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I am very glad that I found this forum. My name is Matti and I live in Finland. I have retired a few years ago, and have now 24 hours/day to spend with my favorite hobby: to build models. Almost for my entire life I have built models like aeroplanes, cars, tanks and during the last few years ships. First models were built from solid wood ( there were no plastic kits those days), then from plastic kits, followed by wooden kits; and nowadays I build entirely from scratch in the scales 1/6....1/48.
My latest builds are two tanks in 1/6 scale ( Sturmgeschutz III, T-26), two cars at the same scale (Willys MB, Bugatti 35). My latest builds are a ketch Clara May, scale 1/48, cutter Le Cerf 1/48, and a Finnish lake steamer S/S Maaninka in 1/25. Present project is also a steam powered open tug Lempi (1/15) made in Finland 1877. This and S/S Maaninka are built according to original shipwright plans found in Internet. Lempi will be powered with a little two cylinder steam engine of my own production (if I have success enough to build a working steam engine).
 
Hallo Matti,
many thanks for this introduction, which sounds very interesting.......so we are looking forward to see your finished models as well hope, that you start a building log of your actual build of the Lempi.......I tried to find the Lempi in the web, but was not succesfull, so it would be good, if you could tell us more about this project.
Great to have you here on board !:cool:
 
Welcome. Gonna follow your projects. Do you have some pictures of what you made already?
 
Uwek said:
Hallo Matti,
many thanks for this introduction, which sounds very interesting.......so we are looking forward to see your finished models as well hope, that you start a building log of your actual build of the Lempi.......I tried to find the Lempi in the web, but was not succesfull, so it would be good, if you could tell us more about this project.
Great to have you here on board !:cool:
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Uwe Lempi is Finnish for favorite!

G'day Matti
I can see why S/S Maaninka is your favorite! ​
I ran through your log on the building of her very quickly. I will endeavor to go back and re-read these logs again, but this time in more detail.
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I and everyone one else in this World-wide family forum welcome you aboard the SOS. We are honoured to have you amongst our mist and to share your vast knowledge, if you are kind enough.
Please take my apologies for show us your great work on S/S Maaninka, before your could. I take it as a great honour to do so.
Looking forward to see your new favourite when you start it.
Have a great day.
Greg

G'day Matti
Näen, miksi S / S Maaninka on suosikkisi!
Juoksin läpi loki hänen hyvin nopeasti rakennetusta rakennuksesta. Yritän palata takaisin ja lukea nämä lokit uudelleen, mutta tällä kertaa tarkemmin.
Minä ja jokainen toinen tässä maailmanlaajuisessa perhefoorumissa toivottaa sinut tervetulleeksi SOS: hen. Meillä on kunnia olla teidän keskuudessamme ja jakaa suurta tietoa, jos olet ystävällinen.
Ole hyvä ja pyydä anteeksi osoittamaan hieno työsi S / S Maaninka, ennen kuin voit. Minusta on suuri kunnia tehdä niin.
Odotan innolla uutta suosikkiasi aloittaessasi sitä.
Hyvää päivän jatkoa.
Greg
 
Thank you all for your kind words. Well I see that you have already found my Maaninka build blog. Drawings for her and our new project, Lempi, can be found on webpage Laivadata, and there you can find a lot of drawings made at Ahlstrom shipwright in Varkaus. Lempi can be found with number 77: https://api.laivadata.fi/v1/attachments/58e2b64ab859fe342d93a6b6/data

And here you can see some pictures of my previous work. Buid blogs for the ships can be found at the Model Ship World forum.

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It would be fantastic if you could up load your build logs on this forum. SOS is an international site and EVERYONE has access to everything nothing is blocked all members and guests are welcome to view all topics.

Members here are passionate about model building and we want to see this hobby grow. The way you do that is to share information openly.
 
Thanks didit! I am not sure if I can download the whole build logs here. Of course I could give the links to my logs. Please advice me how to manage logs, they are however quite long and include lot of pictures.
 
You don’t need to donwnoad your build log,just start a new one here,you have your images ,start it like as you just started building it and people will reply an comment on it
 
they are your logs so I don't see why you can not copy them here

I come up short on knowledge when It comes to things like forums and web sites and how to do things
maybe someone here would be able to help you post your logs here.

I know there are ways to down load an entire build log and move it.
 
Looks really good. If you can take the vehikels and drive away.masterpieces! Always wanted to make a mustang from wood but dont know how. Gonna follow your blogs.
 
Its posibble to save your build log as a pdf with a chrome add on or extension ,captures the page you are on saves it in pdf format,the problem you have to go page by page.
 
Ok folks, I try to copy my logs here. I staert with the latest, S/S Maaninka. This log is four pages long and I have t
 
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