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Wooden model HMS Bounty

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Kit manufacturer of the kit: Constructo

Vehicle type: Sailing and rowing

Country of origin: United Kingdom

Model scale: 1:100

The story of this model is simple: I was long dreamed of assembling a sailing ship… And then there appeared a serious reason: to restore motility of my left hand after surgery. At first, I couldn’t even hold the housing with my left hand, not talking about bending the rail and gluing it to the housing…

So the model was simplified here and there.

  • Instructions only in Spanish and English didn’t help much.
  • Some parts from the kit seemed to me poorly executed and were therefore rejected.
  • I couldn’t dare painting the housing in black and instead painted it in beautiful dark navy blue color.
  • I couldn’t conquer proposed brass wire for decoration and twist it beautifully with one hand and a half. Therefore, I tried to imitate gold decoration with the paint based on PVAC. And I think, I did a little too much…
wooden model ship HMS Bounty

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Shortcomings of this wooden ship model

There remained a lot of questions on the rigging. Unfortunately, in the manual were given instructions of this kind: fix the sails according to the scheme. The scheme was not very distinct because of putting black ropes on other black ropes. Among the photos there were very few close-up photos of sails, though the beginning of the assembly was shown and described, even “chewed” in a too detailed way.

So, here is the imitation of HMS Bounty built only with my right hand!

Thanks to this ship for the restoration of my left hand.

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