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- Feb 25, 2020
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I’m just now getting back into scale wooden ship modeling after years of being out of it for various reasons. I’m fully retired now so I have much more time to pursue the craft. My other pursuits are pen making and making custom split cane bamboo fly rods. I consider myself still a newbie at actual building although I have completed the mid section of the Essex and the Whaler Charles W. Morgan albite year’s ago. I have kept up my ship reference library and that’s half the fun, What started out as a little reference library with a few books has now progressed into a half wall of floor to ceiling library. It’s sometimes more rewarding to find old out of print books that are no longer available or are hard to find. It’s all in the fun of the hunt. I tend now a days to stick to the Continental or Colonial U.S Navy and the early Federal U.S. Navy when the first 6 frigates (1797-98) were commissioned. I really don’t look at the iron clads. The 1st being the Monitor of 1862. They just don’t appeal to me. I’m currently working on the Armed Virginia Sloop, with the Constitution on the shelf. At sometime I plan to get into scratch building so have the Rattlesnake along with the Harold Haun drawings to kit bash with on the shelf as well. I also have the Reverend William J. Romero’s 6 book set to scratch building HMS Alfred. The last one only because the 6 became available and I was able to get Harold Haun’s Admiralty drawings for it. Me personally… As I said I’m fully retired. I spent 23 years “Haze Gray and Underway” with the U.S. Navy which is why the old/early navy is near and dear to my heart. Fair winds and following seas to all my shipmates on the forum. I’m sure I’ll have questions.
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