Jump to content
NRG Photographic Model Ship Competition - All eligible to enter - Reduced memberhsip fee - JULY 31 ENTRY DEADLINE ×

Dave_E

NRG Member
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    1,233

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Everything posted by Dave_E

  1. Dave_E
    Glad you made the decision to hang with your build logs! 👍 I’ll watch this one as well while you wait for parts on the Rattlesnake. 👍😀
  2. Dave_E
    Hi All, We’re back from our month in Hawaii and as much as I had fun (sun burn, screaming grandkids, moody daughter-in-law and losing too many games of chess to our son) I’m glad to be home. Here is the Britannia stern piece… finding out just how hard this is to paint free hand. The raised portions of the casting do not allow some of the techniques I’ve seen. Two feet away… eh. 😉 I’ve got some touch up to do. This is also my 1000th post on the forum! 😀 Honesty, I have been on many forums in my life with different hobbies and interests (there are forums for any subject on the planet) but have never had the involvement that I do with MSW. The month I was in Hawaii, it was a joy to open up the forum every day or two and see what the boys have been doing. What I did not know when I joined is that MSW is not just for wooden model shipbuilding! Card, plastic, wood, bottles… ships, planes, anything, and I’d guess that many of us do dabble in more than one modeling medium. Anyway, glad I’m here and enjoy the many online friendships. God Bless you and Happy new year to all! 👍😀
  3. Dave_E
    Planking looks good John. I remember my first (and only) bulkhead framing (Lady Nelson)… I wanted to scrap it. Months later, as I look at it finished, I think “what was I all upset for”? 😄 Press on! 👍
  4. Dave_E
    Hi Don, welcome to the forum! 👍😀
  5. Dave_E
    Sweet! You don’t by chance fancy the Harrier do you? 😆👍😀
  6. Dave_E
    Hi John, welcome to the forum! 👍😀
  7. Dave_E
    Hi Andy, welcome to the forum! 👍😀
  8. Dave_E
    Back at you Keith. Stay warm! 🎄 God Bless - Dave
  9. Dave_E
    Looking good Ken! How did you get your plans with the red in them? 🙏🎄
  10. Dave_E
    Welcome to the forum! 👍😀
  11. Dave_E
    On board! You actually build wooden models? 😀 Looking good! 👍
  12. Dave_E
    Welcome to the forum! 👍😀
  13. Dave_E
    Hi Tim, Welcome to the forum! 👍😀
  14. Dave_E
    Now that is cool! Really impressive Glen. 👍😀
  15. Dave_E
    Welcome Andre! I am an ex-RC helicopter enthusiast… got to expensive for me. Excellent choppers! 👍😀
  16. Dave_E
    Hi Will, nice to meet you. 👍😀
  17. Dave_E
    Welcome to the forum! Do you have a name we may call you to go along with that neat handle? 😀
  18. Dave_E
    Hey Ed, I have an old airplane iron, and my wife gave me a couple spare hair curling irons (smooth type). When I’m bending my guitar sides, I soak the wood pretty good and then it goes into a heated bending jig. For the water ways I will be using one of the curling irons… bend and check, bend and check. When it’s time to start any planking… search the forum for instructions on plank bending. Make yourself a jig and get a small travel iron or the like. Don’t even need to wet the wood! I don’t want to hijack your thread and turn it into plank bending, but I know of 4 different ways to do planking. If you search the build logs, you’ll see all of them. Decide on what you like and go for it. However…. I’m here to tell you the dry heat bending does work pretty slick. Look at Glenn Barlows work.
  19. Dave_E
    Did you try heat on that wet wood, it will bend like a pretzel.
  20. Dave_E
    Thanks Jim! 😀
  21. Dave_E
    I’m waiting for this answer as well! 😉
  22. Dave_E
    Hey Dave, welcome to the forum! 👍😀
  23. Dave_E
    REAL NICE Ed! Your setting the bar pretty high. 👍😀
  24. Dave_E
    Hi Ray, welcome to the forum! 👍😀
  25. Dave_E
    Some serious craftsmanship going on here! 👍😀

About us

Modelshipworld - Advancing Ship Modeling through Research

SSL Secured

Your security is important for us so this Website is SSL-Secured

NRG Mailing Address

Nautical Research Guild
237 South Lincoln Street
Westmont IL, 60559-1917

Model Ship World ® and the MSW logo are Registered Trademarks, and belong to the Nautical Research Guild (United States Patent and Trademark Office: No. 6,929,264 & No. 6,929,274, registered Dec. 20, 2022)

Helpful Links

About the NRG

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.

Our Emblem ®

Modelshipworld - Advancing Ship Modeling through Research

Nautical Research Guild ® and the NRG logo are Registered Trademarks, and belong to the Nautical Research Guild (United States Patent and Trademark Office: No. 6,999,236 & No. 6,999,237, registered March 14, 2023)

×
×
  • Create New...