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When building deck for my new project I found impossible to use normal clamps because they must be inserted from above through very narrow openings. This is why I made small simple clamps using long M3 screws, pieces of brass tubing soldered together with small pieces of 2x6 mm brass rod...

Very often one faces problem that clamps do not hold the planks during glue drying. Especially at the bow of a model. I have tried to glue coarse sandpaper on the jaws of clamps, but glue doesnt work with soft plastic jaws. Yesterday I pushed some sewing needles through the jaws and cut rest of...

I am building a model of an open steam launch. The original hull has been made of steel by welding, leaving the seams of steel plates visible. I wonder how can I simulate these horizontal welds at my hull like in attached photo?

Steam launch after plans bought from Swedish Sjöhistoriska Museet. My friend donated me an old Stuart one cylinder steam engine with a wish that it will be used to power some nice boat. So this is why I had to build the launch for this engine. The boat is built in 1/6 scale. Hull is made of...

With my latest build I was thinking hard what kind of clamps to use with hull internal planking. Tested a couple of ideas, but this simple and cheap one proved to work best. A dozen wooden clothes pegs were hijacked from Admiral's storage, drilled with 1,7 mm drill, and pieces of toothpicks...

Already for many years I have been interested about Ilmarinen, which was the first steamboat in Finland. She was a side wheeler, length x beam 26,2 x 4,0 metres and built 1833 in Puhos, Eastern Finland. For many years Finland had been supplying timber into St Petersburg (Finland was part of...

Few weeks ago there were discussions about short drills. People were making their own tools using some small electric motors and collets. Very nice ideas, but still the length of tool is something 6...9 cm. So how about this new angle drilling/milling machine from Proxxon? With that it is...

When searching something new to build, I happened to find the scanned old drawings of former Ahlstrom shipyard which was situated in Warkaus Finland. Among them was a nice drawing of a half open steam launch Lempi (almost like "love" in English) from 1877. The ship was 60 feet long and equipped...

When working with my present project, I needed very accurate planks with even height. First I tried to set the fence of my Proxxon saw manually, but it is very frustrating to have it set within a few hundreds of a millimeter. So i decided to make this small gadget to simplify the setting. The...

Hello guys, I have already long time thought to buy a new scroll saw. Now I have an old Delta 40-560 saw which I am not at all satisfied. Or perhaps I just cannot use it properly. But what is the best and easiest to use scroll saw? I am sure you guys out there have a lot of experience about...

After a wish from Jimsky, I try to write a short build blog about the French cutter Le Cerf, which I have built a few years ago and published then at Model Ship World forum. Unfortunately I don`t have any more all the pictures of the building process, and don`t necessarily remember how and in...

I wonder if there exist any drawings for USS Hatteras. I have seen photos of very beautifully made model of her and would like to start building a rc model with functioning beam engine and paddlewheels.

I am very glad that I found this forum. My name is Matti and I live in Finland. I have retired a few years ago, and have now 24 hours/day to spend with my favorite hobby: to build models. Almost for my entire life I have built models like aeroplanes, cars, tanks and during the last few years...