My daughter decided she wanted us to build a wooden sailing ship together. Since neither of us had experience with this we visited the Modelbouw Wapstad hobby shop in Rijswijk, The Netherlands, to see the options. They had quite a selection of all sizes and difficulties. The Artesania Latina model of the Virginia 1819 schooner caught her eye and since it was considered an entry level kit, we purchased it.
We picked up most of the tools and books we thought we would need while visiting Houston at M&M Hobby Shop in Bellaire. Everything else we even thought we would need were purchased while in Houston. We would be assembling the ship in our home in Dubai, UAE, which would not have much of a selection of tools or supplies.
While still in Houston she wanted to get started, so she went through the instruction manual looking for sub-assemblies that could be built that would not take up much space or get damaged in our trip back to Dubai. These were assembled and placed in plastic bags to keep separate. She also didn't like the toy-like appearance some of the kit would have, due to it being an entry level kit, and we decided we could modify our build, providing some more detail. This was a good idea, since we discovered more things we would need and we went back to the hobby shop to get more wood.
We have benefited from looking at build logs and pictures of this model on the Internet. We decided to create our own build log of our experience, mainly for ourselves, but this might share our ideas with others as well.
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