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Model Shipways Fair American is a
reproduction of a model built over 200 years ago, now on exhibit at the U.S.
Naval Academy Museum at Annapolis, MD. She is said to represent the 14-gun
privateer Fair American sailing out of Charleston in 1778.
Plank-on-bulkhead construction uses high quality basswood, the preferred wood
of professional modelers. All structural hull parts and major fittings are
laser cut, so they fit together with remarkable ease. The kit contains over
60 cut or shaped wooden parts, plus 120 extra wood strips for a second layer
of planking, should you wish to build your model with a double planked hull.
More than 500 fittings of wood, brass and Britannia metal fittings include 14
brass guns on wooden carriages, cannon, chain plates, bell, anchors and wheel.
Seven plan sheets a 48 page instruction book by Erik A.R. Ronnberg, Jr. and
Ben Lankford, plus a 38-page guide to planking the hull make building easy.
(Display base and brass pedestals are
not included but can be purchased separately)
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