Hello all,
I’m Roy Maclachlan, retired architect from Glasgow, Scotland. I’m returning to ship modelling to complete a Billing's wooden kit, Norske Love, started some 45 years ago and not touched since. I can see I’m by no means the first member to find life, career and family interrupting in this way and for this specific model. But here I am, 74 and very much a novice ship modeller - but with a fair experience of architectural modelling.
My original motivation was mostly to have a model for display at home. Now it's also, if not more, about enjoyment of process. After Norske Love, I'm hoping to tackle at least one other kit, preferably the Cutty Sark. My ancestry includes a grandparent going to sea as a boy, under sail on a clipper, SS Clackmannanshire, plying between Scotland and South America. Also, a connection to Hercules Linton who designed and built (most of) CS, before his company Scott & Linton, went bust! So, to celebrate that heritage and give Hercules closure, I’d like to leave a nice model of that vessel.
At the moment I’m just assessing the not so precise work previously done, repairing broken edges and removing a slight twist in the keel through the model having lain on a shelf for decades. Back in the day, I lined out the deck plates and glued to the frames thinking it was a decent job. Now troubled by the visible seam between the two halves and an inappropriate planking pattern, so contemplating overlay. Perhaps a full disassemble necessary. We shall see.
Looking forward to learning and raising skills from others on SoS.
Best
Roy
I’m Roy Maclachlan, retired architect from Glasgow, Scotland. I’m returning to ship modelling to complete a Billing's wooden kit, Norske Love, started some 45 years ago and not touched since. I can see I’m by no means the first member to find life, career and family interrupting in this way and for this specific model. But here I am, 74 and very much a novice ship modeller - but with a fair experience of architectural modelling.
My original motivation was mostly to have a model for display at home. Now it's also, if not more, about enjoyment of process. After Norske Love, I'm hoping to tackle at least one other kit, preferably the Cutty Sark. My ancestry includes a grandparent going to sea as a boy, under sail on a clipper, SS Clackmannanshire, plying between Scotland and South America. Also, a connection to Hercules Linton who designed and built (most of) CS, before his company Scott & Linton, went bust! So, to celebrate that heritage and give Hercules closure, I’d like to leave a nice model of that vessel.
At the moment I’m just assessing the not so precise work previously done, repairing broken edges and removing a slight twist in the keel through the model having lain on a shelf for decades. Back in the day, I lined out the deck plates and glued to the frames thinking it was a decent job. Now troubled by the visible seam between the two halves and an inappropriate planking pattern, so contemplating overlay. Perhaps a full disassemble necessary. We shall see.
Looking forward to learning and raising skills from others on SoS.
Best
Roy
