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A twenty-gun ship of the 1719 Establishment. From the Modelship Dockyard POF kit HMS Blandford. The 1719 Establishment Group was the first real attempt to standardise dimensions of the various different rated ships of the Royal Navy. Although small the 6th rate 20-gun ships were very...

I decided I wanted to eventually build my USS CONSTITUTION but needed to gain some skills and ship building knowledge to achieve that goal ! In doing so I bought the triple kit for model expo and started on the Dory!

Hi All, After having couple speed build videos completed on my YouTube channel, I got my first sponsored model kit, the BB605 RCMP St.Roch 1:72 scale from Billing Boats. This was an advanced beginner kit and should be very straightforward. The plan was good but the instructions could be...

Good afternoon I present the history of the construction of my model, built according to the monograph Gilbert McArdle "HMS Sussex 1693" . Model completed in 2020, it took 2 years to build. I'll just post the rest of the pics here.

Welcome boys and girls to the Kindergarten School of Ship Modeling. Today we will be learning how to assemble your first wooden model, the famous “Skiff”. If you have spent any time on American lakes or rivers, you have probably seen small flat-bottomed rowboats. These are, for the most part...

This kit will be an interlude from my Endurance by OcCre. I'm having a great time working on the Endurance. I feel like, with the help of this forum, I've taken my craft to a new level of detail. I look forward to returning to the Endurance. But, in the meantime, I saw Pavel Nikitin's kit, Capt...

I'm starting a new project, it's a brand new kit by Master Korabel, released in December. These boats were part of the equipment for all the 1st rate ships of the Russian Navy in 19th century, not only the “Twelve Apostles”. Launches like this were used for patrols during the defence of...

Finally, the kit package arrived. Have wanted to build a Viking ship for a long time, but there hasn't been a good historically accurate kit. But now Pavel has put on the market a very nice kit. Have done an initial review of the content and can say that the quality is of a very high class...

I started building the Royal Louis 1780, a kit by Mamoli. The model is already partly finished, as I bought it from the family of the original builder (who passed away). For the past few ships, I've recorded only a video-log of the process and put it on YouTube. This time, I also made pictures...

I just completed a 1/48th scale model of tug boat used by the US Military Quartermaster Corps during the American Civil War. The model is a waterline type for use on my model railroad set in Virginia in March of 1863. I will post some photos of the build and the completed model on the model...

Very basic kit as I'm sure most of you know , didn't want to risk ruining an expensive kit on my first attempt . But now suspect this may be more of a challenge to get some sort of result from such a basic kit . The very poor instructions have at least led me to this forum , where I have already...

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Started a new build today. As stated somewhere in another post, I was awaiting for my birthday gift which I got last saturday. It's an Italeri 1/12 scale Alfa Romeo. A very nice kit that, from the get go, is pretty well detailled. I could build it straight out of the box and it would look real...

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I’m a bit late in starting a build log but, what the heck, here goes… I’m building the Cala Esmeralda from OcCre started this past August. once the deck was planked it was on to the bulwarks. Needed all my small clamps to bend them into position. I probably won’t do it that way again.

Hello dear friends About two or three months after finishing my carving project - a lion figurehead of the ship la Belle Poule https://shipsofscale.com/sosforums/threads/a-new-carving-project-a-lion-figurehead-of-the-ship-la-belle-poule.10057/ and focusing on the Alert model, I felt longing...

Hello Everybody, When the early colonists came to the New World at the turn of XVI-XVII centuries, they quickly realized a need in a small, universal and durable boats to explore the coast safely and to start trade relations with local North American tribes in this region. One of the most...

Had been waiting for Part 3 of the Granado kit to come out a while back and started the Model Expo Confederacy while waiting. I had posted earlier on their great customer support providing a few missing parts and the very instructive and complete manual. I have basically finished as much as I...

In choosing this build I decided to return to OcCre after excursions to Caldercraft, Corel and Korabel I like OcCre kits. They include generous quantities of good quality materials and fittings The instructions, in the form of coloured pictures of each stage of the build, are very easy to...

20221111 Started work on the 3rd of the Model Airways WW I aero engines – the Mercedes 1917 F-1466-3A; a 6-cylinder in-line used on the Albatross. Work actually began a couple of weeks ago but along with being sporadic I’ve been taking my time to paint the model as I go. I decided that I would...