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Mississippi

Kit by Occre

This kit represents a Mississippi river paddle steamer, the wooden passenger and freight boats that worked American rivers through the 19th century. Their flat, shallow hulls carried the boilers and engines on the main deck, with tiers of passenger cabins above and a pilot house on top.

Occre's 1:80 kit (ref. 14003) has about 1,702 parts and is rated at the Advanced level. The model is 740 mm long and 325 mm high, and Occre estimates about 650 hours to build it.

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