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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.
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I'm jotting this introductory 'Hello' with a considerable amount of trepidation. Seasoned members/builders will be very familiar with my path leading to arriving here and the most common outcome: enthusiastic noob says hello, starts build log, posts various levels of progress photos, disappears without trace. Will I be any different? I hope so, but undoubtedly so did all the others.
I have a limited and uninspiring history of plastic scale model kits. Selection has mainly been by a subject piquing my interest whilst watching skilled and experienced YouTube modellers making things look easy and thus repeatedly biting off far more than I can comfortably chew.
I came to modelling fairly late in life as opposed to rekindling a boyhood interest and my oft repeated desire to produce projects beyond my skill set is exactly how I landed here. The incredibly strong compunction to produce HMS Beagle to the standard of the example I viewed was almost overwhelming. It has a soft spot in my heart due to its most famous passenger and the story of its latter Captain.
Thankfully, this time I realised in advance of actually diving straight in and buying the thing that I would be out of my depth and am now the proud owner of an unopened Polaris. Time will tell how this fits with a new builder. In particular, me.
The sensibility of that decision was rammed home within my 1st hour here, the 'cautionary tale' by Chuck and a search through Polaris build logs (the majority unfinished) has left me glad that I didn't buy Beagle.
The current plan is to perform the parts identification/check list and start construction over the coming holidays. I have a suitable workspace, lighting and a decent tool/paint set and am currently assembling basic requirements for a wooden model.
I will start the inevitable build journal when the time comes as I'm going to need all the help I can get.
Will hopefully meet some of you on your own threads prior to this and be testing your patience with noob questions and comments.
Cheers, Steve.