New Member Casey

[Casey]

Hi all my name is Jerome Casey, I am recently a retired Emergency 911 Paramedic of 40 years in Delaware County PA.  I have always worked with wood as side jobs to including building homes , additions and restoring old furniture. a skill taught to me by my father.  When I was a kid i always loved building models, plastic back then and mostly cars and planes.  Shortly after I had my first couple of kids the wife and I were in the model/hobby store and I saw this wooden ship model of the EMMA Sidmouth 1815 and loved the the idea and the challenge.  I started to build the hull, taking my time and doing a lot of research and reading and was very please with the outcome to that point.  I now had three kids and 3 jobs so the ship had to take a back seat.  I packaged it up and stored it telling the wife that it would be my retirement hobby and i would finish it at that time.  She laughed thinking i was not serious and threatening to throw it away from the garage every time we cleaned the garage out.  Well the jokes on her I retired and now have a work table set up in the basement and have been working on it ever since.  I will add some photos of how far along I am at this time and i will be finishing it hoping in the next 3 to 4 months.  I also have learned a lot about technique and processes in this first build and believe that my next one will benefit from this learning experience.   Anyway thanks to all that replied to my first topic.

 

Any suggestions for any level of improvement would be very much welcome. 

 

Jerome

 

[Dave_E]

Hi Casey - Welcome. Aside from LOTS of know how, this forum is a cool place to learn from and share knowledge and meet people. Have fun!

[Casey]

I realized after posting how small those photos were so here they are again this time you don't need a magnifying glass to see them

[Keith Black]

Casey, welcome to MSW. Glad to have you aboard. 

[Casey]

 OK third tim e a charm I hope sorry about that

[Oldsalt1950]

Casey, welcome aboard. I live in Delco too. The ship looks good.

[Tomasz B]

Welcome aboard. Its a great place to share your work. ship looks fantastic

[mtaylor]

Welcome to MSW.  Nice work on the model and yes, sorting out how the site works can take some time.

[Baker]

Nice model 

Welcome to MSW 

 

[Edwardkenway]

and welcome to MSW.