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Hi Group,
My name is Bob Hunt, and I am the owner of Lauck Street Shipyard (https://www.lauckstreetshipyard.com). I want to thank Donnie for inviting me to join this forum. I hope I can be of some help in answering questions related to model shipbuilding.
For those of you who do not know me, I've been building model ships for over 30 years now. In 2003 I started my business, Lauck Street Shipyard, purely by accident. I was asked by Clay Feldman who owned Ships in Scale magazine to write an article on how to build the Armed Virginia Sloop kit by Model Shipways.
I built the model and wrote a 345 page article on how to build it. Of course, Clay was not able to publish such a long article so he advised me to market it myself. I started a website offering the article, which is commonly referred to as a practicum, for sale. I put the word out in various model shipbuilding forums and thus was born Lauck Street Shipyard.
Since then I have built 17 different kits and written such practicums based on those kits as well as some scratchbuilt models. I've also written several special practicums related to a specific topic such as planking model ships, rigging model ships, and CAD for model shipbuilding.
Lauck Street Shipyard has always been dedicated to helping new modelers succeed and learn techniques that I have mastered over the years. The practicums I have written over the past 14 years are marketed as The College of Model Shipbuilding. These courses are progressive in nature. That means that I have broken them down into categories based on the level of difficulty of the subject model.
I have Prep School courses based on models that are suitable for beginners. I have Freshman courses based on models suitable for new modelers with some model shipbuilding experience. I have Sophomore courses suitable for more experienced modelers, and Junior/Senior courses based on models that require a lot of kitbashing and scratchbuilding.
I also have a Blog on my website where I post articles on kit reviews, How-to articles, and general model shipbuilding topics. On my website, you can subscribe to the blog and receive emails when new articles are posted. You can also receive emails when I offer special discounts on my practicums such as free shipping, a percentage off, buy one get one free, or a dollar amount off. I try to offer these specials at least once per month, and I try to post a new article on my blog at least once per month.
I also offer lifetime support to all of my customers. That support includes help with the models they are building through a private support forum that only paid customers are allowed to join. Membership to this forum is a privilege, not a right, so any misconduct or violation of the forum rules may result in being banned from the forum. I also provide support via email and telephone, and if a customer loses or damages a CD practicum, I replace it free of charge, no shipping charges, nothing. Just notify me is all that's required.
Again, I appreciate the opportunity to become a member and part of this community. I hope you'll visit my website to see what I have to offer.
Thanks,
Bob
My name is Bob Hunt, and I am the owner of Lauck Street Shipyard (https://www.lauckstreetshipyard.com). I want to thank Donnie for inviting me to join this forum. I hope I can be of some help in answering questions related to model shipbuilding.
For those of you who do not know me, I've been building model ships for over 30 years now. In 2003 I started my business, Lauck Street Shipyard, purely by accident. I was asked by Clay Feldman who owned Ships in Scale magazine to write an article on how to build the Armed Virginia Sloop kit by Model Shipways.
I built the model and wrote a 345 page article on how to build it. Of course, Clay was not able to publish such a long article so he advised me to market it myself. I started a website offering the article, which is commonly referred to as a practicum, for sale. I put the word out in various model shipbuilding forums and thus was born Lauck Street Shipyard.
Since then I have built 17 different kits and written such practicums based on those kits as well as some scratchbuilt models. I've also written several special practicums related to a specific topic such as planking model ships, rigging model ships, and CAD for model shipbuilding.
Lauck Street Shipyard has always been dedicated to helping new modelers succeed and learn techniques that I have mastered over the years. The practicums I have written over the past 14 years are marketed as The College of Model Shipbuilding. These courses are progressive in nature. That means that I have broken them down into categories based on the level of difficulty of the subject model.
I have Prep School courses based on models that are suitable for beginners. I have Freshman courses based on models suitable for new modelers with some model shipbuilding experience. I have Sophomore courses suitable for more experienced modelers, and Junior/Senior courses based on models that require a lot of kitbashing and scratchbuilding.
I also have a Blog on my website where I post articles on kit reviews, How-to articles, and general model shipbuilding topics. On my website, you can subscribe to the blog and receive emails when new articles are posted. You can also receive emails when I offer special discounts on my practicums such as free shipping, a percentage off, buy one get one free, or a dollar amount off. I try to offer these specials at least once per month, and I try to post a new article on my blog at least once per month.
I also offer lifetime support to all of my customers. That support includes help with the models they are building through a private support forum that only paid customers are allowed to join. Membership to this forum is a privilege, not a right, so any misconduct or violation of the forum rules may result in being banned from the forum. I also provide support via email and telephone, and if a customer loses or damages a CD practicum, I replace it free of charge, no shipping charges, nothing. Just notify me is all that's required.
Again, I appreciate the opportunity to become a member and part of this community. I hope you'll visit my website to see what I have to offer.
Thanks,
Bob