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Welcome aboard, Dave! So -- how farth north is "Northern"? I'm a Humboldt County native.

Hi, Al. I have a couple of suggestions. I have passed these on to other manufacturers in the past, but you know how it goes -- every company has their preferred niche, and man hours for development aren't unlimited. I know BlueJacket has a passion for subjects from the Northeast, but the West Coast has no comparable modeling enterprise bringing their indigenous designs to market, so it'd be nice if someone did something about that. Here are some ideas, in no particular order: 1. A West Coast salmon troller. 2. The motor launch Madaket. Last surviving vessel of the Coggeshall Launch & Tow Company and one of the few surviving vessels of her type. 3. The lumber schooner C A Thayer -- last surviving lumber schooner. Currently berthed at San Francisco Maritime NHP. She was recently completely overhauled, so someone has good plans of her somewhere. 4. A scow schooner, e.g. Alma. Midwest Products used to make one, but it's been off the market for many years now. 5. Any three-masted barkentine. A lovely rig IMO, and under-represented in the hobby. 6. For an East Coast subject, how about the schooner yacht Coronet? Schooner yachts are another under-represented segment of the hobby, and Coronet has been undergoing restoration at the International Yacht Restoration School since 1995 (soon to be transferred to Mystic Seaport, if not there already). Anyways, that's my short list.

Me neither. Legos are not my area of expertise (and my childhood was marred by having a set of knock-off building bricks that were not nearly as functional).

I like the gripper pads idea -- gonna have to copy that one.

Oooh -- chip board. 😬 Have lots of extra blades on hand!

**groan**

Beautiful model, but these images really should go in a gallery album rather than in the build logs section.

Oh, dear! 😬 Apart from my pretty sad skills when I was younger, building like a kid would require me to be able to pick up some box-scale Aurora kit from Sprouse-Reitz for a quarter!

She looks great! Is there still work to be done on her? And what kind(s) of tanks is she carrying? They look like Matildas, but it's hard to tell for sure.

I've added eight planks (four per side) since the Saturday photo. It's not exciting stuff, so I probably will not post another photo until the first layer is done.

Welcome aboard!

Welcome aboard!

Very nice! Congratulations!

Did you check with Model Shipways to see if they still have the plans archived somewhere?

Congratulations, Scotty! The first one holds a special place in a modeler's heart.

Pete, I split out the relevant portion for you into a separate build log here. I left the image of the plans in the original topic -- you might want to re-post them in your build log. Good luck!

Soak, bend, glue, clamp, wait, repeat.

Well, I like it! But then I have a thing for small warships -- the ones that did the lion's share of the work without getting much of the glory. I read up on Adder and was slightly surprised to see that she had a very short service life -- only eight years before being sent to the breakers.

". . . on Sparkler and . . ." ***CRASH*** 😧

I've always thought this vessel has very pleasing lines.

An unintentionally apt description of our hobby, on occasion. 😉

Hi, Joe. I think you will get a lot more help with your questions if you start a build log in the scratch builds section (click here to get started with naming conventions and then create your log in this section). Both pond yachts and restoration work are a little on the esoteric side of the hobby, but we do have members with expertise on those subjects. Good luck!

Very handsome so far!

**sigh** I can dream.

No clue.