- Joined
- Aug 22, 2019
- Messages
- 12
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- 48
First of all thanks for allowing me to join.
I am nowadays a retiree but began modelling in the 1950ies with plastic models (Revell, Monogram etc). Then followed a longish pause until the mid 1970ies when I decided to take up the hobby again and switch to wooden shipmodels. I had a plan to start importing Model Shipways and Steingraeber models to Finland and ordered a bunch of them as a first consignment. Then things developed quickly - first wife and marriage, then three children over 8 years and a business career (in shipowning as you might have guessed already) to take care of. End result, the models were left on the shelf for quite a number of years and I have during the last few years only completed Marie Jeanne by Billing Boats, schooner yacht America by Model Shipways and paddle steamer s.s. Sirius by Steingraeber. I am now working on trawler Hildina by Model Shipways. I am a real slow builder because I spend a lot of time at my summer cottage in the world’s most beautiful archipelago during the spring and summer months and a lot of time doing cross country skiing in Lapland which leaves me with limited building time. However, I do not have any ambitions to ramp up production any time soon and I visit my hobby-room only whenever I have a moment to spare.
As a consequence of my failed plans to start importing Model Shipways and Steingraeber models I have a few vintage virgin boxes from 1976 safely tucked away in a corner and should anybody be interested to buy Steingraeber Agilis or Satanitas or Atropos I can sell them at a reasonable price. The MS models that I still have left I might keep as a fallback in case I would for some reason pick up building speed.
I am nowadays a retiree but began modelling in the 1950ies with plastic models (Revell, Monogram etc). Then followed a longish pause until the mid 1970ies when I decided to take up the hobby again and switch to wooden shipmodels. I had a plan to start importing Model Shipways and Steingraeber models to Finland and ordered a bunch of them as a first consignment. Then things developed quickly - first wife and marriage, then three children over 8 years and a business career (in shipowning as you might have guessed already) to take care of. End result, the models were left on the shelf for quite a number of years and I have during the last few years only completed Marie Jeanne by Billing Boats, schooner yacht America by Model Shipways and paddle steamer s.s. Sirius by Steingraeber. I am now working on trawler Hildina by Model Shipways. I am a real slow builder because I spend a lot of time at my summer cottage in the world’s most beautiful archipelago during the spring and summer months and a lot of time doing cross country skiing in Lapland which leaves me with limited building time. However, I do not have any ambitions to ramp up production any time soon and I visit my hobby-room only whenever I have a moment to spare.
As a consequence of my failed plans to start importing Model Shipways and Steingraeber models I have a few vintage virgin boxes from 1976 safely tucked away in a corner and should anybody be interested to buy Steingraeber Agilis or Satanitas or Atropos I can sell them at a reasonable price. The MS models that I still have left I might keep as a fallback in case I would for some reason pick up building speed.
