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Hello. I live at the end of a peninsula (ross) on a Scottish island so I'm mostly surrounded by sea.
I did the usual thing of building airfix and revell kits as a youth but it's only recently that I've got back to model making.
I would put myself down as an average model maker from kits - I don't need to bother about weathering, my finished models look like they have seen some action or are in need of a refit. Still, I'm happy with what I do.
I'm a magpie builder, mostly interested in working boats but something will suddenly take my fancy.
My main concerns are cost and space. I'm not rich and my boats stay in the shed (dust traps in the house plus we have cats ...) so I make a space and find a kit that will fit in it.
So far I've made a little Venetian vaporetto which I bought in Venice - Gilberto Penzo's shop is amazing - veniceboats.com
Ulises tug from Occre
Mowe 2 from Aeronaut
Ladysmith from Constructo
Loyal Watcher - a fibreglass hull and basic fittings kit of an aux. fleet tender (30" length)
Just finished the Dutch canon boat from Mantua
I'm making a paper boat - 'Alert' - from JSC but it might be the only paper one I do - very fiddly and unforgiving
I have a Constructo St Helena to do
and the hull of a scratch built 36" speedboat which I bought a few years ago on ebay which will eventually become a Venitian taxi
and I've promised myself an Xmas present to fit in the new space that I've found in my shed
I did the usual thing of building airfix and revell kits as a youth but it's only recently that I've got back to model making.
I would put myself down as an average model maker from kits - I don't need to bother about weathering, my finished models look like they have seen some action or are in need of a refit. Still, I'm happy with what I do.
I'm a magpie builder, mostly interested in working boats but something will suddenly take my fancy.
My main concerns are cost and space. I'm not rich and my boats stay in the shed (dust traps in the house plus we have cats ...) so I make a space and find a kit that will fit in it.
So far I've made a little Venetian vaporetto which I bought in Venice - Gilberto Penzo's shop is amazing - veniceboats.com
Ulises tug from Occre
Mowe 2 from Aeronaut
Ladysmith from Constructo
Loyal Watcher - a fibreglass hull and basic fittings kit of an aux. fleet tender (30" length)
Just finished the Dutch canon boat from Mantua
I'm making a paper boat - 'Alert' - from JSC but it might be the only paper one I do - very fiddly and unforgiving
I have a Constructo St Helena to do
and the hull of a scratch built 36" speedboat which I bought a few years ago on ebay which will eventually become a Venitian taxi
and I've promised myself an Xmas present to fit in the new space that I've found in my shed