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Amazing job on a beautifully produced kit!

Beautiful model of an elegant boat. Love it!

Lovely job on this historic American gunboat model. Congrats on its completion, well done!

Congratulations on completing a fine model... and the whole fleet!

Did you start out planning to build all of Columbus's ships? Or was that a follow-up to the completion of the first model?

In any case, fine job on your Niña. Looking forward to seeing what's next in your shipyard.

Your "old kit" looks incredible. I love how the sails look, and the deck furnishings are really nicely done. 

A truly fine model, congratulations!

Congratulations on completing your first ship model. It looks great – you did a wonderful job on it. Hope it's the first of many fine builds!

Beautiful work Chris!

Ekis, I've been watching some of your progress on the Zootoyz Facebook page. A beautiful take on the Japanese coastal transport!

The chopsticks stuck into the box make me think votive model, but then I wonder what's inside the box?

Anyway, I love the coloring and added details. I'm inspired to get back to wrapping up my forever in-progress Japanese coastal transport.

Very interesting! Thank you for the links to the pdf book and the video. There are always ways to translate the text using digital tools these days. For now, the drawings are enough to study.

I hope you continue with similar projects!

Very cool model, modeller_masa!

That's one deep rudder. I assume by the design that it could be raised for shallower water. Any idea how it was done?

I've built a number of traditional Japanese boats and it's interesting to see similarities and differences. I'm particularly interested in the bulwarks. A lot of the ocean-going Japanese boats have rice straw at the bulwarks. I don't know the details, but it's interesting to see something similar here.

Anyway, it looks like a fun build – thanks for sharing!

That's an incredible job you've done OllieS. I'm very impressed with your work, even if it was your 10th model, but second? Wow, very nice job. 

Congratulations on a beautiful build. Well done!

First model??? Very nice build, Bob. Well done!

James, as usual, your saucy ship's a beauty!

20 hours ago, jlefever said:

Another really fine model although I find the wood grain a bit distracting.

 

I look forward to seeing your next wonderful efforts.

 

Jim

Hi Jim,

Yes, I know what you mean about the wood grain. The model is built in the traditional style of the Japanese boatbuilders. They often made models of their work at 1/10-scale using the same materials used to build the actual boats. Sometimes, it's a bit hard to work with the wood too, which is Japanese cedar. 

For smaller scale models, I prefer to use Japanese cypress, or hinoki, which has an appearance more like basswood.

I've always loved the Guppies and Fleet Snorkel Boats of the Cold War era. Very nice!

Beautiful job on your build. I like it very much. You even got it cased – well done!

Nicely done!

Another lovely model, Dave!

Of course, you know what I'm going to ask you... 😁

Thanks Jim, Harvey, for the nice comments.

Harvey, about the only information available, aside from boats that Douglas Brooks has worked on, is in Japan and it's all in Japanese. And, even in Japanese, they mostly tend to be text heavy and discuss their use, rather than the boats themselves and commonly have very few illustrations.

For this particular model, I bought a couple books that I spotted on Amazon Japan and I lucked out. One of them had two drawings in it, and one of those had a side and top profile of a boat, but no cross sections. It was enough to work with, while the details I had to piece together from drawings and photos in the other book, plus what I could find on Japanese web searches of museum models and old period photographs.

Message me if you haven't visited my website on the subject, as I list resources there and can give you more info.

Him Jim,

Thanks for the nice comments.

Yes, anytime, I'm happy to discuss modeling in paper, though I've only done that through these Shipyard kits.  Still, I've done three of their kits so far: one cut-out paper model of the naval cutter Alert (pre-printed, but painted over much of it), one laser-cut lighthouse kit, and then this laser-cut cog kit.

Of course, Ab Hoving and others here know a lot more about it than I do.

Clare

Interesting looking boat. Looks very well done.

But, your photos are all close-ups or weird angles, so I'm not quite sure I understand the overall appearance of  it. You should have at least one broadside view that shows the whole model.

Gorgeous job you did on this model Erik.

It looks beautiful on your shelf too.

Absolutely beautiful model.

Hi RussR,

Very nicely done model! This kit was one of the first in my 25 years of model building that I remember fondly from visiting my first ship modeling shows. I saw one of these and just fell in love with the large-scale detailing. 

It's still one of those model that in the back of my mind I would love to build. Mantua/Panart kits are long time classics that I am very fond of.

Well done!

Clare

Kronvold, you did an awesome job on this classic Billing Boats kit. 

On the plywood parts, it's really not noticeable unless you look deep down inside. Most people wouldn't notice, and frankly, it seems a small issue to me when I look at how nicely this build turned out.

I know it's well done when it makes me want to try building the kit too! 🙂  And, it does.

Clare