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Today I finished (well, almost) my Caldercraft HMS Snake 1:64 that was on the building dock for years...This allowed my ongoing build of HMS Enterprise to move to a different location in my shop. It still needs a lot of work, but all structural work is done. The shop is now re-configured to...

Hi everybody! Received my kit on monday, shipping was very very quickly! Book by Ancre arrived yesterday. Went through the parts and recognised, that the parts of the jig are warped. Does this matter or is that fixed by building it and fixing the bottom parts on a solid plate? I also browsed...

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Hello to you all. Here I am Last night my gift came from Shanghai ( let’s say self - gift ) for my sixty years : my CAF model kit The Italian customs have thought well to join my festivities and have not demanded any customs duties . Last night I have completed the two boxes contents checking...

Hi everyone, I received my CAF model recently and like others, was missing E1/E2. Seeing as I had to wait for these to arrive as well as the Ancre monograph, I thought I would start with the smaller boat, some barrels and creates from the associated kits. At the very least, I hoped to get a...

After the nice colleagues here persuaded me to start my own log, I decided to do so. After I was impressed by the accuracy of fit of the parts from the beginning, I started to remove the char layer. Another possibility to grind the stuff gently and carefully was to use an elastic silicone...

I'm still waiting for the HMS Alert 1776 kit which I wanted to make my very first build. For now I do not want to build 2 kits simultaneously so it will most likely take a long time before I start on Le Coureur. However, I have been waiting since May and since I received Le Coreur kit from CAF I...

After being threatened by some senior forum members with walking the plank, a couple of sessions of keel hauling, Running The Gauntlet and some other punishments that are not appropriate to post I have given in and will start sharing my attempts to build le coureur from CAF. There have been many...

Ok this is the beginning of my build log. I expect this build to take a year or more as I must wait to clean my workshop of other in work projects before getting along with this ship build I am starting with the ships boat first as you will see, a project in itself!

Today I want to start my building log of the Le Coureur But before I want to summarize the existing information available here on SOS A detailed Kit Review you can find here: https://shipsofscale.com/sosforums/threads/le-coureur-french-lugger-pof-kit-in-scale-1-48-by-caf.6002/ The...

Kit Review: PART 1 LE COUREUR french lugger POF-kit in scale 1:48 by CAF since several months we were able to follow the development of this amazing kit in one of our topics https://shipsofscale.com/sosforums/threads/1-48-le-coureur-1776.4661/ -> so we all want now to see the final content...

Kit Review: PART 1 LE COUREUR french lugger POF-kit in scale 1:48 by CAF since several months we were able to follow the development of this amazing kit in one of our topics https://shipsofscale.com/sosforums/threads/1-48-le-coureur-1776.4661/ -> so we all want now to see the final content...

OK, to start with I received my kit in great shape, with shipping tape covering clear plastic wrap. The plastic wrap sealed the kit box and made for easy removal of shipping tape. When removed a nicely packed box was left. When I opened the kit box there were two large boxes and two smaller...

I haven't been online for a long time. I've been making coureur recently. The latest design, the latest slipway.I hope you like it It is expected to be available in July and August, Price: 342,