Ships of Scale

Having been following Richard Dunn's thread about building his large scale ships I have decided to go ahead and at least start my 'grand slam model of my life' and see if I can get it built. I don't know why but I.ve had it in the back of my mind to build a very large model clipper ship and the GR was the biggest one ever built in New England. She was the biggest ship in the wor...

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I am parting with my MHB Project X. I purchased the kit in 2020 along with the steam plant. I have not had this model in the water. I was just excited to build a MHB Masterpiece. The steam plant had one short run in 2021. The build thread is located on Model Ship World. For the perspective buyer, I did not do the best job on the rear seating area. It is very difficult to get the...

I have been working with wood, trees and lumber for many years and I have been asked to start a topic on wood.

so here is my first post


Any wood can be sold under different trade names boxwood is a good one for that there are 70 different woods sold as boxwood most are not even close to Boxwood. The biggest mystery on the lumber market was "Casti...

Well after finishing my semi - scratch HMS Victory (POB) a couple of years ago I was starting to get a little bored in my retirement. So I have jumped right in at the deep end after seeing so many magnificent arsenal models and decided to build the French Frigate La Venus from the plans published by Ancre. The model is 1:48 and the frames, keel etc are in lovely dark Swiss pear ...