First post

[danwind]

Hello from a first post. 

I blame Erroll Flynn and the movie Captain Blood for my interest in ships. I saw the movie when I was 10 years old and already building wood models from Strombecker kits, and yes, I am that old. I later built plastic kits from Monogram and Revell, then built railroad freight car kits in my teens. After a few years hiatus for college and starting a career, I discovered Colorado mountain railroads and modeled in 1/4 inch O Scale for more than 50 years. Over the years I built models in wood, styrene, and brass, with brass being my favorite. I wrote articles on my scratch built models for a railroad magazine specializing in my kind of railroads. At various times, I worked in hobby shops and also worked for a model railroad manufacturer that made craftsman kits, so I have experience on both sides of the fence.

A few years ago, I realized I was in my 70s, and if I ever wanted to build sailing ships I had better start. I started out building Scientific ship kits. Yes, I can hear the laughs from here, but I learned the basics of ship modeling and terminology and had fun doing it. With some careful work and attention, the models came out very well and are still displayed in my living room. I moved on to plank on bulkhead kits and have really enjoyed building these models.

I'm currently building the Sergal President and was curious to see what other modelers had done with it. I was surprised that no one seems to have built one, and was also surprised at the rather negative comments about Sergal and Mantua. I built the Mantua Black Falcon and it turned out decently, historical accuracy aside. I've just finished the President's hull and am working on the masts, and while I'm not thrilled with the kit, it's coming along ok. I'm thinking of posting a few photos of both models, and perhaps a build log for the President, but have no idea of how to do it. I looked at the Help page, but that didn't explain how to post photos. If someone can enlighten me, I'd really appreciate it.

If you've actually read this far, thanks.

Dan

[Keith Black]

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

 

 For no ship models you can post photos to the below.

 

https://modelshipworld.com/forum/174-completed-non-ship-models/

Edited 11 hours ago by Keith Black

[ccoyle]

Welcome aboard! We have a few finished President models around here, which you can find in this list (if you haven't looked them up already).

[CPDDET]

Welcome aboard! Seems you're a skilled modeler and should have few problems building wooden ship models.

[gsdpic]

Welcome aboard!   As for your question about uploading and posting pictures, first realize that it may depend on how you access the forum...browser on PC or MAC or phone or iPad.   But, at least with a PC browser, when you reply to a post there is an area where you can drag or choose files.   Just select your picture files there.   Note that JPEGs are probably the best bet.  If you have an iPhone and it is set to the default HEIC format, those pictures will not appear on the forum, and need to be converted to JPEG.   For more help, check out the pinned posts both in this subforum and in the "Using the MSW forum" subforum.  

[SiriusVoyager]

Welcome to MSW!

[Baker]