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I wasn't gonna post it but since there is a forum category - Well, what can I say? I am having arthroscopic shoulder surgery tomorrow morning to fix an old motocross injury from a few years back. My shoulder keeps dislocating and it is difficult to put back in. So, here we go.. I passed my...

Wanted to get this out to a larger audience since my comment was buried in someone's build log thread. I hope this helps to explain a few things you have been hearing. We live in a very large world made smaller by the internet!! Language barriers... Several Chinese model company's purchased...

In this thread we will experiment and explore how to create scale 3D decorations for the stern of several famous ships. I have several requests to create parts for SoS members and their outstanding models so I figured I should show how it is done. I have been granted access to use some...

Since it is 4th of July and America's birthday, I thought I would post a short build log of a Chinese Sky Lantern. We typically fly these on July 4th and New Year's. I have had a huge stack of these laying around for years. I believe the company Creatov is no longer around but you can easily...

I have received some questions concerning the practice of posting pictures of scenes from a movie, short clips of copyrighted video, or a short sample of commercial music. A good example would be the Black Pearl trailer I created a few weeks ago that featured music from the TV series The...

Several months ago, I began drawing and prototyping my own method for CNC machining scale wooden blocks in mass quantity. This has been a difficult and complex process as I am doing 6-sided machining of the blocks in 3D as well as drilling the rigging holes. My hope is to refine the process so...

Serving rope, or rope wrapping is one of the more tedious tasks of model ship rigging. Several years ago I purchased the Servo-Matic serving machine kit from Syren Model Ship company. The tool comes as a kit that requires assembly similar to a model. It is composed of laser cut wooden parts...

With Artesania Latina going out of business, their kits are drying up quickly from the market place. In the US, MicroMark is one of the larger sellers of AL kits. I recently purchased this kit from MicroMark via Amazon for about $300. As of this writing, they only have 2 left in-stock. Since...

In 2015, Lauck Street Shipyard, owned by Bob Hunt, produced about 40 kits of an Armed Virginia Sloop plank-on-frame model. Bearing the fictional name Patrick Henry, this unique and amazing 1:32 scale model is quite rare in the community. I am the proud owner of Kit #002 and was one of Bob's...

Global economists, academics, educators, and other experts all agree: in the long run - international free trade is the most positive route to promote growth and well-being for the world. The opposite of free trade is called "protectionism", this is a primarily liberal political practice that...

Bob - as I continue to research a project worthy of a build log in your Maritime History forum, I eagerly await a new tale of the sea.

Many of you know the Admiral and I own a laser etching business separate from my model building hobby. Our business has been good the past year and allowed us to purchase a second laser. Here is the new Epilog Fusion Pro 48 we just ordered. It is a 48" x 36", 80 watt laser that includes...

After 6 months of collaboration, development, prototyping, fabrication and mailing parts... I took the pile of what was left over and hopefully will be able to assemble my battle station from it. Notice I said "assemble". Although this is a scratch built wooden model, the way we fabricated...

This project takes a bit of a different approach and uses some techniques not generally seen in the hobby. The Admiral and I own a home business making wedding and anniversary gifts. Our investment into this business allowed us to purchase both a CNC machine and a 60 watt laser. I have...

In addition to wooden ships, I build plastic models of nearly every genre. Here is a very small sample of some of my builds along with my unbuilt kit collection. I currently have about 200 completed models and around 300 unbuilt kits.

This will be a brand new build log for the Caldercraft HM Gunboat William in 1:32 scale. I thought this would be a good follow-up to my Civil War Picket boat. By the weight of the box this feels like a beefy kit. All the parts are CNC cut so no laser char to sand. There are also some very...

Here are a couple pics of the stagecoach I built a year or so ago. It is 1:12 scale and comes from the Model Expo kit. I am currently about 75% completed on the much more detailed Artesania Latina 1:10 scale kit.

Here is my build of the Model Expo kit in 1:24 scale. Other than the base, I built it straight from the box. I cut the base out of African Mahogany on my CNC machine. I spent 105 hours on this model. Hope you enjoy.

Here is my Sanson Tug from the Artesania Latina kit in 1:50 scale. She is double plank on bulkhead and is representative of a turn of the century (1900) ocean going, steam powered tug.

I happen to have an archival copy of my original Bluenose build log from the old Lauck Street forum. Although I built this a few years ago, all the tips and techniques described in this log will still work on the current Bluenose kit from Model Expo along with Bob Hunt's excellent practicum. I...