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Revell Gouda Q
Posted by jwintjes on Friday, March 10, 2006 2:02 PM
Hi all,

I recently saw this kit (more correctly "Revell Dutch Man o' War Gouda") popping up on a certain site and, having never seen it before, wonder what it actually depicts.

It must be different from the nice (but a little out-of-shape) Batavia by Revell, because that is a fairly new kit produced in conjunction with the financial effort supporting the building of the replica.

Thanks in advance,

Jorit

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    May 2003
  • From: Greenville, NC
Posted by jtilley on Friday, March 10, 2006 4:34 PM

I haven't seen it; I don't recall that it's in the current Revell Germany catalog.

Some sailing ship kits sold under the Revell Germany label have non-Revell origins.  (Several Heller kits have turned up in Revell boxes, as has the ancient Aurora Chinese junk.)  I have an extremely vague recollection that Pyro once produced a model with the name "Gouda" on it.  That would have been in the late seventies or early eighties - when Pyro was about to go out of business.  The company had a fairly large range of sailing ships that were about 18" long and packaged in white boxes.  Some of them were reissues of very old Pyro kits from the fifties, frequently with ridiculously inappropriate names attached to them.  (The "America's Cup Defender" was a reissue of the fishing schooner Gertrude L. Thebaud.  A Cup defender with two stacks of dories on her deck.  Right.)  There was also a Sovereign of the Seas, a Joseph Conrad, and - I think - a Gouda.  These were new kits, and pretty awful ones.  I only saw the contents of one or two of them, but I think they had injection-molded plastic "sails."  I suppose it's possible that Revell Germany is selling that kit.  But that's really nothing more than speculation on my part.

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Posted by jwintjes on Friday, March 10, 2006 5:07 PM
Thanks for the information - staring at a poor picture of the box art which apparently shows a built-up model it seems indeed to have these thickish plastic sails, so that would make it the old Pyro kit.

Jorit

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