Guys and gals, I'm new here so trying not to step on toes.
My usual modelling is of the flying kind, the wet stuff slightly new to me though I have scratch built an RAF launch style vessel out of an 80year old hull just for the fun of it which now flies aound the local water at a rate of scale knots!
Anyway, I was at a modelling mates workshop the other day picking up a new benchsaw when I saw, for the first time, a yacht sitting in it's cradle. I was taken aback by of it's size - about 52" loa and a good 6' tall, he said it was an old Marblehead.
I have always fancied a yacht but prefer two things not often found in ye olde model shoppe window - (1) a lack of white ABS and (2) size. So the Kyosho's are out.
But Mike's Marblehead was a lot of timber and a lot of size.
I have trawled the internet (this is where the help comes in) and cannot find a supplier of kits or boats of this class - all the "usual" model shops are box shifters (as in planes these days unfortunately) so the Billings and Jyoshos abound. But 'planpacks', ad I think this marblehead was, are scarce indeed.
This is what I want...a hull to finish, a mast, sails, instructions of some sort. Oh, and I don't want to spend a fortune on it.
Any advice on wher I should look or go? I would happily go second hand for a project like this, if anyone has one they'd like to swap for money.
Thanks in advance
David
