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Modelshipworld - Advancing Ship Modeling through Research
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Nautical Research Guild
237 South Lincoln Street
Westmont IL, 60559-1917
If you enjoy building ship models that are historically accurate as well as beautiful, then The Nautical Research Guild (NRG) is just right for you.
The Guild is a non-profit educational organization whose mission is to “Advance Ship Modeling Through Research”. We provide support to our members in their efforts to raise the quality of their model ships.
The Nautical Research Guild has published our world-renowned quarterly magazine, The Nautical Research Journal, since 1955. The pages of the Journal are full of articles by accomplished ship modelers who show you how they create those exquisite details on their models, and by maritime historians who show you the correct details to build. The Journal is available in both print and digital editions. Go to the NRG web site (www.thenrg.org) to download a complimentary digital copy of the Journal. The NRG also publishes plan sets, books and compilations of back issues of the Journal and the former Ships in Scale and Model Ship Builder magazines.
Canadian Seafarer in Texas
in New member Introductions
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Ahoy!
I'm a Canadian Master Mariner living and working in Texas for the past three years as a marine consultant. I got my start on the S/V Concordia; a barquentine rigged sail training vessel that eventually went down off the coast of Brazil. Since then I've worked predominately in the offshore oilfield on dynamically positioned vessels.
I've always loved models but haven't built any since college. Looking to get started again, an old shipmate encouraged me to give cardstock a try.
I sailed as cadet on the Sanderling; a RoRo container ship trading between St. John's, NF and Halifax, NS back in the 90's. The bosun onboard built models of the ship from paper and found items onboard, which was amazing to me. Now that I've looked into it a bit I can see what he was up to and am even more impressed.
I work on a lot of high tech newbuild vessels and have access usually to the general arrangements so would like to attempt some builds of those. I'll start with the V108 as posted here to learn some techniques first.
S.