Minesweeper Project 253L, 1/150, Scratchbuild

Those little minesweepers were built in the city of Leningrad during WW II. Leningrad was blockaded by Germans, so the ships were simplified as much as possible. Even hulls were made of flat metal plates.
The model were build mainly from paper.

           

La Nina, 1/150, Scratchbuild

A step aside – a kind of model I’ve never build before – a sailing ship. I just wonder – how does it feels to build something from wood? So, this is a kind of another experiment for me.

I decided to go into small scale for wooden shipbuilding – 1/150. I think it is a smallest scale for building something acceptable. My aim for this build is to try different tips&tricks and have fun. Nothing more. Hope that the model will be at least of Mini Mamolli kits level.

Why Nina? She is small, rather simple and there are a lot of models of her that I can take as a guidance.

I took scaled down Shipyard’s 1/96 card model as a base.