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Birthday Gift from My Wife

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Having just turned 80 on May 1st, my lovely wife bought me a new ship model and I jumped right in getting it built. It's a plastic sailing ship - The Kaiwo Maru, an active Japanese sailing ship used by cadets. Its coming along but because it's summer, I am busy doing all sorts of stuff including 3D printing of course, some woodworking and enjoying the "retired life". Also building a lot of military models from my stint in the US Army. I even created a model of the SATCOM system I used to be team chief on. I used Fusion 360 then 3D printed it and it came out nicely. I'll post pics in another post. DSCF0005.JPGDSCF0008.JPGDSCF0011.JPGDSCF0013.JPGKaiwomaru.webp
 
Having just turned 80 on May 1st, my lovely wife bought me a new ship model and I jumped right in getting it built. It's a plastic sailing ship - The Kaiwo Maru, an active Japanese sailing ship used by cadets. Its coming along but because it's summer, I am busy doing all sorts of stuff including 3D printing of course, some woodworking and enjoying the "retired life". Also building a lot of military models from my stint in the US Army. I even created a model of the SATCOM system I used to be team chief on. I used Fusion 360 then 3D printed it and it came out nicely. I'll post pics in another post. View attachment 620415View attachment 620416View attachment 620417View attachment 620418View attachment 620419
What an interesting model!
 
Having just turned 80 on May 1st, my lovely wife bought me a new ship model and I jumped right in getting it built. It's a plastic sailing ship - The Kaiwo Maru, an active Japanese sailing ship used by cadets. Its coming along but because it's summer, I am busy doing all sorts of stuff including 3D printing of course, some woodworking and enjoying the "retired life". Also building a lot of military models from my stint in the US Army. I even created a model of the SATCOM system I used to be team chief on. I used Fusion 360 then 3D printed it and it came out nicely. I'll post pics in another post. View attachment 620415View attachment 620416View attachment 620417View attachment 620418View attachment 620419
What a very nice gift of your Admiral, Phil. Enjoy the build of this impressive four-masted barque.
Regards, Peter
 
Having just turned 80 on May 1st, my lovely wife bought me a new ship model and I jumped right in getting it built. It's a plastic sailing ship - The Kaiwo Maru, an active Japanese sailing ship used by cadets. Its coming along but because it's summer, I am busy doing all sorts of stuff including 3D printing of course, some woodworking and enjoying the "retired life". Also building a lot of military models from my stint in the US Army. I even created a model of the SATCOM system I used to be team chief on. I used Fusion 360 then 3D printed it and it came out nicely. I'll post pics in another post. View attachment 620415View attachment 620416View attachment 620417View attachment 620418View attachment 620419
 
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