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Came across this video of a person making a pirate ship out of cardboard. There are two links associated with this. This project was done by a lady who calls herself "Creative Mom' or "Creative Mother", she also creates fantasy and fairy tale houses out of drink bottles, boxes, balloons, you...

Some time ago there were quite a number of Black Pearl models being built and it was extremely interesting to see the different modus operandi. After wasting what would have been 30 something minutes ( I skipped forward a lot) on some click bait about Mars and NASA, I can't believe I even...

Came across this fascinating diorama build on YouTube...............

Hi Guys, Starting reeeeeaaaal sooon, like the weekend.

R2-D2 Star Wars character R2-D2, is a fictional robot character in the Star Wars franchise created by George Lucas. A small astromech droid, R2-D2 is a major character and appears in only nine out of the ten Star Wars films to date. Throughout the course of the films, R2 is a friend to Padmé...

The Mayflower was an English ship that famously transported the first English Puritans, known today as the Pilgrims, from Plymouth, England to the New World in 1620. There were 102** passengers, and the crew is estimated to have been about 30, but the exact number is unknown. This voyage has...

As the thread suggests, can someone please tell me what knot was used to secure the recoil rope to the hull. I have seen a hook through a loop but would prefer to use a knot. TiA Regards Eric

As the title of this build log suggests this is a continuation of Donnie’s Marina II build, the trawler has moved to a new boat yard in Australia, I was fortunate enough to purchase the boat from Donnie. I wasn’t going to do anything to the boat until later in the year but curiosity got the...

Just found this on my Facebook page............... An Aussie stockman had just got married and he and his wife stopped at an outback hotel on their wedding night. The man approached the front desk and asked for a room. He said, 'We're on our honeymoon and we need a nice room, with a good...

It would be a daunting task to build an Admiralty quality model, although some of the models on this site come pretty damn close!! I was trawling the net the other day looking for photos or drawings of a hull under construction (17th century) ended up Googling Admiralty Models. On the Google...

Today on the way home the Admiral and I stopped at a nearby shopping centre and had a coffee (with donuts). After coffee I went into the newsagent next door while the Admiral answered a call. It took me a good number of minutes to find a magazine relating to model boats, so I decided to count...

From Royal Navy: The Official HMS Victory website. (VICT) This website includes technical data of the 32-pounder smoothbore gun: Shot weight ............................ 32 lbs (14.4 kg) Range, point blank ................. 400 yds (364 m) Range, 1º elevation ................ 820 yds (746 m)...

This is for those starting out in wooden model ships/boats. It is a gadget, hand operated, to make bending planks. The piece in the pictures is 2.16 x 5.00 mm(.085 x .20 inches) The wood is ayous wood. The picture with my hand holding the tool was a painful one to do as I have very bad arthritis...

Hi everybody, Eric is my name and I live in the BEST part of Paradise, just north of Brisbane. I came across SoS quite by chance, I wanted to find the traditional way of doing ratlines and whilst scanning down the Google results I came across this site and found it to be the most helpful and as...