A few months ago Peter Jan Haas of Artitec (Amsterdam) sent me a copy of their excellent 1/87 scale rendition of the shark boat ORCA from the movie JAWS. I posted an in-box review of it at the time:
Now… would anyone like to build this model?
It is an absolutely gorgeous kit (which sells for about US$75) - and I’ll send it to you to build!
All I ask is that you complete it within a reasonable time (say, six months) and post pictures of your progress on this forum. The kit is yours for free, but I’d appreciate it if you would reimburse my postage costs.
If you are interested, just respond on this thread. After a few days I’ll throw the names into a hat and pick the lucky builder!
That’s a very tasty kit of a very special boat from a fantastic movie! Saw it as a teenager when it first came out and loved it - Robert Shaw was born to play Quint. I’d be tempted, but sadly the postage from US to UK is a deal-breaker now that we’re post-Brexit. But I’ll enjoy reading the blog of whoever gets it!
A very generous offer and I do hope someone takes it up so we can all see it built.
Unfortunately, I’ve got a few too many other projects on and I don’t think my skills with resin and all that PE are at the level required to do this kit justice.
I would be very grateful to give it a go. I love the film -and the book. (Read it when I was 12 - a teacher of mine lent it to me when we were on a school trip. Cool guy.)
That’s a marvelous little boat Grimm @Grim_Willows, the rigging itself would have reduced me to a puddle of tears, the only thing I would have suggested would have been to use the “Jaws” theme song for your background music for the video, otherwise very nice!
I’d love to give this a try but I see that other modelers are ahead of me. This is an iconic vessel from a classic movie and it would be a great “palate” for extreme weathering which I love to do. Good luck to whoever gets the opportunity to build this kit. Take care.
