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Just to add examples of my previous and current builds. Albatros Fun fact: I began this ship with my father in law in 2020 and after it sat for nearly four years I retrieved it and began working on it at home. Biggest takeaway: Importance of properly sanding. Friends Good Will Began Oct 1, 2024 Finished Nov 27, 2024 Fun fact: The base the ship is mounted on is a slice from the retired crow jack of the original ship. Biggest takeaway: The need to go in with a better idea of the scale adjustments when doing a kit bash. Essex Began Jan 7, 2025 Ongoing Fun fact: Using a video from Home Harbor on YouTube, I made some adjustments to the stern which gave me a better result for creating a more historically accurate model. Biggest takeaway: I learned about hull coppering during this build and used copper plumber’s tape to copper the hull. While it’s not accurately applied, the effect is quite striking.

Hello! And welcome to my first build thread. I bought myself Occre’s Endurance during their Black Friday Sale and while I currently have it wrapped and sitting under the tree I’ve been doing a great deal of research to be ready to start in earnest (pun intended). This will be my fourth model ship build with the previous being: Occre’s Albatros A kit-bashed model of Friends Good Will* using Occre’s Albatros for the material Occre’s Essex (this one is still in progress) Each model has given me a greater understanding of how to do this more effectively and efficiently and to see where I struggle and what I might do going forward to overcome said troubles. I hope to get some helpful advice as I go and am using the build logs of @clearway, @Tomculb, @theoracle09, and @HakeZou for inspiration and reference (and some better ideas of how to make this thing more accurate to the original). Thanks in advance for climbing aboard. ————————————————————— *Friends Good Will was a 19th century merchant sloop which sailed the Great Lakes from 1811 until its burning in Buffalo by the British in 1813. It was one of the few survivors of the Battle of Put in Bay where it was reclaimed by the Americans after having been previously captured by the Brits at Mackinac Island. Over the past two summers I had the fortune of serving as crew aboard the recreation of her which harbors out of South Haven, MI and doing so inspired me to build her. To do so I HEAVILY modified Occre’s Albatros to turn a two mast clipper into a single masted sloop (which meant a great deal of rescaling as I had to determine the new measurements for the masts and sails)

Four odd years later and this thread has been immeasurably helpful as I started my own build of the Friends. As someone who spent the summer working on the ship I was wondering what I might build as my next model after Occre’s Albatros and like a crazy person I figured my next build should be an off the rails version of my own ship utilizing a cannibalized and customized Albatros kit. The documents and materials you provided have helped me as I’ve tried to figure out proportions and such and while mine isn’t anywhere near as accurate as the one you worked on, I’ve been having a great time building it.