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Superstructure assembled and test-fitted. A slight fit problem at the back that will need to be addressed before moving forward. Stay tuned!

Siggi, your model is simply gorgeous in every way!

Welcome aboard! First of all, your smack looks very nice. I built one as my first wooden model about 25 years ago back when it was still being produced by Midwest Products. I have also built a CLC boat, their Sassafras 12 kit, which you can read about here. It was a fun project, and I'd probably do another one but for the fact that I don't have space to store it. You can resize your photos by double-clicking on the inserted image to bring up an image editing window. Lastly, there is a ship modeling club in your area, the South Bay Model Shipwrights. Check them out! Cheers!

Looks great, Alan!

Interesting. That's the first thing I noticed when looking at James' photos. I do think the look could be improved if your printer could use a serif font -- the sans serif font looks far too modern. Italics would probably also help improve the look, since the writing on the real carriages leans a bit. Example below: SPIT FIRE vs. SPIT FIRE

And that should be a huge red flag to any potential buyers. I'm not familiar with the kit myself, but I do know that what you have observed about the lack of finished builds is true. If a kit is truly as great as its manufacturer claims it is, then it seems fair to expect that there ought to be at least a couple of finished builds of it online somewhere, especially when one considers how long the kit has been on the market now.

Fabulous, Dan! Congratulations!

Nice work, Kevin!

I'm straying a bit off the beaten path here. The superstructure is another egg-crate structure to be placed atop the egg-crate hull. That just doesn't strike me as a sturdy building method, so I'm doing something a little different. I trimmed all of the fold tabs off the upper deck and glued it down to a 1mm piece of cardboard. This should provide very stiff edges that are less likely to produce the dreaded 'starving cow' effect, while still providing ample gluing area for the superstructure sides. Of course, I had to trim down all of the internal egg crate frames to allow for the thicker deck, and it remains to be seen whether everything will go together the way I imagine it will. Fingers crossed!

Handsomely done!

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Hi, Scrumpy. Your model does not look like the ones offered online, none of which (as far as i could find) are even named Bombay Star. To me, your model looks to be scratch-built by someone with at least a modicum of nautical knowledge, e.g., the deck furniture is positioned correctly, the rigging looks generally correct, etc. In fact, the model also includes chainplates that are secured to the inside of the bulwarks, rather than the outside, a practice that I believe became commonplace in the second half of the 19th century. As far as dating the model, that's anyone's guess.

Not for the red side -- you guys get coal. 😉

A bit of progress forward . . . . . . and aft.

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Nope. There are no parts for internal structure, so unless one chooses to scratch-build, then there isn't even the option.

Zipping the hull up. I'm not entirely happy with the hull. These 'egg crate' style hulls are very tricky, IMO, to get just right. The best one I have done was for USS England, and that one doesn't really count, because I had a 3D-printed hull to use as a base.

Welcome aboard, Tuvok, and thanks for sharing your work!

Welcome aboard! We have a few finished President models around here, which you can find in this list (if you haven't looked them up already).

The joint between each strut and its wheel well is a real weak point of the design. Nobody will be looking at that part when she's sitting upright, so feel free to add some extra structure in there to stiffen things.

No, thanks! 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

First batch of hull parts cut out and base plate + internal frames assembled.

Hello, and welcome to another new adventure in card! This time around I will be building the Adler IV published by HMV. A little back story: When I was an exchange student living in Aurich, West Germany, in 1980, I had the opportunity to experience a Wattwanderung -- a hike across the mudflats between the mainland and the East Frisian Islands. We hiked over to Baltrum, had lunch, and then took a ferry back to the mainland. I don't remember the name of the ferry, and sadly I no longer have the photos I took that day, but I feel fairly certain it was a small ferry much like this one, perhaps this very ship or one of her sisters -- they remain in service down to the present and do operate in the area. Adler IV, launched in 1977 (courtesy of Wikimedia Commons) I have many HMV kits in my stash, but I have only completed a few of them. My early HMV efforts were more or less doomed from the start for one reason or another. One incorporated PE brass, which I decided I did not like working with. The other was simply "too much model" for a builder of my experience. About half of my current HMV inventory consists of civilian vessels, and a number of them are ferries and coastal excursion ships. Adler IV is the smallest of them. It seemed advisable to start small and then work through the incrementally more difficult builds. Adler IV is a small ship, only 104 ft long overall, so at 1/250 she'll be a small model, about 5" in length, with a small parts count -- there are only two pages of parts. Curiously, the 'diagrams' for this kit consist of a single one-page series of in-progress photos. I have the laser-cut detail set as well. Look for first cuts soon!

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Welcome aboard!