Sixty-five years old newbie

[Rodolfo Bigoni]

Hello everyone.

Thank you for letting me join.

My name is Rodolfo, a sixty-five old Italian, retired with the passion for modelling.

I like all models of planes, ships and trains, but in the last sixty years I have only thought to the railways and here are some pictures about them.

When I was fifteen I built the Golden Star, as usually it happens, but I wasn't satisfied.

After so many years, I've decided to try the building of the Coca (Spanish cargo sold by AMATI), because she's very nice and not usual.

Before starting, I've collected a little of documentation,and, as a consequence, I decided to change some details.

Have a lot of good sawdust, all of you!

 

Rodolfo

 

[Nirvana]

Rodolfo, a warm welcome to our world of modelling. I will keep my eyes open for the build log. It will be an interesting build that I like to follow.

[allanyed]

Ciao Rodolfo,  It is nice to see such a young member join us at MSW :>) 

Allan

[mtaylor]

Welcome to MSW,Rodolfo.  

[Moab]

Rodolfo; welcome to the forum. Your railroad modeling looks very nice. I’ll follow your build and I’m sure I’ll learn something...Moab

[JeffT]

Hello Rodolfo. Welcome to MSW 

[Rodolfo Bigoni]

I thank you all for the warm welcome and I hope to be able to do a work that could be useful and interesting (also to avoid the mistakes that I will make).

 

Rodolfo

[vaddoc]

Welcome Rodolfo! Very nice work on these trains. Looking forward to your log.

[Tigerdvr]

Welcome aboard Rodolfo. You obviously know your way around a work bench so your main learning challenge may be the nautical vocabulary.

I think most modelers who work on different types of models will tell you that ships tend to take the longest but us old folks (which you aren't yet)

have learned patience which is an important asset for a model ship builder.

This is a great site to ask for help no matter how basic the question may be.

Enjoy--

Cheers Harley

[markjay]

👍

[Jim Lad]

Hello Rodolfo, and a warm welcome to the forum from 'Down Under'.

 

John

[Rodolfo Bigoni]

A warm "thank you" to John, Mark, Harley and Vaddoc!

Hi Harley, unfortunately I started this work eight months ago and I've almost completed the hull: therefore I've already made my mistakes! Undoubtedly railways models need much less time than ships, but patience is always requested and I have a lot of it ...

Today I will add some photos of the ship as it appears at the current time; later I will document the various stages of processing, so that future builders can do it better than me.

Good wood sawdust at all the people!

 

Rodolfo

[GrandpaPhil]

Welcome!