Saturday, September 26, 2015

Building Airfix's "Santa Maria"

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This has been a project that almost thirty years in the making. As I noted elsewhere  in this blog, the small 1/384 Airfix " Santa Mar...
Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Airfix's 1/400 "Mary Rose" - At Last, A Nice (Albeit Small Scale) Tudor Warship

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In the realm of plastic model sailing ships, some eras seem to be better represented than others. For instance, there are several Viking sh...
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Revell's "The Black Diamond" - A Review

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This model has been available for a few years now, and as I wrote in my piece " The Sad Tale of the HMS Couldhavebeen ", I was st...
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Monday, September 7, 2015

A "First Rate" Pirate Ship, & Other Model Concerns

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Over on eBay, I think they've picked up on my viewing habits, and alerted me to a huge price reduction on a model; "Blackbeard...
Saturday, August 29, 2015

The Airfix "Santa Maria" - A Review

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I have been wanting to write this review since this model arrived, and since I plan on starting on it shortly, this was the best time. This...
Thursday, August 20, 2015

Building Zvezda's 1/350 "Santa Maria"

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It has actually been a long time since I've built a model so small, but where models of the " Santa Maria " are concerned, th...
Sunday, August 16, 2015

The Sad Tale of the "HMS Couldabeen"

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It was a couple of years ago when I first spotted a new model ship at my local Michael's. It was from Revell, or as I prefer to call th...