Greetings. I'm Ed and I started modeling around 1969. I finished a MS Privateer, a scratch built Pinky Schooner and started various others. My work came to a stop in 1975 when my wife and I bought a 32' sailboat and prepared to liveaboard. Now after some 40+ years I am back ashore part time and looking forward to getting back to my own shipyard.
There have been A LOT of changes since I last handled an X-Acto knife and I have been awestruck by the work I have seen on SOS. Laser cutting has put POB and POF within the reach of mortals. Casting and computer routing have seriously improved the quality of fittings, it really is kind of intimidating to come into after all these years.
It is with some trepidation that I include some old and rather poor images of my previous efforts:
My MS Privateer was really kit bashed and the brass cannon were all turned on my Unimat. (with advice and assistance by a machinist friend) I hope never to have to do that again!
It was traded to a marina owner in lieu of annual dockage.
Years later I received a tour of the similar Pride of Baltimore by her first mate whom I had originally met in the Maine aboard one of the schooner fleet.
This Pinky Schooner was a fun model. I took the plans from a book by C.G.Davis if memory serves. The hull was carved from a solid block. You can see the cabin top next to the stand at the bow.
Before moving on our boat it was traded to a friend for a Pocket Sextant. Its nice that I can visit the model occasionally!
This is half hull I made for the surveyor that helped us find our first boat. It is about 7 inches long. It is the Lizzie M Stanley, 1901 and was known to the surveyor. My work In Photoshop has squashed the hull a bit. You can see the plan on Plate 94 in The American Fishing Schooners by H.I. Chappelle. A beautiful hull.
This MS Sultana model has waited patiently all these years and is now about to resume her refit. The first photo is from the 70's and the second is her present state. I am currently working on wooden decorations for the rail ends. I am having difficulty getting something I like as I intend to leave the rails "bright".
As you can see I enjoy smaller scales and I am not a stickler for historical accuracy, the model just has to look good and represent a vessel of the time.
I look forward to finding many friends among the vast number of talented modelers on Ships of Scale.
Ed Seling
There have been A LOT of changes since I last handled an X-Acto knife and I have been awestruck by the work I have seen on SOS. Laser cutting has put POB and POF within the reach of mortals. Casting and computer routing have seriously improved the quality of fittings, it really is kind of intimidating to come into after all these years.
It is with some trepidation that I include some old and rather poor images of my previous efforts:
My MS Privateer was really kit bashed and the brass cannon were all turned on my Unimat. (with advice and assistance by a machinist friend) I hope never to have to do that again!
It was traded to a marina owner in lieu of annual dockage.
Years later I received a tour of the similar Pride of Baltimore by her first mate whom I had originally met in the Maine aboard one of the schooner fleet.
This Pinky Schooner was a fun model. I took the plans from a book by C.G.Davis if memory serves. The hull was carved from a solid block. You can see the cabin top next to the stand at the bow.
Before moving on our boat it was traded to a friend for a Pocket Sextant. Its nice that I can visit the model occasionally!
This is half hull I made for the surveyor that helped us find our first boat. It is about 7 inches long. It is the Lizzie M Stanley, 1901 and was known to the surveyor. My work In Photoshop has squashed the hull a bit. You can see the plan on Plate 94 in The American Fishing Schooners by H.I. Chappelle. A beautiful hull.
This MS Sultana model has waited patiently all these years and is now about to resume her refit. The first photo is from the 70's and the second is her present state. I am currently working on wooden decorations for the rail ends. I am having difficulty getting something I like as I intend to leave the rails "bright".
As you can see I enjoy smaller scales and I am not a stickler for historical accuracy, the model just has to look good and represent a vessel of the time.
I look forward to finding many friends among the vast number of talented modelers on Ships of Scale.
Ed Seling
