The model car thread! :-)

[stovens]

Definately have built some recently too. Over November I built a Corsair(love doing the planes of ww2)
I'm also contiplating a small wooden ship model with a planked hull. Somewhere in the old part of the house is a partially model kit of the USS Constitution made by an italian company called C. Mamoli.

I found the model missing plans and some of the bigger peices of wood, at a thrift store about 20 years ago. I wrote the company and they sent me a set of full scale plans, so at some point I will tackle building that. It's a beautiful kit with little miniture block and tackles, an insane amount of rigging, and comes with mahogony planks for doing the hull and the decks. They don't seem to make this particular kit anymore, but it listed at just under 500.00 dollars back then for the kit. I bought it for 12 bucks, mostly intact! Just need to build my skill level up quite a bit, and have a dedicated space to work on it! I figure it's a retirement project!
Here is a pic of the corsair: