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American Scout C-2 Cargo Ship by Sterling Models

Vfordyce said:
I’m using railings from Tichy Train Group. I’m short on stairs so I’m thinking about ordering some like you got when I order more railings. My, but there are a lot of railings!
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I plan to use Tichy stairs to replace the very unrealistic metal stairs that come with the kit. But for railings I ordered a bunch of these brass ones from Seaport Model Works: https://seaportmodelworks.com/product/peb-9-railing-ho-n-l-160-scale-ft-h-42-012-brass/.

Still haven't had time to start construction, too many other projects in the new-to-us 200-year old house I'm renovating/upgrading but hope to start the ship project very soon.
 
jscherb said:
I plan to use Tichy stairs to replace the very unrealistic metal stairs that come with the kit. But for railings I ordered a bunch of these brass ones from Seaport Model Works: https://seaportmodelworks.com/product/peb-9-railing-ho-n-l-160-scale-ft-h-42-012-brass/.

Still haven't had time to start construction, too many other projects in the new-to-us 200-year old house I'm renovating/upgrading but hope to start the ship project very soon.
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Good luck on the house. Let me know when you’ve started the build, please.
 
jscherb said:
I plan to use Tichy stairs to replace the very unrealistic metal stairs that come with the kit. But for railings I ordered a bunch of these brass ones from Seaport Model Works: https://seaportmodelworks.com/product/peb-9-railing-ho-n-l-160-scale-ft-h-42-012-brass/.

Still haven't had time to start construction, too many other projects in the new-to-us 200-year old house I'm renovating/upgrading but hope to start the ship project very soon.
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Good luck on the house. We lived in a pre-civil war house in Maine when I was in high school. The work to maintain it never ended…
 
Namabiiru said:
Good luck on the house. We lived in a pre-civil war house in Maine when I was in high school. The work to maintain it never ended…
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Thank you. We've had the house for a year and a half and all of the urgent things are done, now it's mostly cosmetic. Previous owners had renovated a lot of the early 1800s charm out of the house in the 50's-70's so now I'm "putting back charm" recreating details that could have been in place in the 1800's. And with apologies in advance to Vfordyce, I'm not trying to steal this very informative thread, but permit me to show how building models has helped in the house project - there wasn't a usable garage on the property when we bought it so I designed a carriage house/garage to look like it could have been here over 100 years and I built a model of it before we committed to construction. The model is cardstock and HO scale. I didn't model the entire house, just the one wall at right where the new structure joins the old. I don't have a white over green Land Rover, but I do have a white over green Ineos Grenadier, so the Land Rover is close enough for the photo. Vfordyce if you want me to delete this post so I don't contaminate your great thread with off-topic modeling, let me know and I'll delete it. Hopefully I'll have time to begin the ship model project very soon.

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jscherb said:
Thank you. We've had the house for a year and a half and all of the urgent things are done, now it's mostly cosmetic. Previous owners had renovated a lot of the early 1800s charm out of the house in the 50's-70's so now I'm "putting back charm" recreating details that could have been in place in the 1800's. And with apologies in advance to Vfordyce, I'm not trying to steal this very informative thread, but permit me to show how building models has helped in the house project - there wasn't a usable garage on the property when we bought it so I designed a carriage house/garage to look like it could have been here over 100 years and I built a model of it before we committed to construction. The model is cardstock and HO scale. I didn't model the entire house, just the one wall at right where the new structure joins the old. I don't have a white over green Land Rover, but I do have a white over green Ineos Grenadier, so the Land Rover is close enough for the photo. Vfordyce if you want me to delete this post so I don't contaminate your great thread with off-topic modeling, let me know and I'll delete it. Hopefully I'll have time to begin the ship model project very soon.

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I'd love to see a picture of the house!
Vic
 
Beautiful house! Without divulging information that you don’t want to make public, where is this house? New England? It could also be NE Ohio. It was originally settled by people from Connecticut.

Roger
 
Roger Pellett said:
Beautiful house! Without divulging information that you don’t want to make public, where is this house? New England? It could also be NE Ohio. It was originally settled by people from Connecticut. t

Roger
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Thank you. We like the house very much. The house is in a National Historic District in Delaware. Other houses in the district are on the National Register of Historic Places but this one isn't (yet). We think we have enough facts and documentation to being the registration process.

Back to ships... I picked up a 1:380 C3 ship model for very cheap because of the condition of the box although the parts inside are not damaged. Not being a ship builder I'm going to throw this kit together as a reference for building the big Sterling kit. The Sterling kit is a C2 and this is a C3 but there are enough similarities that the smaller model will help me understand the bigger project.

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And on another workbench I've laid out the first parts of the Sterling kit although I haven't cracked open a bottle of glue yet. Hopefully will start that very soon and when I do I'll create a build thread.

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