Hunter (Mamoli, 1:72)

Description

MV35 Mamoli wooden model ship kit Hunter

The Hunter is a well equipped cutter, built for the British Navy in many, more or less similar copies, in the second half of the seventeenth century, to face the smugglers, who, incidentally, were the first to use this type of ship (it seems that the English shipyards built them in pairs: one for the smugglers and one for the Customs…). Of course the Hunter was used also as coast-guard and for military functions of port survey, scout, warning and so on. From these cutters derived, towards the end of the nineteenth century, the sports boats and those meant for the regattas.

The model reproduces, to a scale of 1:72, a cutter built towards 1797. It is equipped with 12 guns and several culverins. This kit has a A Double planked hull construction using Lime and Walnut strips, pre cut frames and keel, deck planked in tanganyika, fittings made from brass, walnut, boxwood, and beech, wooden masts and spars, cast stern and quarter galleries, brass cannon barrels, rigging cord and silk flags. Full size plan sheets and a multi language instruction manual.

Scale: 1/72/ Height 17-1/2″/ Length 17-1/2″