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shipbuilder said:
Thanks - Everything I know about model building, I have put into writing downloads over many years.
I am too old to build them now, having become allergic to glue fumes - aged 81.
I have written many downloads, a lot of which of which cost less than the price of a cup of coffee. Here is the complete catalogue. Click on any front page to read the synopsis, and if you wish to purchase, a button for Paypal or cards is included in the synopsis. They cover beginners, to well-established ship modellers, but I can assure you that building miniatures is far easier than big ones, and merchant ships are far easier than warships, whilst sailing merchantment are the easiest of the lot
I was never obsessed with them, and rarely spent more than an hour a day building them. I started miniatures during my 31-year sea career, early 1961 - late 1992.
Regards
Robert
https://payhip.com/Shipbuilder/collection/miniature-merchant-ship-construction-history
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a thousand thanks for the link... something i will be looking at very soon.
 
I purchased Robert's guide called "Miniature Steam and Motor Ship Modelling" a long time ago and I have built the Glenmoor in the previous page of this thread following that publication.
I was also able to build my own selected cruise ships using the instructions from the guides. His downloads come highly recommended.
Initially I thought that it couldn't be done but that quickly changed when I read his easy to follow guides.
Besides, his downloads make a very good read even if you do not plan to use them.
 
shipbuilder said:
Loch Torridon
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Another beautiful ship!

I have taken to finding out a little bit of the history of the models you have been posting. I thought other SOS members would like to share the information out of interest: Loch Torridon, Builders Barclay, Curle & Co. Ltd (Glasgow) for Owners James Aitken & Sam Macfarlane, Glasgow. 2081 gtn. Launched 9/11/1881. Considered one of the finest four masted ships of her day. Converted to a Barque in 1892 she was dismasted in a storm on a passage from Fredriksstad for Geelong with a cargo of timber and abandoned on 24/01/1915 and sank. The crew were rescued by PSNC liner ORDUNA.
 
Robert,
I recently picked up a number of old Model Shipwright magazines.
It’s wonderful to read your build articles from years ago.
Thank you so much for your contribution to the ship model world.
You and I both being seafarers years ago makes me wish we could meet up and share stories of the ocean and model building.
Thank you sir.
 
Jerome said:
Robert,
I recently picked up a number of old Model Shipwright magazines.
It’s wonderful to read your build articles from years ago.
Thank you so much for your contribution to the ship model world.
You and I both being seafarers years ago makes me wish we could meet up and share stories of the ocean and model building.
Thank you sir.
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Thank you,
Meeting would be very unlikely as you are in the US and I am in the UK, I am pretty much "washed up" these days and rarely even go out (age 81). Robert
 
shipbuilder said:
Thank you,
I have always preferred merchant ships because of their interesting histories. One sea battle was pretty much like another to me, but some of the incidents that merchant ships were involved in were often almost unbelievable!
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I Agree! Reading some of the histories of some of the clippers and merchant ships is scary reading at times! Stories of the ships being knocked over onto their beam ends in storms and running with the spars in the water or being dismasted in the middle of the ocean and having to nurse the ship to safety over hundreds or thousands of miles. They were brave men. I will post a couple of sentences on the histories that I have found for some of the models you have already posted, I think it will be interesting for fellow modellers. At the moment I am snowed under but as soon as I have some spare time I will do that.
 
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