DocRob finally joined MSW, because you are simply the most resourceful group of maritime modelling addicts

[DocRob]

A warm hello to all the members here and a big thank you to the Admins, to accept me in your midth.
My name is Robert and I'm living on the Canary Islands, a dream to live near the sea, which I fulfilled some years ago. I was born in West Berlin (Germany) some decades ago.

As I'm German, English is not my mothers tongue and I hope, I can make myself understood here. I speak some Spanish too, but this seems also not very helpful here.
 

I build plastic  model kits since I was a kid, with a long break, between the age from 25 to 45. After having a lot of stress at the latter age, I found plastic modelling was a perfect release for that nagging pressure and a great way to get balanced and relaxed again, besides different types of sports, so I started again.

There were not a lot of ships build by me, with only a few exceptions, but the maritime sector always fascinated me. I read my Hornblower and others, when young, I'm an active surfer, bodyboarder and swimmer.

Since some years, I'm a very active member in the partner forum Large Scale Modeler (under the same name), which is a modelling home for me and I show a lot of work in progress threads and discuss a lot with the members there. I always liked LSM, because it's open for every scale and subject, with an emphasis on larger scales naturally. I like to jump between subjects and build planes, armor, cars and motorbikes, sci-fi and steampunk and a few ships.

What drives me here, is that I started to build my first wooden ship build recently. That's not entirely true, as I half build a wooden Kutter before and built a wooden RC raceboat in my twenties.

Three month ago I started to build the Duchess of Kingston from Chris Watton and I wrote a build log on LSM, where I got a lot of help and response. Now, reaching the mysterious point of rigging in the build, I decided, it's a good time to surround me with the complete knowledge here and hope to receive some help, when needed.

I always think of Forums as two way information. Naturally as a relative beginner to the subject, I' cant help with the special knowledge in wooden ship modelling to much, but I have a lot to give too, modelling wise. I know about airbrushing, working with photoetch and resin, plastic kits in all their aspects and not the least something about photographing, sometimes not so easy with model kits.
In plastic modelling, one of the most interesting aspects to me, is depicting materials as best as possible, be it metal, wood, cloth, ..., in their various conditions over time and wear.
When building the DoK, I found, that a modern designed kit needs more from my learned techniques, than was the case with the way older Kutter kit, That was a great relief for me, because I did not feel completely lost and was very eager to learn all I needed to build the DoK.

I like to challenge myself and learn new things permanently and I have to say, that the Duchess of Kingston build was so enjoyable, that it definitely will not be my last wooden ship model.

 

Again, thank you for letting me into MSW and feel free to discuss everything with me.

 

Cheers Rob

[CPDDET]

Welcome Rob, it will be wonderful to have your experience available to us all.

 

Dave

[BenD]

Welcome to the wooden model addiction club!

[Dave_E]

Hi Rob, welcome aboard. YEARS of talent and experience here to help your shipbuilding in any way! 👍😀

[DocRob]

21 minutes ago, CPDDET said:

Welcome Rob, it will be wonderful to have your experience available to us all.

 

14 minutes ago, BenD said:

Welcome to the wooden model addiction club!

 

2 minutes ago, Dave_E said:

Hi Rob, welcome aboard. YEARS of talent and experience here to help your shipbuilding in any way! 👍😀

 

Thank you Dave, Ben and Dave for your friendly reception. I hope this will be a win win situation, as I have plenty of knowledge to share with plastic kits and an engineering background and a curious wandering mind.

Cheers Rob

[AJohnson]

Welcome Rob, there are many of us here who have found wooden ship modelling after years of plastic/resin builds in other subjects. 👋

I am sure you will feel at home here on MSW.  😀

Edited May 26, 2022 by AJohnson

[Keith Black]

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

[DocRob]

1 hour ago, AJohnson said:

Welcome Rob, there are many of us here who have found wooden ship modelling after years of plastic/resin builds in other subjects. 👋

I am sure you will feel at home here on MSW.  😀

 

38 minutes ago, Keith Black said:

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

Thank you Keith and Andrew, I will  not leave plastic/resin modelling, but wooden ships will become more prominent in my modelling career. I enjoy jumping between subjects and scales. I'm easily bored by redundance and therefore willing to challenge myself a bit with my builds.

 

Cheers Rob

[Keith Black]

1 minute ago, DocRob said:

I'm easily bored by redundance and therefore willing to challenge myself a bit with my builds.

Rob, I look forward to seeing your work. 

[Edwardkenway]

welcome to MSW Rob!

[Ryland Craze]

Hi Rob and welcome to Model Ship World.  I can tell by your experience in modeling that you will do just fine building ship models.  I look forward to seeing your work.

[rwiederrich]

Welcome aboard Rob.  May you find hours of pleasurable reading and comradery.

 

Rob

[mtaylor]

Welcome to MSW, Robert.  If you have explored this site much, we do have a section for non-ship modeling.  In the kit area, you'll find lots of plastic builds.  So feel free to make yourself at home and enjoy the journey.

[allanyed]

Welcome Rob

I very much enjoyed reading your introduction.  Yes you will have plenty of teachers but it sounds like you will be one of them as well.

Happy to see you here.

Allan

[garyshipwright]

Welcome to MSW Rob. As some one said , a lot of us have plastic model's under our belts and also like to build Ship models. Find my self switching from plastic model's to wooden ships and love working on both. Again welcome to the club and look forward to seeing you log on DOK. Gary

[Jim Lad]

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

 

John

[DocRob]

15 hours ago, Edwardkenway said:

welcome to MSW Rob!

 

14 hours ago, Ryland Craze said:

Hi Rob and welcome to Model Ship World.  I can tell by your experience in modeling that you will do just fine building ship models.  I look forward to seeing your work.

 

13 hours ago, rwiederrich said:

Welcome aboard Rob.  May you find hours of pleasurable reading and comradery.

Thank you for your welcoming messages Edward, Ryland and Rob. I'm overwhelmed by the reception here on MSW. Until now I was peeping here with a purpose for my build and now I realize more and more how large this community is and how widespread the knowledge is. I will need some time to snuggle in, but I'm sure, I like it here.

 

Cheers Rob 

[DocRob]

12 hours ago, mtaylor said:

Welcome to MSW, Robert.  If you have explored this site much, we do have a section for non-ship modeling.  In the kit area, you'll find lots of plastic builds.  So feel free to make yourself at home and enjoy the journey.

Thank you Mark, I have the feeling that it will take me longer to explore MSW, than to learn how to build wooden ships . I haven't seen the non ship modelling section until now, but will certainly dive into it. As I said, I'm an active member on Large Scale Modeler and will continue to post there. I will have to see, if and how I manage both.

 

Cheers Rob

[DocRob]

11 hours ago, allanyed said:

Welcome Rob

I very much enjoyed reading your introduction.  Yes you will have plenty of teachers but it sounds like you will be one of them as well.

Happy to see you here.

Thank you Allen, I will try to make myself useful here and hopefully can contribute a bit. From what I have seen already, this is a very knowledgable and helpful place.

 

Cheers Rob 

[DocRob]

11 hours ago, garyshipwright said:

Welcome to MSW Rob. As some one said , a lot of us have plastic model's under our belts and also like to build Ship models. Find my self switching from plastic model's to wooden ships and love working on both. Again welcome to the club and look forward to seeing you log on DOK. Gary

 

Thank you Gary, I have some ship plastic models in my stash, which will be build sooner or later. The 1/350 USS Arizona will be first among them on the slipway, added with a heavy dose of PE, a wooden deck and sailors. But first, I have to manage the DoK build, which  is a pure pleasure until now. I hope it keeps like that through the rigging stage.

 

10 hours ago, Jim Lad said:

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

 

Thank you John and greetings to 'OZ' from my tiny island on the other side of the world. It's great to see, that MSW represents a whole planet of maritime addicts.

 

Cheers Rob

[Veszett Roka]

Willkommen hier, wir freuen uns über einen neuen Freund!
Ich bin auch kein altes Mitglied, aber ich kann mit Sicherheit sagen, dass Sie in den besten Club gekommen sind.

[Cathead]

Wilkommen!

[DocRob]

4 hours ago, Veszett Roka said:

Willkommen hier, wir freuen uns über einen neuen Freund!
Ich bin auch kein altes Mitglied, aber ich kann mit Sicherheit sagen, dass Sie in den besten Club gekommen sind.

 

1 hour ago, Cathead said:

Wilkommen!

Vielen Dank, Veszett und Cathead. Ich wusste gar nicht, das hier auch Deutsch gesprochen wird. Ich freue mich sehr über die freundliche Aufnahme hier be MSW. 

Viele Grüße Robert

[Peanut6]

Welcome aboard DocRob.  Your background shows you have a lot to offer.  I also started with plastic models, but did planes, cars and monster models when I could find them.  I've always been curious about airbrushing, so if I ever decide to dip my toes in the water I'll be sure to hit you up for advice.

[markjay]

[DocRob]

16 hours ago, Peanut6 said:

Welcome aboard DocRob.  Your background shows you have a lot to offer.  I also started with plastic models, but did planes, cars and monster models when I could find them.  I've always been curious about airbrushing, so if I ever decide to dip my toes in the water I'll be sure to hit you up for advice.

 

13 hours ago, markjay said:

Thank you Kev and Mark, 
I use airbrushes since I was twenty years old, primarily on paper for making posters, designs and old school animations. Later I used it for modelling purposes and have accumulated some expertise. In plastic modelling, there nearly is no way around an airbrush, for wooden ship models, I found it at least very helpful. On my Duchess of Kingston build it spared me all the rattle cans and helps with even coatings without brushstrokes and dense coverage. To prime and spray the underwater area was easy and I sprayed all the golden photo etch decorations with the airbrush, after priming. and later all the black parts like eyebolts, deadeyes,... directly on their PE sheets. 
Really useful is an airbrush, for spraying cannon barrels, where I used matte black and then iron pigments to enhance the metallic effect.

In all, it needs some patience and discipline to learn how to airbrush, but as wooden ship modelers, there should be plenty of that. 

 

If you have any questions about airbrushing, feel free to contact me or better start a thread or expand an existing one. I will answer as best as I can.

 

Cheers Rob