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The new kit arrived a few days ago, and after swapping the workbench over from electronics shop to shipyard, I'm ready to start build #2! President was actually my second choice, as I really wanted to build Thermopylae, but it was persistently our of stock, so I gave in to the itch and...

This will be my fifth build, I'm not the best at logging my builds but will try to keep up with this time. All but one of my previous builds have been models by Midwest (The Dingy, The Muscongus Lobster Smack, Sharpie Schooner, Boston Whitehall Tender), and Long Boat 18th Century by Model...

I'll try and keep a dribble of progress pictures coming. I started this model in 1990 and stopped in 1991. I understand the kit has changed slightly since. Sadly, I don't think the instructions have. However inspired by this new-fangled interweb thingy that we didn't have back in the day, i have...

Hi from Beaverton, Oregon. my name is Dick and am not new to modeling. I was in engineering and at that time we modeled pulp factories and computer chip factories in plastic and wood. Long before 3D acad. I’m also very proficient in autocad. So when I visited my relative in Boston I saw he had...

Welcome to my new build log of the HMS Victory. This is a copy of my build log I started on another forum. This journey has a special meaning for me. All my life I wanted to build a ship. Not just any ship, but a highly detailed model, but as with most things life gets in the way. I built...

How I got started in this hobby. A couple of years ago the wife and I went to Boston to visit my sister. While there we went into a gift store in Rhode Island that had all of these beautiful looking wooden model sail boats. I said to myself I would love to build one of these. That Christmas, my...

Hello again friends. After HMS Pickle I started Santa Maria kit of Mantua which I bought three years ago. I will modify the kit a little during the construction. Everybody knows everything about Santa Maria. So, no need to tell about her history. I did the framing and glued the main simulated...

Hello all, it's time to begin my first build log, of HMS Victory in 1:200 scale. This will be the 3rd sailing vessel I have built, though my previous 2 were Revel Plastic kits of the Cutty Sark and the CSS Alabama, and both were several decades ago while I was in high school. I've been lurking...

Greetings Shipwrights, I'm finished with the first hull planking of my second ship build, the aforementioned Cutty Sark. This kit is older, probably made in the early 90s; differs from Mantua's current version in several aspects, as I've come to learn. I'll begin with pictures and description up...

Although I've already built this, I did take photos as I went along so I thought you might be interested. It's a strange looking thing, flat bottomed and 'sharper' at the stern rather than the bow. I'm not a fan of repetitive fiddly things and masses of sails and rigging, so 5 big canon and one...

This ship has been under construction for 9 months, it from DeAgostini. I like the instructions, very through for an idiot like me, but still made mistakes. This has been the progress. Has been a learning experience.

Swedish Armed Launch Mantua kit #722 (build 2012) It was a new kit (in 2012) and when I saw it I said to myself that a cute not usual kit so I got it I was not able to find any historical ref to it so I will not try to expand on it It is a 1:35 scale ship and the line are very smooth I got it...

Well got this far and my Very First attempt at Planking , think i am doing ok just taking time as advised and enjoying my First Build. Bit Fiddly with it being small but on wards and upwards.

Hi all after building many Airfix,Revel models this is my first wooden ship build the Mantuna 1.200 Hms Victory the manual must be one of the worst model build Manuals i have seen, i will no doubt may needing help as i go but i have seen i will needing help soon ( "What already" i hear you say...

As some of you know, I am relatively new to this forum. I am posting from the beginning, a build log of my Royal William of which I have already over 3 years of building. I also have a complete build log of the Mantua Sovereign of the seas which I completed about 3 years ago. It started as the...

Hello everyone,I have got this little gundeck kit from Mantua two years ago, this will be a short build log nothing special,here are the kit parts.

As said in the Subject line this is a POB kit build, but will be bashed to death - nothing but the keel and bulkheads are going to be used, everything else from scratch. The scale is a bit out of my usual as I love around 1:50 the most but this is a big ship, it will hardly fir into my cabinets...

Hello fellow ship model builders ,this is my new build log for the ship Santa Maria.Updates are coming soon. Zoltan

Good day, I have been building my Sovereign of the Seas kit for some years now and will start with a few comments about it. I basically took the bones of the kit and built the framework of the ship and then duplicated all the bulkheads and deck parts I had used and put the kit back together and...

Since the level of detail a person may add and the availability and amount of research a person may chose to perform will vary with each modeler, the times I show are related to the actual work performed on the vessel. Each person’s ability to read and interpret plans can vary a great detail...