Imai/Ertl Big Mayflower, Hull done

The MAYFLOWER model looks so neat and crisp. Be sure to enclose the model with a glass case to protect it from dust and cobwebs.

  Happy modeling  Crackers

Hi Kirill4, I have got to say to start with after looking at your last model pictures & others, I think you are the greatest ship model builder ever. I even saw the Crabtree collection & talked to him at the Mariner's Museum in Virginia back in the 1950's. 

    You will have to explain to me about the lines to add & I appreciate that. I am 86 & haven't built sailing ships in nearly 40 years. I was on fighter planes & mainly HO train layouts for a long time.  I do have a lot of ship books & my brother was a Battleship sailor in WW2. He only knew big & little boats with motors.

   Thanks again for you comments & it is great to hear from you.      Gene

Thanks Crackers, but I have been building too many lately. About 15 or so in the last year & a half. I have all my older large wood models  & riverboats in cases, but these got ahead of me.

It's time to take off building & clean some of my wreckage up. Model desk & surroundings & spray booth. What a mess. I have always been a messy model builder. When it gets so thick I have to stop & clean up, which is now. 

Thanks Steve, that is nice, but don't look close where I can't mask. Your models are beautiful & the painting looks perfect. None of us are close to Kirill4. Boy what a master. 

Good day,

Dear gene1, I would be a happy man to reach age of yours , and second, in this age to be adle to work with models ... and make them so nice and accurate as You did!

This is fantastic for me ,each time I look at your built sailing vessels model -Great !!!

Regarding my remarks abt tacks - pls refer to this https://cloud.mail.ru/public/JU7C/bVhk9VrXn 

this is the link for downloading ,if You don't have this book - start from page 157... 

and on this pictures of GH you can see how it could looks on the model..." target="">

Hi Kirill4, I read & studied your post & realized that my main & fore sails are 1/2 furled & there is no place I can find to tie the tack rope. Please keep trying to help me as my limited ship knowledge has doapeared with age, plus my ability to tie knots. I do love building models & have been doing it since Pearl Harbor in WW2. 

   I would love to see St. Petersburg as my daughter lives in St. Petersburg Florida, Here is a wooden big Constittution I built in 1983.

I just lost some other picture I sent to you.      Gene

Her are acouple more of one of my train layouts from 30 years ago & a 1911 Indy car I scratch built a few years sgo. Iy is the Marmon Wasp the 1911 winner. They never made a kit of it. It is 1/24.

built 7 layouts over the years , several small & 3 big.

A couple more pictures with the anchors on.

Sure enjoyed this model.

I got off sailing ships for a while & have been building Trumpeter's Indianapolis. It has really turned out nice & I should have it finished in a week. I am also doing the 1/350 I 58, the Jap sub that sunk the Indy. It was something to hear today that they have found & photographed the Indy in 18,000' of water in the Phllipine Sea . We were really scared when we heard about it on the radio & thought it was my brother's ship, the BB Indiana.

   I will not be building anymore 1/350 kits as the photoetch is to fragile & small for my old hands. I got this one about done, but it was hard. I did buy Revell's new 1/144 Corvette kit & will do it next. It is a good size for me. I will post the Indy & the I 58 sub as soon as they are done.

Gene1 - Great work on your ships and great attention to detail !!! When is your armada setting sail?