Anthony Hearne

i printed the largest ones and although the first page i printed didn't have a scale on it , the next couple did and the measurements are perfect, its just the 3 middle ones i have to figure out , and thank you for the link i will give them a try

i'm also having problems with the website , lots of 404's and unable to order certain things, while i totally agree that the books are worth the wait , even a personal email as confirmation would be enough , actually a reply to an email enquiry would be ok too. i will order from them again as the product is without question exceptional and i am more prepared for the 2 month wait , i guess my credit card being charged is my confirmation

i ordered mine september 14 after a few emails and telephone calls i finally got through and spoke to bob on the 13 th of november , today i received my books over 2 months after i ordered them and with an invoice dated the 14th of november , i wasn't expecting amazon type performance but 2 months ........ the books are worth the wait but a little communication would have made it more acceptable , i understand they are a small business just asking for an acknowledgment of the order 

really , i have the pandora aots book , its the same ship , awesome , i just picked it up from @freewheelinguy , but haven't looked through it yet,

yes thats a big help thank you 

hello

I am not planning on building this model yet , but i am trying to get everything together so that i can , in the future , i have a few questions but don't see anywhere to ask them other than here so here goes, i looked for an aots book for the triton but not sure if there is one , is there something like that available for this ship?

and my second question is regarding plans, the 11 x 8.5 i am slowly printing at work , i have checked the measurements and they are perfect, the 48 x 36 i had printed at kinkos , there is no scale on them so i'm not sure they are 100% correct but looking at them they seem fine , kinko's ,however doesn't print at 34 x 22 , they can only print at 36 x 24 , when i asked about scaling they looked at me blankly , where can i get these printed at the right scale or should i just print them at the larger scale and reduce them my self as needed

i called twice and left messages ,no reply,4 emails no reply 2 months have gone by , not the best way to run a business !

i ordered the hayling hoy book from sea watch books and although it took over a month to arrive , it did finally arrive , so about 6 weeks to 2 months ago i ordered the first 2 volumes of the swan class ships , money went out of the account but i didn't get a confirmation , but it was the same for the first book .

i emailed about 4 weeks ago and got a reply about a week later saying that , yes they had received the order and that they had been sent out, as of today i have emailed a further 3 times  and not had a reply and the books havent arrived either . do i continue to wait ? 

i ordered a book a couple of weeks ago, i didn't get a confirmation email, but this morning i got an email from seawatch saying that bob has had a problem with his health and that they are running behind, i'm ok with that 

i have also sent off for the book/plans and hope to start in the near future , this is indeed inspirational and excellent work , thank you for the information , this will be my first scratch build and this thread is extremely useful , 

thank you , i think i prefer the look of this victory but the figurehead does look a lot more complicated than i first thought , i am going to see if i can find some detailed drawings of the sculptures and see if i can do something , never tried so i don't know if its possible ,  

is it possible to build a pre Trafalgar victory from a mantua kit( or equivalent), or is there an alternative to a complete scratch build? how do i go about finding the differences? sorry i know this sounds like a complete beginner question but i am just starting on the scratch build journey and not sure i have enough experience for a complete build from scratch ,  

but in the corel instructions i'm supposed to glue the gun carriages onto the false decks and then once finished attach the cannons, so is this completely wrong? 

i got hold of a copy of captain cooks endeavor by karl Heinz marquardt ,anatomy of the ship , and although the main hull looks the same there are quite a lot of differences , the main one being no gun ports ,is this the same ship?

heres what i got

thank you ,the first plank i ran was in line with the gun ports so i measured off of it and i think they are close to where they are supposed to be . they aren't quite in sync with the plans but then the plans don't really match what i have any way . i did query this with corel and they said that the wood is cut correctly and the plans might be off due to shrinkage , only thing is they're the right height but about half an inch longer , even the false keel is shorter than the plans . 

i'm building a corel endeavor and i have finished the first layer of planking and want to make a start on the second layer but first i need to cut the holes for the gun ports, i marked them while planking , according to the false decks that are in the bulkheads but they dont line up with anything and the 1:1 plans they supply , aren't. the gun ports line up with one of the wales(?) and another one of those line up with the lower deck , should i start with this and try and guess where they should go?

hello to all and thank you for the warm welcome, florida seems quite popular with ship builders , i do have questions so i'm sure i will be on here quite a lot , hurricane Dorian missed us thankfully but we were well prepared , i feel really bad for the Bahamas though , don't know how they are going to recover from it …...

thanks again

Anthony

hello, i am not new to modelling but have been "having a go" for quite a few years , i'm 56 now and grew up in England before moving to sunny florida 15 years ago, my main interest when i started out was model aeroplanes and i built and successfully flew lots of control line and eventually rc planes , now i fly helicopters , scale planes were a dream that i never did get around to fulfilling but that sparked my interest in model ships , the detail in the old galleons ,pardon the pun, floats my boat and although my models aren't historically accurate , i get a lot of enjoyment out of building them. 

i have been building ship models for maybe 20 years now , which sounds like a lot but its been sporadic , my best achievement is a corel HMS Victory which took me over 10 years and was in between the move to the US ,i have built 5 corel kits and a mamoli , for me they look good but would probably be picked apart by a master modeler , i have also just started a corel Endeavour and have looked at several build logs just to see if i am on the right track , everything i have done so far has been self taught and mostly from books , internet wasn't really a thing when i started and my local hobby shop helped a little with books but they are sadly out of business and i have moved away anyway . so  now i find myself trawling the internet for help with these projects and came across model ship world, which i wish i had found earlier there is a wealth of information here . 

anyway that's my story and introduction hello to all

Anthony