Greetings from Amish country Ontario

[Deacon]

Thank you to the admins for accepting my membership application. I am currently building the HMS Victory in 1:98, based on the original 1970s era Mantua kit 776 (not laser cut). I say based on the original because I am replacing some components of the model with scratch-built parts, currently the keel assembly. I purchased the kit new in the late 1970s and figured it was about time I built it! Not my first ship model, but the first in over 50 years! Retired from law enforcement administration, I have quite a varied background. I worked as a professional modelmaker in the 1990s, primarily with 1:48 scale narrow gauge railway models. At the time my work was published in the Narrow Gauge and Short Line Gazette, Model Railroader, and the Narrow Gauge and Industrial Railway Modelling Review for whom I wrote a series of columns titled "At The Workbench." I'm a trained furniture maker/woodworker. I also had my own graphic design/3D CGI product viz/animation studio (still dabble on occasion) and in the early 2000's I was owner/fabricator of a motorcycle customizing shop in California.

 

We currently have a YouTube channel called Whisky Workbench on which I'm documenting the Victory build while focusing on traditional craftsmanship tools and skills, and how they are appropriate and essential for model building.

 

I'm looking forward to meeting many of you here online and continuing my ship-modelling education, and hopefully will be able contribute something of value in return.

 

Deacon

Geal 'us dearg a suas

Edited March 2, 2022 by Deacon
Correction

[mtaylor]

Welcome to MSW, Deacon.  Your photo shows some lovely work.  I hope you'll consider opening a build log on your model so we can follow along.

[ccoyle]

Clan Menzies, eh?

[JeffT]

Welcome to MSW 

[Keith Black]

 Deacon, welcome to MSW. I look forward to seeing your Victory in a build log. 

[Deacon]

5 hours ago, ccoyle said:

Clan Menzies, eh?

That's right Chris... very perceptive.

[Deacon]

Thank you very much gentlemen for the welcoming messages.

[ccoyle]

7 minutes ago, Deacon said:

That's right Chris... very perceptive.

 

I'm not an expert on the Highland Clans, but I recognize Gaelic when I see it, so I checked it out with Google translate. 😉 I do, though, have a lot of Ulstermen in the family tree.

[druxey]

Welcome to another Ontarian. Check out the Marine Modelers of  Niagara club site for monthly Zoom meetings.

[Dave_E]

Welcome to the forum! 😀

[Baker]

[Deacon]

11 hours ago, ccoyle said:

 

I'm not an expert on the Highland Clans, but I recognize Gaelic when I see it, so I checked it out with Google translate. 😉 I do, though, have a lot of Ulstermen in the family tree.

Well, I thought you were either a fellow clansman or you turned to Google out of curiosity. Not a lot of people recognize Gaelic. We have Menzies and North Yorkshire ancestry, rather a rowdy bunch as I understand. 😉

[Deacon]

18 hours ago, mtaylor said:

Welcome to MSW, Deacon.  Your photo shows some lovely work.  I hope you'll consider opening a build log on your model so we can follow along.

Thank you Mark, much appreciated. I will do a build log from the beginning of the project, once I pull some stills from the early video log over the next few days.

[Deacon]

11 hours ago, druxey said:

Welcome to another Ontarian. Check out the Marine Modelers of  Niagara club site for monthly Zoom meetings.

Thank you Druxey, I'll check out the site.

[Deacon]

6 hours ago, Baker said:

Thank you Patrick.

[Deacon]

11 hours ago, Dave_E said:

Welcome to the forum! 😀

Thank you Dave.