Searching the RoG website just now for instructions, I read a banner article about the “Model of the Year 2010”. The builder won an award for building a 1/96 model of the “Thermopylae”, using the “Pedro Nunes” as a basis and making modifications.
Perhaps because you have a well developed sense of irony.
WS
It’s one heck of a model though- the rigging is very good.
The Revell Pedro Nunes is kit, like that company’s Thermopylae, a clone of the Cutty Sark kit with altered deck arrangements, http://www.modellversium.de/galerie/5-schiffe-ww2/1529-pedro-nunes-revell.html. I suppose it is even more of a nonsense than the Revell Thermoylae, given the inevitable differences between Thermopylae as a sail training ship and as a ship-rigged clipper!
I suspect no one at Revell Germany has even the slightest inkling that the kit is a nonsense!
Will
Why not just take the Revell so-called Thermopylae and convert it into a so-called Pedro Nunes? The Thermopylae kit had the parts to do so. That is all Revell did with the original kits anyway! Neither truly represents what they purport to be.
Bill Morrison
Can you post the link? I tried to find it but could not.
Thanks
Jake
http://www.revell.de/index.php?id=905&L=1
Don’t get me wrong- I have nothing but awe for modellers at this level. It’s just that the genesis of the whole exercise, as pointed out, is kinda wierd.
Can’t be any odder than the Constitution with what looks to be a walnut deck.
That Constitution looks like it was modidfied to look like the United Stated I’ve never seen the double aft quarter cabins before
Fabulous piece. Maybe he knows something we don’t? Sure gives you the spirit of a clipper at sail, doesn’t it? Thanks for the link, Paul V Bankgok. PS My Kearsarge is on the bench. Rope supplyers on strike. No progress.