I have some comments. 1050 hours is half a working year, 9-5, 5 days a week just over 6 months. Taking parts especially wood, painting them and placing them is really not good workmanship. The view of the spotter plane is a case in point.
This model was worth more before when it was still a kit in the box.
Unless this was built purely for the video was not much of a guide to the building.
Also I really hate the way this kit was designed, a box inside a hull, Billing have gone this way as well see St. Roch Arctic exploration ship. It can be so complicated getting a working model from the kit contents, more like MFI than ship construction.
On You Tube there is the construction of a tow boat American Beauty ( I have one myself). On the build blog the builder takes rough pieces of balsa blocks partly shaped, paints them and glues them in position, It is sad to watch! And the wood is worse!
It would seem that some designers not apparently with any ship or model ship experience but I suggest from the 3D jigsaw world are really screwing up model boat kits. They are also reducing the number of modellers who might buy them.
20 years back I converted an Amati Endeavour Americas Cup (1:35 scale) into a working model yacht. It was designed just like the video of the Missouri from very thick and heavy ply in this interlocking box format. I spent the first part of the build opening up 20 or so bulkheads to reduce the weight and to have a continuous access through the hull. The waste wood weighed more than the complete RC controls.
I have a Bruma kit with solid bulkheads ready to have a long session on my scroll saw before construction. I suggest that the kit could be designed using less wood with minimum bulkhead material and sell more kits with just a bit more thought .
As a final thought. do not buy a completed model built as a decoration with a view to putting her to sea. The decorative builders do not worry about hull integrity, the glue just hold a part in place but does not secure it.
Moan over.
PS did that guy grow a beard during the build?
Still keep on finding us the videos Martin!
Roy
