Nirvana

Zac, A warm welcome to MSW.
 
I am looking forward to read your build logs, and I know you will do it.
You have more than 40000 members backing you. Ask questions even for something trivial.
Many (I guess most) of our members don't belong to any clubs to get help or support from.
That's why we are here. Think of us as a huge club where help is available 24/7.
 
Again 

BMT, warm welcome to us at MSW!

Welcome, Zac.
 
I too am from Canada and am in my 20's. There aren't very many young'uns like us here on MSW.
 
As everyone else has said, do start a build log. I am also working on my first ever model, and have found it both practical and sentimental to have photos and details of my build process. Besides that, there are so many knowledgeable members here who have answered my questions throughout the years. I'd be glad to have a chance to pay it forward.
 
Cheers,
starlight

Great work!  

Thank you all for kind words. I guess I will now have to take a small pause - new job, some plastic kits waiting to be finished... But got quite a stock of wooden model boxes too, so the plan is to be back for sure with another build.

Lovely! A pride-worthy endeavour. I hope you enjoy viewing it for many years to come, and thanks for sharing your work with us.

Very clean work! Excellent model, congratulations!

Beautiful result!  Agree with you about the beauty of the natural wood in several different colors.  It would have been a shame to paint it, so I think you made the right choice there.

Excellent job! PM me your full name & address so I can put you in our system and note 10% off the next kit you buy from us.
 
Nic

And the last one, anchored behind the glass

 
 

Michael, I like that you are approaching Vasa as she was seen in Stockholm when coming out of the water.
I have walked her deck back in the early 70's and at that time she was still very much without any paint.
Last time I saw was in 2012, at the new museum (there is a new museum to be built for her) and a lot had changed.
Best of luck with your model, I never finished my Airfix model.

BMT, warm welcome to us at MSW!

Thank you, Patrick and Jan, just what I need👍. While still in the rough in stage the modifications to the beakhead are complete at this stage until the hull is glued up.  Thanks for looking.
 
Michael D.

Welcome back! It's important that we let our bodies to heal, I know exactly how it is.

The plugs may differ from to country to country in Europe however taking Sweden as an example;
The plug in the original picture is what is called Euro-plug, fits in most countries in Europe besides UK which has a different prong setting. 

Welcome back! It's important that we let our bodies to heal, I know exactly how it is.

Welcome back! It's important that we let our bodies to heal, I know exactly how it is.

I've had some health issues and fallen way behind, but I'm ready to jump back into the game.  Just when you thought it was safe to come on line...

I have this plank bender (haven't tried it yet), mine is older and made for the 110V.
Once they appear on ebay the price starts to shoot up so at 1 pound it's a real catch.
 

A friend of mine built the MS Longboat and had a heck of a time with planking. When Chuck released his bigger version and with prespiled plan.
He said this made it easier but was a challenge for him.
 
For me, I have no issues with regular planks. 
One disadvantage with prespiled is if you break one by mistake....... then what?

A friend of mine built the MS Longboat and had a heck of a time with planking. When Chuck released his bigger version and with prespiled plan.
He said this made it easier but was a challenge for him.
 
For me, I have no issues with regular planks. 
One disadvantage with prespiled is if you break one by mistake....... then what?

Here's my two cents - and that's about all it is really worth.
 
I started modelling in the early '50s with simple balsa airplane kits (before plastic came along). They were mediocre at best. Next came the early plastic models that seemed to be wonderfully detailed at the time, but pretty crude by modern standards. They were a LOT easier to build, with MUCH better results. At one time I had a fleet of 15-20 plastic ship models - almost every penny of my allowance.
 
Then I started building wooden models from scratch in the  late '50s, with just a few sheets and sticks of aircraft balsa (all that was available from hobby shops at the time). I wanted to model vessels that weren't available in plastic. Scratch building every last piece - without any decent plans - was quite a challenge, but a lot of fun. But those early models really weren't much to look at and nowhere near accurate.
 
My first kit was  Billings Santa Maria in 1969. After scratch building it seemed like doing a paint by number painting. Not very challenging, but I learned a lot about wood ship model building, especially planking! With that kit many of the parts had to be cut from sheets of plywood that had the outlines printed on. I built a couple other kits, and added increasing amounts of hand made details. I have several more in my stash.
 
Now you can get kits with all the parts pre-cut and shaped. They seem to me to be like 3D jigsaw puzzles.
 
I am now kit bashing a kit of one vessel into something different, a blend of kit and scratch building.
 
And I am 3D printing hundreds of parts parts for a large (6 1/2 foot) scratch built metal and plastic model based on a commercially available fiberglass hull. Again, it will be a ship for which no kit is available, either in wood or plastic. All of the parts (printed or not) will be from my CAD model of the ship.
 
And I am working on plans for a wooden model of a wooden minesweeper. Again, every piece will be hand made.
 
So I have tried a little of everything, and I think there is a place for all of these versions in our hobby.

Here is a radar I found online,
Scale wise it looks right.
My concern is the platform the radar is sitting on.
One single rod will not hold the radar in place, they need a triangular leg or attached to a mast, a setup to be stable in weather.
All radar installation I did in early 80's had that setup.

So clean and beautiful. Nice work!

My wife managed to make up the first batch of Ranger kits today...