REVELL 'BLACK PEARL' GALLEON, AS SEEN IN THE MOVIE 'PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN'
IN 2017, WE REVIEWED the 895-part Revell 1:72 scale kit of the Black Pearl , as seen in the Disney movie saga Pirates of the Caribbean . The kit we show here is a smaller 1:150 scale version of the same ship, though it still comes with 112 parts. Mat Irvine: The 1:150 scale Black Pearl is supplied to assemble using the Revell ‘easy-click system’ in which the parts simply snap together. They don’t necessarily need cementing, though that can always prove an advantage if you wish the finished model to stay completely firm and solid. Although basically a snap-together model, the Black Pearl is still a fairly complex build. As with its larger sibling, components such as the sails are injection moulded parts, which are thicker than true-scale, but are far easier to deal with than vacuum-formed parts, which is the usual method for the unfurled sails of galleons. Despite its name, the components of the Black Pearl are not moulded in all-blac...