Jump to content
Welcome to our new sponsor - Engine DIY. See banner ad on Home page. ×

HMS Sophie from Cruizer kit by jwvolz (Joe V.) - FINISHED - Caldercraft - 1:64 - kitbash

jwvolz
 Share

Recommended Posts

Gahm

Gahm

Posted
Posted

What a beautiful model!

 

Thomas

Current Built:   Model Shipways  Syren  (US Brig 1803)

 

Last Built:        Anfora (kit bashed)  Ictineo II  (1st steam powered submarine 1864)

 

  • 5 months later...
jwvolz

jwvolz

Posted
  • Author
Posted

Sophie is complete, and has been for a while but just getting around to getting pictures up. I've been through a rough patch health wise, with four hospitalizations and two surgeries over the last few months. Hopefully on the road to full recovery at this point. 

 

Anyway...hope you enjoy the final photos, it was quite an enjoyable build, and with a few changes I highly recommend the kit. 

 

 

cr300.jpg

cr301.jpg

cr302.jpg

cr303.jpg

cr304.jpg

Joe Volz

 

 

Current build:

Model Shipways "Benjamin W. Latham"

 

 

Completed  builds on MSW:

Caldercraft HMS "Cruizer"    Caldercraft HMBV "Granado"   Model Shipways "Prince De Neufchatel"

 

 

 

 

Landlubber Mike

Landlubber Mike

Posted
Posted

Joe, what a beautiful build!  Congratulations!  What's next?

 

Hope you are feeling better. Best wishes to you.

Mike

 

Current Wooden builds:  Amati/Victory Pegasus  MS Charles W. Morgan  Euromodel La Renommèe  

 

Plastic builds:    Hs129B-2 1/48  SB2U-1 Vindicator 1/48  Five Star Yaeyama 1/700  Pit Road Asashio and Akashi 1/700 diorama  Walrus 1/48 and Albatross 1/700  Special Hobby Buffalo 1/32   IJN Notoro 1/700  Akitsu Maru 1/700

 

Completed builds :  Caldercraft Brig Badger   Amati Hannah - Ship in Bottle  Pit Road Hatsuzakura 1/700   Hasegawa Shimakaze 1:350

F4B-4 and P-6E 1/72  Accurate Miniatures F3F-1/F3F-2 1/48  Tamiya F4F-4 Wildcat built as FM-1 1/48  Special Hobby Buffalo 1/48  Eduard Sikorsky JRS-1 1/72

Citroen 2CV 1/24 - Airfix and Tamiya  Entex Morgan 3-wheeler 1/16

 

Terminated build:  HMS Lyme (based on Corel Unicorn)  

 

On the shelf:  Euromodel Friedrich Wilhelm zu Pferde; Caldercraft Victory; too many plastic ship, plane and car kits

 

Future potential scratch builds:  HMS Lyme (from NMM plans); Le Gros Ventre (from Ancre monographs), Dutch ship from Ab Hoving book, HMS Sussex from McCardle book, Philadelphia gunboat (Smithsonian plans)

rafine

rafine

Posted
Posted

A wonderful piece of work Joe. Hope everything is improving health wise. I know the feeling- - been there, done that.

 

Bob

Current builds on MSW:

HMS Winchelsea 1:48: 

Medway Longboat 1:24

Prior builds on MSW:

 Schooner Halifax: Lumberyard 1/48 semi-scratch; Cutter Cheerful 1:48; Granado: Caldercraft 1:64; Frigate Essex: Kitbashed Model Shipways kit;

Triton Cross Section 1:48; Kingfisher from Lauckstreet kit; Syren: Model shipways kit ;Kitbashed Fair American: Model Shipways;Prince de Neufchatel: Model shipways 1:64
Civil War Picket Boat
 

jwvolz

jwvolz

Posted
  • Author
Posted

Thanks guys.

 

I'm doing better now for the most part, it's just been a very long road. Hope to go back to work in a few weeks.

 

Next up,, Model Shipways Benjamin W. Latham:

 

 

 

 

BWL1 (2).jpg

Joe Volz

 

 

Current build:

Model Shipways "Benjamin W. Latham"

 

 

Completed  builds on MSW:

Caldercraft HMS "Cruizer"    Caldercraft HMBV "Granado"   Model Shipways "Prince De Neufchatel"

 

 

 

 

  • 2 weeks later...
Gahm

Gahm

Posted
Posted

A wonderful model, Joe! Congratulations!

 

Thomas

Current Built:   Model Shipways  Syren  (US Brig 1803)

 

Last Built:        Anfora (kit bashed)  Ictineo II  (1st steam powered submarine 1864)

 

Blue Ensign

Blue Ensign

Posted
Posted

Well done Joe, a beautiful model .

 

B.E.

Current Build: 

Medway-longboat-1742-by-blue-ensign-½”-scale

Completed builds:

HMS Indefatigable-1794-by-blue-ensign-vanguard-models-1:64-scale     HMS Sphinx 1775 by Blue Ensign. 1:64 scale - Vanguard Models

Queen-Anne-Royal-Barge-circa-1700-by-Blue-Ensign

Fifie fishing boat Lady Eleanor         Muirneag-1903-–-a-scottish-zulu-fishing-boat-164-scale-based-on-the-vanguard-models-zulu-kit/ 

HM Cutter Alert 1777     HM Cutter Cheerful 1806 

18th-century-English-longboat-by-Blue-Ensign-ms-148-scale/     18thc English Pinnace by Blue Ensign-Model-Shipways-1:24 scale/    

HMS-Pegasus-by-Blue-Ensign-finished-Victory-Models-1:64-scale/

Heller Seventy-four 1:150 scale - modified Le Superbe/Le Glorieux kit after Boudriot, waterline setting with sails.  

The schooner Pickle, Jotika  pob kit 1:64 scale, my interpretation.

jwvolz

jwvolz

Posted
  • Author
Posted
6 hours ago, ccoyle said:

With a little care, the Latham kit can be built into a pretty spectacular model.

Thanks guys.

 

So far Latham looks good fiddling around with things Chris. The fittings package looks decent and the Ronnberg plans (other than the rigging sheet) look good. I picked up Chapelle's "American Fishing Schooners" book and can tell it will be a nice resource. 

 

Build log to follow once I get something concrete going. Should be a nice change form the warships!

Joe Volz

 

 

Current build:

Model Shipways "Benjamin W. Latham"

 

 

Completed  builds on MSW:

Caldercraft HMS "Cruizer"    Caldercraft HMBV "Granado"   Model Shipways "Prince De Neufchatel"

 

 

 

 

  • 2 months later...

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
 Share
Go to topic listing

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.

About us

Modelshipworld - Advancing Ship Modeling through Research

SSL Secured

Your security is important for us so this Website is SSL-Secured

NRG Mailing Address

Nautical Research Guild
237 South Lincoln Street
Westmont IL, 60559-1917

Model Ship World ® and the MSW logo are Registered Trademarks, and belong to the Nautical Research Guild (United States Patent and Trademark Office: No. 6,929,264 & No. 6,929,274, registered Dec. 20, 2022)

Helpful Links

About the NRG

If you enjoy building ship models that are historically accurate as well as beautiful, then The Nautical Research Guild (NRG) is just right for you.

The Guild is a non-profit educational organization whose mission is to “Advance Ship Modeling Through Research”. We provide support to our members in their efforts to raise the quality of their model ships.

The Nautical Research Guild has published our world-renowned quarterly magazine, The Nautical Research Journal, since 1955. The pages of the Journal are full of articles by accomplished ship modelers who show you how they create those exquisite details on their models, and by maritime historians who show you the correct details to build. The Journal is available in both print and digital editions. Go to the NRG web site (www.thenrg.org) to download a complimentary digital copy of the Journal. The NRG also publishes plan sets, books and compilations of back issues of the Journal and the former Ships in Scale and Model Ship Builder magazines.

Our Emblem ®

Modelshipworld - Advancing Ship Modeling through Research

Nautical Research Guild ® and the NRG logo are Registered Trademarks, and belong to the Nautical Research Guild (United States Patent and Trademark Office: No. 6,999,236 & No. 6,999,237, registered March 14, 2023)

×
×
  • Create New...