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Nautical Research Guild
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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.
Anyone have USS Constitution builds from Marine Model Company #1093 kit
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Hi everyone,
New member wanting to cut my teeth, here. I'm looking to see if anyone here has built the USS Constitution Model kit #1093 from Marine Model Co? I'd like to see some pictures of the results of your build for guidance. I can't find another example anywhere on the internet. I got this kit for really cheap because someone started it and never finished. And by started, i mean they did a single thin and shoddy layer of hull paint, and glued on the rudder. It was easy to reverse.
I've also picked up the "Dapper Tom" Model Shipways kit for cheap, to do first as a practice before fully tackling the Constitution. There's some great documentation on this website for that build, for which I'm grateful. From what I can tell and reading through the checklists and organizing, my kits are complete (they're pretty old kits that were never built). I'm pretty sure that a lot of the trimmings for the Constitution kit are made of lovely poisonous lead.
Blaine