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Thought I'd post a few pictures of my first wooden ship build, Occre's Polaris. Starting with the skeleton, taking my time to make sure everything went on square and level. Then planked the deck and made my first mistake! As I was trimming the deck, I got in my head that I need to cut the...

This is the build log of my first ever wooden ship model, the OcCre Polaris Schooner. Since the project is on the way, I won´t flood you with all the pictures I´ve taken during the process. It has been a huge learning experience and every step has been like a project of its own. I´ve made...

I hope everyone is well! I am actually about a week and a half late starting this thread.What a difference when you buy a quality model I am really enjoying this build.Here are some pictures of my progress so far,all constructive criticism is more then welcome.

The Albatros is my first build, and man I've learned a lot by doing! I was excited to start this hobby last year. I'm starting this build log a little over half way through the build, but here it is anyway. Happy to be here, I'll keep posting.

Hello all, i begun a new ship which is as the title say a bucaneer. I post dome pictures but is the very beginning of the work, hope the cats this time will not destroy the model like the last time. The last two pictures are the nails filed down with my dremel

When one kit is done you start another. Here we have the golden hind by occre. I plan on changing some things with this one. Going to upgrade the blocks to some by drydock. Going to upgrade the deadeyes to dark walnut. Any other changes yall have in mind that might make this kit over top I'm all...

Hi all. I have started my next project (actually I started a few weeks age, but am just now starting a build log). I have selected the Endurance by OcCre. I chose this kit for a few reasons. 1. Reasonably priced 2. I wanted to try an OcCre kit 3. It is a historical exploration ship that will be...

Hello everyone. I am going to attempt to build a train, it is a Pacific 231, a wood and brass kit by Occre, a large model some 730mm long so hopefully quite impressive. I know nothing about trains, I have never researched or built one before and I have never built with brass except the small...

This is my 3rd ship. It is the BEAGLE by occre. I also tried to implement some things from the anatomy of the ship book. With making it with the 7 life boats. And making the futtock lines with chains. I did some experimenting with making my own shackles and even bought a serving rig. That has...

In the build log I am doing the HMS TERROR by occre. This is my second wooden ship ever. And as usual there was mistakes along the way but learning from those mistakes helped on future builds. On this one I decided to keep it the natural wood tone because I didnt want to paint over the iron on...

This was my first kit ever. There were some bumps in the road as with any first of anything. But key was learning from those bumps. Time was 175 hrs or work over the course of 3 months. At this point I was short on second layer of planks so had to wait till occre sent some extras. They were...

This is the first ship I'm actually going to finish! There's been multiple attempts to start builds in the past. They never came to fruition. But now life has provided the time - So here we go, I'm really excited about this ship. I read the story in Nat'l Geographic when I was a kid. After...

Well I've put this off long enough, with a much needed break after my Royal Louis and now off work till the 6th January, it's now time for the next kit on my workbench. After watching so many videos and trying to gather as much info as possible, This will be my first wooden kit in the shape of...

Hello SOS builders, Now after I have gathered a huge load of information and inspiration from the fine build logs here on SOS it’s finally time to start my own first model. I have chosen La Candelaria from OcCre which seems the right size and complexity for me to start with ( but it was hard...

Hi everyone. I have decided to publish my version of Jabeque Cazador. I will not reach the level of Dean62 and Ptèr, I will try to get a little closer to them in my step by step, I've been working for a month and a half, I hope you like it. Thank you.

I haven't built a ship in 20 years and then only to finish up a Victory 1:72 scale. I got a commission to build aircraft dioramas and that is what I have done since. I am 81 years old now and need something to do. So much has changed since I started building back in 1975 when modeling was a...

Nuestra Senora del Pilar - links to history of this ship and model

Hello fellow ship modelers. This will be my second buildlog on SOS as my first one Santa Maria is finished. This time another ship, from another time period and from a different manufacturer. These type of fast ships the "xebecs or jabeques" intrigued me since childhood after reading Redbeard...

This is the first I have brought new and and one that I have never tried in wood so its either going to be a quick build or knowing me I will probably take ages but here's what I got in the box. I forgot to put in the title that's its a scale of 1/85

Primer forro del Revenge