Hi Y’all !
As you are aware I have purchased some stuff on " The Bay " lately . One of them was a little fishing /shrimp boat . I thought it would be like compressed paper . Nope , it’s a very nice little wooden model - Plank on Frame of a neat little boat .
The instructions have half-&*(^% instructions missing some steps , But I have figured them out . There is no English anywhere on the sheet . Yup ! One sheet , both sides with Pictures . I think this will be fun . It’s All laser cut and very well done .
Just bear in mind if you do check her out on "The Bay " that the language on the vessel is Mandarin . Hmmm , One I don’t speak .
I’ll be following this with pleasure. I love building those little “woodies”. Built a number of Midwest’s boat kits and have a canoe and a lobster smack in the stash. Too bad they (Midwest) stopped producing those kits. They were inexpensive and fun to build. The kind of kit that “cleared the mind” so to speak.
EJ
Well, that Bluejacket Manual in Aramachic is a bit lean, being mostly “Don’t be eaten by sea monsters.”
Oh, I was not aware that they discontinued them! That is a shame. It has been awhile since I built one, but I loved them. There were a couple that I had planned on ordering some day.
Yeah, the folding of Midwest (and Laughing Whale with them) had no great fanfare.
At least not many of the eBay sellers have started marking up for being OOP. Much. Yet.
That, and either Model Expo or Woodland Scenics have kept a couple of the kits “alive” in their catalogs.
It’s a shame, as the canoe kit plans were really nearly good enough to build a 1:1 copy, with only a fudge or two, after enlarging (or lofting up). (All of the formers and bits to build the hull upon are diagrammed.)