Scott Crouse

A reintroduction of myself, joined your group 4 years ago when I suddenly had the desire to build wooden ship models. Watched the builds on here and youtube scared the <poop> out of me and went to the plastic world. Armour, planes and eventually to what I wanted to do all along, ships. Built the Snowberry, Huron and about to start the Fiume. But that wood itch remained. Building with PE helped build the confidence that I can do those small details. A few months back a friend handed me a kit he was given as a gift and said "I will never build this" and I tossed it on the shelf. Took a look the other day day and found it is the Lady Nelson, a beautiful and expensive kit. Checked out a video on building her and quickly came to the realization that "no, I am not ready to jump straight in on that". Lurking here and elsewhere, I have decided to start with the basics and the Shipways Dory arrives tomorrow. Plan to do their 3 ships in the combo to see how I like building with wood and to build the basic skills that will be different than the plastic world. If folks are interested in watching, when I am in the model room I stream building on Twitch. I will be starting the Dory after 1 April (part of a group build - others are doing plastic) but in the meantime I am building other projects. So if any new folks want to see me build my first wood ship or if experienced folks want to watch and bring their experience or if you like to just watch plastic builds or hang out while building yourselves, drop by whenever I am online - https://www.twitch.tv/bartbandy Although a lurker these past 4 years, your builds and discussions have been in inspiration. I hope to at one point get to the level to be a more active participant. Cheers!

Thanks everyone! To the guys from down under, I just spend 3 great weeks in your country back in Oct/Nov and had a great time. Not sure if I want your +40c but my -40c is the other end of the scale. To my fellow Canadians, I know you feel the pain 🙂 Look forward to seeing everyone's builds and conversations. Cheers and thanks for the welcome.

Thanks for accepting my membership. 100% newbie to the hobby and completely in the research phase. Reading, reading and more reading. One to make sure this is something I want to get into and two, cause it's cool! 🙂 I suffer badly from the winter blah's (near 25 cm's of snow fell today alone) and I spend way too much time playing computer games. I am also close to retirement so looking for things to occupy my mind and hands. I have always had a love of ships having grown up on the east coast of Canada, surrounded by fishing villages and living in Bermuda for several years and visiting several times per year has me exposed to sailing vessels. Even attended the America's Cup 2 years ago. My other hobbies are Amateur Radio and Photography ( https://canadianloon.wordpress.com ), so if I build it will be well photographed 🙂 That it from this end, will be lurking, asking questions and looking at all the wonderful builds. Cheers. Scott