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Hi, I'm still pretty new to all of this. Just registered with SoS but have followed threads on my first model for some time. I started all of this during lock down to help pass the dark winter's nights. I came to the hobby after spending many happy hours as a child building Airfix models and, looking back on that time, enjoyed it so much that I thought it would be a great thing to do during my retirement. The Santisima Trinidad was my first attempt at modelling on this scale. It probably was too high a challenge for my first attempt, especially since I decided to follow a number of YouTube videos that essentially modified the basic model to a great extent. Anyway, after making many of my own adjustments based upon archive references and other scratch build model I came up with the following model. Lots of mistakes but I was happy enough with it......
Anyway, I learnt a lot from the whole process, mainly that I need to be more patient and take my time with the whole thing. I suppose it's not just the final destination but the journey that is just as important! Now I'm now onto my second project.... the Hachette Bismarck. I've been collecting part built and job lot issues for a number of DeAgostini and Hachette model ships from various online sites and have managed to get a full set of issues for the original wooden/plastic version. Sourcing and collecting issues is a whole hobby in itself, especially when most of them are discontinued. Currently, I have a little over half of the issues for the Hachette HMS Hood and finding the rest will be a real challenge, especially when some online sources charge such high prices for issues.
So on that note, if anyone has any information on where I might get hold of any Hachette HMS Hood issues for sale, then please let me know.
So, this is where I've got to with the Bismarck...
A completely different set of skills! Whereas the Santisima Trinidad was a lot of wood forming, this one is full of loads of small brass etching bits!!
I do have a number of other model packed away in readiness for many more years of happy indulgence, and do have my eyes set (at some distant point in the future) of a scratch build. Looking at the skills and perseverance of some of you who do that amazes me. I don't aspire to be a good as some of you but you certainly lead the way and give great pointers to the the rest of us. Nice to say hello and hope to be in touch with what I'm doing as time goes on.
Anyway, I learnt a lot from the whole process, mainly that I need to be more patient and take my time with the whole thing. I suppose it's not just the final destination but the journey that is just as important! Now I'm now onto my second project.... the Hachette Bismarck. I've been collecting part built and job lot issues for a number of DeAgostini and Hachette model ships from various online sites and have managed to get a full set of issues for the original wooden/plastic version. Sourcing and collecting issues is a whole hobby in itself, especially when most of them are discontinued. Currently, I have a little over half of the issues for the Hachette HMS Hood and finding the rest will be a real challenge, especially when some online sources charge such high prices for issues.
So on that note, if anyone has any information on where I might get hold of any Hachette HMS Hood issues for sale, then please let me know.
So, this is where I've got to with the Bismarck...
A completely different set of skills! Whereas the Santisima Trinidad was a lot of wood forming, this one is full of loads of small brass etching bits!!
I do have a number of other model packed away in readiness for many more years of happy indulgence, and do have my eyes set (at some distant point in the future) of a scratch build. Looking at the skills and perseverance of some of you who do that amazes me. I don't aspire to be a good as some of you but you certainly lead the way and give great pointers to the the rest of us. Nice to say hello and hope to be in touch with what I'm doing as time goes on.
