Ryland Craze
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Novice is greeting from the Bavarian Alps
Ryland Craze replied to XS400DOHC's topic in New member Introductions
Welcome to Model Ship World Benjamin. You have the right attitude in building your Bounty. So many ship model kits are never finished. Good luck on your build. -
Welcome to Model Ship World Kloppie. There is a wealth of information on MSW to help you on your Endeavour build. If you get a chance, please post a picture of your Smit Rotterdam.
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Wow Floyd! What a bummer having to find a new home so quick. I have attached the materials list for the masting package. I hope you can find time to get back to your build. Medway Masting Materials.pdf
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Welcome to Model Ship World. You have picked a good kit for your first wooden ship model kit. If you click on the "Lowell Grand Banks Dory" tag below the title at the top of this page, it will display all of the build logs on MSW of this kit. This kit builds into a very nice model. Good luck on your build.
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Beautiful model Steve. The added details sets you model out from the other builds that I have seen.
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Beautiful kit Chris and a masterpiece build by James.
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Congratulations! You did a nice job on building this model, especially at such a small scale.
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For Beginners -- A Cautionary Tale
Ryland Craze replied to ccoyle's topic in New member Introductions
I am currently building this model and I would not recommend this kit for a first time build. I would go the route that grsjax recommended, the Model Shipways Lowell Grand Banks Dory. This kit can be purchased at a low price when Model Expo has one of their weekly sales. You may have to sign up for emails from them to be notified when the sales start and for the discount code. -
Congratulations Lynn on finishing your Pram. It is a great looking model and you should be proud of the work you have done. It is really nice to watch you improve your skills with the two boats you have completed. I am looking forward to seeing your build of the Phantom. I have seen some really nice builds of this kit using Chuck's practicum.
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I want to thank everyone for your comments and the "Likes". I appreciate the support and encouragement that you have given me throughout this build.
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Thanks Vahur for becoming a sponsor of Model Ship World. I wish you a successful start to your business. Hobbymill will be offering a valued service to our European members.
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Lynn, you are making good progress on your Pram. For your next model, you could build the Model Shipways Muscongus Bay Lobster Smack, which is the third kit in the series of progressive builds. Another option would be the Fifie ‘Lady Eleanor’ or the Zulu ‘Lady Isabella’ kits from Vanguard Models. Here is a link to the Vanguard site: https://vanguardmodels.co.uk/product-category/vanguard-model-kits/
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Earlier this week I painted the oars, attached the flag and hung some rope coils on the flag halliard. My Medway Longboat is now finished. This has been a very enjoyable build. I want to thank many people for their help and encouragement along the way. A special thank you goes out to Chuck who offered advice and encouragement throughout my build. I have seen Chuck's model in person at three ship model shows and I have taken many photos of his model to use as a reference for my build. I also appreciate that Chuck designed a kit that a novice builder like me can build and the end result is a model that looks way better than what my skills could produce. I also appreciate all of the builders of this kit that posted their build logs on MSW. If your build logs were a book, I would have worn out the pages as I referred to your build logs for many of the tasks that I completed in my build. I also want to thank all of those members who looked in on my build log and made comments or hit the like button. Your reactions to my posts were a motivating force to move on to the next step of construction. Here are photos of my Medway Longboat, a fantastic kit by Syren Ship Model Company:
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How to seize a block to an iron band
Ryland Craze replied to Laggard's topic in Masting, rigging and sails
Henry, Check out the build logs for the Model Shipways 18th Century Longboat. I did a search and came up with three pages of build logs. I am sure that some of these that have gotten to the rigging of their Longboats may show how they did the iron bands and seizing the blocks to the iron bands. Here is a link of the search that I did: https://modelshipworld.com/tags/18th century longboat/ In addition, you may want to check out YouTube as there are several good videos on seizing blocks. -
Welcome to Model Ship World Chuck.
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Welcome to Model Ship World Jared. Doing a build log on your Flying Fish would allow you to practice your other hobby of photography. I am always trying to improve my photography skills when I take pictures of my model for a build log.
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Looks like a nice kit. Good luck on your build.
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Thanks Ben for your support of Model Ship World and being a sponsor.
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Thanks everyone for the comments and the "Likes". I had my Medway Longboat on display at Modelcon on August 7th, which was a ship model show held on the Battleship New Jersey and hosted by the Philadelphia Ship Model Society. I was displaying it on the fantail of the ship. Here is a photo of the display: I had a scare when I packed up the model to bring it home. I had placed the model on its build board, which was secured to the bottom of a cardboard box, and placed the box on a table. A gust of wind came through and blew the box with my model in it off of the table. My heart sank as the box landed on its side and the model was thrown partially out of the box. Luckily, the only damage to the model was some paint was rubbed off of the bowsprit when it slid inside of the box. All of the glue joints held. I was real lucky that the model did not suffer more damage. I finally got back to work on it this week. I have been working on the oars as I want to display six of them with the model. I shortened the length of the oars to nine inches, which would be 18 scale feet. The next step is to paint them with multiple coats of highly thinned paint. It is hard to believe the model is close to being finished. I have enjoyed every minute of building this model.
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Beautiful model. I have enjoyed following your build log.
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Hi Nick and welcome to Model Ship World. I hope you do start a build log so we can follow your progress. The Bluenose is a beautiful ship. You should check out Frank Mastini's book Ship Modeling Simplified. It was my first book about ship modeling and it is the book that got me hooked on this hobby. It is about building a model of the Bluenose.
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Hi Joe and thanks for being a sponsor of Model Ship World. I am glad you have stepped up to provide us modelers with precision milled wood for our projects. I look forward to becoming a customer of yours.
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Big improvement over the kit supplied quarter badges. Wishing you a speedy recovery on your surgery.
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