Atrevida - Spanish Gun Boat - 1779 - 1:30 - Disarmodel

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Atrevida - Spanish Gun Boat - 1779 - 1:30 - Disarmodel

Company: Disarmodel
Kit No:  20130W
Retail Price: EUR 85.-
Available here: https://www.disarmodel.com/nivel-3/16-at...onera.html





Disarmodel is a family business, new in the market, but with a team of professionals with more than 20 years of experience in the field of modeling and hobby. We are known for bringing to the market new models with faithful replicas, based on plans and documentation contrasted by professionals. We use new woods in the sector, such as iroko and, verifying that they come from controlled felling. We want to offer a unique service in the sector as far as the treatment with our clients, the post-sale service, the clidad and finished of our products and, to fulfill the deliveries and agreed times.

Our products range from modeling for collectors, artistic modeling, junior educational modeling ... also, we can and seek to create new market expectations for other product lines. We have opted for novel instructions, prioritizing photos to text, thinking that by including photos of a certain size where you can see all the details to highlight, with a text simpler and easier to understand we can make the final consumer have fun assembling our models and do not despair with thick and intelligible texts.



Description

The great D. Antonio Barceló designed the gunboats during the great siege of Gibraltar in 1779, where they proved to be formidable rivals despite their small size. Fast, maneuvering and armed with a large cannon of 24 at the bow.


Technical data

• Scale: 1:30,
  
• Length: 700 mm
  
• Height: 540 mm
  
• Width: 270 mm
  

The Kit

• 1 x Instruction Booklet
  
• 1 x Translation Booklet (Spanish, English, French, German, Italian)
  
• 1 x Big printed image of the 1:1 Modell
  
• 4 x Sheets of lasercut wood (plywood, iroko wood, mansonia wood)
  

For the small parts there is even a great plastic box.







Let's look deeper at this kit and start with the perfectly lasered plywood









And we go on with the other lasered parts.








A nice collection of nice unusual wood. Sharp edges, no splinter. I really like that.

















For the masts and yards we get very nice dowels. The quality of the wood is excellent! 








The rope








The Flags








You even get pre-sewn sails








Let's check the smaller parts of this nice kit. 
















The massive guns are allready blackened








More smaller parts.







Paperwork. Essential for a good kit are the instructions and plans. The instructions are in 5 different languages. Spanish, english, french, german and italian. 























Last but not least there is one big poster showing the modell in 1:1.









Conclusion

This kit is a gem. A wonderful example of how small, dedicated companies with a lot of love for detail can develop wonderful, affordable, new innovative model kits these days.

The choice of the really first-class and unusual woods from controlled felling - I like this environmental protection thought - connected with the great illustrated instructions - they do fulfil their task well and leave few to no questions unanswered - round this kit off.

I personally would have had gladly still another classical blueprint thereby but it's not really missing or needed. All parts are really high quality and you can feel the attention made to details in this kit. I can't say for sure if its a beginner or intermediate kit but either way it is worth to build it. Great job done by this small spanish company! Highly recommended! And if not available in the states ask your prefered shop to get it

Disarmodel currently lists this model for €85, and that represents really good value for money for this nice kit. Honestly we think it is too cheap :-)


Impressions of the build model.







My sincere thanks go to Disarmodel for sending this kit for review here on Model Ship World. To buy, ask your favorite dealer or directly at https://www.disarmodel.com/nivel-3/16-at...onera.html