1:700 BAP Independencia

[Timmy C]

Best of luck - do tell us how the shipping went!

[MichelB]

Bigger is better. The entire parcel you just saw has been enshrined in at least an inch of bubble wrap on all sides and placed in this, larger, cardboard box, filled to the brim with every leftover bit of bubble wrap I had left. This gives an added layered armour to defeat High Impact Nonchalant Postal Worker's Throws. So the thing that I took to the post office this afternoon looked like this:

[JIM BAUMANN]

Ha! in the time you have buily tour car-bord Fort Knox...

You could have driven halfway to Switzerland and met Mr Rathgeb halfway there...!

Good effort-- I am keeping my fingers crossed for success!

Cheesr

JIM B

[Peter Rathgeb]

Hi all.

That's what I wrote to Michel today:

The Independencia arrived yesterday in my harbour. Your packaging was very effective, she arrived in almost perfect shape, she had just lost one of her boats which will be an easy fix to attach again. The box had been opened at the customs, that's possibly where the boat detached.


As you all have seen, the Independencia is a real beauty! I think that Michel did an extraordinary job.

After having collected lots of reference material (well, what there is actually available), I will now start work on the Independencia's companion, the Hu�scar. The Combrig kit is a good base, but there are a couple of things to correct and/or change, depending on the timeframe.

By the way, I just asked Michel if he wanted to build one more Peruvian ship of the time for me, the corvette Uni�n. But probably he will need to recover first.

Thanks, Michel, and all the best,
Peter

[MichelB]

<big sigh of relief>

So relieved to hear she arrived safely. But a strange feeling to have a ship that I've stared at for a year and a half leave the nest so to speak. They grow up so fast!

I've told Peter I'd be happy to try my hand at the Uni�n if we can get some good drawings. But first there are some other models that I haven't given enough attention in the past year to finish.

To all: this is the end of the Independencia build log. Hope you all enjoyed the show.

[maxim]

Hope you all enjoyed the show.

Yes, very much!