[catopower]

Last Fall, family health matters had me stuck in the house where I grew up, with no trace of ship modeling tools or materials except text and images on the Internet.

In order to give me back a small part of my absent ship modeling self, I ordered a Shipyard paper model kit from Ages of Sail. I wasn't quite sure if I wanted to build the Dutch fluit Schwarzer Rabe (Black Raven) or the Dutch pinnace Papegojan. Both paper model kits are available and in 1/96-scale. I ended up buying the Schwazer Rabe for about $38.

The first steps go really quickly, fitting the laser cut framework pieces together, test fitting without glue. As I had access to paint and brush, I went ahead and blacked out some of the interior bulkhead walls that might end up visible on the completed model. When I was happy with the fit of everything, I glued everything together.

Keep in mind, this began as a filler project. I have many other main projects, so I'm just planning on working on this now and again. But, it's an interesting ship and I'll post another updates shortly.