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Hello,
My name is Gilles. I live in Nova Scotia, Canada.
My interest in modeling goes back a long way with the construction of many small water crafts such as this:
In the late 90’s as the Internet was growing, I discovered and joined a couple of groups specializing in planked on frame model ship construction …. And I was hooked. Sometimes later, I began the construction of the Oliver Cromwell and Bonhomme Richard.
This is my version of the Oliver Cromwell as it stood when construction was stopped for other projects in 2003.
As you can see, Oliver Cromwell was well advanced when I got into participating in the English translation of the Gros Ventre monograph (early 2000`s) by Gérard Delacroix for Édition ANCRE in France. From there, Gérard, who was already running his great forum, and I created a new group dedicated to the construction of the model. This group was active for a few years with a good number of builders from around the world. We managed the Gros Ventre forum, website, a quarterly newsletter in several languages, etc…. all designed to form an international community of modelers who could, as a result, readily communicate and share there experiences building the same ship: it was a novel idea at the time. Meanwhile, I also wrote the English translation of Le Fleuron, again for ANCRE, another monograph as well as other works relating to modeling, carving… etc.
To make a long story short, eventually life got is the way …… or is it the other way around……. By 2008/9 everything came crushing down and all was lost: websites, ships, everything. Broken and ashamed, I basically went into hiding for years.
Now, I am just about to embark in a brand new, right side up (as was the first one), construction of the Oliver Cromwell. I have also started translation work again, so there will be at least one more English version of an ANCRE monograph in the future.
Thank you for your acceptance in this community.
G.
My name is Gilles. I live in Nova Scotia, Canada.
My interest in modeling goes back a long way with the construction of many small water crafts such as this:
In the late 90’s as the Internet was growing, I discovered and joined a couple of groups specializing in planked on frame model ship construction …. And I was hooked. Sometimes later, I began the construction of the Oliver Cromwell and Bonhomme Richard.
This is my version of the Oliver Cromwell as it stood when construction was stopped for other projects in 2003.
As you can see, Oliver Cromwell was well advanced when I got into participating in the English translation of the Gros Ventre monograph (early 2000`s) by Gérard Delacroix for Édition ANCRE in France. From there, Gérard, who was already running his great forum, and I created a new group dedicated to the construction of the model. This group was active for a few years with a good number of builders from around the world. We managed the Gros Ventre forum, website, a quarterly newsletter in several languages, etc…. all designed to form an international community of modelers who could, as a result, readily communicate and share there experiences building the same ship: it was a novel idea at the time. Meanwhile, I also wrote the English translation of Le Fleuron, again for ANCRE, another monograph as well as other works relating to modeling, carving… etc.
To make a long story short, eventually life got is the way …… or is it the other way around……. By 2008/9 everything came crushing down and all was lost: websites, ships, everything. Broken and ashamed, I basically went into hiding for years.
Now, I am just about to embark in a brand new, right side up (as was the first one), construction of the Oliver Cromwell. I have also started translation work again, so there will be at least one more English version of an ANCRE monograph in the future.
Thank you for your acceptance in this community.
G.
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