How to make model ships in Madagascar

The island of Madagascar is famous not only unusual fauna and flora, but also a wonderful shop where you can order any models of ships museum quality: from the historic sailing ships to modern cruise liners. Today we visit this unique workshop and vehicle manufacturers will see with their own eyes. All the work is manual, detailed layouts wholly.
The size is different, from small yachts up to 20 cm to Spanish galleons measuring more than two meters





Beginning of construction. In fact - a small yard.



Polishing the housings must be perfect. On some models applied up to 8 layers of lacquer.



Severe «labor»!



All cutting and fitting parts is done manually. Laptop? - No, I did not hear =)



Curves for housing.





Size! Unfortunately he can not swim, but if the studio to pose the problem, the model will float. This model is going for one of the clubs in England.



Fit details. The workshop is a magnificent scent of rosewood!





Where do all the small things. Guns, Bochica, bollards.





Detailing - delivers =)







Further, these "blank" will head to grow into sails.



Sail sew by hand, on the patterns. Material, cotton, linen, canvas.



Attachments yacht sails. All nodes are knitted by hand. Ropes - only natural!





Almost ready model.



In the studio doing a lot of very high-quality gift items on the marine theme.



Final assembly and finishing of the layout.



In order to attach the sail to do a bunch of small "figovinok." Bolkiah, stretching and so on. That this guy is doing. Oppression, ludit, solder.



Fastening of sails, troublesome, they (the sails) a lot and it is important not to confuse any where.



The assembly of some models, finishing immediately "after the sails", pack and otpralyayut customers. But, there are models of modern ships - about them below.



Orders at the shop differently, not only historic sailboats and modern vessels that require painting, polishing and finishing.
All products are made of rosewood.
This is very hard and dense, beautifully polished wood used in the manufacture of furniture for small expensive facilities such as humidors, as well as in the manufacture of musical instruments.
Since the relatively high price of this wood rarely allows you to apply it in the form of whole pieces usually use veneers and intarsia.
When exporting a ship from Madagascar, you must obtain a special permit for the export of precious wood and pay the tax. Without this paper, the chances are zero output model.



Assembly and painting the boat.





Try to take the brush and draw a smooth ring around the pencil ;-)





Factory. Each Comore - make part of the model.











Of course, I could not resist shopping =)



The model I drove 15 hours on his knees =) The luggage pass failed.



Bounty. about 80 cm. Flew in baggage, in a huge box.



Source: kak-eto-sdelano.livejournal.com