geoff

"Older beginner" is a fairly large demographic at this site, so yes, I think you will fit right in!

Hi, Just joined.
62 years old, live in Southern Indiana. Built models for many years when I was younger, but I've been away from the hobby for a long time.
I never built ship models before, but I have always loved ships, aircraft, anything mechanical. Air Force veteran (aircraft mechanic), recently retired from GE Aviation, where I taught jet engine mechanics. I am a deacon in the Episcopal Church and since retiring I have been serving as a chaplain for the Seamen's Church Institute. In that capacity I have been working with the towboat crews along the Ohio River. So, I am especially interested in riverboats. The skill level shown here has been awesome, I hope you can put up with an older beginner as I try to build some acceptable models.
 

Welcome to MSW Milos, All the best, Geoff

Welcome to MSW Milos, All the best, Geoff

Welcome aboard mate! 
 
Vince P.  

Hi Milo,
 

Welcome to MSW 

Hi Mark, Yes I have been working for past 20 days 3-4 hrs a day. Majority of tips and tricks I find on the forum so it was very helpful

Gidday Milos,
Mistakes are all part of the process. The trick is to learn from them. Looks like you are off to a good start.
Mark.

Hope it want be too many 

Thanks David, errors are there to learn from 

Welcome! What a great place to build a ship - aboard a ship! Keep us posted on your progress. Every error is a learning moment.

Thanks Mark , kindly hope it will turnout fine  

Gidday Milos and a warm welcome from the land Downunder.
You will find plenty of support here. Any questions feel free to ask.
Good luck with your build.
Mark.

Hi Everybody
I would like to take this opportunity to thanks you all for accepting me in the group.I m seaman and just start building HMS Fly while on board the ship in my free time.  Have to addmit I was taking the guide lines from your forum , and as this is my first model with your help I hope it will be success.
Thanks
Milos 

I think Linville Falls should be sorta near to you,  when I visited years ago was an exquisite jewel. 
The panorama of the Pisgah National Forest, that Michael Mann did - so spectacular when edited to remove post 1500 "improvements".
You live in a special place.

Thanks to all for your warm welcome to the "community".   
 
A couple of responses and some added information...
- I live in Weaverville, NC, just north of Asheville
- One of you asked if we had any relatives in common who were involved in whaling or sailing out of New England and I know of at least 4 Hoxies (my last name) who were whaling ship captains.  The Hoxie House in Mystic Seaport was a very popular hotel (since renamed) and the phone book there was full of Hoxies.  The oldest house on Cape Cod is also called the Hoxie House and is now a museum in Sandwich. 
- One of the primary reasons for my visiting Mystic Seaport several years ago was to see the Charles W. Morgan, one of the last if not the last sail-powered whaling ships.  I built a model of it back in my 30s.  Now it's rumored that Bluejacket is planning a new high-end model of that and it's going to be #1 on my shopping list if & when it becomes available.  I'll do a much better job on it this time around.
- And of lesser note, there was a clipper ship named the Harriet Hoxie.  Google it.
- One of you was also a woodworker and warned me that if I ever graduated to scratch-built ships I'd miss the tools I sold.  I hope I get good enough to get that far in the hobby, and I can always buy newer tools.
- Lastly, the pictures I attached of The Portland paddle-wheel steamer show it displayed on one of the many tables I built during my furniture making years.
 
See y'all later when I start posting photos and details of my current Cutty Sark build.
 
Tom in NC
Tom Hoxie
 
 

Welcome to MSW. Look forward to having you around.
 

Welcome Tom. My story is similar though I’ve managed to find time to get back in the hobby before retirement. Started to find some time after the kids were grown. Took almost 30 years off from the hobby. Once my son moved out, I started cleaning the workbench area that he had taken over for making snow and skateboards and found the whaling brig Kate Cory that I had started some 25 years ago. Dusted it off and got restarted in the hobby and here we are 2 years later! Looking forward to seeing your Cuddy Sark take shape. 

Hey Tar Heel, Where in NC are you? 
If you venture into scratch building, you may wish you had kept some of your tools.
 
Bad Duke! Bad, bad Duke!  34 points! Bad Duke!

Hi Tom. Welcome to MSW 

Welcome. This is a beautiful, eye catching model. Enough to inspire a modeler.

Hi Tom, nice looking models! I too am winding down from a Carpentry/Remodeling career. The reason for my joining this site years ago was a solid hulled ship model given to me by my Great Aunt 35 years ago. I don’t know for sure but I am convinced it was built by the last or second to last of 4 generations of my lineal Mariner ancestors in the mid to late 1800’s. I have repaired and painted it, it now awaits rigging. Tom, I also descend from Mainers and Masters from Martha’s Vineyard, then New Bedford, Ma, that ( probably ) sailed primarily on clipper ships. Two died in their twenties, one of whom was lost at sea in 1790. Wouldn’t it be something
if we had some ancestors, towns, or ships in common??
Dean Hillman.

Welcome back to the world of modelbuilding Tom, I look forward to seeing your future models.
 
Michael