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Shotlocker got a reaction from Haliburton in Show pictures of your work area
Well, here's yet another posting on this thread! I partitioned off a section of my garage, paneled and insulated the walls and cobbled together the workbenches from furniture and lumber that I had. A small window air conditioner and IR heater keep it comfortable year-round. Nearly all of the tools were acquired second-hand at yard sales, etc., with a few exceptions. On the workbench is a model of what started out to be the Mary Celeste, an old Steingraeber kit that I actually began building in 1975 or '76. Long story, that. Decided to finally finish her before the end of the year. The model aircraft are all that remain of kits that I built over the years. Lots of projects started, lots to finish, and more to begin!
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Shotlocker got a reaction from Landlubber Mike in Show pictures of your work area
Well, here's yet another posting on this thread! I partitioned off a section of my garage, paneled and insulated the walls and cobbled together the workbenches from furniture and lumber that I had. A small window air conditioner and IR heater keep it comfortable year-round. Nearly all of the tools were acquired second-hand at yard sales, etc., with a few exceptions. On the workbench is a model of what started out to be the Mary Celeste, an old Steingraeber kit that I actually began building in 1975 or '76. Long story, that. Decided to finally finish her before the end of the year. The model aircraft are all that remain of kits that I built over the years. Lots of projects started, lots to finish, and more to begin!
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Shotlocker got a reaction from Jack12477 in Show pictures of your work area
Well, here's yet another posting on this thread! I partitioned off a section of my garage, paneled and insulated the walls and cobbled together the workbenches from furniture and lumber that I had. A small window air conditioner and IR heater keep it comfortable year-round. Nearly all of the tools were acquired second-hand at yard sales, etc., with a few exceptions. On the workbench is a model of what started out to be the Mary Celeste, an old Steingraeber kit that I actually began building in 1975 or '76. Long story, that. Decided to finally finish her before the end of the year. The model aircraft are all that remain of kits that I built over the years. Lots of projects started, lots to finish, and more to begin!
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Shotlocker got a reaction from paulsutcliffe in Show pictures of your work area
Well, here's yet another posting on this thread! I partitioned off a section of my garage, paneled and insulated the walls and cobbled together the workbenches from furniture and lumber that I had. A small window air conditioner and IR heater keep it comfortable year-round. Nearly all of the tools were acquired second-hand at yard sales, etc., with a few exceptions. On the workbench is a model of what started out to be the Mary Celeste, an old Steingraeber kit that I actually began building in 1975 or '76. Long story, that. Decided to finally finish her before the end of the year. The model aircraft are all that remain of kits that I built over the years. Lots of projects started, lots to finish, and more to begin!
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Shotlocker got a reaction from wefalck in Show pictures of your work area
Well, here's yet another posting on this thread! I partitioned off a section of my garage, paneled and insulated the walls and cobbled together the workbenches from furniture and lumber that I had. A small window air conditioner and IR heater keep it comfortable year-round. Nearly all of the tools were acquired second-hand at yard sales, etc., with a few exceptions. On the workbench is a model of what started out to be the Mary Celeste, an old Steingraeber kit that I actually began building in 1975 or '76. Long story, that. Decided to finally finish her before the end of the year. The model aircraft are all that remain of kits that I built over the years. Lots of projects started, lots to finish, and more to begin!
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Shotlocker got a reaction from FrankWouts in Cutty Sark by deckape - FINISHED - Revell - 1/96 - PLASTIC - 1959 kit
I got that kit for Christmas in 1959 also (hounded my folks for it) and, as I recall, it cost $5.00 then. Built it and won a 1st place trophy
at a Coast Guard model ship competition! A few years later it fell off a shelf, right onto the masts... :-(
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Shotlocker got a reaction from Old Collingwood in Cutty Sark by deckape - FINISHED - Revell - 1/96 - PLASTIC - 1959 kit
I got that kit for Christmas in 1959 also (hounded my folks for it) and, as I recall, it cost $5.00 then. Built it and won a 1st place trophy
at a Coast Guard model ship competition! A few years later it fell off a shelf, right onto the masts... :-(
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Shotlocker got a reaction from mtaylor in Flying Cloud Voyage of 1851
Very interesting, ragov! I just finished reading that book earlier this year...never occurred to me to try to plot out some of the voyages.
I'm going to print your map and keep it with the book. Thanks! And thanks to you, Bob, for pointing out the Ventusky site; it certainly
makes clear the reasons for the route.
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Shotlocker got a reaction from mtaylor in Corel Venetian Galleon Ship (Galeone Veneto) - kit recommendation
Cathead,
Sorry to hear that. I found the kit I built years ago in a close-out bin in a now-defunct hobby shop. With the kit was a catalogue that proclaimed the company as having started in 1971 and it had the Wasa cross section listed. I'm thinking that, perhaps, sometime in the past, Corel may have been taken over by another and the product cheapened in pursuit of profit? Haven't been able to find anything to corroborate that theory, tho'.
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Shotlocker got a reaction from _SalD_ in Corel Venetian Galleon Ship (Galeone Veneto) - kit recommendation
Cathead,
Sorry to hear that. I found the kit I built years ago in a close-out bin in a now-defunct hobby shop. With the kit was a catalogue that proclaimed the company as having started in 1971 and it had the Wasa cross section listed. I'm thinking that, perhaps, sometime in the past, Corel may have been taken over by another and the product cheapened in pursuit of profit? Haven't been able to find anything to corroborate that theory, tho'.
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Shotlocker got a reaction from Canute in Corel Venetian Galleon Ship (Galeone Veneto) - kit recommendation
Cathead,
Sorry to hear that. I found the kit I built years ago in a close-out bin in a now-defunct hobby shop. With the kit was a catalogue that proclaimed the company as having started in 1971 and it had the Wasa cross section listed. I'm thinking that, perhaps, sometime in the past, Corel may have been taken over by another and the product cheapened in pursuit of profit? Haven't been able to find anything to corroborate that theory, tho'.
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Shotlocker got a reaction from _SalD_ in Corel Venetian Galleon Ship (Galeone Veneto) - kit recommendation
I've only constructed one kit by Corel, the Wasa cross section, and was very pleased with the kit materials and, once I figured out the methodology of the well-illustrated plans, the build was a pleasure...quite happy with the result.
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Shotlocker got a reaction from mtaylor in Corel Venetian Galleon Ship (Galeone Veneto) - kit recommendation
I've only constructed one kit by Corel, the Wasa cross section, and was very pleased with the kit materials and, once I figured out the methodology of the well-illustrated plans, the build was a pleasure...quite happy with the result.
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Shotlocker got a reaction from Canute in Corel Venetian Galleon Ship (Galeone Veneto) - kit recommendation
I've only constructed one kit by Corel, the Wasa cross section, and was very pleased with the kit materials and, once I figured out the methodology of the well-illustrated plans, the build was a pleasure...quite happy with the result.
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Shotlocker got a reaction from mrjimmy in Spoon from the Ocean Queen
Greetings,
For years I was employed as the mine surveyor at a gold/silver mine in the mountains of west central Nevada, near
the site of a ghost town named Aurora, where, I was told, Marc Twain had worked briefly as a mill hand. One of my duties
was to locate claim posts in the area and it was on one of these little journeys that I found, lying on the surface of
the bone-dry earth, in an old camp site, this spoon. The mine had been started in the late 1850's so I figured that the spoon had to have been purloined by some fellow who may have had a berth on that particular clipper which, tragically, was lost at sea in the North Atlantic along with another clipper, the Driver, in February, 1856. I feel very fortunate to have found the relic and just wanted to share the story with everyone.
Fair winds,
Gary
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Shotlocker got a reaction from dafi in Spoon from the Ocean Queen
Greetings,
For years I was employed as the mine surveyor at a gold/silver mine in the mountains of west central Nevada, near
the site of a ghost town named Aurora, where, I was told, Marc Twain had worked briefly as a mill hand. One of my duties
was to locate claim posts in the area and it was on one of these little journeys that I found, lying on the surface of
the bone-dry earth, in an old camp site, this spoon. The mine had been started in the late 1850's so I figured that the spoon had to have been purloined by some fellow who may have had a berth on that particular clipper which, tragically, was lost at sea in the North Atlantic along with another clipper, the Driver, in February, 1856. I feel very fortunate to have found the relic and just wanted to share the story with everyone.
Fair winds,
Gary
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Shotlocker got a reaction from mtaylor in Spoon from the Ocean Queen
Thanks! It very well could be that someone else had perhaps passed over that spoon. I also found many many trade beads, a mouth harp,
a small copper priming powder flask, arrowheads o'plenty, un-fired percussion caps, suspender clasps, coffee pots, canteens, tin dinner ware...
and the list goes on. The area was littered with artifacts, some of which I rescued from being mined into oblivion, most of the others I left in place.
'Twas a great place to be employed, surrounded by the Great Gold Rush history.
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Shotlocker got a reaction from russ in Spoon from the Ocean Queen
Greetings,
For years I was employed as the mine surveyor at a gold/silver mine in the mountains of west central Nevada, near
the site of a ghost town named Aurora, where, I was told, Marc Twain had worked briefly as a mill hand. One of my duties
was to locate claim posts in the area and it was on one of these little journeys that I found, lying on the surface of
the bone-dry earth, in an old camp site, this spoon. The mine had been started in the late 1850's so I figured that the spoon had to have been purloined by some fellow who may have had a berth on that particular clipper which, tragically, was lost at sea in the North Atlantic along with another clipper, the Driver, in February, 1856. I feel very fortunate to have found the relic and just wanted to share the story with everyone.
Fair winds,
Gary
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Shotlocker got a reaction from mtaylor in Spoon from the Ocean Queen
Greetings,
For years I was employed as the mine surveyor at a gold/silver mine in the mountains of west central Nevada, near
the site of a ghost town named Aurora, where, I was told, Marc Twain had worked briefly as a mill hand. One of my duties
was to locate claim posts in the area and it was on one of these little journeys that I found, lying on the surface of
the bone-dry earth, in an old camp site, this spoon. The mine had been started in the late 1850's so I figured that the spoon had to have been purloined by some fellow who may have had a berth on that particular clipper which, tragically, was lost at sea in the North Atlantic along with another clipper, the Driver, in February, 1856. I feel very fortunate to have found the relic and just wanted to share the story with everyone.
Fair winds,
Gary
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Shotlocker got a reaction from druxey in Spoon from the Ocean Queen
Greetings,
For years I was employed as the mine surveyor at a gold/silver mine in the mountains of west central Nevada, near
the site of a ghost town named Aurora, where, I was told, Marc Twain had worked briefly as a mill hand. One of my duties
was to locate claim posts in the area and it was on one of these little journeys that I found, lying on the surface of
the bone-dry earth, in an old camp site, this spoon. The mine had been started in the late 1850's so I figured that the spoon had to have been purloined by some fellow who may have had a berth on that particular clipper which, tragically, was lost at sea in the North Atlantic along with another clipper, the Driver, in February, 1856. I feel very fortunate to have found the relic and just wanted to share the story with everyone.
Fair winds,
Gary
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Shotlocker got a reaction from jud in Spoon from the Ocean Queen
Greetings,
For years I was employed as the mine surveyor at a gold/silver mine in the mountains of west central Nevada, near
the site of a ghost town named Aurora, where, I was told, Marc Twain had worked briefly as a mill hand. One of my duties
was to locate claim posts in the area and it was on one of these little journeys that I found, lying on the surface of
the bone-dry earth, in an old camp site, this spoon. The mine had been started in the late 1850's so I figured that the spoon had to have been purloined by some fellow who may have had a berth on that particular clipper which, tragically, was lost at sea in the North Atlantic along with another clipper, the Driver, in February, 1856. I feel very fortunate to have found the relic and just wanted to share the story with everyone.
Fair winds,
Gary
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Shotlocker got a reaction from mtaylor in 24 inch Cutty Sark
I'm currently restoring one of those kits for a local museum and am using a set of plans from 1964 - the scale
indicated on the plans is 1/96...hope that helps!
Cheers
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Shotlocker got a reaction from Canute in 24 inch Cutty Sark
I'm currently restoring one of those kits for a local museum and am using a set of plans from 1964 - the scale
indicated on the plans is 1/96...hope that helps!
Cheers
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Shotlocker got a reaction from jud in 24 inch Cutty Sark
I'm currently restoring one of those kits for a local museum and am using a set of plans from 1964 - the scale
indicated on the plans is 1/96...hope that helps!
Cheers
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