For those who have experience with this kit maker what is your opinion? Quality of wood? Quality & detail of metal pieces? Lines? instructions? These are costly kits.
I've been admiring the MarisStella ships, too. I hope someone with some experience will answer your questions.
we have a lot of building logs and also finished / completed models produced by MarisStella here in our forum
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Dear Gents. Maris Stella makes very high-quality kits. They go to great lengths when it comes to researching their subjects while the quality of components is reportedly very good.
Please check out @shipphotographer.com Olha's build of the HMS Speedy:
Please check out @shipphotographer.com Olha's build of the HMS Speedy:
HMS SPEEDY (1782) - MarisStella - Scale 1:48 - by ship photographer.com
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Ohla Batchvarov in answer to this same question replied the quality of the blocks, if you had to replace inferior ones, make it worth the price.
Olga makes ship building look so easy. Very inspiring.
Is there a U.S. website that sells this brand of kit?
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Right here on SOS. Send @zoly99sask Zoly a Personal Message or visit his website:
MarisStella Kits - Prices are in Canadian Dollars
Dry - Dock Models & Parts is providing high quality ship model fittings and parts
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Right here on SOS. Send @zoly99sask Zoly a Personal Message or visit his website:
MarisStella Kits - Prices are in Canadian Dollars
Dry - Dock Models & Parts is providing high quality ship model fittings and parts
Thank you!
Right here on SOS. Send @zoly99sask Zoly a Personal Message or visit his website:
MarisStella Kits - Prices are in Canadian Dollars
Dry - Dock Models & Parts is providing high quality ship model fittings and parts
Thanks so much. I now have the website bookmarked. For when the day comes when I can afford one of these beauties.
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Pleasure, Toni.
I've been very pleased with my Ragusian Carrack from MarisStella. I've been especially pleased with the help and assistance they will give you via email.
The wood is very good, the sails very nice, a good kit in general. Yes, the blocks are not very good, but that is not unusual for most ship model kits. I also feel that MS could have supplied more parts laser-cut (outer bracing for example), and had room to provide a few spares of fragile parts but did not. I might have expected turned ballusters to be provided, but were not. But it is building into a great model IMHO.
The wood is very good, the sails very nice, a good kit in general. Yes, the blocks are not very good, but that is not unusual for most ship model kits. I also feel that MS could have supplied more parts laser-cut (outer bracing for example), and had room to provide a few spares of fragile parts but did not. I might have expected turned ballusters to be provided, but were not. But it is building into a great model IMHO.