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JacksonMcG

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  1. Hi all: thanks for your answers! I really appreciate it! I'm looking forward to joining you all in MSW.
  2. Hi everyone, Thank you for welcoming me and for all your interesting (and funny) responses! I will happily share the finished thesis with the community; I would be very interested to hear everyone's thoughts (--though that it is still a long ways away!). I am also curious to notice in many responses--here and elsewhere, as well as in my own personal experience--how often an interest in model-making is related to childhood, and how integral the image of the father seems to be in the mind of the model-maker. I received my own first model kit from my father and I have cherished that memory ever since; that is almost certainly why I continue. Sometimes I think of modeling almost like a memory-palace, bringing back memories? I wonder if you all have any thoughts on ship-modeling as a tradition or right of passage passed between fathers and sons—what it might mean, or what to make of it? Jackson
  3. Hello all; I am an amateur modeler and grad student writing an MA thesis about maritime modeling across time--Egypt, Greece--and now. I am interested why, from a philosophical and psychological perspective, model-making is so enrapturing--what sorts of desires it plays upon--and why it seems to seize on ships in particular. I would love to hear from anyone about any insights or thoughts they might have! Jackson!
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