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In between rigging sessions on the SR, I will be working on this model. It is the Model Shipways kit of the Civil War Picket Boat 1, the steam launch that sunk the Albemarle, using a spar torpedo. This is a very nice kit. The laser cutting is very fine, and the sheetwood is basswood, not plywood. In spite of the fine laser cutting, the fit was not good enough to rely on the flooring to hold the frames about the keel, and I had to use a batton for alignment, good practice anyway.
Don Stauffer in Minnesota
Now this should be a very cool project!
Eric
A gent in our club built this one. It came out beautifully; a really interesting and, in its own way, attractive model. My friend did comment that some of the parts were really tiny - but he got them all on.
Youth, talent, hard work, and enthusiasm are no match for old age and treachery.
I'll be watching this. I love doing wood boats.
EJ
Completed - 1/525 Round Two Lindberg repop of T2A tanker done as USS MATTAPONI, USS ESSEX 1/700 Hasegawa Dec 1942, USS Yorktown 1/700 Trumpeter 1943. In The Yards - USS ESSEX 1/700 Hasegawa 1945, USS ESSEX 1/700 Dragon 1944, USS ESSEX 1/700 Trumpeter 1945, USS ESSEX 1/540 Revell (vintage) 1962, USS ESSEX 1/350 Trumpeter 1942, USS ESSEX LHD-2 as commissioned, converted from USS Wasp kit Gallery Models. Plus 35 other plastic and wood ship kits.
Me too! Although Im more on the watching side. Love seeing wooden boat projects.
No bucks, no Buck Rogers
Good show, Don. Watching your model build.
Happy modeling Crackers
Anthony V. Santos
2 wooden ship build's how good is this , but how do you build a wooden model ship , and rig the soleil royal together , your a better man than me don ., I'm having enough trouble on the S.R. lol
steve5 2 wooden ship build's how good is this , but how do you build a wooden model ship , and rig the soleil royal together , your a better man than me don ., I'm having enough trouble on the S.R. lol
I am not in a hurry to get either one done. I have been working on SR for about ten years now. I get tired of working on it frequently. Rather than push myself, and maybe screw something up, I put it aside for a few weeks and work on something else. BTW, the SR is not wood, it is the Heller plastic kit.
I did realise this don , as I am doing the heller kit myself , I meant it is still a tough kit
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