Hi, it has been a very long time since I built any kind of model main ones I used to build were radio control aircraft and cars.
I have built a few wooden boats but the last time was round about 1980, now that I'm retired I would like to take up some building again.
I love sailing ships and that is what I would like to build.
A bit of family history: in 1735 one of my ancestors, James Paul, started working with a Denny as an engineer building ships, later the Denny family became William Denny & Bothers Ship Builders in Dumbarton Scotland, from that start one of my family has always worked at Denny's until it closed in the 1960s my uncle was a marine architect specialising in steam turbines and gearboxes, and my father was a pattern maker in Denny's during WW2.
Denny's was the shipyard that finished off building the Cutty Sark and also famous for the Denny Stabiliser (later Denny Brown)
I myself was trained as a Radar Technician with Decca Radar working on the fishing boats around Scotland.
I'm now retired and married to a lovely Belgian woman and we split our time between Scotland and Belgium.
I have built a few wooden boats but the last time was round about 1980, now that I'm retired I would like to take up some building again.
I love sailing ships and that is what I would like to build.
A bit of family history: in 1735 one of my ancestors, James Paul, started working with a Denny as an engineer building ships, later the Denny family became William Denny & Bothers Ship Builders in Dumbarton Scotland, from that start one of my family has always worked at Denny's until it closed in the 1960s my uncle was a marine architect specialising in steam turbines and gearboxes, and my father was a pattern maker in Denny's during WW2.
Denny's was the shipyard that finished off building the Cutty Sark and also famous for the Denny Stabiliser (later Denny Brown)
I myself was trained as a Radar Technician with Decca Radar working on the fishing boats around Scotland.
I'm now retired and married to a lovely Belgian woman and we split our time between Scotland and Belgium.