I've purchased an Amatti replica of her in February, and started building whenever I've had free time, may be 3-4 hours a week. The model was fairly challenging, as the hull was a true planked bulkheads, in fact double planked (with limewood first and then walnut strips). There were half a dozen very large blueprints, taken from the historical records stored in Royal Admiralty and scaled down for this particular model. The kit came with all the wood and rigging I ever needed, I did purchase some other parts on the ebay however.
I uploaded the Construciton pictures , they show the progress from assembling the keel to the final riggings.
Took me 8 month from start to finish, but I learned a great deal, and it was a truly labor of love.
Too bad she is done. Time for the next project.
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