Historical review
Charles W. Morgan-a typical whaling ship of the late 19th-early 20th centuries, named after the owner. Built by Jethro and Zachary Hillmann at the new Bedford shipyards.
While serving in the ranks of the whaling flotilla, he successfully starred in several films.
Currently located in a Parking lot in Mystic, Connecticut, and turned into a Museum.
The review box
Number of parts: 271.
The model is perfectly cast, the number of chips is acceptable, which indicates a good quality of casting.
In addition to the sprues, the kit includes signal and national flags, thread for rigging, quite detailed instructions (it will be mentioned separately). In the instructions there is a scheme of painting.
In General, the set and quality is traditional for Revell.
Assembly and painting
The model was painted with a brush, acrylic paints "akan". The scheme of painting was combined with the proposed Revell and with real photos (alas, the photos were discovered after the start of work).
The convergence of the model is excellent, requires a minimum of putty, only there is a noticeable gap in the bow on both decks, which requires sealing.
Assembly is easy, however, the sequence of Assembly is better to radically change.
A special "trouble" is the need to pull the rigging in hard-to-reach places.
Therefore, I made for myself a conclusion that it is better to install "naked" masts first, not to glue tile-nagelny and kipovy laths and, starting from the top, to fasten yards, in passing getting rigging of management of yards on tile-nagelny laths. Then stick them on the deck.
Further, the first to stretch the shrouds from the mast to the guys of pantanaw and glue them. Then start securing the sails.
Thus, all work with the tightening of micro-knots and the formation of loops can be carried out in a convenient place, rather than using several tweezers.
In the selected places it is very inconvenient to fix the rigging on the assembled other parts of the model. It is similar with the installation of awnings before installing the rigging.
Photos at different stages of construction
Unfortunately, as it was written above, due to the inconvenient Assembly sequence for me, the model came out simplified in terms of rigging.
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The review was prepared by Nikolai Moiseev.
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