Black Falcon 1:120

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The Black Falkon model, well known to Czechs, was produced by Aurora as early as 1958!! The model came to us sometime in the 80s of the last century, I would say in 1975 (how it passes!). At that time the model was introduced to us as a product of SMER, as well as many other plastic kits. No one told us naive Czechs back then that American kids could have bought this 20 years ago. But it doesn't matter. It made me and my friends very happy back then. It was, of course, my first plastic model. We built a few, in different versions. Even then, we had all the basic ropes done on the model - mast, jib reins, tension and sheeting ropes! The models were balanced to float (and I still do that with all my models). The pulleys were replaced with black beads. We ran them on the river and took many pictures. Too bad I only have a few left. My best friend at the time took them with my grandfather's camera from the 30's.
When I came back to modelling I had to repair my old model at least to its present form - see my models. I will be glad if you also contribute to the photo gallery with your Black Falcons.
I have downloaded all the pictures from various websites. Thanks to the authors for making them. At the end is a copy of an article that appeared in ABC at the time about this model. Perhaps it was because of putting this model on sale - ABC magazine ran a whole series of double-page spreads devoted to historic ships. I still have most of these sheets today.