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EGL

EGL

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Hello!  I have been "lurking" here for several years (actually, I go way back to the email digest days), taking in all the experience and expertise (there is a difference) of the many builders and researchers, and have learned a ton about ships (and boats), shipping, history, nautical engineering, etc., on everything from ancient craft to modern warships.  But now it is time for me to cross the Rubicon, and get my first build going.

I built plastic airplane models as a kid, and very sporadically through my working years (mostly with my young kids), but "building a ship" was always in my "someday" plans.  Over 20 years ago I gifted myself with MS's Niagara, but was never able to get much beyond dry-fitting the bulkheads to the center keel, and that only about 2 years ago at my retirement. 

After following many logs (and yes, all of the Niagara logs), it seems wise to me to take the "Cautionary" advice to beginners, and start out with the Model Shipways Shipwright Series, from which I have already started the Dory.  I'm referencing the many existing Dory build logs.  My immediate learning is that it is one thing to follow a log, but quite another thing to actually put sandpaper and glue to wood--already have errors to correct and questions to ask.   

I'll get my Dory build log going soon.  And just maybe, someday, I'll get to that Niagara...

-Eric

Keith Black

Keith Black

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

Current Builds:  1870's Sternwheeler, Lula

                             Wood Hull Screw Frigate USS Tennessee

                             Decorative Carrack Warship Restoration, the Amelia

 

Completed: 1880s Floating Steam Donkey Pile Driver                       

                       Early Swift 1805 Model Restoration

 

 

Knocklouder

Knocklouder

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:sign:

"Start so you can Finish!" 

In progress:

Astrolabe 1812 - Mantua 1:50; 

In queue:

Pegasus - Amati 1:64 

Completed:

The Dutchess of Kingston - 1:64 Vanguard Models 🙂 
Santa Maria - 1:64, La Pinta - 1:64, La Nina - 1:64, Hannah Ship in a Bottle - 1:300, The Mayflower - 1:64, Viking Ship Drakkar -1:50 all by Amati. King of the Mississippi - Artesania Latina - 1:80  Queen Anne's Revenge - Piece Cool - 1:300  The Sea of Galilee Boat - Scott Miller - 1:20

Baker

Baker

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:piratebo5:

:sign:

Regards, Patrick

 

Finished :  Soleil Royal Heller 1/100   Wasa Billing Boats   Bounty Revell 1/110 plastic (semi scratch)   Pelican / Golden Hind  1/45 scratch

Current build :  Mary Rose 1/50 scratch  große-jacht / Yacht D'Oro 1/50 Corel

Gallery : Revell Bounty  Pelican/Golden hind 1/45 scratch

 

Shore leave,  non ship models build logs :  

ADGZ M35 funkwagen 1/72    Einhets Pkw. Kfz.2 and 4 1/72   Autoblinda AB40 1/72   122mm A-19 & 152mm ML-20 & 12.8cm Pak.44 {K8 1/2} 1/72   10.5cm Howitzer 16 on Mark. VI(e)  Centurion Mk.1 conversion   M29 Weasel 1/72     SAM6 1/72    T26 Finland  T26 TN 1/72  Autoprotetto S37 1/72     Opel Blitz buses 1/72  Boxer and MAN trucks 1/72   Hetzer38(t) Starr 1/72    

 

Cleaning the 1/72 military collection

 

Si vis pacem, para bellum

 
 
mtaylor

mtaylor

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Welcome aboard Eric.  You've chosen wisely on the path to success with the starter kits.

Mark
"The shipwright is slow, but the wood is patient." - me

Current Build:                                                                                             Past Builds:
 La Belle Poule 1765 - French Frigate from ANCRE plans - ON HOLD           Triton Cross-Section   

 NRG Hallf Hull Planking Kit                                                                            HMS Sphinx 1775 - Vanguard Models - 1:64               

 

Non-Ship Model:                                                                                         On hold, maybe forever:           

CH-53 Sikorsky - 1:48 - Revell - Completed                                                   Licorne - 1755 from Hahn Plans (Scratch) Version 2.0 (Abandoned)         

         

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

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