Dusek Nuestra Senora 1687 1:72 kit
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Package contents
The model kit package includes a set of laser-cut plywood boards, bundles of battens and beams of various sizes and complete wooden components, brass components, planks and moldings for the deck, pre-printed flags, fabric for sailing and rigging for the entire ship. Manual EN.
Characteristics
Kit of a large model of the ship Nuestra Senora from 1687 in scale 1:72. The length of the ship's model is 905 mm, the building is mostly made of wood with small accessories, it includes a construction plan and instructions with many detailed pictures. It is a demanding construction, designed for experienced modelers.
Nuestra Senora de la Concepción y de las Ánimas was the first Spanish three-deck ship. Construction began in 1682 by the builder Antonio de Amas and was started in 1687 at the Colindres shipyard in Cantabria. It had a displacement of about 1500 tons. There are two sources for ship reconstruction; the first is the book "Arte de Fabrica Reales" from 1691, which contains several drawings, and the second is a painting in the parish church "Iglesia de la Asunción" in Arcenillas, Zamora.
Czech company Dusek Ship Kits
is a traditional manufacturer of model kits for non-floating models of historic ships. The range of products is very wide, the offer includes ships from the period before our era to sailboats from the last century. However, the domain is historic wooden ships of the golden age of sailboats, such as merchant, war or royal English, Spanish galleys, schooners, ships of famous discoverers or Viking and for us exotic East Asian ships.
Anyone who longs for their own self-made boat must be prepared to do so for weeks or months in the evenings. It means having a certain skill and knowledge of the lever with various materials, adhesives, paints and varnishes. The kit mainly contains basic building materials, building materials and a number of small or miniature components and decorations. However, this work will give you an insight into the secrets of ship construction, the history of real ships and often can lead to a community of people obsessed with the same passion for ship modeling.
We recommend buying
We recommend buying tools, glue and paints for the construction.
Modeling tools and pad
Suitable tools are needed to build ship models. We recommend an excellent set of Modelcraft tools for ship modelers (set of 12 pcs), or Modelcraft tools for modelers (set of 18 pcs). We also recommend the purchase of nylon clamps and indispensable model pins. We recommend a modeling pad for adjustment, precise cutting, gluing of parts and also as protection of the table.
Glue and paints
For gluing, we recommend universal dispersion glue and Robitronic instant glue medium 20ml. We recommend acrylic enamel paints for painting. Apply the paints with high-quality brushes (flat brushes on surfaces, round brushes for details).
Recommended minimum equipment of the ship modeler:
- Modeling knife or scalpel
- Mini drill
- Drills with diameters of 0.5 mm to 3 mm
- Abrasive papers of various grain sizes
- Scissors
- Tweezers
- Clothespins
- Pencil
- Ruler
- Set of needle files
- Sewing machine for sewing tarpaulins