Greetings from North Carolina

[PostCaptainAubrey]

Hello everyone, 

I am beginning my venture into model ship building and am very excited about it.  Have never done any extensive modeling except for some crude plastic airplane models when I was much younger, so no experience here and am diving in without hesitation!  Waiting on the OCCRE San Juan kit as my first attempt.  Will be converting my at-home office into a space to build in, hoping it will do.  

 

Grew up going to the beach frequently and can remember attending a day camp at the Maritime Museum in Beaufort NC where we built wooden tugboats.  

 

Glad to be here and looking forward to logging the San Juan build.  

[VTHokiEE]

Welcome aboard!

[ccoyle]

Welcome aboard from your neighbor to the south!

[Keith Black]

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

Edited December 15, 2022 by Keith Black

[Dave_E]

Welcome to the forum! Do you have a name we may call you to go along with that neat handle? 😀

[PostCaptainAubrey]

43 minutes ago, Dave_E said:

Welcome to the forum! Do you have a name we may call you to go along with that neat handle? 😀

Had to pay homage to what really piqued my interest in the Age of Sail, but you can call me Will.

[Dave_E]

Hi Will, nice to meet you. 👍😀

[Jim Lad]

Hello, and a warm welcome to MSW from 'Down Under'.

 

John

[allanyed]

Welcome aboard and good luck on your project.   

Allan

[Jaager]

Hello Tarheel,

I grew up in the city that is the third "R" of your three r's.😉

Where you be?  The I 40 corridor?

 

I remember the Beaufort museum from when it was one floor of an old house, few if any ship models, and a flat sandbox  under a table containing a very large stuffed Eastern Diamondback placed so as to scare to 'ell out you when walked around its corner.

 

Reading your intention, you reaaaaly ought to read this post at the top of this forum:

https://modelshipworld.com/topic/13703-for-beginners-a-cautionary-tale/

 

If plastic kits are your prior experience, be prepared to have your expectations disappointed by the instructions that come with most wooden kits.  With plastic, the molds have already formed the WHAT your are assembling.  The plans show HOW they go together.  With wood, the plans show WHAT to fabricate.  Except for purpose designed beginners kits, you are already supposed to know HOW to fabricate what is shown.

[PostCaptainAubrey]

1 hour ago, Jaager said:

Hello Tarheel,

I grew up in the city that is the third "R" of your three r's.😉

Where you be?  The I 40 corridor?

 

I remember the Beaufort museum from when it was one floor of an old house, few if any ship models, and a flat sandbox  under a table containing a very large stuffed Eastern Diamondback placed so as to scare to 'ell out you when walked around its corner.

 

Reading your intention, you reaaaaly ought to read this post at the top of this forum:

https://modelshipworld.com/topic/13703-for-beginners-a-cautionary-tale/

 

If plastic kits are your prior experience, be prepared to have your expectations disappointed by the instructions that come with most wooden kits.  With plastic, the molds have already formed the WHAT your are assembling.  The plans show HOW they go together.  With wood, the plans show WHAT to fabricate.  Except for purpose designed beginners kits, you are already supposed to know HOW to fabricate what is shown.

 

Howdy.  The I-40 corridor indeed, Raleigh, though I grew up in eastern NC, hence the Beaufort trips.

 

Thanks for the advice, and I did dig into that thread before registering.  As mentioned, my first project is OCCRE's San Juan kit, which I chose not only because of it's listing as a beginner kit, but primarily because of OCCRE's video logs that they provide.  I'm hoping that the videos in conjunction with the printed instructions will be enough for a lubber like me to get down some basic skills/principles.  Of course, I have browsed some build logs of the San Juan as well, though I feel I need to unpackage the kit to start making sense of them.  

[markjay]

[gsdpic]

Welcome to MSW!   Former Raleigh resident and NC State grad here.   I lived in Raleigh in the early and mid '90s.

 

[mtaylor]

[Baker]

[flutlo6180]

Hi Will. Welcome aboard. The San Juan was my first build and I look forward to watching your progress on you build log.