fubbs

Hello Ship Mates, My YQ-Bluenose is finally complete and the little fellows and I are very happy with the end results, Thanks to Bernadette with her sewing skills and also for her many patients For Me. The HMY Fubbs will be my next endeavor, I just hope that I have enough skills to justify such...

Ahoy shipmates, I am commencing my stern section Fubbs build which is one of 10 kits produced. I was fortunate enough to be associated with a small model ship group called Weaselworks and have been watching this project develop over the last 18 months. I'm sure you've already seen several...

HMY Fubbs This build will be a step into a mostly unknown area, a plank on frame construction. The fact that I’m building it at all is thanks to Winston and Mike Shanks and it’s the 10th (and last) of a limited production run. My sincere thanks to both for including me in this project. The...

Hi all Its been a long time since my last posting about "Anatomy of the Bounty from AL". We moved to Florida from MA and took months to pack and unpack. My new workshop is far away to be ready. But I need to start doing some ship modeling. The trigger was the box I received last Friday from...

The model is based on the drawings by Portia Takakjian and the practicum developed by master model builder Gene Bodnar. The Plans: This is a set of the plans by Portia Takakjian consisting of a set of frames, inboard profile, outboard profile, deck plans, details and rigging drawing with sails...

Group, Back in 2008 I had developed and was producing a CNC milled plank on frame kit of the Royal Yacht, HMY Fubbs. The kit was designed to be built as a Navy Board model. It was inspired by a scratchbuilt model I built years earlier of the ship using the plans drawn by Portia Takakjian. The...