Golden Star English Brig Model Ship Kit – Mantua (MA769)
The Golden Star English Brig Model Ship Kit is manufactured by Mantua Model Ships & Mantua Model Boats. Mantua have built its reputation on large, elaborately detailed ship model kits. Their ship model kits use photo-etched brass, cast metal fittings, cast metal and machined turned brass fittings. The detail in their range of large ship models is exceptional. The sail set is an optional extra and is not included in the kit.
With a skill level of 2 the GOLDEN STAR – English Brig is an easy build for model ship enthusists!
History of the Golden Star English Brig
An English Brigantine, popular in the 17th. and 18th. centuries. A brig is a vessel with two masts square rigged like a ship’s foremast and mainmast, but carrying also on her mainmast a fore and aft gaff-and-boom mainsail. In wide use in the merchant marine during the 17th and 18th centuries, the brig was introduced into English navel service from the 1770’s.