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Hi,

My name is Michael and I am a complete newbie at building wooden ships.

 

In the past I was a woodworker in several furniture shops and made Welsh Stick chairs and even made my own traditional joiners bench.

I became enamored with hand tool woodworking and hand traditional joinery.

 

When the time came I could no longer do this I sold off the shop and started learning antique clock restoration, which I still dabble in.

 

Due to some injuries and illness I am no longer able to work with larger material, so I decided to combine my love of nautical history and woodworking and start building model ships.

 

It will be good therapy and help with improving some hand dexterity and fine motor skills as well as an enjoyable way to spend some time which I seem to have a surplus of.

 

I am a former Marine and then worked in EMS as a Paramedic eventually going to Alaska and working as a Bush Medic till a career ending injury happened there.

 

I came back and went to finish my degree until I had to stop and take care of my dad who had Alzheimers.

 

I then went to work for an Industrial supply company for fifteen years till they outsourced my job, but was getting to the point where I was physically unable to do so anyway and am now going on disability.

 

I have already received my first kit.

 

After a great conversation with Model Expo I am starting with their “Shipwright” series beginning with the Lowell Grand Banks Dory.

I just about have the work space finished and am going to dive in in head first in the next few days.

 

I have so enjoyed reading through many threads here and have already learned much, now is the time to put it into practice.

 

I am looking forward to contributing here and maybe even making some new friends.

 

I am sure I will have a lot of questions and it seems like folks here are more than happy to help a new builder.

 

One caveat...as a former English Major I have a tendency to be rather wordy...so my apologies for that! 🤓

 

Anyway that is my introduction, I hope everyone has a great weekend,

M

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Finished :  Soleil Royal Heller 1/100   Wasa Billing Boats   Bounty Revell 1/110 plastic (semi scratch)   Pelican / Golden Hind  1/45 scratch

Current build :  Mary Rose 1/50 scratch

Gallery Revell Bounty  Pelican/Golden hind 1/45 scratch

To do Prins Willem Corel, Le Tonnant Corel, Yacht d'Oro Corel, Thermopylae Sergal 

 

Shore leave,  non ship models build logs :  

ADGZ M35 funkwagen 1/72    Einhets Pkw. Kfz.2 and 4 1/72   Autoblinda AB40 1/72   122mm A-19 & 152mm ML-20 & 12.8cm Pak.44 {K8 1/2} 1/72   10.5cm Howitzer 16 on Mark. VI(e)  Centurion Mk.1 conversion   M29 Weasel 1/72     SAM6 1/72    T26 Finland  T26 TN 1/72  Autoprotetto S37 1/72     Opel Blitz buses 1/72  Boxer and MAN trucks 1/72   Hetzer38(t) Starr 1/72    

 

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Welcome to Model Ship World Michael.  The Lowell Grand Banks Dory is an excellent kit for the first time wooden ship modeler.  There are several build logs of this model on MSW.  I hope you start a build log of your kit so that we can follow along.

Ryland

 

Member - Hampton Roads Ship Model Society

            - Ship Model Society of New Jersey

               - Nautical Research Guild

       

 

Current Build - Armed Virginia Sloop, 18th Century Longboat

Completed Build - Medway Longboat

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35 minutes ago, Mike the Maxx said:

not sure which sub-forum I should use.

 

These boats were used as working boats well into the 20th century, so Kit Builds 1901-present would be appropriate. Oh, and welcome aboard!

Chris Coyle
Greer, South Carolina

When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk.
- Tuco

Current builds: Brigantine Phoenix, Hawker Hurricane

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Going on disability and about to have a ton of time on your hands. This hobby is perfect given the fact that wooden ships can take hundreds of hours. It can be therapeutic... that's when things are going well. 😆 

 

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Welcome to MSW, Mike from a former Marine.   Quite a few of us here.   I'm looking forward to your build.

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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49 minutes ago, ccoyle said:

 

These boats were used as working boats well into the 20th century, so Kit Builds 1901-present would be appropriate. Oh, and welcome aboard!

 

Oh man, thanks so much...I will go ahead and start a log there...It may turn out to be a train wreck but I think it will be a great way to learn with feedback.

M

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Mike, welcome to MSW. What part of the Alaska were you in? My wife and I lived in Egegik for nine years. 

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2 hours ago, Keith Black said:

Mike, welcome to MSW. What part of the Alaska were you in? My wife and I lived in Egegik for nine years. 

 

 

Wow, nine years there is a good while, did ya like it?

You couldn’t pay me enough to go back...these old bones are crying out for Florida!

 

I was in Fairbanks at UAF when I first then moved to Alaska.

Then a couple years later went back as a Flight Medic and lived in Anchorage...I worked out in Bethel...we covered an area roughly the size of Utah...the Yukon Kuskokwim Delta area...but we also had quarters at the airport in Anchorage.

Hooper Bay was getting to the farthest parts north and Eek was about as south west as we went while in Bethel.

Working out of Anchorage we had a Lear and went all over, even a flight or two over to Whitehorse in Yukon Territory...down to Juneau (hated flying in that place...always tightens the britches) and back then most head injuries and other medical certain conditions would take us down to Seattle...also we went down the Aleutians too.

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Hi there, warm welcome from UK   -  you will fit in fine - just watch out  for food topics  - we love our food  here  (winky winky face)

 

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Current builds  


28mm  Battle of Waterloo   attack on La Haye Saint   Diorama.

1/700  HMS Hood   Flyhawk   with  PE, Resin  and Wood Decking.

 

 

 

Completed works.

 

Dragon 1/700 HMS Edinburgh type 42 batch 3 Destroyer plastic.

HMS Warspite Academy 1/350 plastic kit and wem parts.

HMS Trafalgar Airfix 1/350 submarine  plastic.

Black Pearl  1/72  Revell   with  pirate crew.

Revell  1/48  Mosquito  B IV

Eduard  1/48  Spitfire IX

ICM    1/48   Seafire Mk.III   Special Conversion

1/48  Kinetic  Sea Harrier  FRS1

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Have fun and Enjoy!

Current builds;

 Henry Ramey Upcher 1:25

Providence whaleboat- 1:25     HMS Winchelsea 1764 1:48 

Completed:

HM Cutter Sherbourne- 1:64- finished    Triton cross section scratch- 1:60 - finished 

Non ship:  SBD-3 Dauntless 1:48 Hasegawa -FINISHED

 

 

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16 hours ago, Mike the Maxx said:

Wow, nine years there is a good while, did ya like it?

 What's not to like about living in a zoo? Brown bears sleeping on the porch at night, mother moose and her two calves having a walk about through the yard, fox, lynx, wolverine, wolves, coyotes, eagles, geese, ducks, salmon, huge trout, literally not a fence anywhere, open land from Bristol Bay to the Gulf of Alaska, Mother Nature trying to do you in when you've gotten stupid, Mother Nature teaching you to respect all things, absolute total silence when the only thing you can hear is your blood pumping in your ears,  and a ever growing appreciation for His creation.........it was OK. :)

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17 hours ago, Keith Black said:

 What's not to like about living in a zoo? Brown bears sleeping on the porch at night, mother moose and her two calves having a walk about through the yard, fox, lynx, wolverine, wolves, coyotes, eagles, geese, ducks, salmon, huge trout, literally not a fence anywhere, open land from Bristol Bay to the Gulf of Alaska, Mother Nature trying to do you in when you've gotten stupid, Mother Nature teaching you to respect all things, absolute total silence when the only thing you can hear is your blood pumping in your ears,  and a ever growing appreciation for His creation.........it was OK. :)

 

 

Well said...you got the better part than I.

 

Unfortunately being a medic up there was quite depressing....out Bethel way and in the remote villages it can be heartbreaking and rough and tumble.

As my training officer told me...

 

“Out here, especially in the dark months all there is to do for some is sit and think about all the dark things in life”...add alcohol and drugs and it made for a rough job.

 

 

 

Lots of highs and lows.

 

 

So for me, Alaska was bittersweet.

 

Sorry if I overshared, but I am a pretty straightforward kind of person....and I think I am going to like it here quite a bit.

 

Off to Lowes for a few supplies and then to start on this kit!

 

 

Cheers,

M

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 Mike, sorry to hear about your physical problems, I hope and pray it's not MS. 

 

 I'm a successful Parris Island graduate, class of 67. We do tend to go for the gusto till the wheels come off. Alaska is living on the edge, I think anyone who lived there is a book that needs to be written. 

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