Jim Rogers Posted September 1, 2022 Share #2071 Posted September 1, 2022 Just ordered the cook. Canute, thibaultron and chris watton 3 Regards, Jim Rogers Damn the Torpedoes , Full speed ahead. Adm David Farragut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris watton Posted September 1, 2022 Author Share #2072 Posted September 1, 2022 12 minutes ago, Jim Rogers said: Just ordered the cook. I do like the cook! The carver did a cool job on that. I figured it would be cool to have him by the stove, very unobtrusive. hollowneck, Canute, thibaultron and 1 other 4 Vanguard Models on Facebook Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nipper Posted September 1, 2022 Share #2073 Posted September 1, 2022 Just bought mine too! - the marines, sailors and as Chris says - the "cool" cook! I wonder who he is modelled on, Chris?! Many thanks Chris for producing these super figures - they look like they are the best on the market. Nipper chris watton, thibaultron, James H and 4 others 7 Current build: HMS Sphinx 1775 - 1/64 - Vanguard Models Completed build: HM Cutter Alert 1777 - 1/64 - Vanguard Models Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris watton Posted September 1, 2022 Author Share #2074 Posted September 1, 2022 11 minutes ago, Nipper said: Just bought mine too! - the marines, sailors and as Chris says - the "cool" cook! I wonder who he is modelled on, Chris?! Many thanks Chris for producing these super figures - they look like they are the best on the market. Nipper Cheers! Post is rubbish right now, due to RM strikes. Canute, AJohnson and thibaultron 2 1 Vanguard Models on Facebook Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris watton Posted September 2, 2022 Author Share #2075 Posted September 2, 2022 OK, all printing for figures all done. Cannon crew, Pellew, Hornblower and newest figures are all offered in 5 scales, 1:96th, 1:72nd. 1: 64th, 1:48th and 1:32nd. Today I finally received my nice Ranger sail sets, so as soon as I have the boxes, plans and manual, that will be available to buy (11th kit) Also in my package was some pear blocks, which means pearwood block and deadeye sets are finally available again for the Sphinx, Alert, Duchess and Speedy kits. I was hoping to have my nice premium Alert sail sets, but alas, they're still being made.. Right, back to Indy.... Canute, BenD, AJohnson and 7 others 9 1 Vanguard Models on Facebook Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vane Posted September 5, 2022 Share #2076 Posted September 5, 2022 I already have the Captain so I just need to order the rest of the 89 people in the crew for my Speedy... 😉 What about designing a figure climbing the rig? chris watton, hollowneck, mtaylor and 2 others 5 Current builds: HMS Victory (Corel 1:98), HMS Snake (Caldercraft 1:64), HMBV Granado (Caldercraft 1:64), HMS Diana (Caldercraft 1:64), HMS Speedy (Vanguard Models 1:64) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris watton Posted September 5, 2022 Author Share #2077 Posted September 5, 2022 4 minutes ago, Vane said: I already have the Captain so I just need to order the rest of the 89 people in the crew for my Speedy... 😉 What about designing a figure climbing the rig? Perhaps in the future, for now, I have already done a lot more than I initially intended. Plus, no matter what I do, what pose the figures, someone will always want one that I do not have. glbarlow, thibaultron, Ryland Craze and 6 others 9 Vanguard Models on Facebook Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkuehn Posted September 5, 2022 Share #2078 Posted September 5, 2022 1 hour ago, chris watton said: Perhaps in the future, for now, I have already done a lot more than I initially intended. Plus, no matter what I do, what pose the figures, someone will always want one that I do not have. So I suppose I shouldn't ask for one sitting on the head? 🙂 Canute, Nipper, Ronald-V and 8 others 3 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtaylor Posted September 5, 2022 Share #2079 Posted September 5, 2022 2 hours ago, dkuehn said: So I suppose I shouldn't ask for one sitting on the head? 🙂 Reminds of the scene in Master and Commander of the guy sitting on the bow seat of ease. For those who missed that bit of trivia.. it's in the trip around Cape Horn. Canute, thibaultron, hollowneck and 1 other 4 Mark "The shipwright is slow, but the wood is patient." - me Current Build: Past Builds: La Belle Poule 1765 - French Frigate from ANCRE plans - ON HOLD Triton Cross-Section NRG Hallf Hull Planking Kit HMS Sphinx 1775 - Vanguard Models - 1:64 Non-Ship Model: On hold, maybe forever: CH-53 Sikorsky - 1:48 - Revell - Completed Licorne - 1755 from Hahn Plans (Scratch) Version 2.0 (Abandoned) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris watton Posted September 5, 2022 Author Share #2080 Posted September 5, 2022 I will do more figures in the future, but I now have to concentrate fully on Indy and organising orders for final materials. Only a couple of months ago, I just had a Nelson and Cochrane. Now, I have another captain, a lieutenant, 8 seamen, 2 marines and a cook, each with a choice of 5 scales. A rat climber is definitely one I shall do in future, though. Mr Whippy, jpalmer1970, BranPie and 9 others 12 Vanguard Models on Facebook Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vane Posted September 5, 2022 Share #2081 Posted September 5, 2022 I really like that the whole concept of adding a few figures to the ships. Perhaps not as with plastics tanks and dioramas where you create some kind of scene. Instead I think that a figure on a ship can be used to get a feeling for the scale. Jim Rogers, hollowneck, Canute and 4 others 7 Current builds: HMS Victory (Corel 1:98), HMS Snake (Caldercraft 1:64), HMBV Granado (Caldercraft 1:64), HMS Diana (Caldercraft 1:64), HMS Speedy (Vanguard Models 1:64) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nipper Posted September 5, 2022 Share #2082 Posted September 5, 2022 1 hour ago, chris watton said: I will do more figures in the future, but I now have to concentrate fully on Indy and organising orders for final materials. Only a couple of months ago, I just had a Nelson and Cochrane. Now, I have another captain, a lieutenant, 8 seamen, 2 marines and a cook, each with a choice of 5 scales. A rat climber is definitely one I shall do in future, though. Chris, I'm so pleased that you have plans to do more figures at some point in the future, when your work schedule allows. In just a few weeks, you have single-handedly (well, with the help of your carver) doubled the number of quality figures available, certainly for those working in 1/64 scale, and produced the lovely furniture too. Nipper thibaultron, Ronald-V, AJohnson and 6 others 9 Current build: HMS Sphinx 1775 - 1/64 - Vanguard Models Completed build: HM Cutter Alert 1777 - 1/64 - Vanguard Models Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris watton Posted September 6, 2022 Author Share #2083 Posted September 6, 2022 (edited) Just had my second and third 8k 3d printer arrive. I need this many as kits have a lot of multiple parts, like cannon barrels. This is my main 'production area' now, along with laser material storage. (and completed Indy laser cut parts). I will need to get a third extractor for the smaller laser machine at some point, though, as both of my current ones are attached to the large laser. Right now, the laser is cutting more Sphinx 0.6mm pear, as I was running short. Edited September 6, 2022 by chris watton egkb, Vane, wool132 and 40 others 28 15 Vanguard Models on Facebook Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glbarlow Posted September 6, 2022 Share #2084 Posted September 6, 2022 You’re going to need a bigger room😊 mtaylor, chris watton, thibaultron and 9 others 10 1 1 Regards, Glenn Current Build: Don't know yet. Completed Builds: HMS Winchelsea HM Flirt (paused) HM Cutter Cheerful, Lady Nelson, Amati HMS Vanguard, HMS Pegasus, Fair American, HM Granado, HM Pickle, AVS, Pride of Baltimore, Bluenose Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hollowneck Posted September 6, 2022 Share #2085 Posted September 6, 2022 Chris, thanks for taking the time to share photos of your growing business. Big machines. Bigger essential wood inventory! Glenn is correct that in good time you’ll need to have a larger “factory.” I especially liked the photo of the row of printed figures on the shelf. I’m excited to paint my Vanguard/HMS Camilla gun crew, place them on-deck in a few weeks when I christen her launch with my Cpt. Pennypincher. Rustyj, BenD, chris watton and 5 others 8 Ron Director, Nautical Research Guild Secretary/Newsletter Editor, Philadelphia Ship Model Society Former Member/Secretary for the Connecticut Marine Model Society Current Build: Grace & Peace (Wyoming, 6-masted Schooner) Completed Builds: HMS Grecian, HMS Sphinx (as HMS Camilla) Ongakuka Maru, (Higaki Kaisen, It Takes A Village), Le Tigre Privateer, HMS Swan, HMS Godspeed, HMS Ardent, HMS Diana, Russian brig Mercury, Elizabethan Warship Revenge, Xebec Syf'Allah, USF Confederacy, HMS Granado, USS Brig Syren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenD Posted September 6, 2022 Share #2086 Posted September 6, 2022 2 hours ago, glbarlow said: You’re going to need a bigger room😊 No kidding! It's getting cramped. Chris, Do you have room to make an extension for the garage? You might need a proper warehouse in a future. chris watton, AJohnson, hollowneck and 3 others 6 Ropes of Scale.com - Rope and cable for the scale modeler. Finished builds: HM Cutter Sherbourne - Caldercraft - 1:64 - 9th century longship - Falkonet - 1:72 Current builds: HMS Snake - Caldercraft - 1:64 - Tender Avos by BenD - Master Korabel - 1:72 - 19th Century Four-Oared Yawl by BenD - Falkonet - 1:24 scale Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris watton Posted September 6, 2022 Author Share #2087 Posted September 6, 2022 Cheers! The 'Laser room' is only a third of the space in the converted garage, but I feel I may outgrow the place in a couple of years.. I know that I will need to replace the smaller 40w laser with another larger 80w if things continue to go well. JpR62, Canute, AJohnson and 5 others 8 Vanguard Models on Facebook Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hollowneck Posted September 6, 2022 Share #2088 Posted September 6, 2022 48 minutes ago, chris watton said: Cheers! The 'Laser room' is only a third of the space in the converted garage, but I feel I may outgrow the place in a couple of years.. I know that I will need to replace the smaller 40w laser with another larger 80w if things continue to go well. I, for one, don't believe there is an "if" in Vanguard's future! Like all successful, talented entrepreneurs, you'll just need to continue to pace yourself and its obvious corollary, the business. AJohnson, thibaultron, mtaylor and 4 others 7 Ron Director, Nautical Research Guild Secretary/Newsletter Editor, Philadelphia Ship Model Society Former Member/Secretary for the Connecticut Marine Model Society Current Build: Grace & Peace (Wyoming, 6-masted Schooner) Completed Builds: HMS Grecian, HMS Sphinx (as HMS Camilla) Ongakuka Maru, (Higaki Kaisen, It Takes A Village), Le Tigre Privateer, HMS Swan, HMS Godspeed, HMS Ardent, HMS Diana, Russian brig Mercury, Elizabethan Warship Revenge, Xebec Syf'Allah, USF Confederacy, HMS Granado, USS Brig Syren Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Posted September 6, 2022 Share #2089 Posted September 6, 2022 i love the 3 coffee machines, i think you called them 3d printers in error 😀 hollowneck, BobG, BenD and 8 others 2 9 Its all part of Kev's journey, bit like going to the dark side, but with the lights on All the best Kevin SAY NO TO PIRACY. SUPPORT ORIGINAL IDEAS AND MANUFACTURERS. KEEP IT REAL! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ On the build table HMS Indefatigable 1794 by Kevin - Vanguard Models - 1:64 - Feb 2023 Belle Poule 1834 by Kevin - OcCre - 1/90 - French frigate - started June 2024 - - On hold MHS Britannic by Kevin SD 14 - Marcle Models - 1/70 - March 2022 - Bluebell - Flower Class - Revel - 1/72 U552 German U Boat - Trumpeter - 1/48 Amerigo Vespucci 1/84 - Panart- HMS Enterprise -CAF - 1/48 Finished Hercules by Kevin - OcCre - 1/50 - Tugboat - Finished - May 2024 Nectan-Mountfleet-models-steam-trawler-1/32 - Completed June 2020 HMS Victory - Caldercraft/Jotika - 1/72 - Finished Dorade renamed Dora by Kevin - Amati - 1/20 - Completed March 2021 Stage Coach 1848 - Artesania Latina - 1/10 -Finished Lady Eleanor by Kevin - FINISHED - Vanguard Models - 1/64 - Fifie fishing boat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katsumoto Posted September 6, 2022 Share #2090 Posted September 6, 2022 It is really impressive what you bring to the modeling world Chris and I love it. I hope the copycats in Asia will stay away! regards, Peter hollowneck, chris watton, Nirvana and 5 others 8 Regards, Peter Current project - Wappen von Hamburg 1669 heavily bashed Previous project - Xebec Cazador 1750 bashed Previous project - Santa Maria bashed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hsae Posted September 6, 2022 Share #2091 Posted September 6, 2022 (edited) Chris, thank you for letting us a look into your production area. You are building great model kits! Hopefully at same time in the near future I am able to build one too! But how did a plastic model ended up in your shop??? 🤔 Edited September 23, 2022 by Hsae mtaylor, Canute, chris watton and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris watton Posted September 6, 2022 Author Share #2092 Posted September 6, 2022 10 minutes ago, Hsae said: Chris, thank for letting us a look into the production area. You are building great model kits! Hopefully at one point of time I am able to build one too! But how did a plastic model ended up in your shop??? 🤔 Cheers A good hiding place from the wife! mtaylor, Canute, Katsumoto and 6 others 6 3 Vanguard Models on Facebook Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guyuti Posted September 6, 2022 Share #2093 Posted September 6, 2022 Chris, Love the pics of your cutting Area, that is some work you have been doing there with the lazer cutters. Is that a Trumpeter Scharnhorst i see on the top shelf? Long may your success continue, you and your wife deserve everything you can get from such a well run business. Your customer service is secoond to none. Guy thibaultron, Canute, chris watton and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nirvana Posted September 6, 2022 Share #2094 Posted September 6, 2022 59 minutes ago, chris watton said: Cheers A good hiding place from the wife! Like to see Scharnhorst being built! Canute, chris watton, mtaylor and 2 others 5 Please, visit our Facebook page! Respectfully Per aka Dr. Per@Therapy for Shipaholics Finished: T37, BB Marie Jeanne - located on a shelf in Sweden, 18th Century Longboat, Winchelsea Capstan Current: America by Constructo, Solö Ruff, USS Syren by MS, Bluenose by MS Viking funeral: Harley almost a Harvey Nautical Research Guild Member - 'Taint a hobby if you gotta hurry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris watton Posted September 6, 2022 Author Share #2095 Posted September 6, 2022 Thanks' guys Yes, it's a Scharnhorst, I replaced its place with Yamato, thinking my wife wouldn't know, but she spotted the huge box being brought down our path on the door camera, dammit... Not sure if I will ever get time to make them, may just find someone to do them for me at some point! I think that, because of the copper situation right now, my next kits after Indy will be pre-copper era. But I will probably do a diorama/vignette type kit first. I have attached a couple of pics showing the first of my new three printers working, Bristol sterns and Alert winch drums, just completed and about to be removed from build plate and cleaned up. GrandpaPhil, Seventynet, Keith Black and 23 others 22 4 Vanguard Models on Facebook Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Posted September 7, 2022 Share #2096 Posted September 7, 2022 (edited) dam, so they really are 3d printers and not coffee machines, i thought you were taking me on as unpaid labour to keep the floor clean, I need plenty of coffee for that Edited September 7, 2022 by Kevin Nirvana, Blue Ensign, Ryland Craze and 10 others 6 7 Its all part of Kev's journey, bit like going to the dark side, but with the lights on All the best Kevin SAY NO TO PIRACY. SUPPORT ORIGINAL IDEAS AND MANUFACTURERS. KEEP IT REAL! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ On the build table HMS Indefatigable 1794 by Kevin - Vanguard Models - 1:64 - Feb 2023 Belle Poule 1834 by Kevin - OcCre - 1/90 - French frigate - started June 2024 - - On hold MHS Britannic by Kevin SD 14 - Marcle Models - 1/70 - March 2022 - Bluebell - Flower Class - Revel - 1/72 U552 German U Boat - Trumpeter - 1/48 Amerigo Vespucci 1/84 - Panart- HMS Enterprise -CAF - 1/48 Finished Hercules by Kevin - OcCre - 1/50 - Tugboat - Finished - May 2024 Nectan-Mountfleet-models-steam-trawler-1/32 - Completed June 2020 HMS Victory - Caldercraft/Jotika - 1/72 - Finished Dorade renamed Dora by Kevin - Amati - 1/20 - Completed March 2021 Stage Coach 1848 - Artesania Latina - 1/10 -Finished Lady Eleanor by Kevin - FINISHED - Vanguard Models - 1/64 - Fifie fishing boat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris watton Posted September 12, 2022 Author Share #2097 Posted September 12, 2022 OK, the Barking fast Fish Carrier Ranger is now on pre order. I have everything ready and expecting boxes, plans and manual to be delivered this week. I also have the very nice premium sail sets in stock. This now completes the set of fishing boats: Ranger – Barking Fish Carrier – VANGUARD MODELS robdurant, Kevin, Edwardkenway and 24 others 26 1 Vanguard Models on Facebook Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenn-UK Posted September 12, 2022 Share #2098 Posted September 12, 2022 Looks a very nice model, one to bear in mind along with the Indy once I have completed Sphinx, Erycina and Saucy Jack. I hoping to complete the Sphinx by the end of this month then I will be starting on the two fishing boats Canute, chris watton, thibaultron and 2 others 5 Glenn (UK) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guyuti Posted September 12, 2022 Share #2099 Posted September 12, 2022 Pre order done. got a few extras to go with it e.g fishermen and sails. Keep up the great work Chris. Regards Guy Canute, thibaultron, mtaylor and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris watton Posted September 12, 2022 Author Share #2100 Posted September 12, 2022 5 minutes ago, Guyuti said: Pre order done. got a few extras to go with it e.g fishermen and sails. Keep up the great work Chris. Regards Guy Thank you! Canute, thibaultron, Mr Whippy and 1 other 4 Vanguard Models on Facebook Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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