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Hi everyone.  I turned 73 this summer, 2024, and am looking to start a wooden ship kit as a winter project with the hope it turns into a new hobby. I have chosen the popular AL HMS Bounty Jolly Boat as my first project (at the time of writing it is sailing its way to me from the supplier).

 

I see from the many posts on here that this is a common project and, thankfully for me, there is loads of great information on MSW already.  I may start a build log but as it has been covered so much, I don’t want to bore people with yet another Jolly Boat build.

 

Many thanks for all the great information that is on here, I am looking forward to my first build.

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Hello Graham and a warm welcome from Sussex.

Bruce

🌻

STAY SAFE

 

A model shipwright and an amateur historian are heads & tails of the same coin

current builds:

HMS Berwick 1775, 1/192 scratchbuild; a Slade 74 in the Navy Board style

Mediator sloop, 1/48 - an 18th century transport scratchbuild 

French longboat - CAF - 1/48, on hold

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:sign:

Bob M.

Start so you can Finish !!

Finished:         The Sea of Galilee Boat-Scott Miller-1:20 ,   Amati } Hannah Ship in a Bottle:Santa Maria : LA  Pinta : La Nana : The Mayflower : Viking Ship Drakkar  The King Of the Mississippi  Artesania Latina  1:80 

 

 Current Build: Royal Yacht, Duchess of Kingston-Vanguard Models :)

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3 hours ago, Graham_T said:

I may start a build log but as it has been covered so much, I don’t want to bore people with yet another Jolly Boat build.

 

Bear in mind that a build log also serves as a place for you to ask questions, get feedback, and receive encouragement. That's true for any log, no matter how many times the subject has been featured!

Chris Coyle
Greer, South Carolina

When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk.
- Tuco

Current builds: Brigantine Phoenix, Bf 109E-7/trop

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Welcome to MSW Graham. :cheers:
 

As Chris said the logs are a two way thing, so yes there are more Bounty and Victory related (and a few other old chestnuts that always crop up) logs than you can shake a stick at, but you are amongst friends who never bore of looking at the same thing!  Not sure what that says about us 🤣 So please do a log if you have time. 👍

Andrew
Current builds:- HM Gun-brig Sparkler - Vanguard (1/64) 
HMAV Bounty - Caldercraft (1/64)

Completed (Kits):-

Vanguard Models (1/64) :HM Cutter Trial , Nisha - Brixham trawler

Caldercraft (1/64) :- HMS Orestes(Mars)HM Cutter Sherbourne

Paper Shipwright (1/250) :- TSS Earnslaw, Puffer Starlight

 

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 Graham, welcome to MSW. Hoping all goes well with your Jolly Boat build. 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

 

 

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  • 2 weeks later...

:sign:

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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