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This is a western Canadian sternwheeler from 1903. The kit is from Interaction Hobbies. It came with wiring and LED lights. The kit is very well designed and executed. Everything fits with very little sanding or correcting. The instruction booklets (2) are excellent. The only criticisms I have...

Is there any reason NOT to use acrylic paint on wood that has already been treated with boiled linseed oil? I want to paint accents on wood that has been already stained rather than try to mask off thin strips to be paintEd. I did a few tests on pear wood that I had treated with oil and the...

A couple of questions regarding polycrylic finish: If you are going to use tung oil or Danish oil (to darken the wood and bring out the grain) can you apply polycrylic finish first or would it prevent the oil from soaking in ? Can putting polycrylic on before painting help the paint to go on...

I have a couple of frames on my Alert that I may need to remove and reshape. I have seen various ways to loosen Titebond II (yellow PVA) including heat, vinegar, alcohol, etc. What would be best for removing a delicate frame without breaking the frame, harming adjacent frames or the MDF jig...

In building the Trident Alert model I noticed that all the frames are single frames. The other POF models I’ve built have double frames. That is each frame consisted of two frames glued together with the grain of the wood going in different directions on each of the two frames. This made the...

I’ve started a build log for Alert, although I must admit that my progress will depend on seeing the logs from more proficient modelers to help me out since the instructions are not if very much help so far. I have built Japanese models with no English at all but with detailed colored...

Isolated at home during the pandemic and between ship models while waiting for one of the great new kits from China to be available, I decided to build a tank model to occupy myself. I chose the Bronco Bradley AFV because it featured a full interior. I hadn’t built a plastic model in years so I...

This is my finished Japanese 17th century cargo ship 1/72 scale from Woody Joe. The kit is beautifully designed and while the instructions are in Japanese they are very clear and well illustrated. This ship is very different from western ships. No keel, no deadeyes, no ratlines, a retractable...

Saw the Master Korbel kits on the Crafty Sailor site. One of the options for the Avos tender kit is “treenails imitation”. Does anyone know what that is? Do the planks come with treenails printed on somehow?

This is going to be a “semi-build” log of La Belle from H4Models, a Chinese company I never heard of before. I call this a semi-build log since I have not been taking photos of every stage of construction and many of those I did take were not intended for posting. I bought the kit on eBay. I was...

Does CAF Models have a website in English? I could only find a site in Chinese that does not appear to have an English option. My Chinese is not very good. I can’t even read a menu.

Do laser-cut hard wood parts bind together better (with wood glue) if the char burns are removed first. I don’t think I’ve ever noticed a difference, but I’d like other opinions.

I’m new to the forum and I found it because I was looking for any review of Chinese plank on frame kits. I’ve built two plank on frame ships from the Lumberyard, Rattlesnake and Halifax. And while those were good kits with high quality wood, they did not include fittings, mast materials, etc. On...