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Building the "Perfect Storm"

"MSW crew-mate Guido Hopp (Tailor) gave us a special treat within our"Divine Waterline" Campaign, a wonderful scratch-build project of the Andrea Gail, a commercial fishing vessel which was lost at sea with all hands during the "Perfect Storm" of 1991. This "Build Story" chronicles the entire project, from start to completion!"

in the beginning...

I spent considerable time researching the subject, and found that the real Andrea Gail went down in the storm in 1991, and the boat in the movie was just a representation. Originally I was aiming at building the real Andrea Gail, so I tried find reference on the net. An evening’s research result presented me with only 2 pictures of the real AG.

It was quite obvious that the real AG in her final configuration was completely different from the ship seen in the movie. The type of ship is not uncommon at all, but the AG was heavily modified by her owner. The available information presented me with too little reference to go for the real deal. So I decided to go along the lines of the movie vessel.

Her real name is “Lady Grace”....Google her and the AG and you’ll come up with a whole set of good photos and reference, especially if you follow the links to other forum, which in turn, will lead you to private photo collections. Having such information aplenty, I started a worksheet to note down the dimensions and the relevant scale conversions




Pretty soon it became evident that 700th would be too small for my taste so I switched to 350th!