Well, this one's been a long time coming, but I can finally show it off. My latest - The USS Constitution!
I bought this kit at a meet in the fall of 2019 and started working on that Christmas, but it fell by the wayside for some other projects. I started back on it in April, and finished her off this morning. She was pretty much a box full of wood lath, string and some manufactured parts when I bought it. I'm guessing there's 130 hours of work put into it, with most of it going into the rigging - every knot was tied by hand, including the ratlines. All the deadeyes and blocks were threaded by hand as well. About 90% of the wood was cut by hand as well. And the stand was hand-made as well, courtesy of some good tips from our own Surferguy.
This kit was a total challenge from anything I'd ever built before, and I'm incredibly proud of it. It's not the best job I've ever done or the best kit I've ever built (everything was translated from Italian, and a lot of instructions were very vague), but I can honestly say it's the most fun I've ever had building a model! I'll definitely build a wood ship again.
I took a ton of Work In Progress photos, but only included the final product in here. Enjoy.
(here there be LARGE photos!)