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Kris Haskins

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Hello there, I’m Kris from Portland, UK. 
I’m just getting back into model boats after a break of some 35 years. In past years I have also spent time on RC cars and planes as well, so not totally green, but need to catch up with advances in tools, adhesives added the like.

I am just completing a Billing Boat Andrea Gail 1/60 scale just to refresh my mind, which has been a really helpful de-stressing tool in these strange times where I’ve been working from home for nearly a year now.

My next build is just about to get going and will be a 1/24 scale HDML based on a Sarik vacuum formed hull, using David Metcalf plans as well as a copy of the original shipyard plans for HDML 1387 Medusa, which was purchased in 1968 by my uncle and then restored to it’s original operational condition when it sat off Omaha Beach on D-Day

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Welcome to MSW, Kris.   I hope you'll do a log on the Medusa.  Sounds like an interesting and unique ship.

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)         

         

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

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Kris, welcome to MSW from Sussex.

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STAY SAFE

 

A model shipwright and an amateur historian are heads & tails of the same coin

current builds:

HMS Berwick 1775, 1/192 scratchbuild; a Slade 74 in the Navy Board style

Mediator sloop, 1/48 - an 18th century transport scratchbuild 

French longboat - CAF - 1/48, on hold

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