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About jimvanlan99

  • Birthday 03/01/1947

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    Boone, NC and Athens, GA
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    Model ship building, cycling, reading, travel

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I am relatively new to model ship building and am now on my third build - Fair American, for which I plan to maintain a build log on this forum.  About 40 years ago, I did build a ship in a bottle, following directions from a library book and after taking care to empty the Pinch Scotch bottle that I used.  And five years ago, I built a sailboat/row boat using a kit that I obtained from Chesapeake Light Craft out of Annapolis, Maryland.  In the apparent lingo of this forum, I kit-bashed this boat, making many changes to the kit design, using different (and better) wood than provided in the kit, etc.  I thoroughly enjoyed this build, which took a little over two years.  In fact, I enjoyed the build far more than the sailing, which never really took off with me.

 

Now I am into model ships, and thus far, I am enjoying it with a passion.  I am delighted to be in the company of the many master builders on this site.  I often find myself getting lost in just a build log and reading it from end to end.

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