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    I'm including some more photos of my models. My first scratch-built model was of IRIS the the buoy tender. I was 14 and had a subscription to the magazine "Ships and the Sea". They always ran a modeling project and someone did a multi-part story about this cutter. It had plans that fit on a magazine page, photos of the prototype and of the contruction process (bread and butter). So I got some balsa sheets and built up a block to carve. My father took me into NYC one day to go Polks Model Hobbies on 5th Ave. so I could purchase some of the fittings. Later as you can see I built the radio control Hornbeam.
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    Joe, Please send me your email address. I cant cope with this site's security. Sam

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    Thanks, Ryland. My model of the buoy tender, Hornbeam, won 3rd place at the 1985 Mariners Museum Semi-Scratch Built Powered Division Contest. Sam
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    I'm a scale modeler specializing in scratch-building U.S. Coast Guard vessels for radio control operation. I have built a 36' Motor Life Boat, a 38' Picket Boat, a 52' Motor Life Boat (Intrepid) and a 180' Iris class Buoy Tender (WLB 394 Hornbeam) I have planned to build a 25' 8" Motor Surf Boat and a 30' Surf Rescue Boat both in 1 1/2" to the foot scale but at age 81 have lost some of my small motor skills and feel I could not do them justice. I have plans for both and have framed-up the 30 footer. I have a custom made brass skeg attached to the keel and stem plywood layout for the 25 footer with the prop shafts bored and station lines marked. I am attaching photos of both as well as some of my completed models. If anyone is interested in completing these two boats, please get in touch. I am in suburban Philadelphia. Sam Wasson

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