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Hello from Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Greetings, Understand that much. last 17 years i was in DFIR and from the day i was retired i lost full interest to computerstuff except playing some games. have fun without bits and bytes Peter -
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Moin Chris, yes, small village in Schleswig-Holstein, i live between Hamburg and Luebeck. Just one hour to north sea or a half to baltic sea if i want smell salty air. have a great evening
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Thank you much, Vossiewulf Just got the information, kit should arrive tomorrow
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Moin (what means hello in northern germany), my name is Peter, 60 years old, retired, living in north germany between north sea and baltic sea. I apologize for my bad english. Short story long: As child i assembled a lot of Revell and Airfix planes and tanks, but a Constallation (don't talk about…) and a Revell Bounty (bad rigging but as child i loved it), too. 45 years later… One and a half year ago i startet h0 model railroad with Marklin trains. After lots of planing time i just building my layout in my work room/ computer room/man cave. A railroad should (for me) having a personality, so i named the main train station fictional “Catfield”. I was looking for something to store my tools, because my workplace is my computer desk from the time i worked from home and sometimes i need this space and the pcs. At OcCre i found the Workshop cabinet, that was what i was looking for. And then i saw the ships. Essex. Terror. Bounty. A BOUNTY! Quick look at my things-to-do-before-i-die-list: haven’t build a wooden ship ever Now i want it. Want it so much. I found this website, read a lot of build logs, watch build videos at youtube. I found a new OcCre San Marin for 1/3 of regular price. Looks good, but i like Essex and Terror more. But it slaps my face, at the moment i have not the skills which are needed to build something what looks from a mile away like a ship. So no big ship. Lot of builders say, start small. Sounds right, but building a boot which i don’t like feels wrong. What to do? Maybe should go back to plastic kits. Yes, plastic, but what ship? A Bounty again sounds so sweet. And as i was looking for a cheap Revell Bounty i found an old wooden kit for sale, for the price of a bottle of rum. Bang, that’s it, a must buy. And now a Constructo HMAV Bounty, scale 1/110, is on the way to me. Btw i hate waiting, lol. The constructo kit sounds pretty good for me, beginner level, which let me build up a lil bit of skills of wood work and rigging. If it goes wrong, it can go to the fire place and sail to valhalla, not much money loss, only time and sweat. If it will look ok, or better (i hope) it will become a special place in my work room. My work place is near the train layout, so i named the OcCre cabinet “catfield shipyard”. Before i start building the ship i must do the wood work on my layout. And maybe the airship, so its an airshipyard, too. The Tatra truck, which is my favorite truck in the pc game Snowrunner, which i play at weekend nights with friends, waits too…but then.. So maybe in a month, or if my wife has plans, in autumn, i will start building my first wooden ship. Like the train layout, i am not in a hurry, it will take the time it needs. I want to make a build log and i guess i will have a lot of questions, sorry for that. Thank you for reading, have all a good time Peter
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