HMS PANDORA - WOODEN MODEL SHIP KIT BY CONSTRUCTO
 

A 24 gun sixth rate frigate built in 1779, she was sent to capture and bring back Fletcher Christian and the H.M.S. Bounty mutineers. After finding and arresting most of the rebels in Tahiti the Pandora set sail  for England but was wrecked on the Great Barrier Reef on her way back. Her captain and 98 others than sailed 1,200 miles to a Dutch settlement in Timor in four of the ship's boats.

This is Constructo's best kit to date. Double Plank On Bulkhead construction and laser cut wooden parts. Several varieties of woods such as basswood, walnut, and mahogany are included in the kit.  The kit is laden with finely detailed ornamentation and all the fitting necessary to complete the model. Pre-finished blocks, buckets, deadeyes, belaying pins and tackle are boxwood. Stern decorations, figurehead, anchors, lifeboat, ships wheel, pumps, and gun ports have been precision cast in metal. Lanterns, stanchions, rail wire and rings are genuine brass. Armament consists of four turned brass cannon, 10 brass carronades on walnut carriages, plus cast metal swivel guns. Cloth flag and sails, netting and four diameters of rigging line will finish off your model. An illustrated instruction manual with step-by-step assembly instructions, full sized plans and display board are also included.