Chuck

Its looking just as it is supposed to at this stage. You are doing some fine work on it. Just take your time and dont rush it. Keep that planking neat and nice and tight. Dont forget to simulate the caulking between planks. Running a pencil along one edge of teh joint is just perfect on cedar.

There are no instructions as this is a complete scratch project. After you sign up you will be given access to the plans. There is nothing prepared for it at all....you need to buy the raw wood and have at it....decorations and all!!! Its a real fun project. Just look through some of the completed models.

Welcome to MSW.....Tell us a little about yourself. What are you building at the moment? Thanks for sharing the photos. I feel they may get lost in this forum in your intro topic. You should post them in the general discussion forum in a topic titled " Karl's (Marquardt) model of Endeavor - some photos" Chuck

The Speedy looks fantastic Chris. Well done!!! It will make an excellent project. Chuck

really nice progress!!! You are almost all done

You can link to the HMS Triton Group Project here.....Click Here This is an ongoing group and we encourage all of you join. This is a wonderful introduction to plank on frame model building. If you have any questions about this group before joining...please reply to this topic and ask away. Chuck

You can link to the Medway Longboat Group Project here.....Click Here This Group is still ongoing and you join if you would like to. Longboat Kits can be bought here. We encourage you to join and participate in the group. If you have any questions about this group before joining...please reply to this topic and ask away.

You can link to the Carving Group Project here.....Click Here This Group is still ongoing and you join if you would like to. Dont forget that Carving blanks for this project are still available and in stock...They can be bought here. We encourage you to join and participate in the group. If you have any questions about this group before joining...please reply to this topic and ask away.

Download PDF ropewalk.pdf

Download PDF 14frolich_style_ropewalk.pdf

Since we have plans in the works for some potential new group projects I am giving this topic a bump. Note the newer choices added to the poll on the last question. If none suit your fancy...please list once again your subject matter of choice and how you would like to see the project presented. For example.... "I would like to see a group for a small skipjack with plans made available. I would like to have a starter package available for the main skeletal parts like the bulkheads and keel but beyond that I would prefer to scratch everything else with help from participants and a group leader or mentor." This type of request helps us find someone and put together such a project because there are more details than simply stating a subject type. Chuck

NOT TRUE AT ALL......This kit is not anywhere on the Master Korabel website. MK does NOT make a kit of this model.

Falkonet is not Master Korabel.... They are two very distinctly different companies. There is currently a dispute about Falkonet which has NOT been 100% verified. However no it is not current;y a banned MFG. AND I repeat.......Falkonet is a very different company than Master Korabel. Chuck

Well...so the bottom line is that this isnt true at all except for the old companies that havent tried to innovate. Newer smaller companies have the advantage in many cases....as can be seen with the demise of AL, Euromodel, Mamoli and probably some of the others.......Caldercraft???? Maybe too if they dont start doing anything new. Although we have dozens and dozens of their kits being built as build logs. They are still quite popular.

You also need to understand that those kits made 25-30 years ago would never be good sellers now. They are just a handful of laser cut parts made from sub par wood. .... Along with a bunch of wood strips and some bad castings. Model builders expect a lot more today for their money and they are notoriously frugal. To give a builder what they expect these days is quite expensive. It would be very easy and affordable for me to design a new kit like Model Shipways Armed Virginia Sloop. There are about five laser cut sheets in the entire kit and the instructions are 30 pages long. It would never sell!!!! They were basically starter kits with a bunch of raw wood. In contrast.....my new kit of the longboat has 26 laser cut pieces and almost no strip wood.....very expensive, with about 100 pages of instruction. The old kits can now be considered semi scratch in my opinion....especially if you ditch the castings. Very few parts were laser cut and designed with ease of construction in mind. And all this for a smallish kit of a longboat. Folks dont even want to learn to plank anymore. They want even larger kits to have all of the planking pre-spiled and laser cut......but they only want to spend $250. Very very different these days to design a kit that will be well-received....Builders have gotten very spoiled. This leaves very little profit per kit when most builders expect to pay about the same as they did for the AVS with cheap wood. Design and prototyping takes a whole lot longer now. At least for anything innovative. So when you consider that any new kit will cost an old established company around $30,000 to develop. This is significantly cheaper for newer small companies where the owners are usually also the designers and also work the assembly lines. I dont have to pay a good designer $50 an hour for about a year and half to design and prototype. I do it myself and it doesnt cost anything. So the old companies cant afford to spend that much to develop a new innovative kit project. They are kind of withering away because of that.

To post pics of finished model