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BobG

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  • Birthday 09/15/1946

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    Sacramento, California
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    Cycling, hiking, world travel, photography, playing guitar and ship modeling.

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  1. Good to see you back building another soon-to-be exquisite model, Grant, and I'm glad to hear that life is moving along smoother for you after some "unexpected twists." Life has a way of doing that especially as we get older it seems. I went through a bit of rough patch beginning late last November. I developed a severe case of peripheral neuropathy after my last Covid vaccination. Fortunately, it eased up and eventually went away by mid-January but it certainly threw a wrench in life for me for a while. I was beginning to think the warranty had finally run out. Anyway, glad to see back building this interesting model. Hope you're enjoying that beautiful Trek too. All the best, Grant.
  2. Hello Peter, I somehow missed seeing you had started this amazing build after following your incredible Xebec build log. Any further progress on this one? Hope all is well.
  3. The wonderful weathering you have done makes this a very realistic and interesting model! Where were you able to find those figures in the correct scale?
  4. Beautiful fleet of fishing vessels, Dan! I love these working boats and so glad that Chris has included them in his line up of models.
  5. So good to see you back, Moonbug. I'm so sorry to hear about the trauma that your daughter suffered and glad to hear that she is recovering and on the path of healing. I'm a retired therapist and have seen people and families recover from unimaginable trauma too many times over the years of my profession. Recovery is always heartbreaking and never easy but the remarkable power of the human spirit to heal itself and move forward never ceased to amaze me. I wish you and your family well as you move forward together.
  6. The US Coast Guard is seriously unrepresented in the modeling world and, as a CG veteran myself, I'd love to see some of their more famous boats and ships available as accurate kits. I know that Bluejacket has been working on a Point class 82 footer model but there aren't many other kits around. I served on the Cutter Storis in Alaska for a year and a half and I was also a coxswain and engineman on one of several 40 foot utility boats for 2 1/2 years. I think that both of these would make great models. The Cutter Storis was commissioned on April 4, 1942 and went on to actively serve for 64 years and 5 months before being decommissioned on February 12, 2007, making her the longest serving CG vessel in history and she was the Queen of the Fleet for many years. In 1957, the Storis, along with the Cutters Bramble and Spar, left Greenland in search of a deepwater channel through the Arctic Ocean. Their transit ended a 450 year search for the Northwest Passage. She went on to return to Greenland via the Panama Canal making her the first ship in history to circumnavigate the North American continent. She was subsequently assigned to her home port in Kodiak, Alaska, where she was active in fisheries patrols and search and rescue operations in the Bering Sea and the Gulf of Alaska until her decommissioning and was affectionately known as "The Galloping Ghost of the Alaskan Coast." The Storis was unceremoniously sold for scrap after being in the moth ball fleet in the Suisun Bay near San Francisco even while the city of Juneau, Alaska, had plans to turn her into a dockside, historic museum. I think she would make a great CG model especially given her extensive, notable history. I think a model of the CG 40 foot Utility Boats would also make a nice model kit. 236 of these hard working, twin screwed, port security and search and rescue boats were built between 1950 and 1966 and the last one was decommissioned in 1983. Dumas made a large model kit of these 40 footers some 50 years ago or so and it was built primarily as an RC model. It was 35 inches long and, as such an old model, the cutting of the parts and the instructions are not great. It's unclear to me if Dumas has these available anymore. They don't show them on their list of models. It can occassionally be found on eBay. I think a smaller, accurate model of these 40 footers would make a very nice model that would be fairly easy to build.
  7. Stunning model and display! I've really enjoyed following along as you built this beautiful model. Congratulations! I'm looking forward to whatever you choose to build next.
  8. She's a beauty, Mike! I love these sailboats! Looking forward to what your next project will be.
  9. Nice job of wading through the rigging despite the lack of instructions provided! I'll have to study your photographs and see if I can possibly stumble my way through the the rigging and end up with something that at least looks acceptable even if it is not accurate!
  10. Nice progress, Jereremy. How did the planks line up with the wavy area of the bulwarks? Were you able to get a smooth fit?
  11. Nice job so far, Helge! This was the very first boat I ever wooden boat model I ever tried to build. I'm not sure that the masts are accurate though and I decided not to add them and just left the dory without them.
  12. I also had the exact same problem with the bulwarks that you described. I just assumed that I had somehow faired the bulkheads incorrectly even though the batten I was using as I was sanding them was lying smoothly against the bulkheads without any gaps. I was pretty discouraged with my effort at that point and, unfortunately, my build has been lying dormant for a long time now partially because I felt like I had already messed it up with the wavy bulkhead problem. It seems, however, that I may not be the only one who has encountered this problem.
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