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Gus Enzie

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Gus Enzie

Gus Enzie

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Hi Folks.  New model wooden boat builder here. Lifelong (50 years) plastic model builder shifting to wooden ship models.

 

I graduated from a 2 year wooden boatbuilding program in Newport RI in June 2023. The boat I'm rowing below is the second year sailing dinghy project I helped build.  After graduation I worked in the shipyard at Mystic Seaport but quickly realized that my years of doing that kind of heavy labor were behind me so I've opted to scale it back and focus on building wooden shipmodels and half models instead.  My first kit Im working on is shown below.  I live in the Boston area and have also joined the USS Consttution Model Shipwright Guild and look forward to my next journey.

 

Traditional small craft and gaff rigged vessels are my primary interest at this point.  I particularily like portraying models in dioramas "doing their thing."

 

I would love to meet other modelers interested in similar subject matter

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Kenchington

Kenchington

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Welcome aboard, Gus! Your expertise in full-size boats will be invaluable -- not only in your own model building but to the rest of us on MSW also.

 

Hope to see your progress with the Whitehall soon.

 

Trevor

In progress: Norwegian sailing pram, by Model Shipways

Completed: 1880 Gloucester halibut dory, based on Model Shipways Lowell banks dory

Baker

Baker

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: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

 
 
Keith Black

Keith Black

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

Current Builds: Billy 1938 Homemade Sternwheeler

                            Mosquito Fleet Mystery Sternwheeler

                            Wood Hull Screw Frigate USS Tennessee

                            Decorative Carrack Warship Restoration, the Amelia

 

Completed: Sternwheeler and Barge from the Susquehanna Rivers Hard Coal Navy

                      1870's Sternwheeler, Lula

                      1880s Floating Steam Donkey Pile Driver                       

                       Early Swift 1805 Model Restoration

 

 

 Perfection is an illusion, often chased, never caught

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