Celebrate Chinese New Year with a New Build

The Chinese New Year, the Year of the Dragon, is just around the corner. Celebrate with a new project: Amati’s popular Chinese Pirate Junk kit.

Amati’s Pirate Junk Wooden Ship Model Kit

Amati’s Pirate Junk is a 1/100 scale kit of an 1800’s era Chinese junk, armed with 8 cannons. This is a plank-on-bulkhead wooden ship kit, featuring laser-cut plywood structural parts, high quality strip woods for hull and deck planking, wooden dowels for fashioning masts, wood and metal fittings, sailcloth and bamboo battens.

This is a popular kit of an unusual type of ship. The easy curves of the hull and minimal rigging make this an ideal model kit for those who may not want to deal with the complexities of a bluff-bowed square-rigged ship. It is not a simple build, and offers enough interesting challenges for experienced modelers as well as those who are fairly new to the hobby.