New member in Louisville, KY

[Dion Dunn]

Hey folks, Dion Dunn here.  I’m a mid-50’s builder of. Pretty much anything and everything,  and have recently turned my attention back to model ships.  Over the past 40 years, I’ve built or restored everything from a 1952 Ford Custom (first car) to a Formula Vee race car, to a vintage Italian  bicycle….Lots of RC airplanes and sailboats, RC cars, an HO scale model railroad (in progress), and now back to boats.  I’m also the ex-Commodore of our local Sailing club and actively race a Sunfish and a Capris 14.2 fullsize sailboats.

 

In the past I’ve built the Model Expo Phantom pilot boat, the Amati 1934 J class Rainbow, and the Model Expo Taurus tugboat (for my Father’s train layout).  A few years ago I purchased one of the older Artesania Latina 1:50 Swift kits at a garage sale, and have just started it.  It’s not the best kit in the world, but it’s scratching the itch for now.  Looking forward to a larger build and learning lots from the folks on this site!

 

Dion

[allanyed]

Dion,

A warm welcome to MSW.    If you are relegated to kits rather than scratch building, study the many build logs before investing your money.   Once you have homed in on a specific vessel it is very good idea to do some research on the actual ship to see if the details of the kit look like the actual vessel.  Not all kits are faithful to the vessel they purport to represent when it comes to the details. 

 

Allan    

Edited March 13, 2022 by allanyed

[mtaylor]

Welcome to MSW, Dion.   Allan offered some good suggestions.   If you want to refine your search for input, be a bit more specific as to era and "type".  Feel free to ask questions in the appropriate area in order to get maximum input.

[Tomasz B]

Very welcome aboard sir. It's a great community very kind and helpful ppl.. Can't wait to see your models. 

[Dave_E]

Hey Dion,

 

Welcome aboard mate, glad to have you.

[Keith Black]

 Dion, welcome to MSW, glad to have you aboard. 

[JeffT]

[Jim Lad]

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

 

John

[Baker]

[Dion Dunn]

Thanks everyone!

[AON]

Can't wait to see what you're building!

[markjay]

[Roger Pellett]

Welcome to MSW!

 

Sunfish sailors are especially welcome here.  My first 1:1 scale sailboat was a wooden Sunfish, built with my father in our basement in 1957 from an Alcort Kit.  The kit cost $300.  Great boats!  A couple of years ago, I read Nathaniel Philbrick’s book about rediscovering his passion for sailing by resurrecting an old Sunfish and eventually competing in the Nationals.

 

Roger

[Deacon]

Welcome to the forum Dion, it's a great place. Many years ago in my first youth, I was Bow man on a racing C&C 32 out of the Rochester, NY Yacht Club. Loved it, but that adventure ended with a nasty broach on a gusty downwind spinnaker run, which tossed me overboard taking the spinnaker boom and a lifeline stanchion with me. Since then, I haven't been on the water and switched to motorcycles instead... less chance of drowning. 😉