Little Wooden Boat

I'll be following this with pleasure. I love building those little "woodies". Built a number of Midwest's boat kits and have a canoe and a lobster smack in the stash. Too bad they (Midwest) stopped producing those kits. They were inexpensive and fun to build. The kind of kit that "cleared the mind" so to speak.

EJ

Well, that Bluejacket Manual in Aramachic is a bit lean, being mostly "Don't be eaten by sea monsters."

ejhammer

I'll be following this with pleasure. I love building those little "woodies". Built a number of Midwest's boat kits and have a canoe and a lobster smack in the stash. Too bad they (Midwest) stopped producing those kits. They were inexpensive and fun to build. The kind of kit that "cleared the mind" so to speak.

EJ

 

Oh, I was not aware that they discontinued them!  That is a shame. It has been awhile since I built one, but I loved them.  There were a couple that I had planned on ordering some day.

Don Stauffer

Oh, I was not aware that they discontinued them!

Yeah, the folding of Midwest (and Laughing Whale with them) had no great fanfare.

At least not many of the eBay sellers have started marking up for being OOP.  Much.  Yet.

That, and either Model Expo or Woodland Scenics have kept a couple of the kits "alive" in their catalogs.

It's a shame, as the canoe kit plans were really nearly good enough to build a 1:1 copy, with only a fudge or two, after enlarging (or lofting up).  (All of the formers and bits to build the hull upon are diagrammed.)