constellation

Ahoy from landlocked Colorado, USA! This is my first post. I have been building ship models for 15 years and am slowly switching from plastic (1/350) to wood. I have built 4 wooden ships - AL U.S. Virginia, AL Scottish Maid, MGS Prince de Neufchatel and Corel HMS Unicorn. My next project...

I was rummaging through a friend’s hoard of books, magazines, paintings, and generally interesting things with him. While I was gawking at his stuff, we were talking about my hobbies as well. As we headed back downstairs, he picked up an old wooden kit of the Constitution made by Scientific and...

So this is my second build, my first being a constructo golden hind. Now I have put that away for awhile but I do intend to fix it at some point, I made multiple mistakes with it, its fixable but I want to start a fresh one. I didnt square my bulkheads, also over faired them aswell and...

I'm back in my shipyard after a lengthy battle with the dreaded C word. This is a kit I acquired from ebay cheap. I've done an extensive amount of research on this ship and I'm acquiring materials to build it from plans as POF scratch build. I decided to build this kit in the mean time so here...

I have a project I started back in early 1999. I'll place this "build log" for it here, but first we need to go back in time and get caught up... I've built working model boats of all sorts, but most being smallish tended to bob like corks in Baltimore's Inner Harbor where I sailed them. I...