Ahoy me hearties from sunny Wales

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Hi All

A quick note to introduce myself (plus many thanks for allowing me to join).

I am a 57yr old geezer, retired Design and Technology Secondary School Teacher/Architectural Technologist who sadly, had to go on early retirement due to a progressive illness (COPD- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Desease). But on a brighter note.... I get more time on my passion of modelling ships as there's not a great deal I can physically do without hampering my breathing capabilities.

On the modelling side of things I've completed the following models since taking up my passion of building them again :

OcCre H.M.S. Endeavour
OcCre H.M.S. Terror

My skillsets from both teaching and Architectural backgrounds give me a sense of ease when not only constructing the models, but also my understanding of and reading scaled plans. My cuurent build came with 20 plans (19 A1 plans and a whopping A0 which now has pride of place on my lounge wall in my work desk space lol - much to the dismay of the Commander in Chief.... namely the wife lol)

I have been busy the last couple of weeks with my dream project H.M.S Vanguard, furthermore to this I've opted to embark on the H.M.S. Elephant route as this kit allows the option of three ships, needless to say, methinks it's going to be a long, technical and complex journey.... will be attempting to make this historically accurate as my capabilties allow in line with books such as (The anatomy of Nelson's ships: Anatomy of the ship - The 74-gun ship Bellona) to name but a few..... so excited.... so it'll be a long long voyage, with no doubt some rocky outcrops along the way.

I know there are by far more shall we say... 'seasoned' builders on here, whom i hope will help guide me should I need assistance, plus I've seen some incredible tips etc in the 'How to' section..... and I've briefly glanced at some awesome and inspiring build logs and additional items to help me along this voyage.

Anyway (apologies for my long winded waffling lol) thanks again for the welcome and thats me in a nutshell

Anchors away me hearties!
 
Hallo Dave,
Also from my side a warm welcome here on Board.
If you allow we all Join your journey...... the best is to Start a Building log of your actual project, so we can follow your progress and are able to help and assist when ever necessary and requested
 
Hallo Dave,
Also from my side a warm welcome here on Board.
If you allow we all Join your journey...... the best is to Start a Building log of your actual project, so we can follow your progress and are able to help and assist when ever necessary and requested
Thanks buddy, much appreciated.... build log will start soon :)
 
Hi All

A quick note to introduce myself (plus many thanks for allowing me to join).

I am a 57yr old geezer, retired Design and Technology Secondary School Teacher/Architectural Technologist who sadly, had to go on early retirement due to a progressive illness (COPD- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Desease). But on a brighter note.... I get more time on my passion of modelling ships as there's not a great deal I can physically do without hampering my breathing capabilities.

On the modelling side of things I've completed the following models since taking up my passion of building them again :

OcCre H.M.S. Endeavour
OcCre H.M.S. Terror

My skillsets from both teaching and Architectural backgrounds give me a sense of ease when not only constructing the models, but also my understanding of and reading scaled plans. My cuurent build came with 20 plans (19 A1 plans and a whopping A0 which now has pride of place on my lounge wall in my work desk space lol - much to the dismay of the Commander in Chief.... namely the wife lol)

I have been busy the last couple of weeks with my dream project H.M.S Vanguard, furthermore to this I've opted to embark on the H.M.S. Elephant route as this kit allows the option of three ships, needless to say, methinks it's going to be a long, technical and complex journey.... will be attempting to make this historically accurate as my capabilties allow in line with books such as (The anatomy of Nelson's ships: Anatomy of the ship - The 74-gun ship Bellona) to name but a few..... so excited.... so it'll be a long long voyage, with no doubt some rocky outcrops along the way.

I know there are by far more shall we say... 'seasoned' builders on here, whom i hope will help guide me should I need assistance, plus I've seen some incredible tips etc in the 'How to' section..... and I've briefly glanced at some awesome and inspiring build logs and additional items to help me along this voyage.

Anyway (apologies for my long winded waffling lol) thanks again for the welcome and thats me in a nutshell

Anchors away me hearties!

Hallo @Dave Chapman ,
we wish you all the BEST and a HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Birthday-Cake
 
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