Reale' DeFrance, you can find them Ebay, but at a price of about $80.00 - $100.00 or so.


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4248&item=5913175797&rd=1

Jake